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NAME
vdr - the Video Disk Recorder
SYNOPSIS
vdr [options]
DESCRIPTION
vdr implements a complete digital Set-Top Box and Video Recorder. It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals.
At least one DVB card is required to run vdr. With it you can watch live tv while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder. It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live broadcast has ended (time shifting). In order to record from different transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary. By default vdr can support up to four DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your tv set is connected to) has to be a "full featured" card, which means it must contain an MPEG decoder and provide audio and video signal outputs.
vdr uses the On Screen Display of the DVB card to display its menus. It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, a home built "Remote Control Unit" (RCU) or the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC).
Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP), which can be accessed on port 2001, for instance by telnet.
OPTIONS
- -a cmd, --audio=cmd
- Send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command cmd.
- -c dir, --config=dir
- Read config files from directory dir (default is to read them from video directory).
- -d, --daemon
- Run in daemon mode (implies --no-kbd).
- -D num, --device=num
- Use only the given DVB device (num = 0, 1, 2...). There may be several -D options (by default all DVB devices will be used).
- -E file, --epgfile=file
- Write the EPG data into the given file (default is /video/epg.data). Use -E- to disable this. If file is a directory, the file epg.data will be created in that directory.
- -g, --grab=dir
- Write images from the SVDRP command GRAB into the given directory dir. dir must be the full path
- name of an existing directory, without any "..", double '/' or symlinks. By default, or if -g- is
- given, grabbing images to disk is disabled.
- -h, --help
- Print a help message and exit.
- -l level, --log=level
- Set logging to level. 0 = no logging, 1 = errors only, 2 = errors and info, 3 = errors, info and
- debug. The default logging level is 3. If logging should be done to LOG_LOCALn instead of
- LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7).
- -L dir, --lib=dir
- Search for plugins in directory dir (default is ./PLUGINS/lib). There can be several -L options
- with different dir values. Each of them will apply to the -P options following it.
- --lirc[=path]
- Use a LIRC remote control device. If path is omitted, vdr uses /dev/lircd.
- -m, --mute
- Mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup.
- --no-kbd
- Don't use the keyboard as an input device.
- -p port, --port=port
- Use port for SVDRP. A value of 0 turns off SVDRP. The default SVDRP port is 2001.
- You need to edit the file svdrphosts.conf in order to enable access to the SVDRP port.
- -P options, --plugin=options
- Load a plugin, defined by the given options. The first word in options must be the name of an
- existing vdr plugin, optionally followed by a blank separated list of command line options for
- that plugin. If options contains any blanks, you need to enclose it in quotes, like for example
- vdr -P "abc -a -b xyz"
- which would load a plugin named abc, giving it the command line options -a -b xyz. If you want to
- load all available plugins (without any particular options) you can use
- vdr -P "*"
- (note the quotes around the asterisk to prevent wildcard expansion).
- --rcu[=path]
- Use a serial port remote control device. If path is omitted, vdr uses /dev/ttyS1.
- -r cmd, --record=cmd
- Call cmd before and after a recording. See the file INSTALL for more information.
- -s cmd, --shutdown=cmd
- Call cmd to shutdown the computer. See the file INSTALL for more information.
- -t tty, --terminal=tty
- Set the controlling terminal.
- -u user, --user=user
- Run as user user in case vdr was started as user 'root'. Starting vdr as 'root'
- is necessary if the system time shall be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons
- vdr can switch to a lesser privileged user id during normal operation.
- --vfat
- Encode special characters in recording names to avoid problems with VFAT file systems.
- -v dir, --video=dir
- Use dir as video directory. The default is /video.
- -V, --version
- Print version information and exit.
- -w sec, --watchdog=sec
- Activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of sec seconds. A value of 0 (default) disables
- the watchdog.
SIGNALS
- SIGINT, SIGTERM
- Program exits with status 0.
- SIGHUP
- Program exits with status 1. This can be used to force a reload, for example
- if an update has been installed.
EXIT STATUS
- 0
- Successful program execution.
- 1
- An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and vdr to be reloaded.
- 2
- An non-recoverable error has been detected, vdr has given up.
FILES
- channels.conf
- Channel configuration.
- timers.conf
- Timer configuration.
- setup.conf
- User definable setup.
- commands.conf
- User definable commands (executed from the Commands menu).
- svdrphosts.conf
- marks.vdr
- Contains the editing marks defined for a recording.
- info.vdr
- Contains a description of the recording.
- resume.vdr
- Contains the index into the recording where the last replay session left off.
- index.vdr
- Contains the file number, offset and type of each frame of the recording.
- remote.conf
- Contains the key assignments for the remote control.
- keymacros.conf
- Contains user defined remote control key macros.
- 001.vdr ... 255.vdr
- The actual data files of a recording.
- epg.data
- Contains all current EPG data. Can be used for external processing and will also be read at program startup to have the full EPG data available immediately.
- .update
- If this file is present in the video directory, its last modification time will be used to trigger an update of the list of recordings in the "Recordings" menu.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Written by Klaus Schmidinger, with contributions from many others. See the file CONTRIBUTORS in the vdr source distribution.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <vdr-bugs@cadsoft.de>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Klaus Schmidinger.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.