[vdr] Re: Help Needed with VDR configuration???

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that raid517 may or may not have written...

> Hi can anyone point me to any docs that will help me to configure VDR on my
> Debian unstable system? I installed VDR and a bunch of plugins via apt-get.

From the official repository or from my repository? (1.2.6 or 1.3.17?)

> Then being the simple sort I am I opened a command prompt and typed VDR. 
> Unfortunately after doing so I was greeted by a message saying : vdr: error
> while reading '/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf'. So I dumped a working
> channels.conf file in there from my existing Xine directory, [...]

Whoops. Wrong format. You need to create a fresh channels.conf:

  # scan -u -o vdr /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike \
    > /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf

(Of course, you'll want to use the tuning data file for your local
transmitter.)

[snip]
> So I did man VDR thinking I only needed to read a little more to figure it
> out. Sadly the manual gave no hints about how to configure VDR at all.

 $ zless /usr/share/doc/vdr/MANUAL.gz

[snip]
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