On Saturday 04 February 2006 14:21, Peter Juszack wrote:
Since VDR-version 1.3.? grabbing images to disc is disabled by default for security reasons. It is just possible to get then base64 encoded over the SVDRP conncetion with 'GRAB -'. You must set a VDR commandline parameter to a directory to enable grab to disc. Grabbed images are stored under that directory.
Really? I've never really seen reliable grabbing, I usually just get gray or (nowadays) black images. I run 1.3.37 and when I do a "grab /tmp/foo.jpeg" over SVDRP I end up with a fine completely black image. I have not enabled any parameters that would allow saving to disk, so I guess these security restrictions come with some patch you have used?
Using "-" as the filename doesn't seem to do anything, at least I don't see any base64 data over my telnet connection, VDR just happily says:
250 Grabbed image -
The base64 stuff sounds really interesting though. At one time I had a patch that did just this, but it was almost two years ago and it doesn't work anymore. It would be really handy to have the base64 stuff built into VDR.