Screenshots



Here are some screenshots of my VDR. All the screenshots were made using vdr-1.5.14.




This is the main menu look, using the skinenigmang plugin as OSD skin (OSD language is Hungarian). There are some other plugins loaded in, like DVD or mplayer. On the header you can see the amount of free diskspace in HH:MM format.





Here you can see the info bar on the selected channel. The channel logos are part of the skinenigmang plugin, I made some of them for Hungarian channels, you can download from here. The other interesting detail is, that the selected channel is the German language RTL Television, but the EPG is in Hungarian. With the xmltv package it is possible to download the TV Guide in different language from the internet and there's a perl script called xmltv2vdr which sends this xml data to VDR's EPG database. I use this method to download Hungarian EPG for several channels which can be found on www.port.hu site.





VDR can show a now/next view of the EPG to ease browsing what's on now or to check what's next on all programs.





This is the detailed view of an EPG entry, with the above mentioned xmltv method one can have EPG for about 14 days ahead. With only one key-press (in this case the red button on the RC) you can make a timer entry for selected program. All the timers has their own lifetime and their own priority in case you have simoultaneous timers defined.





Recorded shows can be organized in folders, this screen shows the content of my “sport” folder. The list contains recording's details like date, time, length and title. Pressing the blue button you can see additional informations, like the detailed EPG entry for the recorded show. VDR has a built-in video editor, which is very easy to use to cut videos, remove commercials, etc.





The Picture-in-picture plugin. There's an osdpip plugin which shows the current channel in a small box, and you can switch up and down between channels, watching the previous one in that box. Due to the memory limitation of a Full Featured DVB-S card, this box can show up to 256 colors image, or a grayscaled one, like in this example. Obviously if you have only one DVB-S card you can switch to channels on the same transponder.





The femon plugin is a DVB frontend status monitor, showing important tuner informations, like Lock, Signal to Noise Ration, BER, AV bitrate, etc.





One of my favourites: the rss-reader plugin. With this plugin one can browse rss-feeds on the front of the television. There's a plugin config file, where you have to put the list of the feeds you're interested in, and that's it. Here you can see the vdr-mailing-list on OSD:








This is how mplayer plugin looks during playback. With this plugin you can play video files of any format the famous mplayer knows. With a little hack you can even watch movies with subtitles using mplayer plugin. The other part of the plugin is mp3 playback, which among the playing back regular mp3 files can also play web radios which streams in mp3 format:








VDR is able to run external shell commands defined in the commands.conf file. Above you can see the vdr-temp-show script showing the system's temperature.

Here is a simple ping command running on OSD:




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