vdr-plugin-xine

[Darren Salt]

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

> Es geschah am Montag 16 Mai 2005 01:47 als Darren Salt schrieb:
>>> Ah, I figured out that last problem. The -r switch has to be encapsulated
>>> into the -P argument of vdr:
>>>  vdr -c /etc/vdr -E /home/me/vdr/ -P"xine -r"
>>> I think that's not quite clear from the manual / readme files. Please,
>>> think about adding that!
>> This is adequately documented in vdr(1): an example, quoted as you
>> describe, is present.

> Well, but as -r from the example above is a plugin dependent parameter, I
> just looked into /usr/share/doc/vdr-plugin-xine/* and MANUAL.gz was not
> specific enough IMO in case, neither is it in some other cases. Anyway, it
> was just a suggestion...

You should send a patch upstream or post it on the VDR list...

> Es geschah am Montag 16 Mai 2005 01:50 als Darren Salt schrieb:
>> I demand that Christian Schoenebeck may or may not have written...
>>> Es geschah am Samstag, 14. Mai 2005 23:00 als Darren Salt schrieb:
>> [snip]
>>>> Or you could use gxine, which has VDR support by default. There's a CVS
>>> I installed that gxine package, but it doesn't work at all. It simply
>>> refuses to start:
>>>  me@mybox:/home# gxine --verbose
>>>  bind: No such file or directory
>>>  me@mybox:/home#
>> That looks like it's failing when setting up to allow gxine_client to
>> connect. If you can provide any more information - filename (which should
>> look like ~/.gxine/socket; you'll need to set a breakpoint on perror),
>> 'strace -f' output - that may be useful.

> It tries to access /home/me/.gxine/socket, but the .gxine directory doesn't
> even exist. Other calls which fail (each error case only listed once):
[snip]

They're all harmless.

If ~/.gxine doesn't exist then I expect there to be a failed mkdir in that
trace file. I need to add some error-checking code around each mkdir() and to
make gxine more tolerant of certain inaccessible-file errors :-|

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