Hi Stefan,
Stefan Lucke wrote: ...
Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: patch version (2005-07-20) Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: Could not connect to X-server
You have to start your X-server _before_ you may start vdr with softdevice and xv out.
The output above is from a term in kde, so I suppose the X-server should be running.
So vdr is running with another userid as you are logged in.
- you need to set th DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=:0.0)
- the user who wants to access your display needs permissions to do that For my tests, when running vdr from root I do sux which keeps authorisation to x-server contact.
I can't manage to do that. If I try to run vdr as user root, vdr-kbd complains to refuse to run with root priviledges. If I do "su vdr" whoami tells me to be still root - is that what you meant by "sux"? Because I don't know sux, and nothing like this is installed.
I tried: root@linux:/usr/lib/vdr# DISPLAY=:0.0;xset s off;vdr-daemon --config=/var/lib/vdr --lib=/usr/lib/vdr/plugins -d ib/vdr/plugins -vo xv:" -u vdr -g vdr Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xset: unable to open display ":0.0"
as mentioned in the link you provided at the end of your posting.
BTW, is "-vo xv:" right for me? I couldn't find anything about XvMC, or should I better use xv with my graca, which uses v4l if I'm not completly wrong?
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If you want to use vdr as a frontend / desktop application you don't
Glad to here that, so I didn't understand everything wrong ;-) That's exactly what I intend to do.
I'd like to use softdevice with a Geforce 6600 and TV-Out, if this could be better please tell me.
In vdr-wiki is also written that softdevice does replace the mpeg2-decoder and outputs directly on a framebuffer, output could then be on a monitor or tv-out (for that part streamdev is needed?)
Streamdev if only needed for transferring the dvb data from one vdr to another.
Maybe that is of some help: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-October/005510.html
So I think my main problem is exporting the display right. For the time being I've only one display, no tv-out, which I would experiment with later on, when the rest is running.
But I'm not used to exporting displays and don't know how to manage it for the user vdr - do you still have the patience helping me again?
André