Hi,
I started to play with "vdr" now. my system is FC5 w/ Twinhan-1025A budget card. After I use linux-dvb-apps-1.0.0's scan and szap program, I can use xine to view satellite dvb TV program now (only unencrypted channel :( ).
So now I downloaded vdr-1.4.0.tar.bz2, and uncompressed it as vdr-1.4.0, in that directory, I type make, and got an excutable vdr, but when I run it, I get the following error: --------------------------------------------- [zhuhx@pc1 vdr-1.4.0]$ ./vdr vdr: can't access video directory /video ---------------------------------------------
I only have /dev/dvb/adaptor0 with "demux0 dvr0 frontend0 net0" subdirectory.
I notice in Makefile these is "VIDEODIR=/video", how can I change it? looks like I have to do something, but in INSTALL, I didn't find the instructions.
Do I need other software packages?
one more question: each time I start my FC5, I have to do the following ---------------------- $modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 $modprobe dvb_bt8xx $modprobe dst dst_algo=0 ---------------------- How can I let the PC to do these automatically?
Thanks, Paul
Paul ZHU schrieb:
Hi,
I started to play with "vdr" now.
Welcome on board. :)
Please try "vdr --help". VDR will then tell you all commandline switches. There is also the option -v <videodir> mentioned. This directory is not related to any tv card in your computer but used by vdr to store the recordings.
Best regards, Lutz
Paul ZHU wrote:
Did you install this package from source? A newer version (1.1.0) is available in Fedora Extras, the package is named dvb-apps.
There are rpms of vdr and several plugins available at rpm.livna.org. For instructions on how to set up this repository to use it with yum please have a look at http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html
After installing the package you can just start vdr with "service vdr start" (as root and without the quotes, of course). The video directory used in this package is /srv/vdr, it will be setup with the correct permissions automatically.
Regards, Andreas.
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:54 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
I don't want to use rpm packages because I am interested in playing with the source code.
now when I run "vdr",I get the following error: ----------------------------------- [zhuhx@pc1 vdr-1.4.0]$ vdr vdr: no primary device found - using first device! [zhuhx@pc1 vdr-1.4.0]$ -----------------------------------
any ideas? Thanks, Paul
Paul ZHU schrieb:
This error indicates, that you only have a budget card installed. VDR does not know where to display the video. If you don't want to buy a card with playback capabilities, you have to use some plugin that implements a device for output in software. Maybe via xine or framebuffer. Please have a look at the plugins mentioned on the vdr website.
Hi
On 4:01:17 pm 03/05/2006 Lutz Bender l.bender@hagener-feinstahl.de wrote:
card with playback capabilities, you have to use some plugin that implements a device for output in software. Maybe via xine or
On this subject - I've been using the xine plugin for a while, but I've noticed that there do seem to be others (notably softdevice/streamdev). Is there a guide somewhere to how these differ? I guess my ideal solution would be to access VDR through gstreamer/totem, but some googling suggests that that isn't possible at the moment, so I'm just looking for something a bit simpler than the xine plugin (if only so I can avoid recompiling xine).
Cheers, --- Chris Jones cmsj@tenshu.net www.tenshu.net
在 2006-05-03三的 16:32 +0100，Chris Jones写道：
Yes, I have a budget card twinhan VP-1025A which comes no mpeg2 decoder. I don't mind buy a full-featured card later. but right now I also want to play with this economical card with plugins.
BTW, when using "root", it has no such messages like "vdr: no primary device found - using first device!", but just sits there do nothing. syslog indicates OSD error, lkie these:
-------------------------- [root@pc1 zhuhx]# tail /var/log/messages May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] found 1 video device May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] setting primary device to 1 May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] device 1 has no MPEG decoder May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] SVDRP listening on port 2001 May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] loading /video/themes/sttng-default.theme May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] loading /video/themes/sttng-default.theme May 3 23:39:38 pc1 vdr: [4037] ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy O SD! May 3 23:39:48 pc1 vdr: [4037] switching to channel 1 May 3 23:39:48 pc1 vdr: [4037] info: Channel not available! May 3 23:39:48 pc1 vdr: [4037] ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy O SD! [root@pc1 zhuhx]# ----------------------------
So I have to use some plugins for vdr? I will research a bit on these tomorrow.
But wait, wait, I know a package vdr-xine-0.7.9.tgz is for vdr as a plugin for xine, now you told me I also need xine to be a plugin for vdr, I got confused!!! could you please explain more on these plugin thing?
Best regards, Paul ZHU
On Wed, 03 May 2006 16:32:18 +0100 "Chris Jones" cmsj@tenshu.net wrote:
Check this out: http://users.tkk.fi/~phintuka/vdr/vdr-xineliboutput/ It will need libxine headers, but Xine doesn't need to be patched, so any packaged xine-lib 1.1.1 or newer should be fine.
Niko Mikkilä
Niko:
I downloaded vdr-xineliboutput-0.99rc.tgz and uncompressed it to vdr-1.4.0/PLUGINS/src,and patched it with vdr-xineliboutput-0.99rc-vdr-1.4.0.patch.
Initially, this plugin directory name is "xineliboutput-0.99rc", but when I try to "make plugins", it just ignored this plugin directory, so I renamed it to "xineliboutput", now it can compile the plugins with the following error:
----------------------- gcc -g -shared xine_input_vdr.o -L/usr/lib -lxine -lz -lnsl -lpthread -lrt -o xineplug_inp_xvdr.so make[1]: *** No rule to make target `xine_post_autoscale.c', needed by `xine_post_autoscale.o'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zhuhx/VDR/myvdr/vdr-1.4.0/PLUGINS/src/xineliboutput' *** failed plugins: xineliboutput [zhuhx@pc1 vdr-1.4.0]$ -----------------------
I checked this plugins's directory, there is no such file "xine_post_autoscale.c"and "xine_post_headphone.c". Where it should be?
previously I downloaded xine-lib-cvs-20060319194500.tar.bz2 xine-ui-cvs-20060319194500.tar.bz2 and patched xine-lib with xine-0.7.9/xine-lib.patch and compiled/installed them in /usr/local/xine/
Please help ! Thanks, Paul ZHU
On Thu, 04 May 2006 10:58:05 +0800 Paul ZHU zhu.blue@gmail.com wrote:
You could also make a symbolic link so that testing many versions of the same plugin is easier and you know which version you happen to use: ln -s xineliboutput-0.99rc xineliboutput
This just came up on a Finnish VDR forum and Rolf Ahrenberg told that you'll need to comment out "ENABLE_TEST_POSTPLUGINS = 1" from the plugin's Makefile. It gets enabled by vdr-xineliboutput-0.99rc-vdr-1.4.0.patch, but apparently it doesn't work yet.
Xineliboutput doesn't need that patch, but it shouldn't be a problem either.
Niko
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