VDR-FBFE(1)

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version 2.3.0 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ vdr-fbfe(1) — Remote Framebuffer frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're talking about vdr-fbfe — the Remote Framebuffer frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput. Yes it's a mouthful, no you don't have to say it out loud. It's from the vdr-fbfe(1) manual, and I'm about to make it make sense 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

vdr-fbfe — Remote Framebuffer frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput

fr fr that's the whole vibe: it's the little framebuffer buddy that talks to your VDR plugin.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vdr-fbfe [options] [xvdr[+udp|+tcp|+rtp]:[//host[:port]]]

that's it, that's the shape of it. options first, then the server thingy if you have one 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically: vdr-fbfe is a Framebuffer remote frontend and its whole personality is playing back the streams that vdr-plugin-xineliboutput hands over. That's the job. It does the job. slay 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay here's the menu, and yes we're going through every single one, no skipping, no shortcuts:

  • --help — shows you this help message (the "help me help you" flag) 😭
  • --audio=audiodriver[:device] — pick your audio driver, and if you want, an optional port too
  • --video=videodriver[:fb_device] — pick your video driver plus an optional port. As far as supported, the possible video drivers might be: fb, DirectFB, sdl, vidixfb, dxr3, aadxr3 or none 🎬
  • --aspect=[auto|4:3|16:9|16:10|default] — sets the display aspect ratio. And bestie, listen: you can us a script to control the HW aspect ratio, like this → --aspect=auto:path_to_script
  • --fullscreen — fullscreen mode, main character energy, wall-to-wall pixels ✨
  • --hud — Head Up Display OSD mode (the overlay era)
  • --width=x — video window width
  • --height=x — video window height
  • --noscaling — disable all video scaling, we're keeping the pixels exactly where we found them
  • --post=name[:arg=val[,arg=val]] — load and use xine post plugins, e.g.:
    • --post=upmix
    • --post=upmix;tvtime:enabled=1,cheap_mode=1)
  • --lirc[=devicename] — use the lirc input device. You can hand it an optional lirc socket name too 💜
  • --verbose — verbose debug output (the yapper mode)
  • --silent — silent mode, and it only reports errors. lowkey iconic
  • --syslog — write all output to the system log
  • --nokbd — disable keyboard input (hands off the keys, girlypop)
  • --daemon — run as a daemon: disables keyboard, logs to syslog, and forks to the background 🌙
  • --slave — enable slave mode, which reads commands from stdin
  • --reconnect — automatically reconnect when the connection has been lost 🫶
  • --tcp, --udp, --rtp — use TCP, UDP or RTP transport. And if you give no transport options at all, the transports get tried in this order: local pipe, rtp, udp, tcp ⭐

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

bestie these are the ones you'll actually use, copy them exactly, no cap:

Search for a VDR (xineliboutput) server, connect to it, negotiate the best available transport, and use the best available audio and video driver:

vdr-fbfe

Connect to 192.168.1.3 on the default port and negoate the best available transport:

vdr-fbfe xvdr://192.168.1.3

Connect to 192.168.2.100, port 12550, and use TCP transport:

vdr-fbfe xvdr+tcp://192.168.2.100:12550

Automatically search for a VDR server and use UDP transport:

vdr-fbfe xvdr+udp:
vdr-fbfe --udp

Use alsa:

vdr-fbfe --audio alsa

Use alsa (and a specific card/sub-device):

vdr-fbfe --audio alsa:plughw:1,1

Framebuffer driver and device settings:

vdf-fbfe --video DirectFB
vdf-fbfe --video fb:/dev/fb/1
vdf-fbfe --video vidixfb
vdf-fbfe --video aadxr3

(yes, those are spelled vdf-fbfe in the examples — I'm not touching them, I don't make the rules 💀)

🔥 NOTE 🔥

Listen up, this matters: if the deinterlacing post plugin options aren't given at the command line, then deinterlacing is controlled by the VDR plugin configuration menu settings.

De-interlacing can also be forced on or off with the command-line option "--post tvtime". Examples:

vdr-fbfe --post tvtime:method=Linear,cheap_mode=1,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1
vdr-fbfe --post tvtime:enable=0

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Tobias Grimm <etobi@debian.org> 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋✨ you now know vdr-fbfe better than most people know their own phone settings. it's from the vdr-fbfe(1) manual, signed and dated 10 February 2026, and you absolutely ate this whole read. go forth and stream. periodt 💅

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