Burn-plugin

Description

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The burn plugin enables VDR to burn DVDs from the recordings and automatically created menus.

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/

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)

Problems

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

Links

[1]	http://www.xeatre.tv/community/burn	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://vdrsync.vdrportal.de	vdrsync.pl
[3]	http://metakine.com/files	requant
[4]	http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode	transcode
[5]	http://enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	imlib2
[6]	http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net	dvdauthor
[7]	http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW	dvd+rwtools
[8]	http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net	mjpegtools
[9]	http://www.imagemagick.org	ImageMagick