I've recently taken a different approach altogether. I use MyMediaSystem (mms) as the "front end" to my pvr for dvd, movies, pictures, music, weather, radio etc etc and TV. When you select TV, it launches vdr-xine. I wanted a high quality graphical (open-gl) look - and the ability to play music playlists while cycling through my photo collection. VDR, vdr-xine and mms seem to work very well together too.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" <zelts@xxxxxxxxxx>To: "'VDR Mailing List'" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:13 AMSubject: Re: Best practices for running vdr-xine > Thanks for the tv script tidbit! However that wont help if vdr backend > restarts while xine frontend is active.>> My mplayer works just fine with softdevice, but not with vdr-xine: I get > no video (but audio is fine). Maybe I have to run vdr backend inside X > session as well?>> -----Original Message-----> From: VDR User [mailto:user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:13 PM> To: VDR Mailing List> Subject: Re: Best practices for running vdr-xine>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Peter <zelts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>> I have a bit of a problem running xine frontend – it will not reconnect >> if>> vdr backend restarts. Also, my vdr can take 10-15secs just to start up, >> and>> xine frontend will bail out during that time, too. Since frontend is >> being>> run on unattended TV box (read: no keyboard) it is cumbersome to restart>> xine every time this happens.>> In my tv script I do this before starting xine:> until [ -e "/tmp/vdr-xine/stream" ]; do sleep 1; done>> This waits until vdr-xine has started before loading xine itself and> resolves the problem of delayed startups.>>> Second problem: xine does not work with vdr mplayer plugin (mplayer >> cannot>> access X, hence no video). Are there any alternatives?>> I'm using VDR-1.7.6 with xine-0.9.1 and the mplayer plugin just fine.> Maybe you're missing the required> mplayer.sh(.conf)?>>>>> _______________________________________________> vdr mailing list> vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr> _______________________________________________vdr mailing listvdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
