On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jörg Knitter joerg.knitter@gmx.de wrote:
Petri Helin wrote:
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start up a fluxbox session. The fluxbox session runs a start up script which starts vdr-sxfe, which connect to the xineliboutput plugin. [...]
One general question: Is vdr-sxfe reliable enough on bad-weather-conditions? I have played around last week with VDR-1.5.18 and xineliboutputs internal display window, and it was rock-solid while in the past other solutions like xine or vdr-sxfe crashed if there was a bigger problem with the signal strength. Or do you have implemented some kind of "keep vdr-sxfe alive"-functionality? Because having to start vdr-sxfe manually again is IMHO not really set-top-box-like... :) On the other hand, I would prefer using vdr-sxfe instead of the internal x11 display because then I can release LIRC by shutting down vdr-sxfe e.g. if I want to use Elisa as second Media Center for playing back MP3s and videos in a more comfortable way than VDR can offer...
What I have is vdr-sxfe starting with parameter "--reconnect", which restarts vdr-sxfe in case the connection is lost. I have also set up remote control so that it has buttons for calling scripts that stop and start vdr-sxfe in case there is something wrong with it (quite seldom nowadays, but some time ago it got stuck with some recordings).
-Petri