I've just put the a new release of the VDR Vodcatcher plug-in online, which was hanging here around for months.

It now supports playback via Xineliboutput. If you have trouble with Xineliboutput playback, you probably need to increase the PLAYFILE_TIMEOUT in Xineliboutputs frontend_svr.c:

diff -urNad vdr-plugin-xineliboutput-1.0.1~/frontend_svr.c vdr-plugin-xineliboutput-1.0.1/frontend_svr.c
--- vdr-plugin-xineliboutput-1.0.1~/frontend_svr.c  2008-04-23 22:12:58.000000000 +0200
+++ vdr-plugin-xineliboutput-1.0.1/frontend_svr.c   2008-08-10 00:16:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 #define LOG_OSD_BANDWIDTH (128*1024)  /* log messages if OSD bandwidth > 1 Mbit/s */

 #define PLAYFILE_CTRL_TIMEOUT   300   /* ms */
-#define PLAYFILE_TIMEOUT       5000   /* ms */
+#define PLAYFILE_TIMEOUT      10000   /* ms */

 typedef struct {
   int    Size;

See also: Timeout when starting stream playback

I've already increased the timeout for the Debian package release of vdr-plugin-xineliboutput.