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diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/sky/README b/PLUGINS/src/sky/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3832791 --- /dev/null +++ b/PLUGINS/src/sky/README @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). + +Written by: Klaus Schmidinger <kls@cadsoft.de> + +Project's homepage: www.cadsoft.de/vdr + +Latest version available at: www.cadsoft.de/vdr + +See the file COPYING for license information. + +Description: + +The 'sky' plugin implements a new device for VDR, which is based on the +MPEG2 encoder card described at linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml. It +allows you to connect the analog a/v output of your Sky Digibox to VDR, +so that you can enjoy the full recording flexibility of VDR with your +Sky subscription. Note that this is NOT something that does anything +illegal, like decrypting the Sky programme without a subscription. You +will need a Sky Digibox and a valid subscription in order to use this +plugin. + +The Digibox is remotely controlled through VDR via LIRC (see lirc.org). +The file lircd.conf.sky contains the remote control codes necessary to +control the Digibox. + +In order to access the Sky channels VDR needs to know the channel number +under which each channel is stored in the Sky Digibox. These numbers are +used as 'frequency' parameters in the channels.conf definitions of the Sky +channels (see the file 'channels.conf.sky'). Since these numbers are always +less than 1000, they can be easily distinguished from normal satellite +transponder frequencies. The VPID is 160 and the APID is 80 for all Sky +channels. These are just fake PIDs, since the Kfir card always uses these +fixed PIDs. The 'Ca' parameter of the Sky channels is set to 301, which +is defined as "Videoguard, Sky Digital" in VDR's 'ca.conf' file. Again, please +note that VDR doesn't do any decrypting here, this is just to mark these +channels as "conditionally accessible" and have a way of setting the CICAM +value for the Kfir device in VDR's Setup menu. + +The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.ananova.com. +The Perl script getskyepg.pl extracts the EPG data from these pages +and sends it to VDR via an SVDRP connection. The channel numbers Sky +uses to generate the EPG pages are stored as the 'sid' parameter in +the channels.conf definitions of the Sky channels. You can keep your +EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl into your +/etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options. |