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2. Installation
2.1 How to obtain Kvdr
You can always download the
actual version here.
2.2 Requirements
- You need at least one DVB-Card, the DVB-driver, the VDR-package and Kde.
- For fullscreen-switching have a 800x600 modeline in your XF86Config file,
for NTSC a 640x480 one. (The first one found is automatically choosed, should
have the frequency of your choice).
- To get sound handling working get and install alsa (amixer).
2.3 Compilation and installation
In order to compile
and install Kvdr on your system, type the following in the base directory of the
Kvdr distribution:
% ./configure
% make
% make install
Since Kvdr uses autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into
problems please report them to the the author at Guido
2.4 Installation details
First, get the latest dvb-driver and install it. (of course ;-)
Compile vdr (make REMOTE=LIRC) and copy the channels.conf, timers.conf and
keys.conf in the VideoDirectory you may use.
The rest is the ordinary "./configure; make; make install;"
process.
(just tested at a Suse6.4-Linux at Intel-P2-hardware, no idea what will
happen elsewhere...)
For a quick test, you can now simply start the vdr-daemon in a terminal
(of course you have to load the dvb-drivers first and launch kvdr.
cd DVB/driver
make insmod
cd VDR
./vdr -v VideoDirectory -d
kvdr
For a sophisticated installation follow the vdr manual.
2.5 WARNING
Because of the open SVDRP port you should not run vdr in an
open environment (suggest using a firewall). Also, because the DVB-card does
directly write to physical grafics memory it can possibly crash your x-Server or
your entire System if the frame buffer address is incorrectly specified or
reported by the X-server's DGA extension (this is applicable for all overlay
displaying cards).
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