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Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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# Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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Version 2.6
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-----------
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# Version 2.6
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* Remote Control Keys
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## Remote Control Keys
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The following remote control keys are used to control the VDR
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operation. To keep the number of different keys as small as
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a single shot and a repeating timer. If "Day" indicates a repeating timer,
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the keys '1'...'7' can be used to toggle the individual days ('1' is Monday).
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* Navigating through the On Screen Menus
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## Navigating through the On Screen Menus
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The "VDR" menu can be called up with the "Menu" key of your remote
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control unit. The "Up" and "Down" keys are used to select a specific
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At any point in the menu system, pressing the "Menu" key again will
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immediately leave the menu system (discarding any pending changes).
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* The "Schedule" Menu
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## The "Schedule" Menu
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The "Schedule" menu implements VDR's "Electronic Program Guide" (EPG).
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Note that if there are many channels in your channels.conf, displaying the
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"All events on all channels" page may take a while.
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* Selecting a Channel
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## Selecting a Channel
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There are four ways to select a channel:
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To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press
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the "Ok" key.
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* Selecting audio tracks
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## Selecting audio tracks
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If the current channel or recording provides different audio tracks (for
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different languages or Dolby Digital), the "Green" key in the "VDR" menu can
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be selected. Note that this only works if the broadcasters use actual language
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codes in their PID data, not things like "dd" or "2ch".
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* Switching through channel groups
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## Switching through channel groups
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If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
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through these groups by pressing the "Left" and "Right" key while no
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group your channels by "Bouquet", by language, genre or whatever your
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preferences may be.
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* Instant Recording
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## Instant Recording
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You can start recording the current channel by pressing the "Red" key
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in the "VDR" menu. This will create a timer event named "@channelname" that
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"Stop Recording", or by disabling the timer. The default priority, lifetime
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and recording time can be defined in the "Setup/Recording" menu.
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* Pausing live video
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## Pausing live video
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If you want to pause the live programme you are just watching, simply press
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"Menu/Yellow" or "Pause" on your remote control. VDR will start an instant
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always record on the local VDR, even if an "SVDRP default host" has been
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set for normal timer recordings.
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* Replaying a Recording
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## Replaying a Recording
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All recordings are listed in the "Recordings" menu. Browse through the
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list with the "Up" and "Down" key and press "Ok" (or the "Red" key)
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A previously stopped playback session can be resumed by pressing the "Blue"
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key in the "VDR" menu.
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* Sort Recordings
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## Sort Recordings
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Within the "Recordings" menu, pressing the '0' key toggles sorting between
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"by time" and "by name". The selected sort mode is stored separately for each
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If a folder is newly created by a repeating timer, the sort mode for that
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folder is initially set to "by time".
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* Processing Recordings
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## Processing Recordings
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The configuration file 'reccmds.conf' can be used to define system commands
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that can be applied to the recording that is currently highlighted in the
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one of the keys '1'..'9' in the "Recordings" menu executes the corresponding
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command from 'reccmds.conf' (see also "Executing system commands" below).
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* Replay Control
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## Replay Control
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The following keys have the listed meaning in Replay mode:
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used to easily delete a recording after watching it, or to switch
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to a different recording.
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* Editing a Recording
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## Editing a Recording
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While in Replay mode, the following keys can be used to manipulate editing
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marks:
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An edited recording (indicated by the '%' character) will never be deleted
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automatically in case the disk runs full (no matter what "lifetime" it has).
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* Programming the Timer
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## Programming the Timer
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Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings.
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The parameters in the "Edit timer" menu have the following meanings:
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When editing the "File" field, the "Blue" key in can be used to insert useful
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macros.
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* Pattern timers
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## Pattern timers
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There are cases where it would make sense to have a more flexible kind of
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recording timer. For instance, some channels that provide VPS don't always
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when checking whether a particular recording has already been made by a pattern
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timer, making "TITLE - EPISODE" and "TITLE: EPISODE" the same.
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* Managing folders
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## Managing folders
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The "Select folder" menu, which can be accessed by pressing the "Red" key in
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the "Edit timer" menu, offers a list of folders that can be used for storing
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will not be applied. Once you are finished with editing the recording
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properties, press Ok to confirm the changes.
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* Parameters in the "Setup" menu
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## Parameters in the "Setup" menu
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Select "Setup" from the "VDR" menu to enter the setup menu. From there you can
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modify the following system parameters (note that "boolean" values will be
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hoping that the problem will go away by itself (as, for
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instance, with bad weather conditions).
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* Executing system commands
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## Executing system commands
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The "VDR" menu option "Commands" allows you to execute any system commands
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defined in the configuration file 'commands.conf' (see vdr(5) for details).
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DEFINING THESE COMMANDS AND MAKE SURE THEY DON'T HARM YOUR SYSTEM,
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ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE RUNNING VDR UNDER A HIGH PRIVILEGED USER ID
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(LIKE 'root').
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