Aide-plugin

Description

An OSD Help Browser for VDR. You can read VDR User Manual and other plain text help files on the TV screen.

German - OSD item	German - Help contents	German - Random article
English - OSD item	English - Help contents	English - Random article
Russian - OSD item'	Russian - Help contents	Russian - Random article

Hardware requirements

None

Software requirements

VDR (any version will do)

Installation

See plugin installation

cp -R $SOURCEDIR/VDR/PLUGINS/src/aide/aide /etc/vdr/plugins

With the new aide-mod version all help files are placed into the ../help/<LANGUAGE> directories.

/etc/vdr/plugins/help/<LANGUAGE>
/etc/vdr/plugins/help/rus

The language codes are:

"eng", // English
"deu", // German
"slv", // Slovenian
"ita", // Italian
"dut", // Dutch
"por", // Portugese
"fra", // French
"nor", // Norwegian
"fin", // Finnish
"pol", // Polish
"esl", // Spanish
"ell", // Greek
"sve", // Swedish
"rom", // Romanian
"hun", // Hungarian
"cat", // Catalan
"rus", // Russian
"hrv", // Croatian

Problems

Regular PAL/SECAM TV resolution is too small for reading unformatted texts. The help files must be prepared to look better on screen.

Links

[1]	http://vdr.bluox.org/download/vdr-aide	Old plugin homepage
[2]	ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/people/slava	Multilingual "mod" version and VDR manuals in several languages.