Hi, Darren Salt wrote: >>Hi. I'm making progress on getting VDR working the way I want. >> >>There's a colleague at work who uses the xine plugin for replay, and the >>DEBUG_OSD screen to remotely control vdr via ssh. This is kind of what I >>want to do, but have 2 problems. >> >>When I try and open 'xine -p vdr:///fifty/video/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes' >>Xine says unknown mrl: vdr:// This is not the way it is expected to be used ;-) Adding --verbose=2 to running xine will show something like that: gui_xine_open_and_play(): mrl: 'vdr:///soft/vdr/etc/vdr/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes', sub 'NONE', start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0. xine: Inputplugin gefunden: VDR display device plugin vdr: failed to open '///soft/vdr/etc/vdr/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes.control' (Datei oder Verzeichnisnicht gefunden) xine: Plugin kann MRL [vdr:///soft/vdr/etc/vdr/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes] nicht ?ffnen xine: Kann kein Plugin f?r MRL [vdr:///soft/vdr/etc/vdr/plugins/xine/noSignal.pes] finden It bails out as the input plugin vdr expects several files with names derived from the given argument (e. g. in the above case noSignal.pes.control). > You don't have a patched xine-lib - apply the patch in vdr-xine and rebuild. A previous post shows: xine --verbose=2 load_plugins: plugin /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/post/xineplug_post_vdr.so found load_plugins: plugin /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_inp_vdr.so found Anyway, just try: xine vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx