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| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY | 1 | ||||
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@@ -7747,3 +7747,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History bonded devices (thanks to Siegfried Bosch). - Fixed stopping an ongoing recording on a system with bonded devices, if a timer with a higher priority requires a different band. +- Updated the introductory text of the vdr.1 man page. @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" -.\" $Id: vdr.1 2.15 2013/03/12 09:42:25 kls Exp $ +.\" $Id: vdr.1 2.16 2013/03/12 13:39:47 kls Exp $ .\" .TH vdr 1 "31 Mar 2013" "2.0" "Video Disk Recorder" .SH NAME @@ -27,13 +27,16 @@ live TV while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder. It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live broadcast has ended (\fBtime shifting\fR). In order to record from different transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary. -By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to four -DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) has -to be a "full featured" card, which means it must contain an MPEG decoder -and provide audio and video signal outputs. +By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to eight DVB cards. +The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) can either +be a "full featured" card, which means it contains an MPEG decoder +and provides audio and video signal outputs, or you can use some third party +plugin that implements software decoding of the MPEG data and displays it via +the system's graphics adapter. -\fBvdr\fR uses the On Screen Display of the DVB card to display its menus. -It can be controlled by the PC keyboard or the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC). +\fBvdr\fR uses an On Screen Display (OSD) to display its menus. +It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC), +or any other means of remote control, implemented by a third party plugin. Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP), which can be accessed on port 6419, for instance by \fBtelnet\fR. |