VDR-WLFE(1)

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because you just opened the vdr-fbfe(1) manual — the "Remote Framebuffer frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput" one — and it's about to serve you the whole vdr-wlfe page. ✨ No gatekeeping here, we're doing this together. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

vdr-wlfe — remote Walyend frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

the vibe check, the whole summoning ritual, one line:

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

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so vdr-wlfe is a Wayland remote frontend, and its whole personality is playing back streams that vdr-plugin-xineliboutput hands over. that's it, that's the job, and it does it. 🫶

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

every single one, no skips, we don't do that here:

• --help — show (this) help message. iconic behaviour, honestly.
• --audio=audiodriver[:device] — pick your audio driver, plus an optional port if you're feeling fancy.
• --video=videodriver[:device] — pick your video driver, plus an optional port. as far as it's supported, the possible video drivers might be: xshm, xv, xvmc, xxmc, vidix, XDirectFB, opengl, sdl or none. go off. 🔥
• --display=displayaddress — X11 display address.
• --wid=id — use an existing X11 window instead of making your own.
• --aspect=[auto|4:3|16:9|16:10|default] — display aspect ratio. (you can us a script to control the HW aspect ratio: --aspect=auto:path_to_script) 💅
• --fullscreen — fullscreen mode. main character energy, obviously.
• --hud — Head Up Display OSD mode.
• --width=x — video window width.
• --height=x — video window height.
• --noscaling — disable all video scaling. every bit of it.
• --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. an optional lirc socket name can be given too. 🎮
• --verbose — verbose debug output, for when you simply must know everything.
• --silent — silent mode (reports only errors). the strong silent type. 🤫
• --syslog — write all output to the system log.
• --nokbd — disable keyboard input.
• --daemon — run as a daemon (disables keyboard, logs to syslog and forks to the background). she's independent now. 💀
• --slave — enable slave mode (reads commands from stdin).
• --reconnect — automatically reconnect when the connection has been lost. loyalty fr fr. 💖
• --tcp, --udp, --rtp — use TCP, UDP or RTP transport. if no transport options are given, transports are tried in the following order: local pipe, rtp, udp, tcp.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

this is the part where it gets fun, bestie. ✨

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

vdr-wlfe

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

vdr-wlfe xvdr://192.168.1.3

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

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

automatically search for a VDR server and use UDP transport:

vdr-wlfe xvdr+udp:
vdr-syfe --udp

use alsa:

vdr-wlfe --audio alsa

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

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

video driver (and display / device):

vdr-wlfe --video xv
vdr-wlfe --video xvmc:127.0.0.1:1.0

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🧚 NOTE 🧚

if deinterlacing post plugin options are not given at the command line, deinterlacing is controlled by the VDR plugin configuration menu settings. iykyk. 👑

de-interlacing can also be forced on or off with the command-line option --post tvtime. examples:

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

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🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

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

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that. 🎀 this was the vdr-fbfe(1) manual, page dated 10 February 2026, and yes the manual name is vdr-fbfe(1) again because that's just how it likes to sign off. slay, bye bestie 🦋💅