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NAME

       vdr - the Video Disk Recorder

SYNOPSIS

       vdr [options]

DESCRIPTION

       vdr implements a complete digital Set-Top Box and Video Recorder.  It can work with signals received from
       satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals.

       At least one DVB card is required to run vdr. With it you can watch live TV while recording one  or  more
       other  broadcasts  from the same transponder.  It is also possible to start watching a recorded programme
       before the live broadcast has ended (time shifting). In  order  to  record  from  different  transponders
       simultaneously  two  or  more DVB cards are necessary.  By default vdr can support up to eight DVB cards.
       The primary DVB card (the one your TV set is connected to) can either be a "full  featured"  card,  which
       means  it contains an MPEG decoder and provides audio and video signal outputs, or you can use some third
       party plugin that implements software decoding of the MPEG data and displays it via the system's graphics
       adapter.

       vdr  uses  an On Screen Display (OSD) to display its menus.  It can be controlled by the PC keyboard, the
       "Linux Infrared Remote Control" (LIRC), or any other means of remote  control,  implemented  by  a  third
       party plugin.

       Remote access is possible via the "Simple Video Disk Recorder Protocol" (SVDRP), which can be accessed on
       port 6419, for instance by telnet.

OPTIONS

       -a cmd, --audio=cmd
              Send Dolby Digital audio to stdin of command cmd.

       --cachedir=dir
              Save cache files in dir (default is to save them in the video directory).

       --chartab=character_table
              Set the character table to use for strings in  the  DVB  data  stream  that  don't  begin  with  a
              character  table  indicator,  but  don't  use  the  standard default character table (for instance
              ISO-8859-9).

       -c dir, --config=dir
              Read config files from directory dir (default is to read them from the video directory).

       -d, --daemon
              Run in daemon mode (implies --no-kbd).

       -D num, --device=num
              Use only the given DVB device (num = 0, 1, 2...).  There may be several -D options (by default all
              DVB devices will be used).

       --dirnames=path[,name[,enc]]
              Set  the  maximum  directory  path  length  to  path  (default is the maximum value allowed on the
              system). If name is also given, it defines the maximum  directory  name  length  (default  is  the
              maximum  value  allowed  on  the  system).   The  optional enc can be 0 or 1, and controls whether
              special characters in directory names are encoded as hex values (default: 0).  If path or name are
              left  empty  (as in ",,1" to only set enc), the defaults apply.  The length of the video directory
              name and that of the actual recording  directory  is  subtracted  from  path,  to  make  sure  the
              directory path will never become too long.

       --edit=rec
              Edit  the  given recording.  rec must be the full path name of an existing recording.  The program
              will return immediately after editing the recording.

       -E file, --epgfile=file
              Write the EPG data into the given file (default is epg.data in the cache directory).  Use  -E-  to
              disable this.  If file is a directory, the file epg.data will be created in that directory.

       --filesize=size
              Limit  video  files  to  size bytes (default is 2000M).  This option is only useful in conjunction
              with --edit, and must precede that option to have an effect.  size is an integer number and may be
              followed  by  one  of  the  letters  K,  M,  G or T to abbreviate Kilo-, Mega-, Giga- or Terabyte,
              respectively.  The given value is silently limited to the program's internal minimum  and  maximum
              values.

       --genindex=rec
              Generate  the  index  file for the given recording.  rec must be the full path name of an existing
              recording.  The recording must be in TS format.  If the recording already has an  index  file,  it
              will be deleted before creating the new one.  The program will return immediately after generating
              the index.  Note that using this option while another instance of VDR is currently  replaying  the
              given recording, or if the recording has not been finished yet, may lead to unexpected results.

       -g, --grab=dir
              Write  images  from the SVDRP command GRAB into the given directory dir. dir must be the full path
              name of an existing directory, without any "..", double '/' or symlinks. By default, or if -g-  is
              given, grabbing images to disk is disabled.

       -h, --help
              Print a help message and exit.

       -i instance, --instance=instance
              Use  instance  as  the  id  of  this VDR instance (default is 0).  In an environment where several
              instances of VDR use the same video directory, this parameter can be set  to  a  positive  integer
              value  that's  unique for each instance, so that they won't interfere with each other in case they
              record exactly the same broadcast.  The number given here will be part of the  directory  name  in
              which the recordings will be stored.

       -l level, --log=level
              Set  logging to level.  0 = no logging, 1 = errors only, 2 = errors and info, 3 = errors, info and
              debug.  The default logging level is 3.  If logging  should  be  done  to  LOG_LOCALn  instead  of
              LOG_USER, add '.n' to LEVEL, as in 3.7 (n=0..7).

       -L dir, --lib=dir
              Search  for  plugins in directory dir (default is ./PLUGINS/lib).  There can be several -L options
              with different dir values.  Each of them will apply to the -P options following it.

       --lirc[=path]
              Use a LIRC remote control device.  If path is omitted, vdr uses /var/run/lirc/lircd.

       --localedir=dir
              Search for locale files in dir (default is ./locale).

       -m, --mute
              Mute audio of the primary DVB device at startup.

       --no-kbd
              Don't use the keyboard as an input device.

       -p port, --port=port
              Use port for SVDRP. A value of 0 turns off SVDRP.  The default SVDRP port is 6419.   You  need  to
              edit the file svdrphosts.conf in order to enable access to the SVDRP port.

       -P options, --plugin=options
              Load  a  plugin,  defined  by the given options.  The first word in options must be the name of an
              existing vdr plugin, optionally followed by a blank separated list of  command  line  options  for
              that plugin. If options contains any blanks, you need to enclose it in quotes, like for example

              vdr -P "abc -a -b xyz"

              which  would load a plugin named abc, giving it the command line options -a -b xyz. If you want to
              load all available plugins (without any particular options) you can use

              vdr -P "*"

              (note the quotes around the asterisk to prevent wildcard expansion).

       -r cmd, --record=cmd
              Call cmd before and after a recording. See the file INSTALL for more information.

       --resdir=dir
              Read resource files from dir (default is to read them from the config directory).

       --showargs[=dir]
              Read command line arguments from dir (default is /etc/vdr/conf.d), display them to the console and
              exit.

       -s cmd, --shutdown=cmd
              Call cmd to shutdown the computer. See the file INSTALL for more information.

       --split
              Split  edited  files at the editing marks.  This option is only useful in conjunction with --edit,
              and must precede that option to have an effect.

       -t tty, --terminal=tty
              Set the controlling terminal.

       -u user, --user=user
              Run as user user in case vdr was started as user 'root'.  Starting vdr as 'root' is  necessary  if
              the system time shall be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons vdr can switch to
              a lesser privileged user id during normal operation.

       --updindex=rec
              Update the index file for the given recording.  rec must be the full  path  name  of  an  existing
              recording.   The  recording  must be in TS format.  If the recording already has an index file, it
              will be checked whether it is complete, and will be updated if it isn't. If there is no index file
              yet,  a  new one will be generated.  The program will return immediately after updating the index.
              Note that using this option while another  instance  of  VDR  is  currently  replaying  the  given
              recording, or if the recording has not been finished yet, may lead to unexpected results.

       --userdump
              Allow coredumps if -u is given (only for debugging).

       --vfat For backwards compatibility (same as --dirnames= 250,40,1).

       -v dir, --video=dir
              Use dir as video directory.  The default is /video.

       -V, --version
              Print version information and exit.

       -w sec, --watchdog=sec
              Activate  the  watchdog  timer with a timeout of sec seconds.  A value of 0 (default) disables the
              watchdog.

       If started without any options, vdr tries to read command line options from files named '*.conf'  in  the
       directory /etc/vdr/conf.d. Files are read in alphabetical order. See vdr(5) for details.

SIGNALS

       SIGINT, SIGTERM
              Program exits with status 0.

       SIGHUP Program exits with status 1. This can be used to force a reload, for example if an update has been
              installed.

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      An error has been detected which requires the DVB driver and vdr to be reloaded.

       2      An non-recoverable error has been detected, vdr has given up.

FILES

       channels.conf
              Channel configuration.

       timers.conf
              Timer configuration.

       setup.conf
              User definable setup.

       commands.conf
              User definable commands (executed from the Commands menu).

       svdrphosts.conf
              SVDRP host configuration, defining which hosts or networks are given access to the SVDRP port.

       marks  Contains the editing marks defined for a recording.

       info   Contains a description of the recording.

       resume Contains the index into the recording where the last replay session left off.

       index  Contains the file number, offset and type of each frame of the recording.

       remote.conf
              Contains the key assignments for the remote control.

       keymacros.conf
              Contains user defined remote control key macros.

       00001.ts ... 65535.ts
              The actual data files of a recording.

       epg.data
              Contains all current EPG data. Can be used for external  processing  and  will  also  be  read  at
              program startup to have the full EPG data available immediately.

       .update
              If this file is present in the video directory, its last modification time will be used to trigger
              an update of the list of recordings in the "Recordings" menu.

SEE ALSO

       vdr(5),svdrpsend(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Klaus Schmidinger, with contributions from many others.  See the file CONTRIBUTORS in the  vdr
       source distribution.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <vdr-bugs@tvdr.de>.

       Copyright © 2013 Klaus Schmidinger.

       This  is  free  software;  see  the  source  for  copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.