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authorKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2001-08-03 14:18:08 +0200
committerKlaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>2001-08-03 14:18:08 +0200
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Added support for replaying DVDs
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@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ If you have the DVB driver source in a different location
you will have to change the definition of DVBDIR in the
Makefile.
+VDR 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.
+
This program 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
@@ -100,6 +105,19 @@ 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:
-------------------------