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This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
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Written by: Klaus Schmidinger <kls@cadsoft.de>
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Project's homepage: www.cadsoft.de/vdr
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Latest version available at: www.cadsoft.de/vdr
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See the file COPYING for license information.
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Description:
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The 'sky' plugin implements a new device for VDR, which is based on the
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MPEG2 encoder card described at linuxtv.org/mpeg2/kfir.xml. It
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allows you to connect the analog a/v output of your Sky Digibox to VDR,
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so that you can enjoy the full recording flexibility of VDR with your
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Sky subscription. Note that this is NOT something that does anything
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illegal, like decrypting the Sky programme without a subscription. You
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will need a Sky Digibox and a valid subscription in order to use this
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plugin.
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The Digibox is remotely controlled through VDR via LIRC (see lirc.org).
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The file lircd.conf.sky contains the remote control codes necessary to
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control the Digibox.
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In order to access the Sky channels VDR needs to know the channel number
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under which each channel is stored in the Sky Digibox. These numbers are
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used as 'frequency' parameters in the channels.conf definitions of the Sky
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channels (see the file 'channels.conf.sky'). Since these numbers are always
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less than 1000, they can be easily distinguished from normal satellite
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transponder frequencies. The VPID is 160 and the APID is 80 for all Sky
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channels. These are just fake PIDs, since the Kfir card always uses these
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fixed PIDs. The 'Ca' parameter of the Sky channels is set to 301, which
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is defined as "Videoguard, Sky Digital" in VDR's 'ca.conf' file. Again, please
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note that VDR doesn't do any decrypting here, this is just to mark these
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channels as "conditionally accessible" and have a way of setting the CICAM
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value for the Kfir device in VDR's Setup menu.
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The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.ananova.com.
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The Perl script getskyepg.pl extracts the EPG data from these pages
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and sends it to VDR via an SVDRP connection. The channel numbers Sky
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uses to generate the EPG pages are stored as the 'sid' parameter in
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the channels.conf definitions of the Sky channels. You can keep your
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EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl into your
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/etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options.
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2002-12-03 17:13:11 +01:00
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The getskyepg.pl script requires the programs /usr/bin/wget and /usr/bin/logger
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to be installed on your system.
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