Updated VDR manual (MANUAL) (asciidoc => markdown)

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Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
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# Video Disk Recorder User's Manual
Version 2.6
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# Version 2.6
* Remote Control Keys
## Remote Control Keys
The following remote control keys are used to control the VDR
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,
the keys '1'...'7' can be used to toggle the individual days ('1' is Monday).
* Navigating through the On Screen Menus
## Navigating through the On Screen Menus
The "VDR" menu can be called up with the "Menu" key of your remote
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
immediately leave the menu system (discarding any pending changes).
* The "Schedule" Menu
## The "Schedule" Menu
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
"All events on all channels" page may take a while.
* Selecting a Channel
## Selecting a Channel
There are four ways to select a channel:
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To bring up the channel display without switching channels you can press
the "Ok" key.
* Selecting audio tracks
## Selecting audio tracks
If the current channel or recording provides different audio tracks (for
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
codes in their PID data, not things like "dd" or "2ch".
* Switching through channel groups
## Switching through channel groups
If the 'channels.conf' file contains "group separators" you can switch
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
preferences may be.
* Instant Recording
## Instant Recording
You can start recording the current channel by pressing the "Red" key
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
and recording time can be defined in the "Setup/Recording" menu.
* Pausing live video
## Pausing live video
If you want to pause the live programme you are just watching, simply press
"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
set for normal timer recordings.
* Replaying a Recording
## Replaying a Recording
All recordings are listed in the "Recordings" menu. Browse through the
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"
key in the "VDR" menu.
* Sort Recordings
## Sort Recordings
Within the "Recordings" menu, pressing the '0' key toggles sorting between
"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
folder is initially set to "by time".
* Processing Recordings
## Processing Recordings
The configuration file 'reccmds.conf' can be used to define system commands
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
command from 'reccmds.conf' (see also "Executing system commands" below).
* Replay Control
## Replay Control
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
to a different recording.
* Editing a Recording
## Editing a Recording
While in Replay mode, the following keys can be used to manipulate editing
marks:
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An edited recording (indicated by the '%' character) will never be deleted
automatically in case the disk runs full (no matter what "lifetime" it has).
* Programming the Timer
## Programming the Timer
Use the "Timer" menu to maintain your list of timer controlled recordings.
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
macros.
* Pattern timers
## Pattern timers
There are cases where it would make sense to have a more flexible kind of
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
timer, making "TITLE - EPISODE" and "TITLE: EPISODE" the same.
* Managing folders
## Managing folders
The "Select folder" menu, which can be accessed by pressing the "Red" key in
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
properties, press Ok to confirm the changes.
* Parameters in the "Setup" menu
## Parameters in the "Setup" menu
Select "Setup" from the "VDR" menu to enter the setup menu. From there you can
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
instance, with bad weather conditions).
* Executing system commands
## Executing system commands
The "VDR" menu option "Commands" allows you to execute any system commands
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,
ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE RUNNING VDR UNDER A HIGH PRIVILEGED USER ID
(LIKE 'root').