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VDR developer version 1.7.37 is now available at
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WARNING:
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This is a developer version. Even though I use it in my productive
environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled
conditions and for testing and debugging.
Approaching version 2.0.0:
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If all goes well, there should be no more functional or API changes
before the final version 2.0.0. There will just be a few more fixes.
From the HISTORY file:
- Now also using FindHeader() in cMpeg2Fixer::AdjTref() (pointed out by Sören Moch).
- Added missing template for DVBDIR to Make.config.template (reported by Derek Kelly).
- The LCARS menu now also works if the OSD has only 1bpp (two colors).
- Fixed possible garbage in the remaining time of the LCARS replay display in case the
hours change from two to one digit.
- Fixed upscaling bitmaps. The last row and column of the scaled bitmap was not filled,
which resulted in empty lines between scaled subtitles.
- Fixed a leftover line in case a two line subtitle was followed by a one line
subtitle on the dvbhddevice in "high level" OSD mode.
- Returning 0 from cDvbSdFfDevice::NumProvidedSystems() if option --outputonly is given.
- The index file is now closed after initially reading it if it is older than 3600 seconds.
- Improved responsiveness during replay when close to the recording's end.
- Fixed a leftover progress display in the LCARS main menu when replay of a recording
ends while the menu is open, and the live channel has no EPG information.
- Fixed possible audio chatter when a recording is replayed to its very end.
- Added dependency on 'i18n' to 'install-i18n' in the VDR Makefile (thanks to Tobias
Grimm).
- Changed several calls to Skins.Message() in vdr.c to Skins.QueueMessage() in order to
avoid a black screen while such a message is displayed in case the channel will be
switched (reported by Uwe Scheffler).
- Updated the Slovakian language texts (thanks to Milan Hrala).
- Improved LIRC timing for repeat function.
- When pausing live video, the current audio and subtitle tracks are now retained.
- Added some notes about plugin Makefiles to PLUGINS.html.
- Avoiding an extra key press event if the repeat function kicks in when controlling
VDR via the PC keyboard.
- The new options "Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delay" and
"Setup/Miscellaneous/Remote control repeat delta" can be used to adjust the
behavior of the remote control in case a key is held pressed down for a while, so
that the repeat function kicks in (see MANUAL).
The builtin LIRC and KBD remote controls already use these parameters. It is
recommended that plugins that implement an interface to any kind of remote controls
also use the parameters Setup.RcRepeatDelay and Setup.RcRepeatDelta for the desired
purpose, and remove any setup options they might have that serve the same purpose.
- cTimer no longer does any special "VFAT" handling to shorten directory names to 40
characters. When a string is used as a directory name for a recording, the maximum
length of the directory path, as well as the individual directory names, is now
limited to the values specified by the new command line option --dirnames (see
man vdr(1) for details). For backwards compatibility the option --vfat is still
available and has the same effect as --dirnames=250,40,1.
- The macro MaxFileName is now obsolete and may be removed in future versions. Use
NAME_MAX directly instead.
- There is no more fixed limit to the maximum number of cPixmap objects an OSD can
create. However, a particular device may still be unable to create an arbitrary
number of pixmaps, due to limited resources. So it's always a good idea to use
as few pixmaps as possible.
- Fixed formatting and removed some superfluous break statements in vdr.c's command
line option switch.
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.\" Man page for vdr
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.\" Copyright (C) 2008 Klaus Schmidinger
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.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
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.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
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.\" vdr distribution.
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.\" $Id: vdr.1 2.11 2013/02/08 10:50:30 kls Exp $
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.TH vdr 1 "10 Feb 2008" "1.6" "Video Disk Recorder"
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.SH NAME
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vdr \- the Video Disk Recorder
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B vdr
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[options]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B vdr
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implements a complete digital Set-Top Box and Video Recorder.
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It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as
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well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals.
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At least one DVB card is required to run \fBvdr\fR. With it you can watch
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live TV while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder.
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It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live
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broadcast has ended (\fBtime shifting\fR). In order to record from different
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transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary.
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By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to four
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DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) has
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to be a "full featured" card, which means it must contain an MPEG decoder
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and provide audio and video signal outputs.
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\fBvdr\fR uses the On Screen Display of the DVB card to display its menus.
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It can be controlled by the PC keyboard or the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC).
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Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP),
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which can be accessed on port 6419, for instance by \fBtelnet\fR.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BI \-a\ cmd ,\ \-\-audio= cmd
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Send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command \fIcmd\fR.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-cachedir= dir
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Save cache files in \fIdir\fR
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(default is to save them in the video directory).
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.TP
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.BI \-c\ dir ,\ \-\-config= dir
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Read config files from directory \fIdir\fR
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(default is to read them from the video directory).
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.TP
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.B \-d, \-\-daemon
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Run in daemon mode (implies \-\-no\-kbd).
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.TP
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.BI \-D\ num ,\ \-\-device= num
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Use only the given DVB device (\fInum\fR = 0, 1, 2...).
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There may be several \fB\-D\fR options (by default all DVB devices will be used).
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.TP
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.BI \-\-dirnames= path[,name[,enc]]
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Set the maximum directory path length to \fIpath\fR (default is the maximum value
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allowed on the system). If \fIname\fR is also given, it defines the maximum directory
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name length (default is the maximum value allowed on the system). The optional
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\fIenc\fR can be 0 or 1, and controls whether special characters in directory names
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are encoded as hex values (default: 0).
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The length of the video directory name and that of the actual recording directory is
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subtracted from \fIpath\fR, to make sure the directory path will never become too long.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-edit= rec
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Edit the given recording.
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\fIrec\fR must be the full path name of an existing recording.
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The program will return immediately after editing the recording.
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.TP
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.BI \-E\ file ,\ \-\-epgfile= file
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Write the EPG data into the given \fIfile\fR
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(default is \fI/video/epg.data\fR).
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Use \fB\-E\-\fR to disable this.
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If \fIfile\fR is a directory, the file \fIepg.data\fR
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will be created in that directory.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-filesize= size
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Limit video files to \fIsize\fR bytes (default is 2000M).
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This option is only useful in conjunction with --edit, and must precede that
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option to have an effect.
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\fIsize\fR is an integer number and may be followed by one of the letters K, M, G or T
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to abbreviate Kilo-, Mega-, Giga- or Terabyte, respectively.
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The given value is silently limited to the program's internal minimum and
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maximum values.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-genindex= rec
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Generate the index file for the given recording.
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\fIrec\fR must be the full path name of an existing recording.
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The recording must be in TS format.
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If the recording already has an index file, it will be deleted
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before creating the new one.
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The program will return immediately after generating the index.
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Note that using this option while another instance of VDR is
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currently replaying the given recording, or if the recording
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has not been finished yet, may lead to unexpected results.
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.TP
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.BI \-g,\ \-\-grab= dir
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Write images from the SVDRP command GRAB into the
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given directory \fIdir\fR. \fIdir\fR must be the full path name of an
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existing directory, without any "..", double '/'
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or symlinks. By default, or if \fB\-g\-\fR is given,
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grabbing images to disk is disabled.
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.TP
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.B \-h, \-\-help
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Print a help message and exit.
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.TP
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.BI \-i\ instance ,\ \-\-instance= instance
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Use \fIinstance\fR as the id of this VDR instance (default is 0).
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In an environment where several instances of VDR use the same video
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directory, this parameter can be set to a positive integer value
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that's unique for each instance, so that they won't interfere with
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each other in case they record exactly the same broadcast.
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The number given here will be part of the directory name in which
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the recordings will be stored.
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.TP
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.BI \-l\ level ,\ \-\-log= level
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Set logging to \fIlevel\fR.
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\fB0\fR\ =\ no logging, \fB1\fR\ =\ errors only,
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\fB2\fR\ =\ errors and info, \fB3\fR\ =\ errors, info and debug.
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The default logging level is \fB3\fR.
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If logging should be done to LOG_LOCAL\fIn\fR instead of
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LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7).
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.TP
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.BI \-L\ dir ,\ \-\-lib= dir
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Search for plugins in directory \fIdir\fR (default is ./PLUGINS/lib).
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There can be several \fB\-L\fR options with different \fIdir\fR values.
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Each of them will apply to the \fB\-P\fR options following it.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-lirc[= path ]
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Use a LIRC remote control device.
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If \fIpath\fR is omitted, vdr uses \fI/var/run/lirc/lircd\fR.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-localedir= dir
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Search for locale files in \fIdir\fR (default is ./locale).
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.TP
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.B \-m, \-\-mute
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Mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup.
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.TP
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.B \-\-no\-kbd
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Don't use the keyboard as an input device.
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.TP
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.BI \-p\ port ,\ \-\-port= port
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Use \fIport\fR for SVDRP. A value of \fB0\fR turns off SVDRP.
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The default SVDRP port is \fB6419\fR.
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You need to edit the file \fIsvdrphosts.conf\fR in order to enable
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access to the SVDRP port.
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.TP
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.BI \-P\ options ,\ \-\-plugin= options
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Load a plugin, defined by the given \fIoptions\fR.
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The first word in \fIoptions\fR must be the name of an existing \fBvdr\fR
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plugin, optionally followed by a blank separated list of command line options
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for that plugin. If \fIoptions\fR contains any blanks, you need to enclose it
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in quotes, like for example
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\fBvdr \-P "abc \-a \-b xyz"\fR
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which would load a plugin named \fBabc\fR, giving it the command line options
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\fB\-a\ \-b\ xyz\fR. If you want to load all available plugins (without any
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particular options) you can use
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\fBvdr \-P "*"\fR
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(note the quotes around the asterisk to prevent wildcard expansion).
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.TP
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.BI \-r\ cmd ,\ \-\-record= cmd
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Call \fIcmd\fR before and after a recording. See the file \fIINSTALL\fR for
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more information.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-resdir= dir
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Read resource files from \fIdir\fR
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(default is to read them from the config directory).
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.TP
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.BI \-s\ cmd ,\ \-\-shutdown= cmd
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Call \fIcmd\fR to shutdown the computer. See the file \fIINSTALL\fR for more
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information.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-split
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Split edited files at the editing marks.
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This option is only useful in conjunction with --edit, and must precede that
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option to have an effect.
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.TP
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.BI \-t\ tty ,\ \-\-terminal= tty
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Set the controlling terminal.
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.TP
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.BI \-u\ user ,\ \-\-user= user
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Run as user \fIuser\fR in case vdr was started as user 'root'.
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Starting vdr as 'root' is necessary if the system time shall
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be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons
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vdr can switch to a lesser privileged user id during normal
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operation.
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.TP
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.BI \-\-userdump
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Allow coredumps if -u is given (only for debugging).
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.TP
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.BI \-\-vfat
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For backwards compatibility (same as \-\-dirnames= 250,40,1.
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.TP
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.BI \-v\ dir ,\ \-\-video= dir
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Use \fIdir\fR as video directory.
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The default is \fI/video\fR.
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.TP
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.B \-V, \-\-version
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Print version information and exit.
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.TP
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.BI \-w\ sec ,\ \-\-watchdog= sec
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Activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of \fIsec\fR seconds.
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A value of \fB0\fR (default) disables the watchdog.
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.SH SIGNALS
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.TP
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.B SIGINT, SIGTERM
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Program exits with status 0.
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.TP
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.B SIGHUP
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Program exits with status 1. This can be used to force a reload, for example
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if an update has been installed.
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.SH EXIT STATUS
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.TP
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.B 0
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Successful program execution.
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.TP
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.B 1
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An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and \fBvdr\fR
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to be reloaded.
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.TP
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.B 2
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An non-recoverable error has been detected, \fBvdr\fR has given up.
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.SH FILES
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.I channels.conf
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Channel configuration.
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.I timers.conf
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Timer configuration.
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.TP
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.I setup.conf
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User definable setup.
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.TP
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.I commands.conf
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User definable commands (executed from the \fBCommands\fR menu).
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.TP
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.I svdrphosts.conf
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SVDRP host configuration, defining which hosts or networks are given
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access to the SVDRP port.
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.I marks
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Contains the editing marks defined for a recording.
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.TP
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.I info
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Contains a description of the recording.
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.TP
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.I resume
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Contains the index into the recording where the last replay session left off.
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.TP
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.I index
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Contains the file number, offset and type of each frame of the recording.
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.TP
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.I remote.conf
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Contains the key assignments for the remote control.
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.TP
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.I keymacros.conf
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Contains user defined remote control key macros.
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.IR 00001.ts\ ...\ 65535.ts
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The actual data files of a recording.
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.I epg.data
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Contains all current EPG data. Can be used for external processing and will
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also be read at program startup to have the full EPG data available immediately.
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.TP
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.I .update
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If this file is present in the video directory, its last modification time will
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be used to trigger an update of the list of recordings in the "Recordings" menu.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR vdr (5)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Written by Klaus Schmidinger, with contributions from many others.
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See the file \fICONTRIBUTORS\fR in the \fBvdr\fR source distribution.
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.SH REPORTING BUGS
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Report bugs to <vdr\-bugs@tvdr.de>.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright \(co 2008 Klaus Schmidinger.
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
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warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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