Rewrite of http menu (#439)

Including
- m3u playlists by Petri Hintukainen (#254)
- way to pass parameters to externremux by Rolf Ahrenberg
- using host header for absolute URLs for better DNAT / Reverse Proxy support

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 99ed13b..5a82acb 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -154,7 +154,15 @@ PS     Program Stream (SVCD, DVD like stream)
 ES     Elementary Stream (only Video, if available, otherwise only Audio)
 EXTERN Pass stream through external script (e.g. for converting with mencoder)
 
-If you leave the default port (3000), you can access the streams like this:
+Assuming that you leave the default port (3000), point your web browser to
+
+http://hostname:3000/
+
+You will be presented a menu with links to various channel lists, including M3U
+playlist formats.
+
+If you don't want to use the HTML menu or the M3U playlists, you can access the
+streams directly like this:
 
 http://hostname:3000/3
 http://hostname:3000/S19.2E-0-12480-898
@@ -173,6 +181,11 @@ back i.e. with mpg123.
 
 mpg123 http://hostname:3000/ES/200
 
+With 'EXTERN' you can also add a parameter which is passed as argument to the
+externremux script.
+
+http://hostname:3000/EXTERN;some_parameter/3
+
 3.2 Usage VDR-to-VDR server:
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