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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Written by: Udo Richter <udo_richter(a)gmx.de> -Project's homepage: http://www.richter-udo.de/vdr/scripts.en.html#runvdr +Project's homepage: http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/scripts.en.html#runvdr See the file COPYING for license information. @@ -37,11 +37,43 @@ Some of the features of runvdr extreme: Quick-start -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Copy runvdr to /usr/local/bin/ or whereever you like -- Copy runvdr.conf.example to /etc/runvdr.conf -- Edit /etc/runvdr.conf to match your needs +- Copy runvdr.conf.example to /etc/runvdr.conf if you want to run VDR as + server, or ~/.runvdr.conf if you want to run it as user. +- Edit the runvdr.conf to match your needs -The runvdr.conf is pretty much self-explaining. All options are also available -on command line, just take a look at runvdr --help. +The runvdr.conf is pretty much self-explaining. All runvdr.conf options are +also available on command line, see --help. + + + +Details +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Options take this precedence: + +1. Command line options have highest precedence +2. runvdr.conf file specified by -C or --runvdr-conf +3. If no -C and no --runvdr-conf specified, use ~/.runvdr.conf +4. If no -C and no --runvdr-conf and no ~/.runvdr.conf, use /etc/runvdr.conf +5. If none of the above, runvdr built-in defaults are used. + +Only one of the runvdr.conf files is loaded by default, and only one -C +option is evaluated. However, you can load the contents of another runvdr.conf +file from a runvdr.conf by using the INCLUDE directive. For example, you can +load /etc/runvdr.conf from within ~/.runvdr.conf to just override some of +the settings for the current user. + +Plugins added by the AddPlugin directive in the conf file and the --plugin +and -P command line option can be removed again from the list of plugins +by specifying "AddPlugin -name", --plugin="-name" or -P-name. +The name part acts as a pattern to the beginning of the plugin name, all +plugins matching "name*" will be dropped. Especially "AddPlugin -" and -P- will +drop all plugins from the list. The same mechanism works for the -D device +parameter. + +To pass parameters to VDR without parsing by runvdr, use -- as paramenter. +All parameters after -- will be directly passed to VDR. For erxample, +"runvdr -- --help" will show the command line help of VDR instead of runvdr. @@ -90,7 +122,7 @@ Dito, but also reload the DVB drivers: Use the new fresh compiled VDR for the first time: - runvdr --vdr=/usr/src/vdr-1.4.3/vdr --lib=/usr/src/vdr-1.4.3/PLUGINS/lib + runvdr --vdr=/usr/src/vdr-1.5.0/vdr --lib=/usr/src/vdr-1.5.0/PLUGINS/lib For debugging, start VDR with no terminal redirection: @@ -104,6 +136,10 @@ Load only the hello plugin: runvdr -P- -P hello +Load all plugins, but not the hello-plugin: + + runvdr -P-hello + Do a dry-run of runvdr: runvdr --wrapper=echo |