This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
Written by: Louis Braun <louis DOT braun AT gmx DOT de>
Project's homepage: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-tvguide
Latest version available at: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-tvguide/files
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
See the file COPYING for more information.
Requirements
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- Clone Git Repository: git clone git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-tvguide.git
- VDR version >= 2.0.0
- Installed ImageMagick for showing png/jpg Channel Logos, EPG Images and menu icons
- for scaling the video picture to fit into the VDR menu window please use
softhddevice plugin revision 87c1c7be (2013-01-01) or newer.
- Installed epgsearch Plugin for extended search & recording features.
- Installed remotetimers Plugin for creating timers on a vdr server remotely from a
vdr client.
Description
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"TvGuide" is a highly customizable 2D EPG viewer plugin.
Installation
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After "normal" Plugin installation you have to care about the paths for the
used Icons, the channel logos and epg images. The following paths can be set
at startup:
-l path, --logodir=path
Path to the logos (Default: <vdrconfdir>/plugins/tvguide/channellogos/).
-i path, --epgimages=path
Path to the epgimages (Default: <vdrconfdir>/plugins/tvguide/epgimages/).
-c path, --icons=path
Path to the icons directory (Default: <ressourcedir>/plugins/tvguide/epgimages/).
ResourceDirectory is taken from your VDR configuration (make.config or vdr.pc).
During a "make install" the Icons are automatically copied from <PlgSourceDirectory>/icons/
to the default path. Included Theme files are also copied from <PlgSourceDirectory>/themes/
to <ConfigDirectory>/themes/
I recommend to use channel logos from https://github.com/3PO/Senderlogos
To download them just change in the directory you want to place the logos
and do a:
git clone https://github.com/3PO/Senderlogos.git logos
An update of the logos can then be done with a "git pull" just inside this
directory.
For S2-6400 Users: Disable High Level OSD, otherwise the plugin will not be
loaded because lack of true color support
For Xine-Plugin Users: Set "Blend scaled Auto" as OSD display mode to achieve
an suitable true color OSD.
For Xineliboutput Users: Start vdr-sxfe with the --hud option enabled
Usage
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Remote Control Keys:
Up/Down/Left/Right: Navigation in the EPG grid
Ok: Detailed EPG View of the selected grid
2nd Ok closes the detailed view
Red: Search & Recording Menu
Green / Yellow: Jump (default) five channels back / forward
Blue: Switch to currently selected channel
1 / 3: Big jump (default 3h) back / forward in time
4 / 6: huge jump (default 24h) back / forward in time
7 / 9: jump to previous / next prime time (8pm)
Exit: closes plugin
In Search & Recording menu the following options are available:
- Instant Record: create a timer for the currently selected program. An
check for timer conflicts will be performed, if a timer conflict occurs,
the involved timers can be adapted to solve the conflict.
- Delete / Edit Timer: if a timer already exists for the currently selected
broadcast, this timer can be deleted or edited.
- Create Series Timer: create a periodical timer for a dedicated time on
dedicated days.
- Create Search Timer: create an search timer with epgsearch. The most
important options can be defined directly in the menu, alternatively
epgsearch templates can be used to define the searchtimer options.
- Create Switch Timer: create a switch timer for the currently selected
program.
- Search: search with epgsearch
- Search in Recordings: check if a recording already exists for the currently
selected program.
- Check for Timer Conflicts: check for timer conflicts with epgsearch.
The navigation through the search & recording menu can be done easily with
up/down, left/right and the ok key. In scrolling lists, with left/right
(after the first/last option of the displayed list element is selected) you
jump directly to the top/bottom of the list.
Setup Options
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* General Settings:
- Show Main Menu Entry
Display "tvguide" in main menu
- Replace VDR Schedules Menu
If set to "yes", the original VDR schedules menu will be replaced by tvguide
- Theme
- Rounded Corners
Use rounded corners for displayed boxes
- Channel Jump Mode (Keys Green / Yellow)
select between jumping x channels back/forward or to the previous / next
channel group
- Keys Blue and OK
Blue: Channel Switch, Ok: Detailed EPG
or
Blue: Detailed EPG, Ok: Channel Switch
- Hide last Channel Group
If set to yes, the channels of the last channel group will not be displayed
- Big Step (Keys 1 / 3) in hours
Hours to jump vertically with keys 1 / 3
- Huge Step (Keys 4 / 6) in hours
Hours to jump vertically with keys 4 / 6
- Time Format (12h/24h)
- Display Reruns in detailed EPG View
* Screen Presentation:
- Display Mode
Choose between horizontal or vertical display of the channels. All further
width / height settings are dependend of this setting
- Width/Height of Channel Header (% of osd width/height)
- Width/Height of Timeline (% of osd width/height)
- Number of Channels to display
- Height of Footer
- Display status header
- Height of status header (% of osd height/height)
- Scale video to upper right corner
- Rounded corners around video frame
- Display Channel Names in Header
- Display channel groups
- Width/Height of channel groups (% of osd width/height)
- Show Channel Logos
show / hide channel logos, if logos are shown:
- Logo Extension
jpg / png
- Logo width
in Pixel
- Logo height
in Pixel
- Show EPG Images
show / hide EPG images, if images are shown:
- EPG Image width
in Pixel
- EPG Image height
in Pixel
* Fonts and Fontsizes:
- Font:
Used Font, all Fonts installed on your system are shown
- adjust various font sizes:
the defined value is added to / subtracted from the default font size
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