On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Peter zelts@ruksis.com wrote:
I have a bit of a problem running xine frontend – it will not reconnect if vdr backend restarts. Also, my vdr can take 10-15secs just to start up, and xine frontend will bail out during that time, too. Since frontend is being run on unattended TV box (read: no keyboard) it is cumbersome to restart xine every time this happens.
In my tv script I do this before starting xine: until [ -e "/tmp/vdr-xine/stream" ]; do sleep 1; done
This waits until vdr-xine has started before loading xine itself and resolves the problem of delayed startups.
Second problem: xine does not work with vdr mplayer plugin (mplayer cannot access X, hence no video). Are there any alternatives?
I'm using VDR-1.7.6 with xine-0.9.1 and the mplayer plugin just fine. Maybe you're missing the required mplayer.sh(.conf)?