I've recently taken a different approach altogether.
I use MyMediaSystem (mms) as the "front end" to my pvr for dvd, movies, pictures, music, weather, radio etc etc and TV. When you select TV, it launches vdr-xine.
I wanted a high quality graphical (open-gl) look - and the ability to play music playlists while cycling through my photo collection.
VDR, vdr-xine and mms seem to work very well together too....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" zelts@ruksis.com To: "'VDR Mailing List'" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine
Thanks for the tv script tidbit! However that wont help if vdr backend restarts while xine frontend is active.
My mplayer works just fine with softdevice, but not with vdr-xine: I get no video (but audio is fine). Maybe I have to run vdr backend inside X session as well?
-----Original Message----- From: VDR User [mailto:user.vdr@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:13 PM To: VDR Mailing List Subject: Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine
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)?
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