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vdr(1) - Linux man page

NAME

vdr - the Video Disk Recorder

SYNOPSIS

vdr [options]

DESCRIPTION

vdr implements a complete digital Set-Top Box and Video Recorder. It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals.

At least one DVB card is required to run vdr. With it you can watch live tv while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder. It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live broadcast has ended (time shifting). In order to record from different transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary. By default vdr can support up to four DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your tv set is connected to) has to be a "full featured" card, which means it must contain an MPEG decoder and provide audio and video signal outputs.

vdr uses the On Screen Display of the DVB card to display its menus. It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, a home built "Remote Control Unit" (RCU) or the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC).

Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP), which can be accessed on port 2001, for instance by telnet.

OPTIONS

-a cmd, --audio=cmd

Send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command cmd.

-c dir, --config=dir

Read config files from directory dir (default is to read them from video directory).

-d, --daemon

Run in daemon mode (implies --no-kbd).

-D num, --device=num

Use only the given DVB device (num = 0, 1, 2...). There may be several -D options (by default all DVB devices will be used).

-E file, --epgfile=file

Write the EPG data into the given file (default is /video/epg.data). Use -E- to disable this. If file is a directory, the file epg.data will be created in that directory.

-g, --grab=dir

Write images from the SVDRP command GRAB into the given directory dir. dir must be the full path

name of an existing directory, without any "..", double '/' or symlinks. By default, or if -g- is

given, grabbing images to disk is disabled.

-h, --help

Print a help message and exit.

-l level, --log=level

Set logging to level. 0 = no logging, 1 = errors only, 2 = errors and info, 3 = errors, info and

debug. The default logging level is 3. If logging should be done to LOG_LOCALn instead of

LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7).

-L dir, --lib=dir

Search for plugins in directory dir (default is ./PLUGINS/lib). There can be several -L options

with different dir values. Each of them will apply to the -P options following it.

--lirc[=path]

Use a LIRC remote control device. If path is omitted, vdr uses /dev/lircd.

-m, --mute

Mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup.

--no-kbd

Don't use the keyboard as an input device.

-p port, --port=port

Use port for SVDRP. A value of 0 turns off SVDRP. The default SVDRP port is 2001.

You need to edit the file svdrphosts.conf in order to enable access to the SVDRP port.

-P options, --plugin=options

Load a plugin, defined by the given options. The first word in options must be the name of an

existing vdr plugin, optionally followed by a blank separated list of command line options for

that plugin. If options contains any blanks, you need to enclose it in quotes, like for example

vdr -P "abc -a -b xyz"

which would load a plugin named abc, giving it the command line options -a -b xyz. If you want to

load all available plugins (without any particular options) you can use

vdr -P "*"

(note the quotes around the asterisk to prevent wildcard expansion).

--rcu[=path]

Use a serial port remote control device. If path is omitted, vdr uses /dev/ttyS1.

-r cmd, --record=cmd

Call cmd before and after a recording. See the file INSTALL for more information.

-s cmd, --shutdown=cmd

Call cmd to shutdown the computer. See the file INSTALL for more information.

-t tty, --terminal=tty

Set the controlling terminal.

-u user, --user=user

Run as user user in case vdr was started as user 'root'. Starting vdr as 'root'

is necessary if the system time shall be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons

vdr can switch to a lesser privileged user id during normal operation.

--vfat

Encode special characters in recording names to avoid problems with VFAT file systems.

-v dir, --video=dir

Use dir as video directory. The default is /video.

-V, --version

Print version information and exit.

-w sec, --watchdog=sec

Activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of sec seconds. A value of 0 (default) disables

the watchdog.

SIGNALS

SIGINT, SIGTERM

Program exits with status 0.

SIGHUP

Program exits with status 1. This can be used to force a reload, for example

if an update has been installed.

EXIT STATUS

0

Successful program execution.

1

An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and vdr to be reloaded.

2

An non-recoverable error has been detected, vdr has given up.

3

vdr has received SIGUSR1 and is requesting that it be restarted. If vdr is in use (playback,

recording, cutting etc.) when it receives SIGUSR1, it will record the fact that it has

received it; when it becomes idle, it will exit. (This is intended for reloading and restarting

from an init script.)

FILES

channels.conf Channel configuration. timers.conf Timer configuration. setup.conf User definable setup. commands.conf User definable commands (executed from the Commands menu). svdrphosts.conf SVDRP host configuration, defining which hosts or networks are given access to the SVDRP port. marks.vdr Contains the editing marks defined for a recording. info.vdr Contains a description of the recording. resume.vdr Contains the index into the recording where the last replay session left off. index.vdr Contains the file number, offset and type of each frame of the recording. remote.conf Contains the key assignments for the remote control. keymacros.conf Contains user defined remote control key macros. 001.vdr ... 255.vdr The actual data files of a recording. epg.data Contains all current EPG data. Can be used for external processing and will also be read at program startup to have the full EPG data available immediately. .update If this file is present in the video directory, its last modification time will be used to trigger an update of the list of recordings in the "Recordings" menu.

SEE ALSO

vdr(5)

AUTHOR

Written by Klaus Schmidinger, with contributions from many others. See the file CONTRIBUTORS in the vdr source distribution.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <vdr-bugs@cadsoft.de>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2006 Klaus Schmidinger.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.