XBMC Video Disk Recorder XVDR PVR Add-on ------------------------------------------ Written by: Alexander Pipelka, Alwin Esch This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more information. ------------------------------------------ This is a PVR add-on for XBMC to add VDR (http://tvdr.de/) as a TV/PVR Backend to XBMC. It adds support for Live TV watching, replaying of Recordings, programming Timers and EPG TV Guide to use on same computer or over the Network. ------------------------------------------ REQUIREMENTS: VDR itself doen't need any patches or modification to use all the current features. * This add-on requires the installed "vdr-plugin-xvdr" plugin on the VDR server. * For channel scanning you need the "wirbelscan" plugin (version >= 0.0.7) installed on the VDR server: http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/wirbelscan/index2.html Please activate the channel scanner via: System / LiveTV / Client specific settings / XVDR Channel Scanner. The current XBMC version (12.0) locks up on activating the channel scanner via the standard system settings: System / LiveTV / General / Search for channels Please use the client specific setting. VDR Versions older as 1.7.22 are not supported by this addon and the VDR plugin. --------------------------------------------- BRANCHES Unfortunately XBMC PVR ABI versions aren't backward compatible. So we need to maintain different addon versions for XBMC. Currently there are the following branches: master XBMC development version (currently 13) xbmc-frodo XBMC frodo (12.x) Please check that you are using the correct addon version matching your XBMC version ! --------------------------------------------- ADDON COMPILATION & INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS IMPORTANT: Please disable *all* PVR addons *before* installing the XVDR addon! Currently only Linux is supported (but Windows versions should be possible). - Clone the GIT repository - cd xbmc-addon-xvdr - sh autogen.sh - ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/xbmc (or $HOME/.xbmc) - make - make install This will install the plugin into your /usr/lib/xbmc/addons or $HOME/.xbmc/addons directory Have fun, ...