WARNING: This article is not finished, and has not yet been tested. Please don't use below information yet.
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,
- /usr/lib/vdr
- todo* add note about channels.conf existing twice
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
External links