On Saturday 15 October 2011 10:04:49 Nicolas Huillard wrote:
Hi,
I have a new VDR+ server system, based on SandyBridge i3 CPU. This
server is located under the TV set, thus mixes the server (always-on
headless) + client (HD display) roles (previous setup was a Via EK8000
server + Via ML1 client which ended up on the same shelf + another
still-used client).
I have two issues with this setup :
1) I don't know the best way to suspend the output of xineliboutput
(vdr-sxfe loaded within nodm which auto-reloads it upon crash) : the
xineliboutput README refers to the suspendoutput plugin
(http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/vdr-suspendoutput/) which last release is
dated 12-Feb-2009.
Since I use the e-tobi repository (marvellous, many thanks Tobias),
which does not include it, I wonder if there is a better way to suspend
the video decoding output.
I use a hand-crafted soltution for this purpose. My system does not use a
display manager. Instead, I use mingetty --autologin tv to automatically log
into a text console with a user named tv.
tv's .bashrc then fires up irexec which comes with lirc. irexec is configured
in a way that it waits for a particular button on the remote control (one that
does not conflict with VDR) to be pressed, then runs startx.
startx uses the .xinitrc config file. There I start up a compositing window
manager like compiz, followed by vdr-sxfe.
Now you can watch TV.
To finally suspend the output, I *somehow* configured vdr-sxfe to quit when a
remote control button is pressed (a different one than the one that starts X).
I guess it was similar to this solution:
http://mms.mymediasystem.net/index-7.html I can look this up when I have
physical access to my VDR next time (by the end of the week).
Long story short, what you get is the following: Your system boots into a slick
text console, waits for button A to be pressed. This fires up X and vdr-sxfe.
When you press button B, vdr-sxfe quits, so does X. You get back to your text
console, waiting for button A to be pressed.
You can easily modify this solution in a way that X is started automatically on
boot (i.e. with nodm) and keeps running all the time.
HTH, Stefan
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