VDR requires an output device to start. But as already pointed out this doesn't necessarily have to be real hardware but could also be a plugin.
However, instead of using (and recommending) such a heavy-scale (from dependency and complexity perspective) plugin like xineliboutput, how about the dummydevice-plugin as output plugin? http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/vdr-dummydevice/ or even the dynamite-plugin: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-dynamite which starts as placeholder and enables later configuration of actual DVB devices.
Best regards, Christian
Am 28.11.13 22:17, schrieb cedric.dewijs@telfort.nl:> It turns out VDR refuses to run when no DVB card is found. Is there a
configuration option somewhere to let VDR run without hardware? Can I create a dummy DVB device somehow?