Plugins

Description

Plugins are small software programs, which are used by another program to extend its functionality. Plugins, such as those for VDR, are typically implemented as shared libraries and cannot run standalone.

VDR provides an easy to use plugin interface that allows additional functionality to be added to the program by implementing a dynamically loadable library file. This interface allows programmers to develop additional functionality for VDR completely separate from the core VDR source, without the need of patching the original VDR code (and all the problems of correlating various patches).

List

Many plugins where written for VDR and it is most likely that this list here is not up-to-date.

As you might possibly know there are different version of VDR available, the stable branch, designated for the end-user with a fixed plugin interface and the developer branch for the advanced and adventures user where everything is in a state of flux.

As the developer versions are normally rather stable most users tend to use them and hence many developers adapt their plugins to the latest VDR developer version. But this list doesn't show the VDR version needed for a plugin.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Plugin	Description	Maintainer (Please avoid nicknames!)
ac3mode
actuator	Satellite dish rotor	Luca Olivetti
admin	Administrative tasks	Helmut Auer
advertizing zapper
aide	OSD Help browser	SAD & Slava
alcd	Activy300 LCD Display	Markus Geisler
analogradio	support for analog radio cards	Sebastian Kuhlen
analogtv	analog TV card as MPEG input device	Andreas Kool
asterisk	Asterisk voicebox
audiocd	Audio CD	Alexander Loehr
autotimeredit	OSD autotimer	Hardy Flor
avolctl	sound card volume control
beep	Beep	Andreas Brachold
bitstreamout	Dolby Digital over a sound card (ALSA sound driver)	Werner Fink
browser	Web Browser	Marcel Schaeben
btrcu	Bluetooth mobile as remote control
burn	Burn DVDs of VDR recordings	Sascha Volkenandt
calc	Simple calculator	Eric Svenson
calendar	Shows the EPG data in form of a calendar	Jan Rieger
cdda	Audio CD Player
channelscan	scanning satellite transponders
channelswitcher	Switch between several channel settings	?
chanorg	?	?
cinebars	Creates virtual bars around the video	Andreas Brugger
clock	shows a clock	Mario Aistleitner
console	Text console via OSD	Jan Rieger
control	displays the OSD on the console	Jan Rieger
csf	Sorts channels	Juan Morra
decruft	deletes channels as defined in setup
digicam	Access to digital cameras	Peter Juszack
director	Use multifeed channels of Premiere	Emanuel Wontorra
dsmcc	Mhp data carousel (alpha)	Richard Palmer
dummydevice	dummy output device
dv	Access to camcorder	Erich Bachl
dvd	DVD player plugin	Andreas Schultz, Sven Goethel
dvdconvert	dvd2vdr	Ronny Frankowski
dvdselect	mounts DVD drives	Torsten Kunkel
dxr3	DXR 3/Hollywood+-card as MPEG output device	Andreas Schultz, Stefan Schluenss, Christian Gmeiner
em84xx	em84xx ass MPEG output device
epgsearch	Search the EPG data	Christian Wieninger
extb	Controlling the VDR Extension Board	Andreas Brachold
femon	Shows the DVB signal quality	Rolf Ahrenberg
fepg	Shows EPG data graphically + navigation	Alex L.
ffnetdev
freecell	FreeCell card game	Sascha Volkenandt
games	A little game collection	Clemens Kirchgatterer
gngb2vdr	GameBoy Emulator
graphlcd	several graphic LCDs	Andreas Regel
graphtft	drives TFT displays	Lars Tegeler
hello	A simple 'hello' plugin	Klaus Schmidinger
iaxphone	Iax (asterisk) softphone	Luca Olivetti
image	Image viewer plugin	Andreas Brachold
ipod	shows ITunesDB
isdnlog	ISDN log	Andreas Kool
joystick	Use the joystick as remote control	Andreas Regel
kathreinlcd	I²C displays	Sascha Volkenandt
launcher	Starts other plugins	Christian Wieninger
lcdproc	Alphanummeric displays	Martin Hammerschmid
lcr	least cost router
lirc	Lirc test plugin	Emanuel Wontorra
loadepg	import of epg data
locker	?	?
mailbox	Simple email client	Alexander Rieger
manual	displays a manual	Merten Falk
mediamvp	Media MVP	Dominic Morris
message-plugin	message interface for shell scripts
mhp	Mhp for VDR	Marcel Wiesweg
mlcd	Siemens Multitainer LCD display	Meinrad Sauter
mldkgui	Controls MLDonkey	?
mldonkey	Controls MLDonkey	Dominik Meyer
monochannel	allows audio mono switching
mp3	MP3 Player	Stefan Huelswitt
mplayer	Plays divers Video formats (e.g. DivX)	Stefan Huelswitt
mplayercluster	remote MPlayer	Sascha Volkenandt
muggle	MP3 player with Database backend	Andi Kellner, Lars von Wedel, Ralf Klueber
network	Change netzwork settings	Sebastian Ortwein
newsticker	A simple newsticker	Emanuel Wontorra
nordlichtsepg	epg data overview sorted by time
openmhp	free MHP implementation
osddemo	Demonstrates the On-Screen-Display	Klaus Schmidinger
osdimage	Image viewer for the OSD	Andreas Brugger
osdpip	Picture-in-picture	Sascha Volkenandt
osdteletext	Teletext decoder for the OSD	Marcel Wiesweg
osdtest256	Test plugin for a 4MB modded DVB card	Oliver Endriss
parallelportcontroller
pcd	Photo CD	Thomas Heiligenmann
pilot	Zapping Co-Pilot	Olivier Jacques
pim	Personal Information Manager	Achim Tuffentsammer
playlist	Playlists for recordings	Hardy Flor
pluginsetup	Manage plugins over OSD	Andreas Fey
powermate	Use the Griffin PowerMate to control some functions	Andreas Regel
prefermenu	Preferred channels	Olivier Jacques
premiereepg	premiereepg2vdr as plugin
proxy
pvr350	analog TV card as MPEG output device (only Hauppage PVR 350)	Dominic Morris
pvrinput	Hauppauge PVR x50 as analog TV card
pvrusb2	Hauppauge PVR usb2 as analog TV card
ptv	Hauppauge PVR x50 as analog TV card
radio	Background image for radio channels	Lars Tegeler
remote	Support of additional remote controls	Oliver Endriss
rotor	Drive the satellite dish rotor	Thomas Bergwinkl
rssreader	Shows RSS Streams on OSD	Rolf Ahrenberg
safe	usage of codes for some commands	Torsten Kunkel
safe
sc	Software CAM (Conditional Access Modul)	?
screenshot	Creates screenshots	Joachim Wilke
serial	Control VDR through keys connected to the serial interface	Ralf Klueber
serialremote
servicedemo
showrecinfo
sked	A OSD editor	?
skincurses	?	Klaus Schmidinger
skinelchi	Elchi Skin as plugin
skinnotrans	Transparent OSD, e.g. for softdevice	Torgeir Veimo
sky	mpeg2 encoder plugin (auch als "dummy" input)	Klaus Schmidinger
sleeptimer	Runs commands/shutdown with "countdown" timer	Thomas Koch
snapshot	Creates screenshots	Petri Hintukainen
softdevice	Framebuffer as output device	Roland Praml, Stefan Lucke
softdevice2net	Use the network output device instead of the framebuffer	?
softieee1394
softplay	playing media files with softdevice-plugin
solitaire	Solitaire card game	Patrick Maier
spider
status	OSD status	Klaus Schmidinger
statusandquestion	Extension of the SVDRP protocol	Hardy Flor
statusbits	?	Andreas Regel
statusleds	Use the LED's of the keyboard	Bernd Juraschek
streamdev	Streaming Server/Client	Sascha Volkenandt
streamplayer	Video Stream Player
submenu	Creation of submenus in VDR for everything
subtitles	DVB subtitles decoder	Pekka Virtanen
sudoku	Generate and solve Number Place puzzles	Thomas Günther
surfer	News Browser
suspendoutput	background picture for radio stations
svdrpdemo
sysinfo	System informationen via OSD
taste	Disable specific broadcasts after keywords	Sascha Volkenandt
telecable	epg import
teletext	Teletext dekoder	Peter Seyringer
text2skin	A loader for OSD skins	Sascha Volkenandt
timeline	Shows collisions of programmed timers	Jürgen Schmitz
transfron	Frontend for transcode/MPEG4IP	Daniel Pees
trayopen	?	?
ttxtsubs	Teletext subtitles	Ragnar Sundblad
tvonscreen	TV-OnScreen EPG viewer	Jürgen Schmitz
tvtv	TVTV via OSD	Gerald Berwolf
undelete	Recovery of recordings marked for deletion	Hardy Flor
usbremote	Remote Plugin for Plug-USB (AVR)	Lars Tegeler
vbox	Frontend for the VBox answering machine	Gunnar Roth
vcd	S/VCD Player	Thomas Heiligenmann
vdrc	Commander file manager	Gerald Berwolf
vdrcd	AutoPlay function	Sascha Volkenandt
vdrconvert	?	Dimitrios Dimitrakos
vdricq	ICQ Client
vdrmail	eMail plugin	Peter Seyringer
vdrrec	plays VDR recordings from DVD/CD
vdrrip	Movie encoder	Herbert Attenberger
viewer	?	Gerhard Steiner
vompserver	Media MVP connection
wapd	Remote control through WAP	Thomas Heiligenmann
weather	Weather informationen	Steffen Moldaner
weatherng	weather information via internet
x10	control of x10 devices
x11out	X11 over DVB	Jürgen Schmitz
xine	?	Reinhard Nissl
xineliboutput	X11 frontend for VDR	Petri Hintukainen
xms
xvxine	?	Mike Pieper
xxvautotimer	editing xxv auto timer via OSD
yaepg	shows EPG data	?
yascreenshot
zaphistory	zapping history

Links

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http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/plugins.htm

Plugin list on the VDR homepage