Hi, after succeeding to make VDR happily work under df_xine starting from the plugin version Mike Lewis sent some weeks ago to the users ML, I did some hacking around and the result is a packaged "freevo-vdr" add-on (I think originally called vdr-xine by Ove Risberg).
>From HISTORY, what I've done since Mike's modifications: - migrated to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrpylib and therefore renamed internally to "vdrtv.py"; - added new VDR keys mapped to spare or new (which you can add in your freevo freevo lircrc) LIRC events, see README for the complete list; - added detection if the "freevo" VDR plugin is loaded in VDR, allowing to switch off VDR's remotes via SVDRP (thus making compiling VDR without LIRC or KBD support for proper operation whithin Freevo unnecessary) and then VDR's remotes will only be enabled during key-presses from Freevo. If the VDR plugin "freevo" which provides this functionality is not detected at initialization, a warning is printed. - re-added Ove's original setup.py and MANIFEST.in with little odifications, added separate HISTORY, README and PKG-INFO files >From README: REQUIREMENTS: ============ - vdrpylib from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrpylib installed normally by "python setup.py install" - a running vdr installation (of course :) - when using tvtime/SVDRP: (Full featured DVB cards) - set SVDRP Timeout in vdrs OSD to 0 - make sure to setup svdrphosts.conf correctly - add the color buttons (YELLOW,GREEN,RED,BLUE) to freevo's lirc file - optional, but yet very useful, add the buttons which are missing from the right column below to freevo's lirc file: VDR key: | Freevo LIRC event ================================== 'RECORDINGS' : Event('RECORDINGS'), 'CHANNELS' : Event('CHANNELS'), 'AUDIO' : Event('LANG'), 'SCHEDULE' : Event('GUIDE'), 'TIMERS' : Event('TIMERS'), 'SETUP' : Event('SETUP'), 'COMMANDS' : Event('EJECT'), - when using SVDRP, to avoid keystroke conflicts and not having to bother with building VDR without LIRC and KBD support, use the new "vdr-freevo" VDR plugin and load it with -P'freevo'. The plugin will be detected by freevo's VDR plugin and then VDR's remotes will only be enabled during key-presses from Freevo. If the VDR plugin "freevo" which provides this functionality is not detected at initialization, a warning is printed. - for XINE (Budget DVB cards, streaming client) - when using xine as a VDR decoder, the xine plugin for vdr. Start vdr with -P'xine -r' INSTALL: ======== - Unpack and run "python setup.py install" in the main source directory; - Activatee the plugin in local_conf.py with plugin.activate('vdr_interface') plugin.activate('vdrtv', level=5) - Configure the plugin by these variables in local_conf.py: VDR_VIEWER_PLUGIN='xine' VDR_USE_SVDRP=1 VDR_SVDRP_HOST='localhost' VDR_SVDRP_PORT=2001 VDR_SVDRP_ALWAYSCLOSE=0 VDR_XINE_PIPE_PATH='vdr://var/vdr/xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes' You can download the Freevo plugin from http://www.muresan.de/freevo/freevo-vdr-0.5.tgz And the highly recommended VDR "freevo" plugin http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdr-freevo-0.0.1.tgz This one does no more than providing the remotes deactivation/activation in VDR for now, and has an yet unnecessary menu entry on VDR's main menu, I will clean that up. In a later version, this plugin will hopefully supress VDR's native OSD and we'll render it nicely on Freevo side, directly in kaa.xine ;-). You might need to patch your VDR (for sure up to vdr-1.3.36) before compiling this plugin, patch included in the archive. For Gentoo users: Instead of getting the archives, you could just put the following ebuilds somewhere in your portage overlay: http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdrpylib-9999.ebuild under ../dev-python/vdrpylib http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdrpylib.diff under ../dev-python/vdrpylib/files; unmask with "-*" as this will checkout from CVS; http://www.muresan.de/freevo/freevo-vdr-0.5.ebuild under ../media-plugins/freevo-vdr; unmask with "~x86" and set the USE flag "vdr_remotes_off" for making it dependent of the companion plugin on VDR side and get rid of keystroke conflicts: http://www.muresan.de/freevo/vdr-freevo-0.0.1.ebuild under ../media-plugins/vdr-freevo; unmask with "~x86" and don't forget to patch your VDR first. Have fun, feedback appreciated, thanks to all who helped me so far! Lucian P.S. Mike Lewis, you might want to detail your enhancments in the HISTORY and maybe also in the README :-) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
