Image-plugin

Image
Displays images of varies formats
Developer:	Andreas Brachold
Category:	Plugins
Website:	http://vdr-image.berlios.de/

The image plugin displays images in varies formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, TIFF,...). One can zoom in and rotate the images and it's also possible to create an overview.

Hardware requirements

• slightly faster computer (>500MHz)

Software requirements

• netpbm > 10.0
• sharutils
• file (should be included in every distribution)

Installation

To install netpbm

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar -xvzf netpbm-<VERSION>.tgz
cd netpbm-<VERSION>
./configure
make
make package
# install prefix (/usr/local/netpbm) ==> /usr/local
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
./installnetpbm
rm -r /tmp/netpbm

copy imageplugin.sh

cp $SOURCEDIR/PLUGINS/src/image/script/imageplugin.sh /usr/bin

See plugin installation

Configuration

Alter /usr/bin/imageplugin.sh

- #PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+ PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

For more information see the README file.

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-m CMD	--mount=CMD	CMD to mount/unmount/eject image sources (default: mount.sh)
-C CMD	--convert=CMD	use CMD when converting Images (default: imageplugin.sh)

Problems

Errors can be announced, under the following address.

• http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=4286

Links

[1]	http://vdr-image.berlios.de/	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://netpbm.sourceforge.net	Netpbm projektsite on SourceForge
[3]	http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net	FFMPEG homepage
[4]	ftp://ftp.astron.com	Ftp "file"