diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-text2skin/build b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-text2skin/build
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  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, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+. config/options $1
+
+VDR_DIR=`basename $BUILD/vdr-[0-9]*`
+
+# you can not use GraphTFT together with Text2Skin if you use Imlib2!
+#IMAGELIB=imagemagick
+IMAGELIB=imlib2
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+
+make VDRDIR="../$VDR_DIR" \
+     LIBDIR="." \
+     LOCALEDIR="./locale" \
+     IMAGELIB=$IMAGELIB
diff --git a/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-text2skin/meta b/packages/3rdparty/multimedia/vdr-text2skin/meta
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+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="vdr-text2skin"
+PKG_VERSION="20120506"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Text2skin-plugin"
+PKG_URL="$DISTRO_SRC/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="vdr"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain vdr imlib2"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="multimedia"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="text2skin is a plugin to make On Screen Display in VDR."
+PKG_LONGDESC="text2skin plugin is designed to load and interpret a set of files describing the layout of the On Screen Display and to make this "Skin" available to VDR via Setup -> OSD in the main menu."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"