This is an SAT>IP plugin for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). Written by: Rolf Ahrenberg < R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i > Project's homepage: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/satip/ Latest version available at: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/satip/ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file COPYING for more information. Requirements: - Libcurl >= 7.36.0 - the multiprotocol file transfer library with RTSP support http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ - PugiXML - Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ http://pugixml.org/ or TinyXML - a simple, small, C++ XML parser http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/ - Glibc >= 2.12 - the GNU C library (recvmmsg) http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ - VDR >= 2.1.4 for scrambled channels Description: This plugin integrates SAT>IP network devices seamlessly into VDR. You can use any SAT>IP channel like any other normal DVB channel for live viewing, recording, etc. The plugin also features full section filtering capabilities which allow for example EIT information to be extracted from the incoming stream. Installation: tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-satip-X.Y.Z.tgz make -C satip-X.Y.Z install Configuration: The plugin accepts a "--devices" (-d) command-line parameter defaulting to one. This parameter defines how many simultaneous transponders can be received, if there are available SAT>IP tuners. The plugin accepts also a "--server" (-s) command-line parameter, that can be used to manually configure static SAT>IP servers if autodetection via UPnP somehow can't be used. SAT>IP satellite positions (aka. signal sources) shall be defined via sources.conf. If the source description begins with a number, it's used as SAT>IP signal source selection parameter. Otherwise, the default parameter is one: S19.2E Astra 1KR/1L/1M/2C => Signal source = 1 S19.2E 2 => Signal source = 2 S19.2E 3 Astra 1KR/1L/1M/2C => Signal source = 3 A channel can be assigned into a specific SAT>IP frontend by giving the identifier number in RID field of a channels.conf entry: FE = RID % 100 Valid range: 1 ... 99 A channel can be assigned into a specific integrated CI slot by giving the identifier number in RID field of a channels.conf entry: CI# = (RID / 100) % 10 Valid range: 1 ... 9 Setup menu: - Operating mode = off If you want exclude all SAT>IP devices low from VDR's device handling, set this normal option to "off". Otherwise, if you want high to keep SAT>IP at a low priority when selecting available devices, set this option to "low". Similarly, the "high" value prefers the SAT>IP over the local DVB cards when selecting available devices. - Use CI extension = no If you want to use the CI extension found in some SAT>IP hardware (e.g. Digital Devices OctopusNet), set this option to "yes". - Enable EPG scanning = yes If you want exclude all SAT>IP devices from VDR's EIT background scanning, set this option to "no". - Disabled sources = none If your SAT>IP servers don't have certain satellite positions available you can disable them via this option. - Disabled filters = none Certain section filters might cause some unwanted behaviour to VDR such as time being falsely synchronized etc. This option allows creation of blacklists of ill-behaving filters. If this option is set to a non-zero value, the menu page will contain that many "Disable filter" options which allow you to disable the individual section filters. Valid range: "none" = 0 ... 7 - [Red:Scan] Forces network scanning of SAT>IP hardware. - [Yellow:Devices] Opens SAT>IP device status menu. - [Blue:Info] Opens SAT>IP information/statistics menu. - [Ok] Opens information menu of selected SAT>IP device. Information menu: - [Red:General] Opens the general information page. - [Green:Pids] Opens the pid statistics page. - [Yellow:Filters] Opens the section filter statistics page. - [Blue:Bits/bytes] Toggles between bits and bytes mode. Notes: - The stream id "-1" states about unsuccessful tuning. This might be a result of invalid channel parameters or lack of free SAT>IP tuners. - If the plugin doesn't detect your SAT>IP network device, make sure your setup doesn't have firewalled the UDP port 1900. - Stream decryption requires a separate CAM plugin that works without direct access to any DVB card devices. The integrated CAM slot in Octopus Net devices isn't supported. - Tracing can be set on/off dynamically via command-line switch or SVDRP command. - OctopusNet firmware 1.0.40 or greater recommended. Acknowledgements: - Big thanks to Digital Devices GmbH for providing the Octopus Net hardware for development!