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Introduction

VDR is a Personal Video Recoder (PVR) application. It can record TV from DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T receivers.

Installing

Testing VDR without DVB receiver

Compatible receivers

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Device_Information

Configuration files

VDR has it's configuration files in some unusual places,

Setting up VDR for DVB-T reception

Netherlands: KPN Digitenne

In the Netherlands, KPN provides DVB-T broadcasts under the name "Digitenne".

Scanning channels

To scan the channels, enter the following command as root:

scan -o vdr /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/nl-All > channels.conf

Adding support for encrypted broadcasts

Installing vdr-plugin-sc and libvdr-sc-cardclient from source

Information taken from http://www.eurocardsharing.com/f273/vdr-1-7-21-sc-361291 Enter the following command as root to install the packages needed to complie

apt-get install wget vdr-dev build-essential cdbs dpatch mercurial devscripts libssl-dev

Then enter the following commands to compile:

hg clone http://85.17.209.13:6100/sc
wget http://vdrbox.lautre.net/fichiers/VDR/debianize-sc/sc-debian-package-03062011.diff
cd sc/
patch -p1 <../sc-debian-package-03062011.diff
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
cd ..

Then enter the following commands as root to install:

dpkg -i vdr-plugin-sc_*.deb libvdr-sc-cardclient_*.deb

Installing OSCAM from source

Configuring OSCAM

Connecting VDR to OSCAM

Extending VDR

EPGsearch

Live

Accessing VDR from other devices

vdr-sxfe

VDR

browser with VDR

VDR with streamdev

Popcorn hour

Other Settings

Auto shutdown

Auto startup


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