On Sonntag, 11. September 2005 21:30, Martin Wache wrote: > Dominique Dumont schrieb: > > Hello > > > > I'm trying to setup vdr with a budget card (only, no ff card) and > > softdevice. > > > > When I launch vdr and softdevice from a terminal, everything is > > working fine (with xv) > > > > But I'd like to set up vdr as a daemon (i.e. launched by init.d) so > > recording can begin even if I'm not logged. I think it would be easier to start vdr with streamdev (server mode) as the backgound deamon, and connect later a vdr with streamdev (client mode) to your server. The screenshots on softdevice homepage with two vdrs running, were done this way (vdr with streamdev client+server on the local maschine). > > > > So far, I've managed to run vdr (from debian package) and softdevice > > after some crude hacks: > > - I've added and 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' in /etc/init.d/vdr > > - I must be logged in and perform a xhost local: > > > > I'd like to be able to run vdr as a daemon with softdevice plugin > > loaded. For this I need softdevice to not try to connect to X11 until > > a command is sent to vdr daemon (either through the remote control or > > SVDRP). > > > > This command would need to contain the display name to connect to. > > > > Does this sound reasonnable ? (or did I miss something ?) > > > I think it is not impossible to do it like this, however the softdevice > would have to be changed accordingly, so if you want to do this or find > someone who volunteers to do this there should be no problem. I think we should reject a delayed allocation of the output device. > > If not you could set up a second X server to be used with vdr which is > started at startup of vdr and use Marko M?kel?s suspend patch to suspend > the output while your not watching. I plan to do it like this once I > have my vdr only box. > > Or you use vdr-xine which is probably more what you are looking for. -- Stefan Lucke
