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

Written by:                  kamel5 <vdr.kamel5@gmx.net>
Thanks to:                   LCARS-Skin from Klaus Schmiedinger

Project's homepage:          


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.
See the file COPYING for more information.

Requirements
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- VDR version >= 1.7.34

Description
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skinlcarsng is a skin for VDR based on skin LCARS originally included in vdr source code.
The skin has no command line parameter.

Installation 
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- make
- make install

or for debugging of coordinates
- DRAWGRID=1 make
- make install

Select this Skin in Menu -> Setup -> OSD.

Themes
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The skin colors can be changed by themes.

Included themes are:
- lcarsng-Light.theme
- lcarsng-Dark.theme
- lcarsng-Classic.theme

All LCARS themes included with the VDR can also be used here by links:
ln -s lcars-default.theme lcarsng-default.theme
But the colors can vary then.

If you switch from new themes to themes from LCARS
you have to restart the VDR to display the correct colors.

Font
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If you want a real Star Trek feeling, you can install the Font Antonio from here:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Antonio

zapcockpit.patch
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If the zapcockpit.patch from the skindesigner is active, the description in the
channel display can also be displayed with a 2nd OK, otherwise it will be
displayed automatically (this can be configured in the setup)

Setup
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The following things can be changed via the setup:
- Margin around the graphics
- Show error sign from 0 or 1 error
- Style of the volume bar: LCARS like, flat color, blended color
- Display description in various views with parameters
- Menu view mode: full screen, split screen thin screen (only for channels),
  scaled video window small, scaled video window large
- Display grid (only wenn compiled with DRAWGRID=1)

Included patch
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patches/numrecordingsinpath.patch:
This patch is needed to display the number of recordings in the current path in the recordings menu.
