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@@ -5,10 +5,50 @@ Written by: Thomas Keil <tkeil@datacrystal.de> Dieter Hametner <dh+vdr@gekrumbel.de> Christian Wieninger <cwieniger@gmx.de> -Project's homepage: URL +Project's homepage: http://live.vdr-developer.org -Latest version available at: URL +Latest version available at: either http://live.vdr-developer.org + or the current cvs version at + http://www.vdr-developer.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/live/live.tar.gz?tarball=1 See the file COPYING for license information. + Description: +============ + +Live, the "Live Interactive VDR Environment", is a plugin providing the +possibility to interactivly control the VDR and some of it's plugins by +a web interface. + +Unlike external utility programs that communicate with VDR and it's plugins +by SVDRP, Live has direct access to VDR's data structures and is thus very +fast. + + + +Requirements: +============= + +Tntnet >= 1.5.3 - http://www.tntnet.org/download.hms +Cxxtools >= 1.4.3 - http://www.tntnet.org/download.hms +boost >= 1.32.0 - http://www.boost.org + +Tntnet provides basic webserver functions for live and needs cxxtools. +Boost provides some data structures we need. While currently relying on the +full blown package we might provide a stripped down version in the future. + + + +So how does it work? +==================== +Basically, Live itself is a Tntnet webserver integrated into the plugin +structure VDR needs. +This webserver, running in VDR's environment, is provided it with all public data +structures VDR provides for plugins and thus has very fast access to +information like the EPG, timers or recordings. + +Live's "pages" are written in "ecpp", a language integrating C++ and HTML in +one file, very much like e.g. PHP or ASP weave functionality and "static" +content information together. + |