Hi.  I'm making progress on getting VDR working the way I want. 
 
There's a colleague at work who uses the xine plugin for replay, and the DEBUG_OSD screen to remotely control vdr via ssh.  This is kind of what I want to do, but have 2 problems.
 
 
1) Xine-plugin still doesn't work. 
-Xine DOES work directly with the DVB (i.e. can watch DVB channels), but not with VDR. 
-The VDR buttons are visable on the Xine Keymap editor (so I guess the xine-ui compile must have worked)
-I can see vdr drivers being loaded when I start 'xine --verbose=2'  (so I assume the xine-lib was also successful)
 
When I try and open 'xine -p vdr:///fifty/video/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes'  Xine says unknown mrl: vdr://
Same if I just try 'xine -p vdr://'
 
Does this sounds like the xine-lib is still broken?  Or am I trying to use VDR the wrong way.
 
 
 
 
2) In an attempt to get VDR DEBUG_OSD working, I recompiled vdr-1.3.21 with the following in the Makefile:
ifdef DEBUG_OSD
DEFINES += -DDEBUG_OSD
NCURSESLIB = -lncurses
endif
When I try to start './vdr'  or  './vdr -Pxine'  nothing happens on the command prompt.  I expected the ASCII debug OSD to start.  /var/log/messages says :
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: VDR version 1.3.21 started
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: loading /fifty/video/setup.conf
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: loading /fifty/video/sources.conf
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: loading /fifty/video/channels.conf
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: found 1 video device
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: setting primary device to 1
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: device 1 has no MPEG decoder
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: loading /fifty/video/themes/sttng-default.theme
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: loading /fifty/video/themes/sttng-default.theme
Feb 21 11:47:07 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD!
Feb 21 11:47:17 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: switching to channel 1
Feb 21 11:47:17 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD!
Feb 21 11:47:22 nzbaxters vdr[8658]: channel 12 (BBC NEWS 24) event 11:00 'BBC News' status 4
Feb 21 11:47:22 nzbaxters vdr[8658]: channel 3 (BBC THREE) event 05:35 'This Is BBC THREE' status 4
Feb 21 11:47:22 nzbaxters vdr[8658]: channel 16 (CBBC Channel) event 11:50 'Class TV: Zig Zag' status 4
Feb 21 11:47:22 nzbaxters vdr[8658]: channel 2 (BBC TWO) event 11:30 'Schools: Look and Read' status 4
Feb 21 11:47:22 nzbaxters vdr[8658]: channel 1 (BBC ONE) event 11:30 'Car Booty' status 4
Feb 21 11:47:23 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: retuning due to modification of channel 1
Feb 21 11:47:23 nzbaxters vdr[8654]: switching to channel 1
 
I'm so close I can feel it!