From 7e4b4d290570aee1d24241b0e0ac10e7c8148a36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:00:00 +0200 Subject: Version 0.64 - NOTE: If you are using DVB driver version 0.7 you need to load the dvb.o module with option outstream=0, so your insmod statement should read 'insmod dvb.o outstream=0'. This is currently necessary because 'vdr' still works with AV_PES data. - Video files now have the 'group read' bit set. - Fixed handling errors in 'readstring()'. - Handling SIGPIPE and re-establishing handler after intercepting a signal. - The configuration files are now by default read from the video directory. This can be changed by using the new '-c' option. Make sure you copy your current '*.conf' files to your video directory ('/video' by default), or use "-c ." to get the old behaviour of loading the configuration files from the current directory. - Waiting for input is now handled by a common function, which improves response time on user actions. As a consequence the EIT data may sometimes not be displayed, but this will change later when cEIT runs as a separate thread. - The new SVDRP command 'HITK' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to 'hit' a remote control key. Establish an SVDRP connection and enter HITK without a parameter for a list of all valid key names. - The new SVDRP command 'GRAB' (thanks to Guido Fiala!) can be used to grab the current frame and save it to a file. - The new SVDRP commands 'OVL*' can be used to control video overlays (thanks to Guido Fiala!). This is mainly for use in the 'kvdr' tool (see the 'kvdr' page at http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala). - If the name of the video directory used with the '-v' option had trailing slashes, the recording file names have been damaged. Trailing slashes are now silently removed. - Fixed a buffer overflow in EIT parsing. - Added a security warning regarding SVDRP to the INSTALL file. - Fixed 'confirm' dialog. - The daemon mode (option '-d') now no longer works with REMOTE=KBD (there is no stdin in daemon mode, so KBD makes no sense - plus it sometimes crashed). --- INSTALL | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1ebffa1..7b953be 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ you will have to change the definition of DVBDIR in the Makefile. This program requires the card driver version 0.05 or higher -to work properly. +to work properly. If you are using driver version 0.7 you need +to load the dvb.o module with option outstream=0, so your insmod +statement should read 'insmod dvb.o outstream=0'. This is currently +necessary because 'vdr' works with AV_PES data and will change +once it has been modified to work directly with MPEG2. After extracting the package, change into the VDR directory and type 'make'. This should produce an executable file @@ -48,6 +52,11 @@ port ("Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol"). By default, it listens on port 2001 (use the --port=PORT option to change this). For details about the SVDRP syntax see the source file 'svdrp.c'. +WARNING: DUE TO THE OPEN SVDRP PORT THIS PROGRAM MAY CONSTITUTE A +======= POTENTIAL SECURITY HAZARD! IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING VDR IN + A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT, YOU MAY WANT TO DISABLE SVDRP + BY USING '--port=0'! + If the program shall run as a daemon, use the --daemon option. This will completely detach it from the terminal and will continue as a background process. @@ -64,7 +73,9 @@ All recordings are written into directories below "/video". Please make sure this directory exists, and that the user who runs the 'vdr' program has read and write access to that directory. If you prefer a different location for your video files, you can use -the '-v' option to change that. +the '-v' option to change that. Please make sure that the directory +name you use with '-v' is a clean and absolute path name (no '..' or +multiple slashes). Note that the file system need not be 64-bit proof, since the 'vdr' program splits video files into chunks of about 1GB. You should use @@ -102,14 +113,15 @@ Configuration files: -------------------- There are three configuration files that hold information about -channels, remote control keys and timers. These files are currrently -assumed to be located in the directory from which the 'vdr' program -was started (this will become configurable later). The configuration -files can be edited with any text editor, or will be written by the -'vdr' program if any changes are made inside the on-screen menus. -The meaning of the data entries may still vary in future releases, -so for the moment please look at the source code (config.c) to see -the meaning of the various fields. +channels, remote control keys and timers. By default these files are +assumed to be located in the video directory, but a different directory +can be used with the '-c' option. + +The configuration files can be edited with any text editor, or will be written +by the 'vdr' program if any changes are made inside the on-screen menus. +The meaning of the data entries may still vary in future releases, so for the +moment please look at the source code (config.c) to see the meaning of the +various fields. The files that come with this package contain the author's selections, so please make sure you adapt these to your personal taste. Also make sure -- cgit v1.2.3