Femon-plugin
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Description
Shows DVB signal information on the OSD. Since release 1.1.0, femon does not only support local DVB cards. An Svdrp server on the network can be used as datasource as well. This is an interesting feature for those running streamdev-client on their VDR.
-------------------------------------------------------------- |## Channel Name ################### [AR][VF][A/DD][D][SVDRP]| |[=====Signal Strength in % ==============|=================]| |[=====Signal-to-Noise Ratio in % ========|=================]| | STR: #0000 (0%) BER: #00000000 Video: 0 Mbit/s | | SNR: #0000 (0%) UNC: #00000000 Audio: 0 kbit/s | | [LOCK] [SIGNAL] [CARRIER] [VITERBI] [SYNC] | -------------------------------------------------------------- STR - Signal strength SNR - Signal-to-noise ratio BER - Bit error rate UNC - Uncorrected blocks Video - Calculated video bitrate in Mbit/s Audio - Calculated audio / AC-3 bitrate in kbit/s LOCK - Everything's working... SIGNAL - Found something above the noise level CARRIER - Found a DVB signal VITERBI - FEC (forward error correction) is stable SYNC - Found sync bytes AR - Aspect Ratio: 1:1/4:3/16:9/2.21:1 (optional) VF - Video format: PAL/NTSC (optional) A/DD - Audio (0..5) / AC-3 track (optional) D - Device number: 0..5 (optional) SVDRP - Client-server extension active (optional, femon >= 1.1.0)
Handling
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| ChanUp/ChanDn | Switch channel up/down |
| Up/Down | Switch channel up/down |
| 0-9 | Select channel |
| Ok | Switch between display modes: basic, transponder, stream, AC-3 |
| Green | Select next audio track |
| Yellow | Select audio channel: stereo, mono left, mono right |
| Back | Exit plugin |
| Right/Left | Switch to next/previous device that provides the current channel |
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Hardware requirements
- DVB card
Software requirements
Only for using the client-server extension (SVDRP service)
- Femon-plugin >= 1.1.0 (client and server)
- Svdrpservice-plugin >= 0.0.2 (client)
- Dummydevice-plugin >= 1.0.1 (recommended for server)
Installation
Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| FEMON_NTSC=1 | OSD defaults for NTSC system |
| FEMON_DEBUG=1 | Additional debugging information |
Notes
- The plugin supports only those DVB cards with _one_ frontend, because I haven't yet figured howto do it without patching the VDR core.
- Disable the stream analyze to speed up heavy zapping sessions.
- The signal strength and signal-to-noise ratio values are comparable only between the same brand/model frontends. Due to the lack of proper frontend specifications those values cannot be calculated into any real units.
- If the OSD isn't visible, you've configured the OSD height too big or too small. Please, try to adjust the variable on the setup page before writing any bug reports. NTSC users should use a shrinked default OSD height by compiling the plugin with: make FEMON_NTSC=1
Links
| [1] | http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon | Plugin homepage |