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

Written by:                  Erich Bachl <erich.bachl@vr-web.de>

Project's homepage:          home.vr-web.de/~erich.bachl

Latest version available at: home.vr-web.de/~erich.bachl

See the file COPYING for license information.

Description: Connect your CAMCORDER to a firewire port, watch and control it by vdr

Bad things first:

NOTE:
this is a experimental plugin,
i have NOT very much experience with shell scripts and vdr programming
so there might be better solutions for some parts of this software

TODO:
- many things

This plugin has been developed in the following environment:

kernel 2.4.21
vdr 1.3.8

what do need ?
-- libdvb-0.5.4
-- libdv v0.99
-- dvgrab v1.4
-- ffmpeg v4.8
-- firewire hardware and drivers, see addons/fw script

1. get libdv-0.99, compile and install (additional packages may be required
   for configuring and building)
2. get dvgrab-1.4, apply the patch in addons, then compile and install
3. get ffmpeg-4.8, compile and install
4. unpack dv-0.0.1.tgz to vdr/PLUGINS/src, compile and install
   tar xvzf dv-0.0.1.tgz -C vdr/PLUGINS/src
   cd vdr/PLUGINS/src
   ln -s dv-0.0.1 dv
   cd dv
   make all
   cp lib* ../../lib
5. restart your vdr
6. copy the dv.sh from the addons directory to /video
   edit and adopt this script to your installation, this is called by the
   plugin
7. don't forget to have your firewire environment started and your camcorder
   connected and switched on, you find a script how to load the modules in the
   addons directory
8. choose the dv entry in your OSD menu
   you should your camcorder
9. start the plugin with either the red or ok button
   stop/pause, ff, rew and record should work
   the default location of the captured video can be changed in
   /video/dv.sh, see the options of dvgrab
10.if you make a symbolic link into a directory, to where your mplayer plugin
   can browse, you can select it the MPLAYER menu of vdr to watch it

lunatic fringe
