Graphtft-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 4.1 Options 5 Configuration 5.1 Parameter 6 Problems 7 Links

[edit] Description

This Plugin uses a Framebuffer or VDR device to show Status Informations, so one can use a cheap mini-TFT to show infos about the VDR.

Setup

"brst"-Theme

[edit] Hardware requirements

• TFT display

[edit] Software requirements

• imlib2
• ffmpeg

[edit] Installation

First the prerequisites imlib2

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf imlib2-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd imlib2-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

and ffmpeg

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf ffmpeg-<VERSION>.tar.gz
ln -s ffmpeg-<VERSION> ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
make
make install
ldconfig

For the plugin to work you need the Vera truetype font (others will possibly work too)

mkdir -p /etc/vdr/plugins/graphTFT/fonts
cp /path/to/Vera.ttf /etc/vdr/plugins

If you don't know where to find Vera.ttf try the command

locate Vera.ttf

For the rest see plugin installation.

[edit] Options

Option	Description
HAVE_IMLIB = 1	to enable support for dvb- and fb-devices.
HAVE_DFB = 1 HAVE_SOFTMPEG = 1	Install directFB and libsoftmpeg to use an directFB-output-device. You can use only directFB without ffmpeg, imlib and libsoftmpeg, but without Pbp.
HAVE_FAST_MEMCPY = 1	USE FASTMEMCPY WITH CPUACCEL
HAVE_PVRFB = 1	FIX FOR USING PVR350-FRAMEBUFFER
DEBUG=1	Enable Debuging

[edit] Configuration

The skins goes to /etc/vdr/plugins/graphTFT/themes

mkdir -p /etc/vdr/plugins/graphTFT/themes
tar jxvf standard.tar.bz2 -C /etc/vdr/plugins/graphTFT/themes

[edit] Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-d DEV	--device=DEV	sets the device i.e.: /dev/fb0 or for VDR-Dev.: vdr/1

[edit] Problems

[edit] Links

[1]	http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/tegeler/vdr	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/imlib2.html	imlib2 homepage
[3]	http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net	ffmpeg homepage
[4]	http://www.haile.ch/vdr	Skins/Themes
[5]	http://xpix.dieserver.de/downloads	Skins/Themes