On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:53:35 +0200 "Kartsa" <kari@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Now about my problem. I've installed VDR and VDRAdmin using RPMs. > > Everything works fine but preview of channel on the page > > 'Watch TV' is > > not working. It displays nothing. I tried to find what is > > problem. As I > > understand VDRAdmin grab video as images and then shows them > > on the web > > page. I didn't see any error messages in the VDRAdmin log or VDR log. > > (the fragment of VDR log): > > > > Feb 15 21:26:30 localhost vdr: [3807] connect from > > 127.0.0.1, port > > 3035 - accepted > > Feb 15 21:26:30 localhost vdr: [3807] closing SVDRP connection > > So, everything seems ok but video is not displayed. > > > > Any idea why? > > > > Thanks in advanced. > > > > My configuration: VDR 1.3.37 and vdradmin-0.97-1. > > If I recall correctly vdradmin writes an image file to /tmp and to do that > it has to have correct rights. Have you checked that. > > Although I think there should be a message in log file. > > \\Kartsa > Preview only works with full-featured DVB-cards that have an onboard MPEG-2 decoder. With budget cards you can install streamdev-server plugin and use streaming instead, but you won't get OSD that way. --Niko