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| Poddy Home - Installation |
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 Currently Poddy Home is implemented to run on Linux, users reported that it works on Mac OSX too. Although it is a Java™ application
it requires some platform specific parts. They are required especially to access the hardware. Using
linux they normally can be installed easily via the distribution itself, so there should be no need
to download, compile and install all of them manually. That means the links provided below are
additional information only. For running it under Linux the following packages/applications have to
be installed.
In every case Java™ Version 6.0 or newer is required:
- you can download and install it for free from http://www.java.com or
- you can install the related packages of your distribution, since 6.0 Java is available as free package for most modern Linux systems
For supporting CD storage and playback:
For supporting DVD storage and playback:
For recording telecasts using the internal VCR:
For controlling it using an infrared remote control:
For supporting an USB stick and encoding/copying your music to it:
- lame-encoder
- some additional configuration steps (please refer below)
For (optionally) controlling an LC display to show useful information and to use the standard functionalities
without the need to turn your TV on:
After these components have been installed you can download Poddy Home
and unpack it to the location where it has to be executed from.
After you have unpacked the downloaded archive by calling unzip -xjvf poddy-*.zip you will find a
new directory poddy-*. Within this directory there are two start scripts, one for the application itself and one for
the setup. First the setup should be started by calling ./setup.sh . It has to be used to configure:
- The width and height, the horizontal and vertical offset that possibly has to be applied to the
applications main window in order to display it correctly on an overscan TV screen
- The device names for the CD and DVD drive
- The aspect ratio of your TV, if you set 16:9 here, all parts of the application are scaled to be
displayed as stretched images on a 16:9 TV screen (anamorphic display method)
- The directory where your local video files are stored into
- The path to a location where Poddy Home should hold its main directory that contains the local CD and DVD
images - so the "main-directory" should point to a device with much free space on it
- the device names of the audio and video capture devices
- your TV norm and frequency table
- your username and password for the Poddy Remote Interface at http://poddy.virtualworlds.de/
All elementes within the setup application can be reached by using the cursor up and cursor down keys. The values
and parameters of an element can be changed by pressing cursor left and cursor right or - especially when pathnames
have to be entered - by using the normal keyboard character and number keys.
In case you want to support an USB stick directly so that Poddy Home is able to encode selected music and copy it to
that stick, some additional configuration steps are necessary under Linux:
Within the installation directory you also find a script start.sh. If you execute it (automated after bootup
of your media box or manually by calling ./start.sh from the command line) Poddy Home opens
with the configuration that was previously set.
So if your audio output is available, the CD- and DVD-devices are accessible, the required packages are
installed, Poddy Home is now ready to be used!
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