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- hepi - 2009-11-25 22:28
Hi,
This is to inform you that my future XBMC-PVR-Testing packages in my PPA don't contain the library l i b d v d c s s any more as of today. Please use an external alternative if you decide that you need this library.
Thx,
hepi
- mike557 - 2009-11-26 18:21
Well after some playing....
I have used vdr-streamdev-0.5.0-pre-20090706.tgz and
XBMC 9.11-alpha2 r24924 (Compiled Nov 24 2009)
Streamdev has compiled and is working in VDR.
In XBMC, the TV option now displays EPG/Channel info and recordings are playing. However choosing a TV channel after 10 seconds gives channel unavailable
Can you give me any more pointers - thanks.
Mike
- mike557 - 2009-11-27 11:55
Is it necessary to patch VDR to get XBMC to work?
Looking at the initial description we should use
patch -p1 < ../VDR-Extensions-Patch-68/vdr-1.7.4_extensions.diff
patch -p1 < ../vdr-1.7.4-ext68-streamdev.patch
My vdr (1.6.0) is working well and streamdev using mplayer works etc so assumed patching was not necessary.
If patching is necessary is there a single patch for vdr instead of using this combined extensions-patch?
- hepi - 2009-11-27 14:27
Where did you get your VDR 1.6 from? From which repository? Or did you compile it yourself? From which sources?
- mike557 - 2009-11-27 15:21
Hello Hepi
I compiled vdr 1.6.0 myself - source from http://ftp.cadsoft.de
Thanks
Mike
- biggles - 2009-11-27 15:46
mike557 Wrote:Is it necessary to patch VDR to get XBMC to work?
Looking at the initial description we should use
patch -p1 < ../VDR-Extensions-Patch-68/vdr-1.7.4_extensions.diff
patch -p1 < ../vdr-1.7.4-ext68-streamdev.patch
My vdr (1.6.0) is working well and streamdev using mplayer works etc so assumed patching was not necessary.
If patching is necessary is there a single patch for vdr instead of using this combined extensions-patch?
Really don't understand why you go through all the trouble of compiling your own from source when there are excellent PPA
with precompiled packages...But I know, sometimes it's fun just to be able to do it!
- hepi - 2009-11-27 16:12
mike557 Wrote:Hello Hepi
I compiled vdr 1.6.0 myself - source from http://ftp.cadsoft.de
Thanks
Mike
I assume you use Ubuntu. If you have good reasons to stick with the version 1.6.0 which normally has no h264 and no DVB-S2 support (instead of the developer version 1.7.10 which is being used in the wild already) and you want to compile the sources yourself, you should have a look at the source packages of VDR 1.6 either from the repository of e-tobi.de or hanno.de. The correct version of the extension patch comes along with them.
But this is a quite complicated approach.
- mulder77de - 2009-11-27 16:17
I am not familiar with VDR, so there is only a simple question and I hope to have it answered by somebody of you.
Before investigating more time into this topic, will I be able to have such a setup:
- System (headless) with DVB card and VDR on system A
- Systems B, C, D etc. which connect to VDR over LAN
Currently I am doing some promising tests with tvheadend which works great so far.
Will tvheadend be supported through this branch (or already is)?
Thanks!
mulder77de
- hepi - 2009-11-27 16:39
mulder77de Wrote:will I be able to have such a setup:Yes. Several options exist to do client-server-setups. One of them is to use XBMC as a client.
- System (headless) with DVB card and VDR on system A
- Systems B, C, D etc. which connect to VDR over LAN
mulder77de Wrote:Will tvheadend be supported through this branch (or already is)?The developer of the branch pvr-testing, alwinus, is only working on VDR support. It is meant to be a proof-of-concept and a testrun for the planned unified-pvr solution.
hepi
- mulder77de - 2009-11-27 17:24
hepi, thanks!
So I would follow the VDR part in this howto for my server system and will do the rest of the guide on the XBMC system, right?