This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:                  Olivier JACQUES

Project's homepage:          http://famillejacques.free.fr/vdr/vod/

See the file COPYING for license information.

Description:
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VOD (Video On Demand) is a plugin for VDR that:
- Collect video file links from various data sources (RSS 2.0 with
  enclosures, video search engines, movie trailers, ...)
- Browse a summary of those files
- Play them using MPlayer plugin

With the vod plugin you can watch vlogs (video blogs), look at the latest
movie trailers, search for videos on the internet and play them on your
TV. Simply. 

Installation:
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- Install the MPlayer plugin (http://www.muempf.de/) 
- Install expat - the XML parsing library (http://expat.sourceforge.net/)
- Until this is integrated in MPlayer plugin, patch the MPlayer plugin 
  using patch/mplayer.diff to add support for service API
- Patch your mplayer.sh (http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/ - 
  version 0.8.6) with patch/mplayer.sh.vod.diff to add support of 
  network streams
- Type "make plugins" at VDR directory level. Mplayer and vod plugin
  will be built.
- Add vod to the list of plugins: "vdr -P vod"

Files:
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* rss.conf
RSS sources are stored in VDR's config directory, rss.conf. 
The format is one RSS 2.0 feed per line.
An example is provided in the vod plugin directory. You have
to copy it to VDR's config/plugins directory.

TODO:
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- Videos are currently played "on the fly" which requires a (very) high
  speed internet access. Add the option to pre-download the video.
- Add more sources
  - Video search engines
  - Movie trailers
- Better user interface with display of summary, published date, ...
  (already parsed but not displayed)

VDR Plugin 'vod' Revision History
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2005-12-08: Version 0.0.1
  - Initial revision. Limited to RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures.

