vdr-plugin-xine

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Christian Schoenebeck may or may not have written...

> Es geschah am Donnerstag 12 Mai 2005 23:14 als Darren Salt schrieb:
>>> It fails as well; this is the output:
>>>  scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
>>>  using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
>>>  initial transponder 12551500 V 22000000 5
>>>>>> tune to: 12551:v:0:22000
>>>  WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!!
>> [snip]
>> You should ask about that elsewhere, I think; the VDR list would be a good
>> place to start.

> Works now. It turned out my TV box was a newer revision than support by
> kernel 2.6.10, so I grabbed the latest DVB driver [...]

:-)

> There is only one problem left..... how can I access the OSD / switch
> channels from within xine? The readme mentions the keybindings editor of
> xine, but there is no single entry of VDR. I also tried the -r switch with
> vdr, didn't help either. Is there any way?

You could rebuild xine with --enable-vdr-keys (file a wishlist bug).

Or you could use gxine, which has VDR support by default. There's a CVS HEAD
snapshot in my repository (see below); maybe I should make 0.4.4 available
too in this way since it doesn't look likely that it'll be in sarge :-|

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