Ville Aakko wrote:
So I see there might be a need for documentation and solutions / examples on this kind of setups (at least I didn't find any if there already are). Can anyone point into such documentation? Does anyone have any good personal examples? How do you run your VDR with an X11 output? Do you use the VDR box for other uses? If yes, how do you integrate the other applications?
I run my vdr with X11 output and use MythTV as media center to watch dvds and movie files(mythtv does not have TV cards configured). If I shutdown the MythTV I can use normal desktop enviroment if I need to. From mythtv I can start vdr-sxfe with small script with irxevent (which I run as normal user). I think that this solution work well for me.
Vdr is started with --lirc=/dev/null option to ensure that it does not read lirc by itself.
run_vdrsxfe script: irxevent & IRXPID=$! vdr-sxfe --fullscreen --audio=alsa --lirc xvdr://127.0.0.1 kill $IRXPID
lircrc: begin prog = irxevent button = Power repeat = 3 config = Key Escape VDR end
The system I run this is xubuntu. I did used to use kubuntu but there was some problem with KDE4 so I switch to xfce.
-Matti