Burn-plugin

Burn
Burn DVDs from recordings
Developer:	Sascha Volkenandt, Ralf Mueller
Category:	Plugins
Website:	http://www.xeatre.tv/community/burn

The burn plugin lets you choose the recordings you want to burn as DVD, automatically creates menus and finally burns the DVD. If the recordings are to big in size, they are requantizised to save space.

Hardware requirements

• DVD writer

Software requirements

• vdrsync.pl
• Requant
• tcmplex (transcode)
• Imlib2
• dvdauthor
• dvd+rwtools
• mjpegtools
• ImageMagick

Installation

See plugin installation.

Copy the burnmark script into the $PATH

cd $SOURCEDIR
cp burn/burnmark.sh /usr/bin

Copy the font file and menu image templates to the plugins configuration directory /etc/vdr/plugins/burn

cp -r burn/burn /etc/vdr/plugins/

Options

Option	Description
DDVDDEV=/dev/dvd	use DEV as DVD Writer (= Parameter -D --dvd=DEV)
ISODIR=/video	use DIR to store ISO images (= Parameter -i DIR --iso=DIR)
DEBUG=1	Enable Debuging

Configuration

Add the following entry to your reccmds.conf

Mark for DVD-Writer: /usr/bin/burnmark.sh -add
Delete Mark        : /usr/bin/burnmark.sh -del

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-d DIR	--datadir=DIR	use DIR for temporary files (default: /dev/dvd)
-D DEV	--dvd=DEV	use DEV as DVD Writer (default /dev/dvd)
-i DIR	--iso=DIR	use DIR to store ISO images (default: none)

Problems

• No transcoding (Videos must be DVD compliant)
• Display problems with VDR >= 1.3.7

Links

[1]	http://linux.kompiliert.net/contrib/	Updated version,
[2]	cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@vdr-developer.org:/var/cvsroot co burn	Get the latest version here using CVS
[3]	http://www.xeatre.tv/community/burn	Plugin homepage (older version)
[4]	http://vdr.unetz.com/download	Enhanced version (also a bit dated)
[5]	http://vdrsync.vdr-portal.de	vdrsync.pl
[6]	http://metakine.com/files	requant
[7]	http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode	transcode
[8]	http://enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	imlib2
[9]	http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net	dvdauthor
[10]	http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW	dvd+rwtools
[11]	http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net	mjpegtools
[12]	http://www.imagemagick.org	ImageMagick