'\" t .\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor ** .\" Man page for vdr .\" .\" Copyright (C) 2018 Klaus Schmidinger .\" .\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the .\" vdr distribution. .\" .\" $Id: vdr.1 4.4 2018/04/10 13:58:06 kls Exp $ .\" .TH vdr 1 "15 Apr 2018" "2.4" "Video Disk Recorder" .SH NAME vdr \- the Video Disk Recorder .SH SYNOPSIS .B vdr [options] .SH DESCRIPTION .B vdr implements a complete digital Set-Top Box and Video Recorder. It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals. At least one DVB card is required to run \fBvdr\fR. With it you can watch live TV while recording one or more other broadcasts from the same transponder. It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme before the live broadcast has ended (\fBtime shifting\fR). In order to record from different transponders simultaneously two or more DVB cards are necessary. By default \fBvdr\fR can support up to eight DVB cards. The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) can either be a "full featured" card, which means it contains an MPEG decoder and provides audio and video signal outputs, or you can use some third party plugin that implements software decoding of the MPEG data and displays it via the system's graphics adapter. \fBvdr\fR uses an On Screen Display (OSD) to display its menus. It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, the "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC), or any other means of remote control, implemented by a third party plugin. Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP), which can be accessed on port 6419, for instance by \fBtelnet\fR. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI \-a\ cmd ,\ \-\-audio= cmd Send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command \fIcmd\fR. .TP .BI \-\-cachedir= dir Save cache files in \fIdir\fR (default is to save them in the video directory). .TP .BI \-\-chartab= character_table Set the character table to use for strings in the DVB data stream that don't begin with a character table indicator, but don't use the standard default character table (for instance ISO-8859-9). .TP .BI \-c\ dir ,\ \-\-config= dir Read config files from directory \fIdir\fR (default is to read them from the video directory). .TP .B \-d, \-\-daemon Run in daemon mode (implies \-\-no\-kbd). .TP .BI \-D\ num ,\ \-\-device= num Use only the given DVB device (\fInum\fR = 0, 1, 2...). There may be several \fB\-D\fR options (by default all DVB devices will be used). If \fB\-D\-\fR is given, no DVB devices will be used at all, independent of any other \-D options. .TP .BI \-\-dirnames= path [, name [, enc ]] Set the maximum directory path length to \fIpath\fR (default is the maximum value allowed on the system). If \fIname\fR is also given, it defines the maximum directory name length (default is the maximum value allowed on the system). The optional \fIenc\fR can be 0 or 1, and controls whether special characters in directory names are encoded as hex values (default: 0). If \fIpath\fR or \fIname\fR are left empty (as in ",,1" to only set \fIenc\fR), the defaults apply. The length of the video directory name and that of the actual recording directory is subtracted from \fIpath\fR, to make sure the directory path will never become too long. .TP .BI \-\-edit= rec Edit the given recording. \fIrec\fR must be the full path name of an existing recording. The program will return immediately after editing the recording. .TP .BI \-E\ file ,\ \-\-epgfile= file Write the EPG data into the given \fIfile\fR (default is \fIepg.data\fR in the cache directory). Use \fB\-E\-\fR to disable this. If \fIfile\fR is a directory, the file \fIepg.data\fR will be created in that directory. .TP .BI \-\-filesize= size Limit video files to \fIsize\fR bytes (default is 2000M). This option is only useful in conjunction with --edit, and must precede that option to have an effect. \fIsize\fR is an integer number and may be followed by one of the letters K, M, G or T to abbreviate Kilo-, Mega-, Giga- or Terabyte, respectively. The given value is silently limited to the program's internal minimum and maximum values. .TP .BI \-\-genindex= rec Generate the index file for the given recording. \fIrec\fR must be the full path name of an existing recording. The recording must be in TS format. If the recording already has an index file, it will be deleted before creating the new one. The program will return immediately after generating the index. Note that using this option while another instance of VDR is currently replaying the given recording, or if the recording has not been finished yet, may lead to unexpected results. .TP .BI \-g,\ \-\-grab= dir Write images from the SVDRP command GRAB into the given directory \fIdir\fR. \fIdir\fR must be the full path name of an existing directory, without any "..", double '/' or symlinks. By default, or if \fB\-g\-\fR is given, grabbing images to disk is disabled. .TP .B \-h, \-\-help Print a help message and exit. .TP .BI \-i\ instance ,\ \-\-instance= instance Use \fIinstance\fR as the id of this VDR instance (default is 0). In an environment where several instances of VDR use the same video directory, this parameter can be set to a positive integer value that's unique for each instance, so that they won't interfere with each other in case they record exactly the same broadcast. The number given here will be part of the directory name in which the recordings will be stored. .TP .BI \-l\ level ,\ \-\-log= level Set logging to \fIlevel\fR. \fB0\fR\ =\ no logging, \fB1\fR\ =\ errors only, \fB2\fR\ =\ errors and info, \fB3\fR\ =\ errors, info and debug. The default logging level is \fB3\fR. If logging should be done to LOG_LOCAL\fIn\fR instead of LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7). .TP .BI \-L\ dir ,\ \-\-lib= dir Search for plugins in directory \fIdir\fR (default is ./PLUGINS/lib). There can be several \fB\-L\fR options with different \fIdir\fR values. Each of them will apply to the \fB\-P\fR options following it. .TP .BI \-\-lirc[= path ] Use a LIRC remote control device. If \fIpath\fR is omitted, vdr uses \fI/var/run/lirc/lircd\fR. .TP .BI \-\-localedir= dir Search for locale files in \fIdir\fR (default is ./locale). .TP .B \-m, \-\-mute Mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup. .TP .B \-\-no\-kbd Don't use the keyboard as an input device. .TP .BI \-p\ port ,\ \-\-port= port Use \fIport\fR for SVDRP. A value of \fB0\fR turns off SVDRP. The default SVDRP port is \fB6419\fR. You need to edit the file \fIsvdrphosts.conf\fR in order to enable access to the SVDRP port from hosts other than the localhosts. Note that this option only changes the TCP port used for SVDRP commands. The UDP port for discovering peer VDRs in the same network is always set to 6419 and can't be changed. .TP .BI \-P\ options ,\ \-\-plugin= options Load a plugin, defined by the given \fIoptions\fR. The first word in \fIoptions\fR must be the name of an existing \fBvdr\fR plugin, optionally followed by a blank separated list of command line options for that plugin. If \fIoptions\fR contains any blanks, you need to enclose it in quotes, like for example \fBvdr \-P "abc \-a \-b xyz"\fR which would load a plugin named \fBabc\fR, giving it the command line options \fB\-a\ \-b\ xyz\fR. If you want to load all available plugins (without any particular options) you can use \fBvdr \-P "*"\fR (note the quotes around the asterisk to prevent wildcard expansion). .TP .BI \-r\ cmd ,\ \-\-record= cmd Call \fIcmd\fR before and after a recording. See the file \fIINSTALL\fR for more information. .TP .BI \-\-resdir= dir Read resource files from \fIdir\fR (default is to read them from the config directory). .TP .BI \-\-showargs[= dir ] Read command line arguments from \fIdir\fR (default is \fI/etc/vdr/conf.d\fR), display them to the console and exit. .TP .BI \-s\ cmd ,\ \-\-shutdown= cmd Call \fIcmd\fR to shutdown the computer. See the file \fIINSTALL\fR for more information. .TP .BI \-\-split Split edited files at the editing marks. This option is only useful in conjunction with --edit, and must precede that option to have an effect. .TP .BI \-t\ tty ,\ \-\-terminal= tty Set the controlling terminal. .TP .BI \-u\ user ,\ \-\-user= user Run as user \fIuser\fR in case vdr was started as user 'root'. Starting vdr as 'root' is necessary if the system time shall be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons vdr can switch to a lesser privileged user id during normal operation. \fIuser\fR can be a user name or a numerical id. .TP .BI \-\-updindex= rec Update the index file for the given recording. \fIrec\fR must be the full path name of an existing recording. The recording must be in TS format. If the recording already has an index file, it will be checked whether it is complete, and will be updated if it isn't. If there is no index file yet, a new one will be generated. The program will return immediately after updating the index. Note that using this option while another instance of VDR is currently replaying the given recording, or if the recording has not been finished yet, may lead to unexpected results. .TP .BI \-\-userdump Allow coredumps if -u is given (only for debugging). .TP .BI \-\-vfat For backwards compatibility (same as \-\-dirnames= 250,40,1). .TP .BI \-v\ dir ,\ \-\-video= dir Use \fIdir\fR as video directory. The default is \fI/video\fR. .TP .B \-V, \-\-version Print version information and exit. .TP .BI \-w\ sec ,\ \-\-watchdog= sec Activate the watchdog timer with a timeout of \fIsec\fR seconds. A value of \fB0\fR (default) disables the watchdog. .P If started without any options, vdr tries to read command line options from files named '*.conf' in the directory /etc/vdr/conf.d. Files are read in alphabetical order. See vdr(5) for details. .SH SIGNALS .TP .B SIGINT, SIGTERM Program exits with status 0. .TP .B SIGHUP Program exits with status 1. This can be used to force a reload, for example if an update has been installed. .SH EXIT STATUS .TP .B 0 Successful program execution. .TP .B 1 An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and \fBvdr\fR to be reloaded. .TP .B 2 An non-recoverable error has been detected, \fBvdr\fR has given up. .SH FILES .TP .I channels.conf Channel configuration. .TP .I timers.conf Timer configuration. .TP .I setup.conf User definable setup. .TP .I commands.conf User definable commands (executed from the \fBCommands\fR menu). .TP .I svdrphosts.conf SVDRP host configuration, defining which hosts or networks are given access to the SVDRP port. .TP .I marks Contains the editing marks defined for a recording. .TP .I info Contains a description of the recording. .TP .I resume Contains the index into the recording where the last replay session left off. .TP .I index Contains the file number, offset and type of each frame of the recording. .TP .I remote.conf Contains the key assignments for the remote control. .TP .I keymacros.conf Contains user defined remote control key macros. .TP .IR 00001.ts\ ...\ 65535.ts The actual data files of a recording. .TP .I epg.data Contains all current EPG data. Can be used for external processing and will also be read at program startup to have the full EPG data available immediately. .TP .I .update If this file is present in the video directory, its last modification time will be used to trigger an update of the list of recordings in the "Recordings" menu. .SH SEE ALSO .BR vdr (5), svdrpsend (1) .SH AUTHOR Written by Klaus Schmidinger, with contributions from many others. See the file \fICONTRIBUTORS\fR in the \fBvdr\fR source distribution. .SH REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to . .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2018 Klaus Schmidinger. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.