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This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
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Written by: Louis Braun <louis DOT braun AT gmx DOT de>
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Project's homepage: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-skindesigner
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Latest version: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-skindesigner/files
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GIT repository: git clone git://projects.vdr-developer.org/plg-skindesigner.git
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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See the file COPYING for more information.
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Description
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Skindesigner is a VDR skin engine that displays XML based Skins.
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Currently two XML Skins (MetrixHD and nOpacity freestyle) are included in
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<pluginsourcedir>/skins/
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Requirements
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- VDR version >= 2.0.0
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- Installed ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick for displaying png/jpg Icons, Channel Logos
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and EPG Images (configurable during make via IMAGELIB = imagemagick|graphicsmagick
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parameter)
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- libxml2
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- for scaling the video picture to fit into the VDR menu window please use
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softhddevice plugin revision 87c1c7be (2013-01-01) or newer.
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- epgsearch Git since commit ba7c6277 (2013-01-03) to correctly replace the schedules
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menu with epgsearch
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Installation
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After "normal" Plugin installation you have to care about the paths for the
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XML skins and epg images. The following paths can be set at startup:
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-s <SKINPATH>, --skinpath=<SKINPATH>
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Path to the XML skins (Default: <ResourceDirectory>/plugins/skindesigner/skins/)
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-e path, --epgimages=path
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Path to the epgimages (Default: <CacheDirectory>/epgimages/)
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ResourceDirectory and CacheDirectory are taken from your VDR configuration (make.config
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or vdr.pc).
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During a "make install" the included skins are automatically copied from
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<SkinSourceDirectory>/skins/ to the configured path.
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For S2-6400 Users: Disable High Level OSD, otherwise the plugin will not be
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loaded because lack of true color support
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For Xine-Plugin Users: Set "Blend scaled Auto" as OSD display mode to achieve
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an suitable true color OSD.
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For Xineliboutput Users: Start vdr-sxfe with the --hud option enabled
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Since the default skin MetrixHD uses VDROpenSans as font which is not installed per
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default, you may want to install this font (included in <SkinSourceDirectory>/fonts/)
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first. Otherwise the inside VDRs OSD menu configured vdrOsd Font is used as default.
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Channel Logos
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Since each XML skin is responsible for it's used channel logos, skindesigner searches
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for channel logos only in the skin dependend directory
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<ResourceDirectory>/plugins/skindesigner/skins/<skinname>/logos
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Each copy your used logos directly to this directory or set a symbolic link to a common
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channellogo directory.
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I recommend to use channel logos from https://github.com/3PO/Senderlogos
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To download them just change in the directory you want to place the logos
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and do a:
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git clone https://github.com/3PO/Senderlogos.git logos
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An update of the logos can then be done with a "git pull" just inside this
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directory.
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In this logo pack all files are named only with lower case letters.
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Skindesigner uses the channel name CONVERTED TO LOWER CASE LETTERS to search for an
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appropriate channel logo. With this, approximately 90% of the channel logos should work
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immediately after placing the channel logos in the correct place. So if you have to change
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the name of a channel logo (may be by inserting a space or a hyphen) so that it fits to
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the channel name, only use lower case letters, and not the name of the channel with upper
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and lower letters as displayed inside VDR.
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If no logo is found for the channel name, additionally a search for a logo named as the
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ChannelID is performed. Analog to the channel name the ChannelID is also converted to lower
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case letters. This allows channel logos for channels with changing names (for instance
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Sky Feed Channels).
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Additional hint: some channels have slashes in their name (in germany nick/comedy for instance).
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In this example, as a dirty hack just create a folder in your channel logo directory named
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"nick" and place an image named "comedy.png" inside this folder.
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