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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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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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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 'kfir' module must be loaded with the option 'streamtype=4' to make it
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produce a Transport Stream.
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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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stored in the file 'channels.conf.sky', together with the channel IDs as
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derived from the actual channel data and the names under which the EPG
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data for each channel can be found (see below). Copy this file to your
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plugins config directory, in a subdirectory named 'sky', as in
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/video/plugins/sky/channels.conf.sky
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The Sky EPG is available on the Internet at http://www.bleb.org.
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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 names as
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used on the bleb.org pages are defined in the channels.conf.sky file.
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You can keep your EPG data up-to-date by entering a call to getskyepg.pl
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into your /etc/crontab. Call 'getskyepg.pl -h' for a list of options.
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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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