vdr-ttxtsubs - a teletext subtitle plugin for the Linux Video Disk Recorder =========================================================================== About ----- Description: This plug-in implements displaying, recording and replaying teletext based subtitles using the on screen display. Current Maintainer: Tobias Grimm Original Author: Ragnar Sundblad Homepage: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-ttxtsubs Old homepage: http://www.nada.kth.se/~ragge/vdr/ttxtsubs/ Copyright: (C) 2003 - 2008 Ragnar Sundblad (C) 2009 - 2011 Tobias Grimm License: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see file `COPYING`); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Introduction ------------ This plug-in is for VDR >= 1.7.6. It currently needs a some changes to the VDR code in order to work. A patch file is included in patches/ which can be safely applied even if you don't use the ttxtsubs plug-in. For your convenience, the patch is also available as a set of logical chunks, each covering a specific feature. The main responsibilities of the VDR patch are to enable the reception of the teletext data stream and to discover the subtitle pages. So even without the plug-in, the patch will allow you to record teletext subtitles, which e.g. can be shown in 3'rd partly players like VLC. Usage ----- Important: In order to be able to receive the teletext subtitles, you must enable the teletext subtitle support in VDR's setup. You will find this setting in the DVB section of the setup. Ideally the available subtitle pages / languages will be auto-detected. But this might not be possible with all broadcasters. Especially the German broadcasters don't care very much about the DVB standard in this regard and you have to configure the subtitle page(s) for each channel manually. In order to do so, you have to stop VDR and edit the channels.conf. After the Tpid entry, you can add tuples of language codes and page numbers like this: ...:201+150=deu,151=fin... !!! This format has changed in version 0.2.4 for VDR 1.7.21 (see HISTORY) !!! See `man 5 vdr` for a detailed description of the channels.conf. Future versions of the plug-in will provide an OSD setup for this setting, but right now you are on your own. To see the subtitles, you also must select the subtitle languages you would like to see in the plug-ins OSD setup. In the future this might get somehow merged with VDRs built-in DVB-subtitle selection. In the plug-ins setup you can also configure some parameters which control how the subtitles will be displayed. Additional notes ---------------- A Note about reported problems with Digitainer II: If you own a Digitainer II, you may run into an issue with the OSD and a corrupted main menu. OlvierH reported, that the following setting at leas partially solves this: Advanced Chipset Features - AGP &P2P Bridge Control - VGA Share Memory Size: 64M (default is 32M)