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witch softdevice output depending on hard and soft
by Leo Márquez 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi, I'm in the way of set different vdr clients based on softdevice and streamdev-client. Depending on each I have to decide witch softdevice output use. For example, one client is a debian gnome desktop machine with a pci express radeon X700. The output of : xdpyinfo |grep Video Returns only XVideo. What is the best way to set that I want? I have tried to set the xv option but when I start VDR with: -P"softdevice -vo xv:" It says me that softdevice is not compiled with xv support. I have been checked the softdevice Makefile and XV_SUPPORT is set to 1 But I have noticed that when I execute in the softdevice dir the ./configure command with an option related to xv then the config.h and config.mak don't change. For example if I execute ./config --disable-fb I see config.h and config.mak updated. But if I execute ./configure --disable-xv don't update anything. If after that I execute again only ./configure anything changed again and it must update to enable all the outputs again. The other type of client I want set is a non x-window system based. I have tried it with directfb without luck. The hardware is geoforce mx 4400 or 5500. I know there is a lot of docs and I have readed a lot of them but I'm confused about how to set the best output. I know that the fb output is bad because cpu have a lot of work. At the moment the fb output is the only way softdevice worked to me. I understand that xvmc or directfb is the best way but I don't know exactly how to set up these. Thanks.

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VDR help - no OSD provider Available
by Gulab Chandra Yadava 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

hi I am new to linux as well as VDR. I have DVB Hauppauge DVB card. I have installed vdr-1.3.43. and I am using 2.6.16 kernel when I run vdr through console I get message vdr: no primary device found - using first device! on the same console. I am not getting any OSD for VDR. and I have also installed xine and Mplayer as a plugin to VDR. I give the following command to run the VDR $ vdr and I get the following message in /var/log/messages Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] VDR version 1.3.43 started Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] switched to user 'vdr' Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/setup.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: unknown config parameter: InitialChannel = 8 Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: unknown config parameter: InitialVolume = 1 Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/sources.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/diseqc.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/channels.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/timers.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/commands.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/reccmds.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/remote.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/keymacros.conf Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] found 1 video device Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: invalid primary device number: 2 Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: no primary device found - using first device! Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] setting primary device to 1 Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] SVDRP listening on port 2001 Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] loading /etc/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme Jun 5 15:28:40 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD! Jun 5 15:28:50 localhost vdr: [3361] switching to channel 1 Jun 5 15:28:50 localhost vdr: [3361] ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD! Jun 5 15:28:52 localhost vdr: [3366] channel 11 (306) event 21:30 'M -23/06/98 Chan 5454 Program #17' status 4 Jun 5 15:28:52 localhost vdr: [3366] channel 12 (407) event 21:50 'W -23/06/98 Chan 5455 Program #26' status 4 Jun 5 15:28:53 localhost vdr: [3366] channel 8 (Sky Sports 2) event 22:02 'H -23/06/98 Chan 5451 Program #54' status 4 Jun 5 15:28:53 localhost vdr: [3366] channel 9 (229) event 22:10 'C -23/06/98 Chan 5452 Program #9' status 4 Jun 5 15:28:53 localhost vdr: [3366] channel 10 (302) event 22:10 'K -23/06/98 Chan 5453 Program Can any body help me please --Thanks and Regards Gulab Chandra Yadava ______________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: This electronic message, and any attachments to this electronic message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)named herein and may contain legally privileged and confidential information. It is the property of Celstream Technologies Pvt. Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby strictly notified not to copy, forward, distribute or use this message or any attachments thereto. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies thereof from your system and notify the sender at Celstream Technologies or administrator(a)celstream.com immediately _______________________________________________________________

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[ANNNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 0.12
by Martin Prochnow 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi folks, i'm pleased to announce a new version of my Ext(ended)Rec(ordings)Menu-plugin. With this version it is possible to protect recordings in co-work with the PIN-Plugin. The layout was revised and: it is now possible to select the type of sorting (by name or by date) for each directory inidividually. Screenshots and download: http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu_en.html Have fun with it! Greets, Martin

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[Announce] LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4.0-3
by Matthias Lötzke 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello! A new release of the configurable LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4 is available at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/configurableLNBshare-VDR_… Changes: - revamped the check whether the source is an DVB-S card or not for mixed source DVB systems - hide non DVB-S cards in the configuration menu - complete rewrite of the LNB-sharing code in cDevice::GetDevice() to fit that somewhat cryptic new code in the VDR source - adapted to VDR 1.4.0-3 For general information about the LNB-sharing patch have a look at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/Description.txt http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Lnbsharing-patch (german) Matthias.

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vdr & utf8 ?
by Soeren Sonnenburg 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi all, is there currently any chance to make vdr-1.4 work with utf8 or is it planned ? Soeren

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[Announce] epgsearch-0.9.17b
by Christian Wieninger 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, here's the next release of epgsearch that already includes some fixes for problems found at vdrportal: 2006-06-05: Version 0.9.17 - dropped support for vdr < 1.3.46 :-( - changed logic in jumping through menus with user-defined times: you can now also access times on next day, if they are less then 20 hours in the future. Thanks to egal@vdrportal and CKone@vdrportal. - epgsearch has now its own timer conflict check which can be customized by setup regarding relevant priorities, the time span to check or the relevant conflict duration. There is also a conflict manager in Search/Actions that can be used to resolve conflicts. Many thanks to Mike Constabel for heavy testing ;-) - if there is a timer conflicts notification via OSD, you can now press 'Ok' to go directly to the timer conflicts overview. - if you like to have a separate main menu entry for the timer conflict check use '-P conflictcheckonly' which comes as 'mini'-plugin with epgsearch and simply calls epgsearch's conflict menu. conflictcheckonly has a setup option to display an info about the last conflict check directly in its main menu entry. - setup is now completely restructured and has now something like an 'online' help. - menu 'switch timers' now also displays the channel number - input logic for extended EPG categories changed to allow multiple values. - added script 'timercmds-auxinfo.sh' that displays the aux info (e.g. the search timer responsible for the timer) in VDR's timer menu (requires the timercmd patch), thanks to the author Mike Constabel - user-defined EPG times with empty description get now their associated time as description, suggested by Bafan@vdrportal - new service interface "Epgsearch-conflictmenu-v1.0" to call epgsearch's conflict menu from other plugins. - new service interface "Epgsearch-lastconflictinfo-v1.0" to get an info about the last conflict check result. - epgsearchmenu.conf is not more reloaded with every plugin call, since this is only useful when testing the conf file. To activate the permanent reload again, pass the new start parameter '-r' or '--reloadmenuconf' in your runvdr - thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for finnish translation update - added HISTORY.DE (german HISTORY) fixes: - loading epgsearchmenu.conf now falls back to menu defaults, if the conf file contains any errors. - fixed handling of '%' in LSTS in SVDRP for vdr > 1.3.44, thanks to Mike Constabel - fixed loading epgsearchmenu.conf for epgsearchonly and service interface "Epgsearch-searchmenu-v1.0", thanks to Daniel Dorau for reporting. - fixed display update in menu 'Search templates', thanks to Mike Constabel - fixed a bug when deleting associated timers of a search timer when there are no timers present, thanks to Patrick Koppen for reporting. - hopefully fixed a bug when adding a search entry to templates, thanks to Patrick Koppen for reporting. 2006-06-06: Version 0.9.17a fixes: - menu 'timer conflicts' automatically returned if there where periodic timers, thanks to lostinspc@vdrportal - fixed some compiling problems with gcc-2.95 and gcc-4.1.0, thanks to ferdi03@vdrportal, smudo81@vdrportal, toxic-tonic@vdrportal 2006-06-10: Version 0.9.17b fixes: - fixed some problems with repeating timers in timer conflict check, thanks to Peter Juenger for reporting - fixed a crash in timer conflict check when there was an active recording on a device provided by a plugin (e.g. pvr, streamdev), thanks to Gerhard Steiner for reporting. http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.17b.tgz BR, Christian

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-mailbox-0.4.0
by Alexander Rieger 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi all, a new release (0.4.0) of the Mailbox-plugin is available at <http://sites.inka.de/~seca/vdr/> Changes since version 0.3.0: 2006-05-20: Version 0.4.0-pre1 - Developed and tested with vdr-1.4.0 with Gentoo-Linux/gcc-3.4.6 - Adopted changes to the Makefile as required since vdr-1.3.47 - Added a service-call "MailBox-HasNewMail-1.0" to allow other plugins to query if there is at least one new mail present. This call doesn't query the mail accounts at the mail server, instead it simply returns the currently known status for those accounts which have enabled the periodic check. There will be a patch for the Elchi-skin to use this call to (optionally) display a mail icon in the replay and channel info. - Added a new configuration option to the common settings to setup the connection timeout. A value of 0 uses the system default. A reasonable value would be somewhat smaller than the watchdog timeout of vdr (option -w when starting vdr). The default setting is 0. - Added new configuration option for every mail account to display an OSD message when unread mail is present. Pressing OK while the message is visible opens the mail account. It isn't necessary any more to use the external mailcmd.sh to simply display the "new mail in ..." message on the OSD. The feature of the external mailcmd.sh is still available and may be used for other ways to signal the arrival of new mail, e.g. switching on some LEDs. - Added new configuration option for every mail account to display the number of unseen mails in the main-menu entry of the plugin. - If necessary the plugin converts the mail (subject & body) using iconv from the charset used in the mail to the charset used by vdr. - Mail parts encoded in Base64 are decoded and displayed. - The Plugin now queries the width and font of the text area to make a nice word-wrapping (especially when wrapping quoted text). To use this feature, the skin has to implement the methods cSkin::GetTextAreaWidth() and cSkin::GetTextAreaFont() as the standard-skins Classic & ST:TNG and the Elchi-skin currently do. - The mail account passwords are now stored in an obscured way in the file accounts.conf. Note: There is is no real encryption; it is just to make the passwords difficult to read for humans. The warning from the README is still valid: ATTENTION: The account settings are stored in a plain text file in a directory 'plugins/mailbox' below the directory where vdr stores its setup files. The file will be created with umask 0x600, therefore only the user which executes vdr is able to read this file. If you consider this insecure, don't use this plugin. - Added a key in the Mailbox-View to refresh a single mailbox. - Added a new OSD-menu to display the communication log for accounts which have debugging enabled. The log is reachable in the following views: - Mailbox-View - Configuration of a mail account - IMAP folder selection view - Corrected a bug which caused that sometimes the last lines of mails were missing. - The background check for new mail is now stopped in the cPlugin::Stop() method of the plugin (according to the HISTORY of vdr-1.3.20) - Added a help-screen to all OSD-menus which displays a generated list of valid keys/actions. The help-screen is (currently) reachable with key 0 (if no element is active, which consumes the key 0). - Actions that aren't supported for the current account type aren't visible (e.g. setting the flag "/FLAGGED" or "/SEEN" for POP3 accounts) - Key-handling in the configuration menus is now similar to editing channels in vdr - Changed the configuration menus for mail accounts - several separate options instead of the long mailbox-string - accounts can now be duplicated - accounts can be tested directly within the configuration dialog - reordering of mail accounts is now possible - Completely restructured the OSD- and key-handling in all OSD menus. - Corrected a bug when fetching multipart mails. - More characters are usable for user name, password and account name. (Thanks to Peter Herold for reporting this one.) - Use proportial font to display the mail text instead of monospaced (DisplayMenu()->SetText(..., false)) - When started the Mailbox-View calls Display() before all mail accounts are checked - otherwise the status-message ("Checking mailbox xxx") is displayed below the main menu of vdr. (Thanks to Olaf Henkel for reporting this one.) 2006-06-05: Version 0.4.0-pre2 - Update the color buttons when selecting another mail according to the status flags. - Avoid some warnings about missing translations for the keys 0..9 in the help screen. - The setting of vdr 'OSDMessageTime' is now used as the time to display the osd message "new mail in ..., open?". (Suggested by Ronny Kornexl) - Fixed some issues with gcc 3.2 (Thanks to Stephan Sachse for providing the patch) 2006-06-10: Version 0.4.0-pre3 - Added a remark about the required version of the c-client-library to the INSTALL file: Version 2004 of the c-client library is required. The plugin was developed with version 2004a of the library (contained in imap-2004a.tar.Z). The current version 2004g may work too, but was not tested by the author. - Added option to mail account settings to specify if new mails in the mail account should influence the state delivered by the internal service call which could be used e.g. to display a mail icon in replay and channel info. - Allow ':' in the hostname of mail accounts. - Added '-fPIC' to CXXFLAGS in Makefile (Suggested by Thomas Günther) - Fixed a bug which was introduced in pre2 which caused the background thread to display the message "New mail in XXX, open?" after every check. (Reported by Thomas Günther) 2006-06-11: Version 0.4.0 - no changes since pre3 Have fun, Alex

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Hotbird in sources.conf
by Antti Hartikainen 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Shouldn't Hotbird be something like "Hotbird 1-3/6/7A" in sources.conf now, since Hotbird 4 is gone from this position?

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Shutdown - vdr not cleaning up
by Tobias Grimm 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi! Hanno Mueller figured out a problem with the VDR Debian package, causing the ALCD plugin to not turn off the display, when the system shuts down. The first obvious problem seemed to be, that the shutdown command passed to vdr did not return immediately. So I changed this to be started detached in the background. But there seems to be still a problem around. If I send SIGTERM to the vdr process manually, everything works fine. It cleans up, stops and destroys all plugins. But if I run "shutdown -h now" (which also sends SIGTERM to vdr and all other processes), the plugins destructors never get called. I've added a log message to every line in the exit code and you can see what I got at the end of this mail. To be sure, vdr doesn't get killed, because it takes too long to shut down gracefully, I also tried "telinit -t 120 0" which switches to runlevel 0 but gives processes 120 seconds to shutdown before sending SIGKILL. Same result - VDR does not fully clean up on exit. Unfortunately, the problem only appears, when switching to runlevel 0. Everything I tried to shutdown VDR without shutting down the whole system seems to work just fine. So there seems to be no way to inspect this in a debugger. Any ideas, why vdr doesn't shut down gracefully, when shutting down the system? Regards, Tobias Only vdr killed manually with killall vdr (I've added ctor/dtor messages to the podcatcher plugin, the messages after cSchedule::Cleanup(true) are skipped). This is how it is supposed to work. 12:26:12 vdr: [5642] ecmhandler 0 filter thread ended (pid=5642, tid=5642) 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] caught signal 15 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] PluginManager.StopPlugins() 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: dvd 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: trayopen 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: podcatcher 12:26:13 vdr: [5346] stop() start 12:26:14 vdr: [5346] stop() end 12:26:14 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: mp3 12:26:14 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: radio 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] ERROR: radiocheck thread 5637 won't end (waited 1 seconds) - canceling it... 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: dvdselect 12:26:15 vdr: [5644] logger 0 filter thread ended (pid=5644, tid=5644) 12:26:15 vdr: [5643] logger stats thread ended (pid=5643, tid=5643) 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: burn 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: extrecmenu 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] stopping plugin: skinsoppalusikka 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] cRecordControls::Shutdown() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] cCutter::Stop() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] delete Menu 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] cControl::Shutdown() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] delete Interface 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] cOsdProvider::Shutdown() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Remotes.Clear() 12:26:15 lircd 0.7.1pre2[5160]: removed client 12:26:15 vdr: [5641] KBD remote control thread ended (pid=5641, tid=5641) 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Audios.Clear() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] delete RadioAudio 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Skins.Clear() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Setup.CurrentChannel = cDevice::CurrentChannel() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Setup.CurrentVolume = cDevice::CurrentVolume() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] Setup.Save() 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] saved setup to /var/lib/vdr/setup.conf 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] cDevice::Shutdown() 12:26:15 vdr: [5625] tuner on device 1 thread ended (pid=5625, tid=5625) 12:26:15 vdr: [5626] section handler thread ended (pid=5626, tid=5626) 12:26:15 vdr: [5628] tuner on device 2 thread ended (pid=5628, tid=5628) 12:26:15 vdr: [5629] section handler thread ended (pid=5629, tid=5629) 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] PluginManager.Shutdown(true) 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: dvd 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: trayopen 12:26:15 vdr: [5639] CDROM watch thread ended 12:26:15 vdr: [5639] cd drive watch thread thread ended (pid=5639, tid=5639) 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: podcatcher 12:26:15 vdr: [5346] dtor() start 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] dtor() end 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: mp3 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: radio 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: dvdselect 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] ln -nfs '/dev/dvd' '/var/cache/vdr/dvd' 2> /dev/null 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: burn 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: extrecmenu 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] deleting plugin: skinsoppalusikka 12:26:16 vdr: [5346] cSchedules::Cleanup(true) ... And this is what happens, when I shutdown the system with "shutdown -h now" from a console (not from within vdr): 12:36:04 shutdown[5654]: shutting down for system halt 12:36:05 init: Switching to runlevel: 0 12:36:10 lircd 0.7.1pre2[5164]: caught signal 12:36:10 vdr: [5570] ERROR: lircd connection broken, trying to reconnect every 3.0 seconds 12:36:10 mysqld[5092]: 060604 12:36:10 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown 12:36:10 mysqld[5092]: 12:36:10 mysqld[5092]: 060604 12:36:10 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 12:36:12 mysqld[5092]: 060604 12:36:12 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 48986 12:36:12 mysqld[5092]: 060604 12:36:12 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete 12:36:12 mysqld[5092]: 12:36:12 mysqld_safe[5840]: ended 12:36:13 vdr: [5570] ERROR: /dev/lircd: Connection refused 12:36:13 lircd 0.7.1pre2[5874]: lircd(any) ready 12:36:16 vdr: [5570] reconnected to lircd 12:36:16 lircd 0.7.1pre2[5874]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd 12:36:16 vdr: [5572] ecmhandler 0 filter thread ended (pid=5572, tid=5572) 12:36:16 vdr: [5574] logger 0 filter thread ended (pid=5574, tid=5574) 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] caught signal 15 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] PluginManager.StopPlugins() 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: dvd 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: trayopen 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: podcatcher 12:36:17 vdr: [5383] stop() start 12:36:18 vdr: [5383] stop() end 12:36:18 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: mp3 12:36:18 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: radio 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] ERROR: radiocheck thread 5554 won't end (waited 1 seconds) - canceling it... 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: dvdselect 12:36:19 vdr: [5573] logger stats thread ended (pid=5573, tid=5573) 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: burn 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: extrecmenu 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] stopping plugin: skinsoppalusikka 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] cRecordControls::Shutdown() 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] cCutter::Stop() 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] delete Menu 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] cControl::Shutdown() 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] delete Interface 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] cOsdProvider::Shutdown() 12:36:19 vdr: [5383] Remotes.Clear() 12:36:19 lircd 0.7.1pre2[5874]: removed client 12:36:21 ntpd[5509]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 12:36:21 exiting on signal 15

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Re: [vdr] xine-network patches
by CR 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Anssi, > Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > Those who run vdr-xine with the network patches, what is the version of > > your libxine and which patches do you use for libxine and vdr-xine? You might want to try "xineliboutput" -- it's a plugin that includes network functionality WITHOUT having to apply any patches to xine/xinelib/xineui! You add any clients that need access to the svdrphosts.conf file . The package includes standalone front-end programs, so you don't have to use Xine-UI if you don't want to (make frontends on the frontend machine). You'll probably have to re-compile xinelib without any patches, but that shouldn't be a big deal. Here's the latest version: http://users.tkk.fi/~phintuka/vdr/vdr-xineliboutput/vdr-xineliboutput-0.99r… It should work on AMD64, though I only have a 32-bit machine. Regards, C.

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