Hi,

Simon Baxter wrote:

This is the first time I'v tried to get VDR working. Have a budget card (with no decoder) so had to extend xine with the vdr plugins. This seems to be working. when I run "xine --verbose=2" I can see the vdr drivers being loaded. Next step get VDR working

I've followed all the xine plugin directions and got as far as ./runvdr "'-Pxine -r'" in the INSTALL

[root@nzbaxters VDR]# ./runvdr "'-Pxine -r'" /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc4: No such file or directory head: cannot open `/fifty/data/Packages/video/DVB/driver/DVB/include/linux/dvb/version.h' for reading: No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc4: No such file or directory Makefile:113: /fifty/data/Packages/video/DVB/driver/Rules.make: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `/fifty/data/Packages/video/DVB/driver/Rules.make'. Stop. [root@nzbaxters VDR]#

I'm not sure why it's trying to call linux-2.6.9-rc4 but suspect I needed to get a new VDR source and start again. Since first playing with all this I have moved from FC2 to FC3 and changed kernels several times, until getting the DVB card working properly (as tested with xine natively and mplayer, tzap, scan, etc etc).

runvdr is the typical way, a self compiled VDR is started. But this is most often not the correct way for any precompiled VDRs that are part of typical distributions. Most likely they provide a service to start VDR in the background.

The error messages above result from runvdr trying to load DVB drivers and it does it by compiling it's own drivers. So you would need to have the DVB sources in the appropriate directory and you'll also need your configured kernels sources to get it working.

But this is no must if your distribution already loads the DVB drivers. Maybe there is a service script that does this.

In looking for a new vdr source, saw the vdr-1.3.17-0.16.rpm was available, so rpm -Uvh'd it. I now have 1.2.6 complied and available in one directory, and 1.3.17 rpm'd and installed in /usr/bin

When I try running the same commands: [root@nzbaxters bin]# pwd /usr/bin [root@nzbaxters bin]# ./runvdr "'-Pxine -r'" ./runvdr: line 32: cd: ../DVB/driver: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `insmod'. Stop. bash: ./vdr: No such file or directory Sat Feb 19 15:13:28 GMT 2005 restarting VDR ./vdr: No such file or directory ./runvdr: line 42: cd: ../DVB/driver: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `rmmod'. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target `insmod'. Stop. Sat Feb 19 15:13:38 GMT 2005 bash: ./vdr: No such file or directory Sat Feb 19 15:13:38 GMT 2005 restarting VDR ./vdr: No such file or directory

Once again, most errors are a result of trying to load DVB drivers. Strange is that ./vdr is not found!?

[root@nzbaxters bin]# vdr vdr: warning: NPTL is active - there may be problems vdr: please turn off UTF-8 before starting VDR [root@nzbaxters bin]#

You seem to have a NPTL system but VDR has still some issues with NPTL so it asks you to switch it off.

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

will do the trick.

Then, your system has UTF-8 enabled but once again, VDR has some issues in using UTF-8, and asks you to switch it off.

set | grep -i utf

will tell you all environment variables that indicate to use UTF-8. Just set them to anything else e. g. on my system:

export LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"

Now you should be able to start VDR.

Any suggestions? Should I get a recent 1.3.x VDR source and patch in the xine plugin? Can I get the 1.3.17 working 'out of the box' ?

Getting it working "out of the box" is no longer that easy as most systems use kernel 2.6, NPTL and UTF-8. So, you'll at least have to add the above mentioned exports into runvdr to get it working.

Using a recent VDR and recent dvb-kernel drivers might not be a bad idea anyway. But be aware of some modifications compared to documentation.

A) the DVB directory:

video:/soft/src/VDR # dir ../DVB lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 8 2004 ../DVB -> dvb-kernel/linux video:/soft/src/VDR #

B) the way to load DVB drivers:

Please have a look into my attached runvdr. It won't work out of the box for you, but it should be easy to adjust it for your needs.

Bye.

Hi,

Christian Bodenstedt wrote:

...

Please have a look into my attached runvdr.

I just had a quick look on it...

...

#VDRCMD="$VDRPRG -c $VDRDIR/etc/vdr -E $VDRDIR/data -L $VDRDIR/lib/vdr '-Pgstreamer' -w 60 -s /soft/bin/vdr-powerctrl.pl $*"

DVD_CORE="`lsmod | grep dvb_core`"

^^^^^^^^ This should probably be DVB_CORE?

You're right.

Bye.