Reinhard Nissl wrote:

computer and share the same recording directory. VDR Master provides access to all DVB devices and VDR Slaves take care of OSD and transfer

mode for vdr-xine.

This is a different thing. What I was trying to suggest, was to toggle OSD skin depending on if there actually is xine connected to xine-plugin or not.

Normally:

VDR-xineplugin <====> xine (video+OSD)

When xine disconnected:

VDR-xineplugin <=====> /\ || / OSD (on xterm where VDR was started, using skincurses plugin)

And yes, it is a matter of VDR to do this, but VDR does not know when xine is connected, so it is a matter of xine-plugin to toggle between normal OSD skin and curses skin.

If you haven't tried skincurses, try running VDR with -P skincurses and toggle OSD skin to curses. It's not perfect, but I've found it useful.

I run VDR on xterm on vncserver, to which I can connect to (even from internet using ssh tunneling) operate VDR. I also run vdradmin which I could use to do most things, but for a single timer this is usually faster.

Teemu