VDR options

A small overview of all commandline parameters supported by VDR.

VDR is started by: vdr [OPTIONS]

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-a CMD	--audio=CMD	sendet das Dolby Digital Audio-Signal an den Standardeingang des Befehls CMD
-a CMD	--audio=CMD	send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command CMD
-c DIR	--config=DIR	read config files from DIR (default is to read them from the video directory)
-d	--daemon	run in daemon mode
-D NUM	--device=NUM	use only the given DVB device (NUM = 0, 1, 2...) there may be several -D options (default: all DVB devices will be used)
-E FILE	--epgfile=FILE	write the EPG data into the given FILE (default is epg.data in the video directory) -E- disables this if FILE is a directory, the default EPG file will be created in that directory
-h	--help	print this help and exit
-l LEVEL	--log=LEVEL	set log level (default: 3) 0 = no logging, 1 = errors only, 2 = errors and info, 3 = errors, info and debug if logging should be done to LOG_LOCALn instead of LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7)
-L DIR	--lib=DIR	search for plugins in DIR (default is ./PLUGINS/lib)
-m	--mute	mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup
-p PORT	--port=PORT	use PORT for SVDRP (default: 6419) 0 turns off SVDRP
-P OPT	--plugin=OPT	load a plugin defined by the given options
-r CMD	--record=CMD	call CMD before and after a recording
-s CMD	--shutdown=CMD	call CMD to shutdown the computer
-t TTY	--terminal=TTY	controlling tty
-v DIR	--video=DIR	use DIR as video directory (default: /video)
-V	--version	print version information and exit
-w SEC	--watchdog=SEC	activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of SEC seconds (default: 0); '0' disables the watchdog

Plugins: vdr -P"name [OPTIONS]"

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-a ABC	--aaa=ABC	Some parameter
-b	--bbb	Another parameter