Hi,
We've been using the DeepBlue skin for quite some time but it seems to have a few bugs that I have no idea how to fix so we've been looking at something newer. I tried soppalusikka which is a quite nice skin and what we'll be using from now on unless nothing else comes out from this mail. :)
As of 1.3.44 the text2skin plugin no longer seems to work, at least I get a:
vdr: .../libvdr-text2skin.so.1.3.44: undefined symbol: _ZN5cFontC1EPv
when starting VDR, so I guess it requires a patch or two to work. But are there any other skins that work with that system apart from DeepBlue? Haven't seen too many announcements on this list (no, I don't use any of the huge amounts of VDR web forums out there) so I guess either there are no skins that people use or there are no text2skin skins. Or?
The alternative is "native" skins like soppalusikka, but I haven't really seen any of those either.
What do you others use? I prefer to keep my VDR clean, no extra patches at all, so something like the EAIO thing (or something similar) are out of the question even if they would have nice looks. The patched VDR:s seem to break far too often for our tastes.
So, what is the state of the nation when it comes to making VDR look nice?
Hi,
there are some skins for text2skin apart from DeepBlue, e.g. Enigma Have a look at
http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins/
Text2skin works great with 1.3.44, perhaps you should checkout the current version from CVS. Also I don't know of any bugs in DeepBlue.
BR,
Christian
On Sunday 19 March 2006 17:33, Christian Wieninger wrote:
My DeepBlue has never shown any info for recordings, so I've thought that VDR didn't save it. But lo and hebold as "soppalusikka" shows the info just as it was in the EPG at the time of recording. Haven't seen any announcements for any new versions of DeepBlue either. I use version 1.0 of text2skin, which is the last released one (a year ago, so it's no wonder it b0rked). Tracking CVS versions of stuff is a swamp of fun and broken toys and frustrated users. :)
"soppalusikka" doesn't show any channel logos although they are installed as per instructions, but I haven't dug into that too much.
On 19.3.2006, at 19:46, Jan Ekholm wrote:
In order to see logos with soppalusikka, you have to enable that in the plugin setup.
On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:08, Tuomas Jormola wrote:
Heh, I'm not *that* thick. Neither channel name nor channel data gives any logos. No errors in the log afaik either.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Jan Ekholm wrote:
"soppalusikka" doesn't show any channel logos although they are installed as per instructions, but I haven't dug into that too much.
Works for me :) Have you also enabled the logos in plugin's setup menu and have you've chosen the right way to recognize them (channel name vs. channel ID)? If you answer yes to both questions, are the logos readable by vdr and are logo dimensions exactly 64x48 pixels?
BR, -- rofa
On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:19, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote:
Both tried. As for the second, well, I'm not sure. I just used the supplied icons as they contained all channels we actually see so I guess they are ok. The location I put them in may be wrong, I used:
/video/plugins/skinsoppalusikka/
The location was analogous to where the theme data was supposed to be installed, and that works, so I guess the dir is quite ok? The files should be readable by root, I run vdr as root.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Jan Ekholm wrote:
In that case everything should work. Just to make sure you do have: /video/plugins/skinsoppalusikka/text.xpm and _NOT_ this one: /video/plugins/skinsoppalusikka/logos/text.xpm
There are no missing logo related error messages by default, but you could recompile the plugin with "SKINSOPPALUSIKKA_DEBUG=1" option. Then your log files should be filled up with all kind of logo loading related entries.
BR, -- rofa
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