This will only build vdr, no plugins, no installation into the system It will just give you the idea if the patch still works

This is basically my setup if I test new vdr stuff (patches, upgrades, etc)

sudo aptitude install libfribidi-dev sudo apt-get build-dep vdr

mkdir -v /usr/local/src/vdr cd /usr/local/src/vdr

wget ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.15.tar.bz2 tar -xvjf vdr-1.7.15.tar.bz2

wget ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.0-bidi.diff.gz gunzip -d vdr-1.7.0-bidi.diff.gz sed 's/vdr-1.7.0.alrawab/vdr-1.7.15/g;s/vdr-1.7.0/vdr-1.7.15/g' \ <vdr-1.7.0-bidi.diff >vdr-1.7.15-bidi.patch patch -b -p 0 -i vdr-1.7.15-bidi.patch

cd vdr-1.7.15/

make make plugins

mkdir -pv $HOME/vdr-1.7.15/videos

cp -vai *.conf $HOME/vdr-1.7.15/ cp -vai runvdr.template $HOME/vdr-1.7.15/runvdr

## adjust runvdr:

nano $HOME/vdr-1.7.15/runvdr

export VDR_LANG="$LANG" export LC_COLLATE="$LANG" export VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE="ISO-8859-6"

VDRPRG="/usr/local/src/vdr/vdr-1.7.15/vdr"

VDROPTIONS="-w 60 --port=2001 --log=3 \ --localedir=/usr/local/src/vdr/vdr-1.7.15/locale/ \ --video=$HOME/vdr-1.7.15/videos --config=$HOME/vdr-1.7.15/ \ --lib=/usr/local/src/vdr/vdr-1.7.15/PLUGINS/lib"

# have a look @ syslog on a second terminal: tail -fn100 /var/log/syslog | grep vdr

# now run vdr using the runvdr start script: sudo sh $HOME/vdr-1.7.15/runvdr

#Replace CHANNEL with the channel you like to see # LSTE does list EPG data of that channel

/usr/local/src/vdr/vdr-1.7.15/svdrpsend.pl -p 2001 -d localhost LSTE CHANNEL \ | grep '215-' | cut -d - -f2- | sed -s '/^e/d;/^c/d'

# stop vdr with "killall vdr" on another terminal

The patch applies/builds fine after the path adjustment, don't know if it does what it's supposed to without arrabic channels to test... d