LIVE

LIVE, the LIVE Interactive VDR Environment, allows a comfortable operation of VDR and some of its plugins trough a web interface.

Unlike external programs, which communicate with VDR and its plugins through the SVDRP interface, LIVE has direct access to the internal data structures of VDR. This makes LIVE very fast.

Additionally LIVE introduces an interface which allows the direct integration of user interfaces for VDR plugins.
Currently this interface was implemented for the EPGSearch plugin. A substantial part of the LIVE web interface is based on this implementation. There exist plans to extend other plugins (like taste, burn, femon and others) with this interface too.
LIVE works even when these plugins are missing. LIVE detects the available plugins and adapts its user interface accordingly. Therefor it can happen, that certain functions appear and can be used only when the appropriate plugin is activated in VDR.

You can get a first optical impression of LIVE on the Screenshots page

License

LIVE is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2(GPLv2). For more information follow the Link and/or see the file COPYING in the LIVE source code directory.

The following list contains the most important user visible changes in LIVE since the release of the last stable version. Underneath the visible parts changes took place too: e.g. the used Javascript is now based in large parts on the Mootools framework.

• The InfoBox has become “more intelligent”, e.g. a recording can be fast-forwarded, while playing it over VDR TV out. And channels of the primary output device can be switched with the controls in the InfoBox.
• A favorite list found place under “whats on?”. It is populated by “search timers” with set option “use in favorite menu” while creating the timer. Also new is an option to display the “whats on?” entries in a list.
• Each schedules entry (only those with EPG data) owns a button “show in browser”: This button calls the VLC plugin and shows a liveTV stream. This does not work for recordings.
• On “schedule” page, there is a button “show in browser”. All channels can be selected here, also those without EPG data but which are present in the channels.conf. Smaller TV providers or radio stations are affected by this from time to time.
• With newer versions of the Epgsearch plugin (starting from epgsearch-0.9.24) there is a menu option for timers: “timer conflicts”. This option evaluates, which programmed timers could not be recorded, because there are no more free DVB devices available, or similar reasons. When the InfoBox is switched active, a message is displayed on the current page if Epgsearch detected a change of the timer conflicts.
• On the “search timers” page it is now possible to start direct manual search timer updates. Use it and Epgsearch plugin will immediately update all search timers.
• Within the “edit search timers” page the new option “use as search timer” provides a user-defined search. Here the user determines start and stop date for Epgsearch in the background. So you are able to build search timers, which scan for example only during the period of the autumn all transmissions of a series.
• In “recordings” now you will find a button “delete”. The recording will be marked with VDRs methods as deleted. That means the recording will be renamed with the suffix “.del” and removed at the next time when VDR cleans up deleted recordings.
• You should visit “setup” directly after updating live 0.1.0 to 0.2.0. There might be settings for the new functions, which you would like to examine.
• Revised is the possibility to selected a suitable “theme”, a small set of different colored designs to select.
• Support for https data transfer between LIVE and the browser due to SSL support in Tntnet.
• Further there are many small innovations like the length of recordings in minutes ', but we are sure you will discover them by yourself.

All past feature additions or changes of LIVE can be found on the News archive page.

Version 0.2.0

• Download: http://live.vdr-developer.org/downloads/vdr-live-0.2.0.tar.gz

  IMPORTANT: please allways have a look at the README file in the LIVE source code directory!

Installation prerequisites:

Tntnet provides the basic web server function for LIVE. Cxxtools is needed for Tntnet.
*) Boost provides the TR1 C++ extensions. These are only needed when compiled with GCC < 4.1. Later GCC versions provide the TR1 extensions natively.

Different versions of LIVE can be downloaded from the Download page.

Web:

• Bugtracker - for bugs and feature requests
• Video Disk Recorder - VDR
• EPGSearch Plugin


• VDR-Portal
• VDR-Wiki

IRC:

• Server: irc://www.vdr-portal.de
• Channel: #live

Other:

• Traditional contact information can be found at the top of the README file in the LIVE source distribution.