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This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:     Lars Tegeler <email@host.dom>,
                Uwe Hanke <egal@egal-vdr.de>

Project's old but now unavailable homepages:
                        www.math.uni-paderborn.de/~tegeler/vdr
                        www.egal-vdr.de/plugins

Current Maintainer:
                   Ulrich Eckhardt <vdr@uli-eckhardt.de>
Project's Homepage:
                    http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Radio-plugin
Latest version available at: 
                    https://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-radio.git/

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

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.

The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found
in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on most Debian systems.


Description:

This plugin display an background image while the vdr is switcht to radio channels.
Additionally it decode & show RDS (RadioDataSystem) information in the audiostream
(RDS UECP) like Radiotext(Plus) and Rass (RadioScreenShow).
Finally it receive & show external infos (scripts/programs) about title/interpret,
f.e. parsing websites of radiostations.


Install:

1. Extract and copy the plugin:
   cd /yourpath/VDR/PLUGINS/src
   tar -xzf /yourpath/vdr-radio-x.y.z.tgz

2. Make a link in /here is your vdr/PLUGINS/src:
   ln -s radio-x.y.z radio

3. cd /yourpath/VDR
   make
   make plugins

4. Copy your background images to /yourpath/vdr/CONFIG/plugins/radio
   (Default radio.mpg will be used or if exist <channelname>.mpg )
   Yeah, must be .mpg!

4.1 If you dont wont to use the default directory you can use the -f option
    to set an other one.

5. Start your VDR with the option:
   -P radio

6. Have Fun!


For additional info/description see LIESMICH.bitte