This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR) to access DVB-streams produced by the NetCeiver-hardware. Project's homepage: http://www.baycom.de/hardware/netceiver/ Latest version available via GIT at: https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-plugin-mcli The vdr-plugin is Copyright (C) 2007-2010 by BayCom GmbH <info@baycom.de> Extensions by contributors Copyright (C) 2020-2023 by Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de> Copyright (C) 2013-2015 by hsteinhaus Copyright (C) 2014 by mhorwath Copyright (C) 2013 by Hoppaz It is dynamically linked against "libnetceiver", available via GIT at: https://github.com/vdr-projects/libnetceiver "netcv2dvbip" was carved out into a dedicated project available via GIT at: https://github.com/vdr-projects/netcv2dvbip ------------------------------------------------------------------ The vdr-plugin is covered by the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL), version 2: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. **** Reviewed version **** - Support at least vdr >= 2.4.4 == Potential requirements == On newer Linux systems allow vdr to open raw sockets: setcap cap_net_raw=pe /usr/sbin/vdr for systemd: cat <<END >/etc/systemd/system/vdr.service.d/vdr-mcli.conf [Service] AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_RAW END == Plugin options == --ifname <interface> network interface of the multicast client the interface where the Netceiver boxes are also connected --port <port> used network port (default: 23000) --dvb-s <num> --dvb-c <num> --dvb-t <num> --atsc <num> --dvb-s2 <num> limit number of devices (default: 8) --mld-reporter-disable disable mld reporter --sock-path <path> path of socket directory, default: API_SOCK_NAMESPACE --cam-disable (NEW since 0.9.5) reject tuning to channels which requiring CAM --tuner-max <num> (NEW since 0.9.5) limit maximum number of tuners to <num> avoid that LCARS skin shows 8 tuners in a 3 tuner system --debugmask <mask> (NEW since 0.9.5, see logging.h) <mask> can be hexadecimal (0x..) or decimal conditionally enable debug messages PIDS 0x01 TUNE_EXTRA 0x02 TUNE 0x04 RESOURCES 0x08 PIDS_ADD_DEL 0x10 TUNE_PC 0x40 // ProvideChannel FILTER 0x80 --logskipmask <mask> (NEW since 0.9.6, see logging.h) <mask> can be hexadecimal (0x..) or decimal conditionally disable log messages recv_ts_func/Data PIDs 0x01 // skip log of issues with Data pids (0 or 16-18) like Mcli::recv_ts_func: Discontinuity on receiver 0x559f735c7e00 for pid 18: 5->7 at pos 0/7 SetChannelDevice/Reject 0x02 // skip log of Mcli::SetChannelDevice: Reject tuning on DVB (interesting if cam-disable is active) --netcvupdate-use-lftp add "lftp" specific option to "netcvupdate" calls --netcvupdate-enable-debug add debug option to "netcvupdate" calls == RPM Build Support included == # download vdr-devel, rpm build environment and required dependencies: dnf install vdr-devel rpm-build gcc-c++ libxml2-devel zlib-devel # specify version: VERSION=1.0.0 # download version with proper tar.gz name: wget https://github.com/vdr-projects/vdr-plugin-mcli/archive/v$VERSION/vdr-plugin-mcli-$VERSION.tar.gz # run rpm rebuild with tar.gz: rpmbuild -tb vdr-plugin-mcli-$VERSION.tar.gz # install (example, here 1.0.0 on Fedora 38) dnf localinstall $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/vdr-mcli-1.0.0-5.fc38.x86_64.rpm == Packages == * RPM (Fedora): until included in upstream available via COPR: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/pbiering/vdr_extensions/packages/