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@@ -1,25 +1,9 @@ Installation of the Video Disk Recorder --------------------------------------- -Version 1.4 +Version 1.5 ----------- -IMPORTANT NOTES: ----------------- - -Please make sure your environment is NOT set to use UTF-8 or -any other multibyte character representation. Check the value of your -$LANG or $LC_CTYPE environment variable, and if it contains something -like "de_DE.UTF-8", make sure you set it to something like "de_DE.iso8859-1" -or whatever single byte character mode you want. If you run VDR with -UTF-8 enabled, it may crash in case it encounters EPG or channel data -that contains non-7-bit ASCII characters. Another problem may occur if -you have mounted your video partition with "iocharset=utf8". In that case -recordings that contain umlauts or other non-seven-bit ASCII characters -may be displayed wrong, or not at all. Please make sure you mount your -video partition with "iocharset=iso8859-1" or whatever single byte character -mode you want. - Compiling and running the program: ---------------------------------- @@ -35,11 +19,18 @@ Refer to http://linuxtv.org for more information about the Linux-DVB driver. VDR requires the Linux-DVB driver version dated 2003-08-23 or higher to work properly. -You will also need to install the "libjpeg" and "libcap" libraries, -as well as their "devel" packages to get the necessary header files -for compiling VDR. If the "capability" module is not compiled into -your kernel, you may need to do "modprobe capability" before running -VDR. +You will also need to install the following libraries, as well as their +"devel" packages to get the necessary header files for compiling VDR: + + freetype2 + libcap + libjpeg + +If the "capability" module is not compiled into your kernel, you may +need to do "modprobe capability" before running VDR. + +When running VDR, the Freetype fonts must be installed in the directory +/usr/share/fonts/truetype. After extracting the package, change into the VDR directory and type 'make'. This should produce an executable file |