---
name: "vdr-message"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vdr"
version: "1.0.0-1woody2"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vdr-message"
---

# vdr-message(1)

Digital TV viewer

## NAME

vdr - Digital TV viewer

## SYNOPSIS

**\[ vdr \| vdr-kbd \| vdr-lirc \| vdr-rcu \| vdr-daemon \]** \<options\>

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **vdr** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution to provide an overview about existing vdr versions. The common description of vdr is contained in the  **[vdr(1)](/vdr/1.md)** manpage.

**vdr** is a program that can be used to watch TV via a DVB-S card. The program does not need a monitor - all user interaction is done via the TV box and the keyboard or (optionaly) a remote control.

## OPTIONS

You can get an overview of the exisiting options with "vdr -h". For detailed descrition look in the miscellaneos documentation distributed with the package. This Debian package contains multiple binaries with different control frontends: Keyboard control (**kbd**), IR remote control (**lirc**) and RCU receiver (**rcu**). A special case is **vdr-daemon**: this version cannot be controled directly, you need an additional frontend like kvdr to do anything with **vdr-daemon**.

## SEE ALSO

**[vdr(1)](/vdr/1.md)**

## AUTHOR

The program has been written by Klaus Schmidinger \<kls@cadsoft.de\> and others. This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch \<blade@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).