On Sonntag, 11. September 2005 21:30, Martin Wache wrote:
Dominique Dumont schrieb:
Hello
I'm trying to setup vdr with a budget card (only, no ff card) and softdevice.
When I launch vdr and softdevice from a terminal, everything is working fine (with xv)
But I'd like to set up vdr as a daemon (i.e. launched by init.d) so recording can begin even if I'm not logged.
I think it would be easier to start vdr with streamdev (server mode) as the backgound deamon, and connect later a vdr with streamdev (client mode) to your server. The screenshots on softdevice homepage with two vdrs running, were done this way (vdr with streamdev client+server on the local maschine).
So far, I've managed to run vdr (from debian package) and softdevice after some crude hacks:
- I've added and 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' in /etc/init.d/vdr
- I must be logged in and perform a xhost local:
I'd like to be able to run vdr as a daemon with softdevice plugin loaded. For this I need softdevice to not try to connect to X11 until a command is sent to vdr daemon (either through the remote control or SVDRP).
This command would need to contain the display name to connect to.
Does this sound reasonnable ? (or did I miss something ?)
I think it is not impossible to do it like this, however the softdevice would have to be changed accordingly, so if you want to do this or find someone who volunteers to do this there should be no problem.
I think we should reject a delayed allocation of the output device.
If not you could set up a second X server to be used with vdr which is started at startup of vdr and use Marko Mäkeläs suspend patch to suspend the output while your not watching. I plan to do it like this once I have my vdr only box.
Or you use vdr-xine which is probably more what you are looking for.