From f1d1c9849c8e27cccb46cf9c0d0ccb59da3f91f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:00:00 +0200 Subject: Version 0.90 - Modified the display of the channel group separators (thanks to Markus Lang for this suggestion). - Added support for replaying DVDs (thanks to Andreas Schultz). See INSTALL for instructions on how to compile VDR with DVD support. - Fixed replay progress display in case replay is paused while watching an ongoing recording. - Ringbuffer uses semaphores to signal empty/full conditions. - Fixed calculating the timeout value in cFile::FileReady() (thanks to Wolfgang Henselmann-Weiss). --- INSTALL | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 28037eb..86b4a1e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -15,7 +15,16 @@ If you have the DVB driver source in a different location you will have to change the definition of DVBDIR in the Makefile. -This program requires the card driver version 0.9.0 or higher +If you want to use your DVD drive you will need to compile VDR with + + make DVD=1 + +to activate DVD support. VDR then also needs the package 'libdvdread' +in order to replay DVDs. This package is expected to be located in the +directory ../DVD (seen from the VDR directory). Adjust the definition +of DVDDIR in the Makefile if necessary. + +VDR requires the card driver version 0.9.0 or higher to work properly. You need to load the dvb.o module *without* option 'outstream=0' (previous versions of VDR required this option to have the driver supply the data in AV_PES format; as of version 0.70 VDR @@ -100,6 +109,19 @@ This program must be given to VDR with the '-a' option, as in vdr -a ac3play +Accessing the DVD drive: +------------------------ + +By default VDR expects the DVD drive to be located at /dev/dvd (which +typically is a symbolic link to the actual device, for instance /dev/hdc). +You can use the '-V' option to overwrite this, as in + + vdr -V /media/dvd + +Note that the user id under which VDR runs needs to have write access to +the DVD device in order to replay CSS protected DVDs (which also requires +the presence of the 'libcss' library). + The video data directory: ------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3