Community maintained VDR projects

CMP is a client/server mediaplayer, intended to play any media (that ffmpeg supports) from any workstation without the need to export and mount nfs shares or the like.
The backend acts like a http-server, which means, it offers the medialist as html-pages (default) or as json-responses (on request), so sofisticated Javascript pages could be created....

runvdr extreme is a runvdr script, just like the runvdr script included in the VDR distribution. Additionally, it supports configuration files, lots of command line options and additional features.

Scraper2VDR is a client plugin which provides scraped metadata from EPGD (like general information, posters, banners, fanarts, actor thumbs) to skins and other plugins which display EPG Information.

The Tinkerforge LCD Plugin supports the 20x4 LCD from Tinkerforge.com (http://www.tinkerforge.com/doc/Hardware/Bricklets/LCD_20x4.html) to display information from the VDR

VDR keyboard control for tvtime.

VDR HD output device for Amlogic SoC

Floods your disc with music! This plugin records songs with artist, title and ID3-Tag

vdr-plugin-boblight ===================

This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Boblight with data from softhddevice

Needs libboblight.so and boblightd configured and running (https://code.google.com/p/boblight)

Priority [128] Every boblight client has a priority, the higher the lower ...

Shows duplicate recordings.

epgd - a EPG daemon which fetch the EPG and additional data from various sources (like epgdata, eplists.constabel.net, ...) and provide it to the epg2vdr plugin via a MySQL database. The epgd get the EPG from the sources by plugins. A plugin for epgdata is contained....

VDR EPG2VDR Plugin of client/server EPG solution based on a MySQL database for VDR

Control VDR via a joystick device.

zur README:
http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-gamepad/repository/revisions/master/entry/README

a media player for VDR which uses libmpv for playback

Plex for VDR

A Plex Client for the VDR.
Plays Videos directly in the VDR, via softhddevice, fullfeatured not tested.
Browse your plexmediaserver, and play your media.
Control via Plex for Android/IOS/Web, play, pause, stop, seeking
Cast Vimeo, Youtube, Apple-Trailers, and many other Plexchannels to your VDR....

VDR HD output device for Raspberry Pi¶

The plugin makes use of the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore GPU and provides a lightweight implementation for a VDR output device.

Features¶

• MPEG-2 and H264 high-profile video codec up to 1080p30...

flatPlus ist ein moderner und aktueller Skin für VDR.
Das Design ist flach und geradlinig (keine glossy oder 3D-Effekte)
Der Skin ist auf die eigenen Bedürfnisse konfigurierbar.

Brings the archive-hdd functionality to VDR.

Fork based on http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-vdr/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vdr-plugin-mcli/vdr-plugin-mcli_0.0.1+svn20120927.orig.tar.gz

Patches from vdr-portal.de applied to run with vdr 2.0.3.

Get a copy:
git clone git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-mcli.git...

Display EPG info as classical neutrino show

BluRay disc player plugin for VDR

This Plugin is useful to change channel with a multi level choice. In the first version is possible to select a group, indicate by the row with ":" in channels.conf, and after the channel in that group.

• In the second version is possible to select a channel by group, by Provider and alphabetically....

TODO

A javascript client running on Motorola VIP hardware to access a VDR server.
Tested with VIP1963, VIP1903, VIP1960 & VIP1910, but should run on other VIP models too.

Extended EPG (EEPG) plugin for VDR.
This project is intended to continue the development and mantainance of the EEPG plugin created by Dingo35

Plugin for modifying EPG data using regular expressions.

EPGSearch can replace VDRs schedule menu and automate your timer programming

Dieses Plugin soll eine Art Full-Featured DVB device emulation über das Netzwerk sein. VDR sieht also ein weiteres Device, das MPEG2-Playback und ein OSD unterstützt. Nur werden diese Daten über das Netzwerk an einen Client gesendet. Ein kleiner Nebeneffekt: Man kann sich mit einem beliebigem VNC-Client (z.B. Tight-VNC) das OSD des VDR anzeigen lassen um den VDR zu steuern....

Einfacher und schlanker Skin für VDR

----- plugin deprecated ----

replaced by vdr-plugin-osd2web

Plugin zur Darstellung des VDR OSD auf einem zusätzlichen Bildschirm. Die Ausgabe kann über ein Framebuffer-Device oder über eine TCP Verbindung zu dem enthaltenen X-Frontend erfolgen.

Plugin for maintaining a replay history of recordings and other files.

This plugin reads input events from /dev/input/eventX devices which can be added and removed dynamically ("hotplugged"). The corresponding actions are triggered by "udev" events.

The plugin supports native text input with keyboards.

Plugin for access lightpack/prismatik software from vdr

The pin plugin is a child protection for recordings, channels, events and plugins.

There is an advanced fork:
http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-mpv

use this.

Mediaplayer plugin for VDR and X11

Use mplayer to play the files.

• Video / DVD
• Audio / Audio-CD
• Images / Comicbooks

Features:

• Vdr OSD
• Vdr menus while playing...

This plugin allows to create playlists out of the VDR's recordings

TODO

With this plugin you could rip AudioCDs.

View http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Ripit-plugin for more Infos and how to install.

Sammlung kleiner Hilfsscripte für VDR Nutzer.

Ziel ist es, zahlreiche Scripte (gesammelt werden kleine Helferlein und keine Dinge wie Videokonvertierungsscriptsammelungen) zu sammeln die jeder VDR Nutzer so benötigt. Die Scripte sollen geprüft (keine schnellen bash 3 Zeiler) sein und in sich geschlossen bestimmte Funktionen erfüllen....

Atmolight Plugin für SEDU basierte controller und softhddevice

Das Plugin unterstützt die Protokolle miniDMX und tpm2.
Als zur Abtastung des aktuellen TV Bildes wird derzeit nur das Service-Interface zu softhddevice unterstützt

Hier hat ein Anwender ein Video hinterlegt wie es im Live Betrieb ausschaut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVIhFljm8o...

"nOpacity" is a highly customizable native true color skin for the Video Disc Recorder

VDR on Smart TV allows viewing of VDR recordings and Live TV on a Smart TV. The smarttvweb plugin exposes recordings and some other media as HTTP stream either in HTTP Progressive (.ts), MPEG-DASH (.mpd) or Apple HLS (.m3u8) format. Seeking (HTTP Range requests) is supported. The provided HTTP stream can be rendered on SmartTVs and other devices such as SmartPhones. The plugin also offers a set of HTTP methods to retrieve metadata for recordings (incl. description, length, etc). ...

A VDR skinning engine that displays XML based Skins

This plugin displays the current channel on the LED display of the Samsung SMT-7020S.

A software and GPU emulated HD output device plugin for VDR.

• Video decoder CPU / VDPAU
• Video output VDPAU
• Audio FFMpeg / Alsa / Analog
• Audio FFMpeg / Alsa / Digital
• Audio FFMpeg / OSS / Analog
• HDMI/SPDIF pass-through
• Software volume, compression, normalize and channel resample...

"TvGuide" is a highly customizable 2D EPG viewer plugin.

"TvGuideNG" is a highly customizable 2D EPG viewer plugin for Skindesigner Skins.

TVScraper runs in the background and collects metadata (posters,
banners, fanart, actor thumbs and roles, descriptions) for all
available EPG events on selectable channels and for recordings.

Run shellscripts in case of some VDR events. The events are user activity changes, keys send to the plugin (via keymacros) an on regular base (every x seconds based on command line setting).
It could be used to switch the tv/the lcd display or to start/stop the frondend based of the user activity status....

This plugin allows to undelete accidentally deleted VDR recordings

Prevents shutdown if there are active X or terminal users.

The xine plugin is a VDR output device plugin using the Xine multimedia playback library.

The plugin was originally created by Reinhard Nißl, but is not maintained anymore.
This project just tries to give the plugin a new home and keep it alive as far as people still use it....

the plugin provide a history of the latest viewed channels with statistics informations.

This plugin allows the display of digital images, like jpeg, tiff, png, bmp and some more, on the TV screen, using the DVB out device from vdr.

A plugin to launch MAME games.

This is a conversion of the PearlHD-Skin written by mapovi to a native vdr-plugin.

Next generation of a VDR plugin design to drive a diseqc rotor.

Shutdown, mute or execute a custom command after a configurable timespan. User keys and keymacros.conf are supported.

Attention: I've renamed this program from AndroVDR to VDR-Manager because
another project was published at the same time using the same name.

With VDR-Manager you can program VDR using mobile devices running Android.
So you can browse the EPG, manage timers and wakeup your VDR from anywhere....

This project covers circuit and board layouts of hardware, firmware source and setup program source for a 10 channel Atmolight Controller.
This controller is supported by DFAtmo the driver for 'Atmolight' controllers for XBMC and xinelib based video players....

Information to follow.

eSVDRP is an SVDRP-Proxy, designed to secure an SVDRP-Connection over unsecure Networks (e.g the internet)
It's written in Java and uses DES-Encryption with an pre-shared-key.

GraphLCD is a project to support graphical LC displays connected to the PC. It is mainly used by the graphlcd plugin for the Video Disc Recorder to display its information.

graphlcd-base contains the lowlevel drivers, vdr-plugin-graphlcd is the main vdr plugin....

iStreamdev is a webapp iPhone frontend for vdr.

It streams vdr TV channels& recordings, and all your video & audio files to your
unjailbroken iPhone throught the embedded Quicktime player.

Check the Wiki for more info: Home

This little KDE kicker applet monitors the VDR video recorder. It creates an icon in the KDE system tray showing some informations about the VDR:

• The current state (playing, recording, idle).
• The time of the next scheduled recording(s) or the time to this recording(s)...

TODO

Turns MPV into a VDR-Streamdev Client

Allows easy channel switching a la VDR, shows the EPG and lets you watch your recordings and runs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows!

See [[https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/mpv-vdr-streamdev-client/wiki]] for more info!...

NarrowHD is a full HD skin inital based on the famous PearlHD skin.

Mirror of the official VDR GIT repository which is maintained by Klaus (VDR project owner) directly.

Other mirrors: https://github.com/VDR4Arch/vdr

"VDR & DVB Packaging" soll die Arbeit an den VDR-relevanten Debian- und Ubuntu-Paketen koordinieren.

"VDR & DVB Packaging" is a place to coordinate the work on the Debian/Ubuntu-packaging of VDR related packages.

The block plugin is a fork of the orphaned taste plugin 0.0.2d which was
originally coded by LordJaxom.
This plugin prevents you from being bothered by unwanted broadcasts.
Instead of those the screen will stay black, the sound muted, an info
message appears in the OSD and after a configurable pause the vdr ...

This plugin turns the dvbdevices into hotpluggable devices. They can be dynamically attached and detached while vdr is running.

Don't forget to patch the vdr-source, you find the necessary one in the "patches" directory of the plugin sources.
A vdr repository with this patch in an additional branch can be found here:...

Ein Plugin das in Verbindung mit einer AVM Fritz!Box Anrufsignalisierung und weitere Funktionen für den Video Disc Recorder (VDR) bietet.

Git-Repository und Issue-Tracker unter https://github.com/jowi24/vdr-fritz

Downloads und Beschreibung unter http://www.joachim-wilke.de/vdr-fritz.htm...

TODO

Merge EPG information in xmltv-Format with grabbers into VDR

The dvdswitch plugin functions as a kind of a DVD changer. This plugin make it possible to select images and play them with the DVD plugin.

An EXTended RECordings MENU for VDR.

Please use English for bug reports and feature requests so that other reporters that don't understand German can find existing bugs!

LCARSNG Skin

This plug-in allows to reorganize VDR's main OSD menu. The new menu structure is
read from a XML config file. It's basic format is based on the format used by
the setup plug-in.

Git-archive: https://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-menuorg.git/...

PearlHD is a set of skins for plugins extending the VDR-system. The main goal of the PearlHD skinning project is to provide minimalistic, aesthetic and consistent gui-skinning for the entire system. The skins are made to work best on hd-capable equipment. Currently skins for the following plugins are available/planned: Text2Skin, GraphTFT, yaepghd...

This plugin uses a Hauppauge PVR card as an input device. All cards supported by the ivtv, cx18, hdpvr or pvrusb2 driver should work. This version of the plugin requires ivtv driver version 1.0 or higher.

If you like to test the 'hottest' code go to
http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-pvrinput.git/...

"EnigmaNG" is a standalone skin for VDR based on the "Enigma" text2skin addon.

Please use English for bug reports and feature requests so that other reporters that don't understand German can find existing bugs!

This plugin provides an interface for controlling one or more sound cards.

To get the latest plugin type

git clone git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-sndctl.git

If you find a bug, please open a ticket.

If you have a feature request, also open a ticket....

With the streamdev plugin you can receive live TV streams via network. Current version supports

• VDR-to-VDR streaming for native VDR clients,
• HTTP streaming, which is particularly useful for Windows clients and clients on the Internet and
• Multicast streaming if you have many clients watching the same channels or as a feed for multicast-only settop boxes....

A plugin to provide an automatic 'series record' function. Written for UK Freeview, also tested with New Zealand DVB-S, but should be compatible with any DVB-T service using TVAnytime (ETSI 102 323). Also includes a patch to enable accurate recording.

Shows the EPG info in form of a typical TV magazine

This plugin adds UPnP-AV/DLNA support to the VDR

The Vodcatcher plug-in allows to parse RSS feeds containing video streams as enclosures. The plug-in will play such streams by passing them to the MPlayer or Xineliboutput plug-in.

Webvideo is a VDR plugin for downloading videos from popular video sharing websites such as YouTube.

The ZapPilot plugin is a fork of the orphaned pilotskin plugin which was originally coded by Christophe Nouhet. This plugin makes it easy to see what is going on on other channels while still watching the current channel. You can get detailed information of the event and set timers. ...

Sammlung unterschiedlicher channels.conf geordnet nach Empfangsart/Region.

VDR plugin to create DVDs from SD VDR recordings while being able to manage the creation process completely from inside VDR. Among many features it supports multiple recordings on one DVD, multi-page menus with user-friendly navigation and automatic requantization (shrinking) of the video tracks while reducing the required temporary space as much as possible....

Outputdevice plugin for em8300 based cards.

imonlcd is a plugin for the Video Disc Recorder and shows information about the current state of VDR on iMON LCD.

This plugin reads infosat EPG data from DVB-S

Output to LCD modules that are supported by LCDproc

vdr-convert is a command line tool to accurately transcode VDR1.x and VDR2.x TV recordings, including all valid streams - video, audio (including AC3/DTS 5.1), Audio Description (AD), and DVB subtitles - into more compressed and accessible formats, while maintaining perceived quality with good compatibility....

LIVE Interactive VDR Environment. A plugin based WEB frontend to control your VDR.

This plugin marks advertisements

The mousemate plugin allows to control vdr with a mouse.

a music browser with database backend (mysql, postgresql, sqlite)

OSD Picture in Picture plugin for the Video Disk Recorder

Displays teletext pages directly on VDR's OSD

Dieses Plugin blendet bei Radio-Sendern ein Hintergrundbild ein.

• Gitweb: https://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-radio.git/
• Wiki: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Radio-plugin

The VDR Scripting plug-in allows to extend VDR's functionallity by writing plug-ins in a dynamic script language. Currently only Ruby is supported, but if everything works well, Python support might be added in version 2.0.

The VDR Sudoku Plugin generates Number Place puzzles, so called Sudokus, and let you solve it.

A Sudoku puzzle consists of 9 x 9 cells subdivided into 9 regions with 3 x 3 cells. The rules are simple. There have to be the numbers from 1 to 9 in every row, column and region. In the beginning some numbers are given. These cells are painted with cyan background color. The aim of...

targavfd is a plugin for the Video Disc Recorder and shows informations about the current state of VDR on Targa USB Graphic Vacuum Fluorescent Display.

VDR Text2Skin Plugin

VDR Teletext Subtitles plug-in

VDR plugin to automatically insert/update/delete timers configured in the TVTV portal (valid subscription and yearly fee required) on a regular base (e.g. hourly check).

A graphical EPG viewer.

VDRAdmin-AM is a web based user interface to VDR.

Please use English for bug reports and feature requests as we have developers that don't understand German!

TODO

vdrnfofs creates a virtual Fuse-based file system that maps recordings from the Linux Video Disc Recorder (VDR) to *.nfo and *.mpg files.

A daemon to handle ACPI power button event on VDR systems.

Report your Issues on GitHub, please: https://github.com/M-Reimer/vdrpbd/issues

Release file downloads: https://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdrpbd.git/

This is a plugin to encode the vdr-recordings or dvd's into several formats. The supported output-formats are:

Containers: avi, ogm, matroska
Video-codecs(divx): lavc, xvid, divx4/5
Audio-codecs: mp3, ogg-vorbis, stream-copy for ac3 and mpeg2...

WeatherForecast provides a weather forecast (who'd have thought? ;) ) based on
forecast.io data.

TODO

This project contains the VDR patches used in the commercial product Xeatre.TV.

This is a GIT repository mirror of http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2
The repository contains additional branches of xine-lib where several patches are maintained.
master: Mirror of 'default' branch from http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2...

The "atmo" post plugin for xinelib based media players analyze the video picture and generates output data for so called "atmolight" controllers.

• Easy extendible perl framework, scalable to control one or many VDRs, with one interface...