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<title>dvbd</title> |
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net"> |
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<h1>dvbd</h1> |
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<h2>Introduction</h2> |
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<p>
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The idea behind dvbd is to make maximum use of your DVB card by |
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allowing multiple channels on the same frequency to be tuned. It is |
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split into a daemon (dvbd) and client programs (dvbcat, dvbsched, |
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dvblist). It is possible to associate a priority with a connection to |
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the daemon, so that (depending on the given priority) the tuner can be |
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made available by dropping connections of inferior priority. |
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<p>
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A web frontend to dvbsched, called dvbdguide, is included to facilitate the scheduling |
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of dvbd recording activities. Please note this requires an |
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<a href="http://www.xmltv.org">XMLTV</a> datafeed. Check out |
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<a href="http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jak97/dvbdguide/tv.html">a captured dvbdguide page</a>. |
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<p>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge</a> are kindly hosting |
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this project. Here are the important links: |
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvbd">Project Home Page</a></li> |
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98000">Downloads</a></li> |
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=98000">CVS</a></li> |
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</p>
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<h2>News</h2> |
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<ul>
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<li>2004/10/14 Simon makes Fedora Core 2 RPMs for 0.7.5.</li> |
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<li>2004/04/25 Encouraging initial reports on DVB-C support.</li> |
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<li>2004/04/17 Working on cable (DVB-C) support with help from Marcus Willberg.</li> |
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<li>2004/02/17 Tobias Eckert has contributes initial satellite (DVB-S) support.</li> |
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</ul>
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<h2>Configuration</h2> |
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The daemon has a configuration file which by default is |
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/etc/dvbd/config. The format of the file is lines of key=value. Line |
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comments can be begun with #. |
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The following configuration fields are available: |
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<dl>
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<dt>socket</dt> |
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<dd>the (unix) socket to listen on. Default is /var/run/dvbd/dvbd.socket </dd> |
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<dt>socket-uid</dt> |
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<dd>the user id of the socket file. The default user id is that same as the user id of the process
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running dvbd. If you user this option, dvbd probably need to run as root.</dd>
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<dt>socket-gid</dt> |
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<dd>the group id of the socket file. The default user id is that same as the user id of the process
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running dvbd. If you user this option, dvbd probably need to run as root.</dd>
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<dt>socket-mode</dt> |
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<dd>the mode (in octal) of the socket file. The default is to create the socket with umask of 007</dd> |
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<dt>pid</dt> |
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<dd>the pid file to write to once it has become a daemon. Default is /var/run/dvbd/dvbd.pid </dd> |
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<dt>log</dt> |
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<dd>the log file to write to. Default is /var/log/dvbd.log</dd> |
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<dt>schedule</dt> |
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<dd>the schedule file to write to. Default is /var/spool/dvbd/schedule</dd> |
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<dt>debug</dt> |
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<dd>the debug level (default is 0) If a higher debug level is set, dvbd will not go into the
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background.</dd>
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<dt>numcards</dt> |
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<dd>the number of DVB cards your system supports</dd> |
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<dt>card0</dt> |
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<dd> the first DVB card. The format of this field is type:frontend:channels Where
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<li>type may be one of dvb-t, dvb-s or dvb-t.</li> |
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<li>frontend is the path to the frontend (tuner) for the card</li> |
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<li>channels is the path to the tzap/szap/czap format channels.conf file for the card.</li> |
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</ul>
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If no cards are specified, a default of one dvb-t card is assumed with |
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channels file /etc/tzap.channels.conf and frontend |
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/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2>Client Programs</h2> |
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At the moment there are three client programs. dvbcat, dvblist and dvbsched. |
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dvbcat can be used to extract a stream from the dvbd for live TV. |
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For example: |
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<pre>
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$ dvbcat dvb-t "BBC ONE" | mplayer - |
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</pre>
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<p>
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dvbsched is used to schedule a recording. Note that an output file |
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must be specified whose containing directory must be owned by the user |
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issuing the request. The directory must also be writable by the dvbd |
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program. |
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The time format is in at(1) format. See at's manpage for more |
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information about it. |
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For example: |
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<pre>
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$ mkdir /tmp/recordings |
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$ dvbsched dvb-t "ITV 2" 19.20 32 /tmp/recordings/itv2.mpg |
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</pre>
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<p>
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If there is a clash the program will ask you if you want |
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to cancel your job. |
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dvblist shows the channels available to tune at the given |
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priority (default is 10). |
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For example: |
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<pre>
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$ dvblist dvb-t |
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</pre>
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<p>
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If there are some existing connections the list of channels |
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may be shorter than the full list. |
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<h2>Contributing And Comments</h2> |
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Feedback, bug fixes, new features, patches and suggestions are very |
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welcome. Please send to: jak (change the at to @ and the dot to .) at users dot sourceforge dot net or post on the |
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SourceForge project page. |
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</p>
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<h2>Other DVB Resources</h2> |
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=dvb">LinuxLinks</a></li> |
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