Yet another convert tool (for VDR)
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Requirements

To use yacoto you need (beside VDR recordings and some disk space):

- yacoto-scripts package
- Lots of tools depending on the scripts package
- vdr
- For status information bgprocess is used,
  http://www.htpc-forum.de/download/vdr-bgprocess-0.1.0.tgz
  Thanks to reelmultimedia !


Installation:

- Unpack the source to <vdr-source-dir/PLUGINS/src/> and run make all

- These patches are supported and will be activated with the belonging DEFINES:
  Liemikuutio   / USE_LIEMIKUUTIO
  SortRecords   / USE_SORTRECORDS
  GraphTFT      / USE_GRAPHTFT
  PinPlugin     / USE_PINPLUGIN
  WareagleIcons / USE_WAREAGLEICON
	  
- The directory containing the scripts (default: /etc/vdr/plugins/yacoto)
  can be changed in Make.config with the variable YAC_CONF_DIR
      
- Do what the script package recommends !
      

Usage:

- Hopefully self-explanatory  ;)

Caution:
Merging of several recordings to one file is not really tested and not recommended :)

  
Configuration:

- Settinge for the conversion are made within the plugin or via Menu->Settings->Plugins->yacoto


Some Internals

When starting vdr 
   YAC_CONF_DIR/yac_admin.sh -start
is called.
If the settings are saved
   YAC_CONF_DIR/yac_admin.sh -save
will be executed.   

If a conversion is started, the plugin calls:
   YAC_CONF_DIR/yac_start.sh <recording~audio_parms> [ <recording~audio_parms> ] ...

Yacoto looks for a yacoto.log in the recording directory. If it exists the recording will be marked as done.
The scripts have to take care of this file.
   

Acknowledgements:

Many thanks to all enabling me to build this plugin, first of all to Klaus Schmidinger for VDR !
Also many thanks to the companies Reelmultimedia and Xeatre for their support !


Report wishes, bugs etc here:
http://bugs.htpc-forum.de/

or in VDR-Portal or HTPC-Forum

Helmut Auer ( http://htpc-forum.de/index.php?url=about.php )
