On Saturday 04 February 2006 14:21, Peter Juszack wrote:
> Since VDR-version 1.3.? grabbing images to disc is disabled by default
> for security reasons. It is just possible to get then base64 encoded
> over the SVDRP conncetion with 'GRAB -'.
> You must set a VDR commandline parameter to a directory to enable grab
> to disc. Grabbed images are stored under that directory.
Really? I've never really seen reliable grabbing, I usually just get gray or
(nowadays) black images. I run 1.3.37 and when I do a "grab /tmp/foo.jpeg"
over SVDRP I end up with a fine completely black image. I have not enabled
any parameters that would allow saving to disk, so I guess these security
restrictions come with some patch you have used?
Using "-" as the filename doesn't seem to do anything, at least I don't see
any base64 data over my telnet connection, VDR just happily says:
250 Grabbed image -
The base64 stuff sounds really interesting though. At one time I had a patch
that did just this, but it was almost two years ago and it doesn't work
anymore. It would be really handy to have the base64 stuff built into VDR.
--
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was getting.
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