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This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
Written by: Petri Hintukainen <Petri.Hintukainen@hut.fi>
Project's homepage: http://www.hut.fi/u/phintuka/vdr/
Latest version available at: http://www.hut.fi/u/phintuka/vdr/
See the file COPYING for license information.
Description
Simple framebuffer and/or X11 front-end for VDR.
(displays OSD and video in raw X/Xv/XvMC window or
Linux framebuffer/DirectFB).
Support for local and remote frontends.
Built-in image and media player supports playback of most known media
files (avi/mp3/divx/jpeg/...) and network radio/video streams
(http, rtsp, ...) directly from VDR.
Requirements
- vdr-1.3.42 or later
- xine-lib 1.1.1 or later
(not required for server in network-only usage)
- Enough CPU power and memory to decode streams
(PII 400Mhz + 64M should be enough with Xv or DirectFB)
WARNING
Remote (network) mode should be used only in firewalled
environment; it gives anyone full control to VDR !
Full access is allowed to all hosts listed in svdrphosts.conf.
Multicast streaming can flood your internet connection and/or
wireless LAN. If there is no router (or intelligent switch ?)
all multicast packets will be broadcasted to all network links.
This will flood slow network links:
- Internet connection if outgoing bandwith is < 10 Mbit/s
- Wireless LAN (11 or 54 Mbit/s).
By default multicast TTL is set to 1 so multicast packets should
be stopped to first router regardless of network configuration.
Buildtime options
X11 and xine-lib are detected by Makefile.
It is possible to override auto-detection by adding
following definitions to VDR's Make.config:
enable/disable building of X11 frontends:
XINELIBOUTPUT_X11 = 1
XINELIBOUTPUT_X11 = 0
enable/disable framebuffer frontends:
XINELIBOUTPUT_FB = 1
XINELIBOUTPUT_FB = 0
enable/disable xine (input)plugin:
XINELIBOUTPUT_XINEPLUGIN = 1
XINELIBOUTPUT_XINEPLUGIN = 0
or changing corresponding lines in plugin's Makefile.
xineplug_inp_vdr.so is automatically copied to xine's plugin directory.
Writing to xine's plugin directory usually requires root permissions.
It is possible to compile only remote frontends with command
"make frontends".
Usage examples (VDR plugin)
If no arguments are given, both X11 and framebuffer frontends are tried.
First working frontend is used with best available video driver.
Complete list of available command-line arguments can be obtained
with "vdr --help".
Only local frontend, X11/Xv video, alsa audio:
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --audio=alsa --noremote"
Only local frontend, (slow) X11 video, oss audio:
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=x11 --audio=oss --noremote"
Only local frontend, DirectFB:
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=fbfe --video=DirectFB --noremote"
Only remote frontend(s):
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=none --remote=37890"
Local and remote frontends:
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --remote=37890"
or
vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=fbfe --remote=37890"
Using remote frontends
Two remote frontends are included, vdr-fbfe for framebuffer and
vdr-sxfe for X11.
Complete list of available command-line arguments can be obtained
with "vdr-??fe --help".
Frontend should find server automatically (from local subnet)
and negoate best available transport. If frontend does not
find server (or specific transport should be used), mrl must
be given on command line.
Examples:
Search for VDR (xineliboutput) server, connect to it and
negoatite best available transport. Use best available audio
and video driver.
vdr-fbfe
or
vdr-sxfe
Connect to 192.168.1.3 default port and negoate best available transport
vdr-fbfe xvdr://192.168.1.3
Connect to 192.168.2.100, port 12550 and use TCP transport
vdr-fbfe xvdr:tcp://192.168.2.100:12550
Automatically search for VDR server and use UDP transport
vdr-fbfe xvdr:udp:
Available transports for video/audio
pipe Use local pipe; server and front-end must be running in
same machine
rtp Use RTP/UDP multicast for data and TCP for control.
Multiple frontends can receive same stream.
udp Use UDP unicast for data and TCP for control.
tcp Use TCP protocol for control and data. Both channels
use same server port and are opened by client.
Forwarding lirc keys to server
Use option --lirc with optional lircd socket name to
forward LIRC commands from client to server.
Audio driver
Use alsa:
vdr-fbfe --audio alsa
Use alsa (and specific card/sub-device):
vdr-fbfe --audio alsa:plughw:1,1
Video driver (and display / device):
With X11 frontend (vdr-sxfe):
vdr-sxfe --video x11 | xshm | xv | xvmc | xxmc [:display]
Examples:
--video xv
--video xvmc:127.0.0.1:1.0
With framebuffer frontend (vdr-fbfe):
--video [fb | DirectFB] [:fb_device]
examples:
--video DirectFB
--video fb:/dev/fb/1
De-interlacing
De-interlacing can be switched on with command-line option
--post tvtime
Examples:
vdr-sxfe --post tvtime:method=Linear,cheap_mode=1,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1
vdr -P"xineliboutput --post=tvtime:method=Linear,cheap_mode=1,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1"
Using with xine-ui (xine, fbxine, gxine, ...)
Examples:
xine "xvdr://127.0.0.1#nocache;demux:mpeg_block"
xine "xvdr:tcp://127.0.0.1:37890#nocache;demux:mpeg_block"
xine "xvdr:udp://127.0.0.1:37890#nocache;demux:mpeg_block"
"#nocache;demux:mpeg_block" should always be appended to end of mrl.
Remote mode must be enabled in VDR plugin.
Image viewer key bindings
Up/Down Next/previous image
Left/Right Jump 5 images forward/backward
Yellow Delete current image
Back Return to image list
Stop/Blue Exit image viewer
Play Start slide show
Pause Stop slide show
FastFF/FastRew Start slide show; Increase/decrease slide show speed;
Change slideshow direction
Ok Toggle replay display mode
Media player key bindings
Back Return to file list
Red Jump to beginning of file
Green Jump 1 min back
Yellow Jump 1 min forward
Stop/Blue Stop replay
1, User8 Jump 20 s back
3, User9 Jump 20 s forward
2 Move subtitles up
5 Move subtitles down
Pause Pause replay
Play Play
Ok Toggle replay display mode
Aspect ratio setting
There are 4 possible aspect ratio settings for display:
default Aspect ratio is calculated from display resolution.
4:3 4:3 video is scaled to fill whole window;
16:9 video has black bars at top and bottom
16:9 16:9 video is scaled to fill whole window;
4:3 video has black bars at left and right.
auto 4:3 and 16:9 are displayed as is;
wider than 16:9 is displayed as 16:9.
(useful with 16:9 TV if TV can switch between
16:9 and 4:3 -> 16:9 smart scaling)
Notes
Current xine-lib does not support unscaled overlays with DirectFB.
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