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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.
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 left and right keys of the remote
control you can leaf through the (at that moment not visible) console
list. With the blue key you can "Terminate" the process after a confir-
mation 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 get 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 watch 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. 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 twice within a
second. If you have not pressed {ESC} a second time then the original
{ESC} key will be sent to the console. If you press another key after
the first {ESC} key then this combination will be sent at once to the
console. Another option to switch the keyboard caption mode on and off
would be to press the yellow key.
During the time the keyboard caption mode is off a keyboard symbol on
the right side in the first row blinks to signalize this state.
Miscellaneous:
If a process creates the bell signal then you can hear the sound at once
and a bell symbol blinks in the first row of the console window. If you
don't have the corresponding console open then it will be shown 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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