Burn-plugin

Description

Author: Sascha Volkenandt

The burn plugin lets you choose the recordings you want to burn as DVD, automatically creates menus and finally burns the DVD. If the recordings are too big in size, they are requantizised to save space.

Status

Last Update 12/2011

DVD Types

Video DVD with menu

The created DVD shows a start screen, listing all recordings. Each recording has a submenu showing it's EPG info.

Video DVD with menu

The created DVB starts immediately, without having a start screen.

Archive DVD

A non-standard DVD.

DMH-Archiv-DVD

A DVD playable on all standard players, which includes a few extra files. Together with the Dvdarchive-patch, VDR handles this DVD like its usual recordings.

Images

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  Einstellungen

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  Einstellungen

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  Auswahl

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  Brennen

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  Status

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  DVD Menu

Hardware requirements

• DVD writer (optional)
• around 10GB free HDD space for converting recordings in background

Software requirements

• VDRsync
• Project X (z.B. 0.90.4.00.b29 or newer)
  • jre
  • common-net
  • jakarta-oro
• M2VRequantiser, transcode with --enable-deprecated or requant_lxdvdrip (vdrburn-dvd.sh needs to be modified)
• libgd
  • expat
• dvdauthor
  • libxml
• growisofs
• mkisofs
• mjpegtools
• eject
• genindex
• pxsup2dast (optional for closed capture)
• boost

Installation

Options

DDVDDEV=/dev/dvd	DVD-Burn device (= Parameter -D --dvd=<DEV>)
ISODIR=/video	path for ISO images (= Parameter -i <DIR> --iso=<DIR>)
datadir=/tmp	path for temporal Files during Demux/Mux/creating ISOs (= Parameter -d <DIR> --datadir <DIR> )
tempdir=/tmp	path for temporal Files during Demux/Mux/creating ISOs (= Parameter -d <DIR> --datadir <DIR> )
DEBUG=1	be verbose

Configuration

Add the following entry to your reccmds.conf

Mark for DVD-Writer: /usr/bin/burnmark.sh -add
Delete Mark        : /usr/bin/burnmark.sh -del

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-d DIR	--datadir=DIR	use DIR for temporary files (default: /dev/dvd)
-D DEV	--dvd=DEV	use DEV as DVD Writer (default /dev/dvd)
-i DIR	--iso=DIR	use DIR to store ISO images (default: none)

Problems

• No transcoding (Videos must be DVD compliant)
• Display problems with VDR >= 1.3.7

Links

[1]	http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-burn	Currently maintained version
[2]	http://linux.kompiliert.net/contrib/	Older versions
[3]	http://www.xeatre.tv/community/burn	Plugin homepage (ancient version)
[4]	http://vdr.unetz.com/download	Enhanced version (also very old)
[5]	http://vdrsync.vdr-portal.de	vdrsync.pl
[6]	http://metakine.com/files	requant
[7]	http://www.transcoding.org/	transcode
[8]	http://enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	imlib2
[9]	http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net	dvdauthor
[10]	http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW	dvd+rwtools
[11]	http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net	mjpegtools
[12]	http://www.imagemagick.org	ImageMagick