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This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
Written by: Jan Rieger <jan@ricomp.de>
Project's homepage: http://RiComp.de/vdr
Latest version available at: http://RiComp.de/vdr
See the file COPYING for license information.
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Description:
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Your TV screen and a keyboard that are connected to a VDR box are
building a terminal. With this terminal you can manage several consoles.
In the OSD of VDR you can open as many consoles as you want. In each
console you can start a program that runs in the background. Your inputs
to the keyboard are redirected to the current selected console as well
as the output that these programs generate are redirected into the OSD.
With this setup you can look after some things that you want to know but
have no entry in the commands.conf file for that without the necessarity
to connect a monitor to your box or make a network connection from an
other computer with telnet or ssh.
Also you can run longer tasks such as converting a movie and you won't
VDR to shutdown itself until the conversion is completed.
Note: This feature is not implemented up to now because of the lack in
the plugin interface.
Operation Manual
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To use the console plugin you have to compile the plugin and start VDR
with the "-Pconsole" switch as you needed to do with every other plugin.
Once the plugin is installed you can see the entry 'Consoles' in the
main menu of VDR. By activating this entry with the key OK you get a
list of all actually opened consoles. In the first time after starting
VDR this list should be empty. You can create a new console with the
red key. By doing this the new console is also opened for you and you
can begin to work immediately.
In the console window: With the green and yellow keys you can leaf
through the (at that moment not visible) console list. With the blue
key you can "Terminate" the process after a confirmation if you really
want to do so; Or if it already has quitted then you can "Close" the
console. In each case the current console window will be closed and you
come back to the console list in wich the closed console is gone.
Back to the console list: Some of the consoles in the list are running,
others are quitted. The quitted ones are shown with the appendix
"stopped". Stopped consoles are shown until you close them explicitly,
so you can look for the output of longer running tasks without having
to watching them. The blue key has here the same meaning as in an
console window.
If you use your keyboard both as remote control and as keyboard for a
console then you have to note that a console window for a running
process captures the keyboard for console input automatically. This
mode will be indicated by an "K" symbol in the title bar. In this mode
you can not control VDR with the usual keys. To leave this mode you
have to quit the process or you can press the {ESC} key. In this case
you will be asked if you want to leave the keyboard mode. You can
answer this question with the "OK" key. When the "K" disappears and
you have back the control over VDR. To reenter the keyboard mode: only
press the OK key. If you have cancelled the question to leave, when the
original key stroke {ESC} will be sent to the process. So you can use
this key in an application, too.
Miscellaneous:
If a process creates the bell signal when you hear the signal at once
and the "B" sign will be shown in the title bar of the console window.
If you don't have the corresponding console open then it will be
showed in the console list. As soon as you have seen a signal, that
signal disappears.
Final
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And now have much fun with this plugin :-)
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