CFT: vdr ports (watch/record/stream tv, works with xbmc too :)

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Thu Dec 9 15:03:59 UTC 2010


Ok,
The port (vdr-devel and vdr-plugins) installed nicely, oncve I followed the steps in your posting. :-)
Starting vdr manually in the foreground works, once I figured out that I neede to specify the video dir:
-v /storage/vdr

vdr-sxfe didn't give me anything (obvious, I haven't configured a tuner card yet)

http://localhost:8008/ gives me a live interface, but I can't configure tuner cards there.
http://localhost:3000/ also give me an interface.

I need to figure out how to set up the tuner card, the channels and so on.
Later.



On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:11:00 +0100
Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> Call for testing - vdr 1.7.16 with a bunch of plugins:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/vdrdevel-preliminary-20101125a.shar
> 
> [Updated Nov 25 2010 - I thought merging in the updates makes the
>  text easier to read for new testers rather than adding updates as
>  followups at the end.  Main news:
> 
>  - Updated live web plugin to 0.2.0 20101122 git snapshot.  If the
>    port fails to fetch you can get the distfile from here while the
>    mirrors have not updated yet:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/distfiles/vdr-live-0.2.0s20101122.tar.bz2
> 
>    Copy it to /usr/ports/distfiles/vdr/ .
> 
>  - Fixed a porting error/oversight for the epgsearch plugin that
>    caused e.g. searchtimer setup to crash vdr.
> 
>  - I haven't added the upnp plugin port to the combined shar just yet
>    because that really is alpha and also requires bugfix patches for
>    libupnp that aren't in that lib's port yet - if you want to test
>    upnp with vdr nevertheless the notes in my original post still apply:
> 
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-November/011388.html
> 
>  For details see below.]
> 
> Hi!
> 
>  So what is vdr?  It's something like a luxury settop box/pvr on a pc
> to receive/watch/record/stream digital tv channels with epg (electronic
> program guide), timers, client/server networking, webinterface etc pp.
> So if you have a FreeBSD (or Linux, but that's not covered here :)
> server you can add one or more dvb/atsc tuner(s) connected to a
> satellite dish, cable tv or just a dvb-t antenna (or receive iptv
> streams without a tuner if your isp provides those tho I don't know
> if anyone tested `real' iptv on FreeBSD yet), browse/search epg,
> set timers for automated or manual recordings, and watch the
> streams/recordings elsewhere on your lan.  Or if you have a FreeBSD
> desktop you can also connect a tuner there and do it all on one
> box - or just run a vdr client like vdr-sxfe (installed by the
> multimedia/vdr-plugin-xineliboutput port) or a client vdr instance
> using the streamdev-client plugin connected to a (possibly Linux)
> vdr server elsewhere on your lan.
> 
>  So if your isp doesn't provide iptv,
> 
> 	https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IPTV
> 
> (german info page:
> 
> 	http://www.iptv-anbieter.info/
> 
> ) then you'll need a dvb tuner (or atsc, tho I have no idea if
> anyone tested that on FreeBSD yet) with corresponding v4l/dvb (`v4b')
> drivers, in most cases that means an usb tuner supported by the
> webcamd port:
> 
> 	http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/webcamd
> 
>  And:  While the ports still could use quite some cleanup work
> (like adding back locales) the installed bits are very much
> functional - or at least they are for me - so I think it's time
> for doing a `formal' CFT so this gets tested by a wider audience.
> 
>  And finally, if you want to compare vdr to other existing ports,
> it's a bit like mythtv - only most Linux users _I_ know prefer vdr
> over mythtv. :)  (and vdr also doesn't use a rdbms so you don't
> have to worry about mysql etc.)
> 
> ----snip---previous-notes-with-minor-updates:-------
> 
>  I started with jpulz' vdr 1.7.14 patches: (now updated to 1.7.16)
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.frm2.tum.de/pub/jpulz/VDR/
> 	ftp://ftp.frm2.tum.de/pub/jpulz/pictures/
> 
> and made q&d ports of those and of a few more plugins and two webinterfaces
> so I can now use FreeBSD as a pc dvb-s2 dvr:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/vdrdevel-preliminary-20101125a.shar
> 
>  I still don't know if/when I'll be able finish these to make them
> commit-ready (or even port all of the other plugins that people
> might want to use), if anyone wants to take over from here or at
> least help they are most welcome...
> 
>  Note: vdr 1.7.16 is the development branch so expect bugs!  (I mostly
> used it because the stable branch (1.6) doesn't support dvb-s2...)
> 
>  FreeBSD notes:
> 
> 0. See my earlier threads on the freebsd-multimedia list about webcamd
>    and the usb dvb-s2 tuner I use; the relevant webcamd ports and
>    frieds have been updated now so you _should_ be able to just use
>    those.  (dvb-t or dvb-c tuners should also work as long as webcamd
>    supports them, tho the one dual dvb-t tuner I tested for some reason
>    seems to receive better when used with kaffeine than with mplayer or
>    vdr, reasons still to be investigated...)  Some links are here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/
> 
> 1. Before you start installing these ports add the vdr user and group
>    to /usr/ports/UIDs:
> 
> 	vdr:*:988:988::0:0:vdr user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> 
>    and to /usr/ports/GIDs:
> 
> 	vdr:*:988:
> 
>    (you don't have to use 988, I just didn't want the id to conflict with
>    new ports being committed too quickly...), and then either mount an extra
>    fs with enough space for the recordings on /video or create a video dir
>    elsewhere where there is space, symlink it to /video and make it
>    writable for vdr.  (or if you do have one big / then you can create
>    the dir on there too ofc, I just disabled the mkdir in the port to
>    avoid inadvertently filling up ppl's small / fs.)
> 
> 2. I now have rc.d scripts for vdr and vdradmin-am but even if you
>    use those you still need to add plugins and their options similar
>    to this to your /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> ---snip----
> # vdr
> vdr_flags="'-Pxineliboutput --local=none --remote=127.1:37890' \
>      -Pskinenigmang -Pfemon -Posdpip \
>      '-Posdteletext --directory=/var/cache/vdr-osdteletext --cache-system=packed --max-cache=128' \
>      -Pstreamdev-server '-Plive -i127.1' -Pepgsearch -Pcontrol \
>      '-Pinfosatepg -d /var/cache/vdr-infosatepg' '-Piptv'"
> ---snip----
> 
>    look in the README.s of the individual plugin ports for any
>    needed options.  (should get installed below /usr/local/share/doc/vdr*)
>    And if you want vdr to start at boot (instead of just manually
>    by doing:
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/rc.d/vdr onestart
> 
>    ) you need to set:
> 
> 	vdr_enable="YES"
> 
>    too of course.  And for vdradmin_am its:
> 
> 	vdradmind_enable="YES"
> 
>    If you want to start vdr manually in the foreground instead you
>    need to be root (or the vdr user but vdr also drops to the vdr
>    uid itself if started as root), and then run it like:
> 
> 	vdr '-Pxineliboutput --local=none --remote=127.1:37890' -Pskinenigmang -Pfemon -Posdpip '-Posdteletext --directory=/var/cache/vdr-osdteletext --cache-system=packed --max-cache=128' -Pstreamdev-server '-Plive -i127.1' -Pepgsearch -Pcontrol '-Pinfosatepg -d /var/cache/vdr-infosatepg' '-Piptv'
> 
> 2a.I now also have a multimedia/vdr-plugins metaport that allows
>    you to select and install the plugins you want (and vdr itself
>    as a dependency), so you don't have to install numeours vdr/plugin
>    ports individually.
> 
> 3. Of all the video output methods only xineliboutput and streamdev
>    seem to work (and the vdr-live webinterface browser streaming which
>    also uses streamdev), jpulz also has patches for softdevice so I made
>    a port for that too but it only gave me a black screen...  streamdev
>    doesn't have an osd so you probably want xineliboutput at least for
>    the first setup.
> 
>    I was unable to test xineliboutput's vdpau support since I no longer
>    have nvidia (and miwi's issues with the nvidia blob on amd64 don't
>    exactly encourage me to try it again soon...) - on the radeon here
>    using xorg 7.4's video-ati driver with xv xineliboutput via vdr-sxfe,
> 
> 	vdr-sxfe --video=xv --hotkeys --audio=oss xvdr://127.0.0.1:37890
> 
>    (vdr-sxfe gets installed by the xineliboutput plugin port) as well as
>    all other players I tested that knew the xvdr protocol (xineliboutput
>    with osd) can now indeed play h264 hd channels on this PhenomII box
>    after the ffmpeg updates a few months ago, with the only exception
>    of kaffeine that still has issues with h264 1080i streams when
>    deinterlacing is enabled:
> 
> 	xine "xvdr://127.0.0.1#nocache"
> 	kaffeine "xvdr+tcp://127.0.0.1:37890"
> 	/usr/local/kde4/bin/kaffeine "xvdr+tcp://127.0.0.1:37890"
> 
>    (kaffeine also has no provision for vdr keyboard control...)
> 
>    You can now also run vdr-sxfe with --hud tho that didn't really
>    work for me (probably needs compositing which I yet have to
>    test.) --video opengl support is now also in the code but I
>    disabled that for now since it was much slower than xv for me
>    and I didn't want to add the dependency to the port just yet.
> 
>    Btw I use software volume control with xineliboutput (Setup ->
>    Plugins -> xineliboutput -> Volume control in the osd) because
>    selecting `hardware' there doesn't work so well with snd(4)'s
>    volume-per-channel feature (hint.pcm.X.vpc, which also in fact
>    is software) that I want to keep enabled for other apps...
>    And in case you didn't know about this snd(4) feature you can
>    read more here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html
> 
>    You can also use other players like mplayer or totem/gstreamer
>    (incluing the totem browser plugin invoked by the vdr-live
>    webinterface), only those don't know the xvdr protocol and thus
>    wont display an osd:
> 
> 	mplayer -mc 10 -cache 8192 -demuxer lavf http://127.0.0.1:37890/
> 	totem http://127.0.0.1:37890/
> 
>    (or using streamdev:
> 
> 	mplayer -mc 10 -cache 8192 -demuxer lavf http://127.0.0.1:3000/302
> 	totem http://127.0.0.1:3000/302
> 
>    - channel 302 is arte hd in my channels.conf.)
> 
> 3a.And if you want to try out the xbmc port with vdr that was posted
>    on -ports for testing recently,
> 
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-October/011309.html
> 
>    you can do that too even tho it is not the pvr-testing2 branch,
>    you just won't get the fast channel switching etc you'd get via
>    the vnsi protocol (that I also ported the plugin for but couldn't
>    test it) - watching live channels and recordings done by vdr
>    (possibly scheduled via webinterface) is still possible.  Just
>    make sure you run vdr with the streamdev-server plugin enabled
>    and that it is listening on the vdr-to-vdr server port (thats
>    2004 and is disabled by default, see in the osd under Setup ->
>    Plugins -> streamdev-server.)  Then in xbmc you can add vdr
>    streamdev as a video source either via the gui or manually by
>    putting something like this in ~/.xbmc/userdata/mediasources.xml:
> 
> <mediasources>
>     <network>
>         <location id="0">vtp://127.0.0.1:2004/</location>
>     </network>
> </mediasources>
> 
> 4. I have no idea if the lirc support works on FreeBSD, and the uhid(4)
>    remote plugin support (see that port's pkg-descr) is highly
>    experimental - as well as webcamd not yet supporting dvb tuner
>    remotes unless they already appear as uhid(4)/ukbd(4) without
>    webcamd's help - so you probably will at least initially want
>    to use keyboard control.  I have included an example remote.conf
>    for vdr-sxfe and the multimedia/vdr-plugin-control plugin that
>    you can access by telnet (default port is 2002), I have put the
>    menu button on the tab and insert keys and OK on the return key,
>    see
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/vdr/remote.conf
> 
>    for the full keybindings list.  (If you start vdr in the foreground
>    and keep that shell open you should be able to use that for keyboard
>    control also, the control plugin just gives you an osd too over
>    telnet.)
> 
>    And if you use xine
> 
> 	xine "xvdr://127.0.0.1#nocache"
> 
>    instead of vdr-sxfe
> 
> 	vdr-sxfe --video=xv --hotkeys --audio=oss xvdr://127.0.0.1:37890
> 
>    you probably want to use a ~/.xine/keymap that includes vdr controls,
>    I've put mine here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/xine/keymap
> 
>    Oh and the webinterfaces have point-and-click remotes too but those
>    are pretty clunky to use...
> 
> 5. The example channels.conf is the one that comes with the vdr sources,
>    its for Astra 19.2E and a little outdated (also doesn't have hd channels
>    yet), if you receive something else and don't want to go hunting for a
>    suitable channels.conf on the web you can use the multimedia/w_scan
>    port.  Remember to use -o7 for vdr 1.7.x, see the w_scan homepage
>    and w_scan's -h and -H usage messages for options and examples:
> 
> 	http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_scan/index_en.html
> 
>    (the w_scan start script hasn't been ported to FreeBSD yet.)
> 
>    Also note you probably will only need to use w_scan once initially,
>    this vdr version by default should look for new transponders
>    itself when it does its epg scan during idle times unles you
>    disable that feature.
> 
>    And if you install the iptv plugin and want to test it with some
>    internet streams if your isp dosn't provide `real' iptv (or you
>    just want to be able to press `r'ecord while watching web streams
>    like nasatv), you can merge example /usr/local/etc/vdr/channels.conf
>    entries from here:
> 
> 	/usr/local/share/examples/vdr_plugin_iptv/channels.conf.iptv
> 
>    (I don't have `real' iptv here so that's all I can test.  Also
>    don't expect 100% performance with these examples, live transcoding
>    streams to mpeg-ts that vdr expects still is kinda fragile and
>    sometimes needs to be manually restarted by e.g. hitting OK
>    (return) in the channel list (c) before it works, and startup is
>    usually slow too...  Transcoding uses vlc with those examples,
>    you can see vlc's messages if you start vdr in the foreground
>    instead of via the rc.d script as explained above.  Also see
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/vdr/plugins/iptv
> 
>    and
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/vdr/plugins/iptv/vlcinput
> 
>    for configurations.  And there seems to be a `feature' that
>    sometimes causes vdr to start receiving streams without anyone
>    watching/recording just because the iptv plugin is enabled...)
> 
> 5. I ported two webinterfaces because I only learned about vdr-live
>    later which seems to be faster and uses fewer resources meaning you
>    could probably turn a pretty wimpy box into a vdr server as long as
>    you keep the actual watching (especially of h264 hd) to a faster box
>    connected over the network.  The vdr-plugin-live webinterface by
>    default listens on port 8008:
> 
> 	http://127.1:8008/
> 
>    Default login/pw is admin/live as also mentioned in:
> 
> 	/usr/local/share/doc/vdr_plugin_live/README
> 
>    vdradmin_am listens on 8001:
> 
> 	http://127.1:8001/
> 
>    Default login/pw for that is vdr/vdr.
> 
>    And the streamdev plugin has a (simple) webinterface too if you point
>    a browser at it: (instead of a player)
> 
> 	http://127.1:3000/
> 
> 6. I may have forgot some other manual installation steps, if you
>    notice something just post a followup...  Most of vdr's own
>    configuration including plugins should be available in the
>    osd under `Setup', some things like allowed hosts/subnets
>    for network plugins need to be manually configured under
>    /usr/local/etc/vdr/plugins tho.
> 
>  And here are some links about vdr and the plugins and webinterfaces
> I made ports for:
> 
> 0. vdr 1.7.16:
> 	http://www.tvdr.de/
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> 1. xineliboutput-1.0.5 cvs snapshot from 20101019:
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/xineliboutput/
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Xineliboutput-plugin
> 
> 2. streamdev-0.5.0 cvs snapshot from 20100426:
> 	http://streamdev.vdr-developer.org/
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Streamdev-plugin
> 
> 3. live-0.2.0s20101122 git snapshot:
> 	http://live.vdr-developer.org/
> 
> 4. live also depends on cxxtools and tntnet which I also had to port:
> 	http://www.tntnet.org/cxxtools.html
> 	http://www.tntnet.org/index.html
> 
> 5. epgsearch-0.9.25.beta17:
> 	http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/index_eng.html
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Epgsearch-plugin
> 
> 6. femon-1.7.7:
> 	http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Femon-plugin
> 
> 7. osdpip-0.1.0:
> 	http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-osdpip
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Osdpip-plugin
> 
> 8. osdteletext-0.9.0:
> 	http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-osdteletext
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Osdteletext-plugin
> 
> 9. skinenigmang-0.1.1:
> 	http://andreas.vdr-developer.org/enigmang/index.html
> 	http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Skinenigmang-plugin
> 	(sorry for de in the second link but at least there are pics...)
> 
> 10. softdevice 0.5.0 cvs snapshot from 20100414:
> 	http://softdevice.berlios.de/
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Softdevice-plugin
> 
> 11. control-0.0.2a-45yavdr1 with ubuntu yavdr patches: (and a patch by
>     me to fix a segfault on vdr exit)
> 	http://ricomp.de/vdr/down_en.html
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Control-plugin
> 
> 12. vdradmin_am-3.6.7:
> 	http://andreas.vdr-developer.org/vdradmin-am/
> 
> 13. infosatepg-0.0.11:
> 	http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-infosatepg
> 	http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Infosatepg-plugin
>     My post including notes about how I got it receiving and using
>     the infosat epg data quickly:
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-July/011158.html
> 
> 14. remote-0.4.0:  (with experimental FreeBSD uhid(4) support, some
>     notes are in the port's pkg-descr)
> 	http://escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr
> 	http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Remote-plugin
> 
> 15. iptv-0.4.2:
> 	http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/
> 
> 16. vnsiserver-0.0.2s20100808.0952:
> 	http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Vnsi-server-plugin
> 	http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=95292
>     (sorry about the german but as I said this is only useful with
>      the xbmc pvr-testing2 branch anyway and its untested too.)
> 
> TODO:
> 
> - I skipped install of a lot of locales for now, add back those.
> - The ports still need quite some cleanup work, also to make
>   upgrading them or adding new plugins easier.
> - Submit the rest of the non-hacky FreeBSD patches back to the
>   individual upstream maintainers (that should be pretty much all
>   of the patches for *.[ch] source files, only Makefile/configure
>   scripts patches less so.)
> - Someone(tm) may want to write a `real' step-by-step guide how to
>   get a FreeBSD vdr going...  (preferably someone who has never
>   used vdr before to make sure important stuff I never think about
>   isn't left out.)
> 
>  Enjoy, :)
> 	Juergen
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