vdr October 2005

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off topic - 'avimerge' audio sync
by Simon Baxter 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Hi. I've merged a bunch of AVI clips from my camera and am playing them under the mplayer plugin. Doesn't appear to be to do with the plugin, but it looks like 'avimerge' loses audio sync. After the 3rd or 4th merges clip plays, the audio is significantly ahead of the video. any ideas?

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Thread priority of cutting thread in vdr
by peter.dittmann＠freenet.de 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

'm also using older PC types (PIII) and the cpu load of the cutting thread is seriously hampering the resposiveness of vdr. Is there a way to lower the priority of the thread for cutting ? I know there are some patches around (cutter-queue; bandwith), but both seems not to address it on the thread priority. Wouldn't it being a real solution to make the cutter a background task on nice level ? I've tried to understand how vdr sets the thread priority but I got lost. Can somebody shed some light on the was the thrad priorities are assigned and wether it woul be possible to place a single thread at nice level while vdr still uses normal sheduling. kind regards Peter

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ANNOUNCE: Muggle 0.1.9
by Lars von Wedel 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Dear all, for a long time, we have not announce Muggle (short for Media Juggle) releases on the mailing list, probably because there was not much feedback here as compared to vdrportal.de. Muggle is a database-driven music browser and replay plugin. You can define playlists via the OSD by browsing available tracks structured to your taste. Muggle permits not only browsing directory hierarchies, but you can assemble hierarchies from various categories online using the OSD. Basic hierarchies that are defined by default are e.g. Artist/Album/Track or Album/Track, but you can easily define your own browsing schemes like Genre/Artist/Track or Decade/Genre/Track or whatever you like. The underlying database is compatible with a project called GiantDisc (http://www.giantdisc.org) so you can make use of the database contents also from other places (Linux, Palm remote control, Web interface). Since a lot has been changed since our first releases, I'd like to announce the most recent beta release 0.1.9 here again. I cannot list all minor changes, but the most noteable features our first releases are - Progress display via graphlcd plugin - Improved display while replaying a lot (list of tracks, track details, progress display) - Import simplified and speeded up a lot, can now be started via OSD - Decoder for FLAC files (in addition to mp3, wav, ogg/vorbis) - Export of m3u playlists and execution of commands on them (e.g. burn to CD or copy to MP3-stick) - Database interfaces for mySQL (inclugin embedded variant), SQlite, Postgres - Incremental search in the OSD (as knwon from emacs) - Display cover images from ID3v2 tags or the song directory - Enable arbitrary image display via Service interface. A patch is included to permit the image plugin to display images via muggle along with music playback. - Lots of bugfixes The most recent archive is available for download at http://www.htpc-tech.de/download/vdr-muggle-0.1.9.tgz Many thanks go to Wolfgang Rohdewald (for a lot of the database work), all users for testing and reporting possible improvements (and problems), and all translators, all ... Enjoy! Wolfgang and Lars, Muggle Authors

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RE: [vdr] A new generation of DVB devices
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

> Here's a list of the features such a device should have: > > http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/hdtv-dream.htm > > Please let me know what you think about this, and if I have forgotten > anything or got something wrong. I feel that component video output is missing. It is capable of outputting HDTV signals, and many consumer devices have component inputs. I think Scart isn't specified for HDTV bandwidth, so TV's don't accept such signals from it. Of course DVI/HDCP/HDMI out runs component outputs in quality, and there probably are some relatively cheap converters from DVI to component. Regards, Jori

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mp3 plugin : image corruption
by Simon Baxter 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi. I'm having problems with the image being displayed when playing mp3s from this plugin. -the image_convert script that converts CD covers to mpgs runs -the image is cached -any image displayed with the first track displays fine -as soon as the 2nd track plays, the new image becomes pixelated (see attached) I can display the cached mpg image fine outside of VDR (in 'Image Viewer'), but the mp3 plugin displays it as per the attached photo. It's the same for all converted images. Any ideas?

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does vdr set priority of its threads/processes?
by Jeremy Hall 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hello, If I were going to set the priority of the recording and/or playback threads, so that some functions in vdr would run with higher or lower priority than others, where could I easily set it? Is there a "snapshot" that is a paragraph long that briefly describes vdr's threads and their suggested importance and order of execution? _J

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long recording (maybe bigpatch) ?
by Gregoire Favre 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hello, I haven't tried with a vanila vdr-1.3.34 but with vdr-1.3.34 and bigpatch1 a recording of 563' (shown right in Recordings menu) I can't fast forward, neither edit any marks, in fact the time shown in viewing it start at "-9:-16:-55" to end at "0:06:11". I don't really care about this recording as it is an error (it's a little too long...) but I have tried to do a "genindex" in the directoty, and then a touch /video0/.update which don't change anything as the new index.vdr is the same as the old one. In case that matter, I am under amd64. Anyone tried a 9 hours recording ? -- Gr/'egoire FAVRE

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vdr and analogtv and xine?
by Torsten Mohr 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, i'd like to record movies with my Hauppauge PVR 350 and use my normal graphics card to view movies. So i configured and installed the plugins analogtv and xine. In one shell i start "vdr -Panalogtv -Pxine" and in another shell: xine "vdr:/tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes" I can see the OSD in xine, but only the background "No Signal". I can record from /dev/video via command line, so basically it should work. Also, i can configure the keyboard keys for VDR and can use them to control VDR, i can see that with the OSD in xine. In vdr i get the output attached below. I wonder about the line that says that says: /dev/video0 ('WinTV PVR 350') does not support streaming i/o. Whenever i press a key in VDR, i get an output line by "xine" that says: vdr: osdflush: n: 1, 10, 4 # the numbers are varying. So does VDR not update the screen of xine cyclically? How can i get a picture in xine? Do i need another plugin? Or some other options? Best regards, Torsten. 08:38:48 analogTV version 0.9.37 starting up ... 08:38:48 08:38:48 Copyright (C) 2003 .. 2005 by Andreas Kool (akool(a)gmx.de) 08:38:48 08:38:48 The analogTV plugin is the work of many people; 08:38:48 for at least a partial list see CREDITS. 08:38:48 08:38:48 analogTV comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see COPYING. 08:38:48 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it 08:38:48 under certain conditions; see COPYING for details. 08:38:48 08:38:48 Detected Linux version 2.6.12-default 08:38:48 Detected VDR version 1.3.33 08:38:48 Detected plain-vanilla VDR (hopefully :-) 08:38:48 cSchedules created SetVideoFormat: 0 08:38:48 Detected ConfigDirectory()="/video/plugins" 08:38:48 CPU AMD Duron(TM), family 6, model 8, stepping 1 08:38:48 CPU measured at 1350.040MHz 08:38:48 Using SSE optimized memcpy() vdr-xine: Client connecting ... vdr-xine: Client connected! 08:38:58 Switching to channel 0 on device 5 08:38:58 Switching to channel 0 on device 4 08:38:58 Channel: S 25, SID=12003, 335.25 MHz (S25), PAL 08:38:58 Video device: /dev/video0 08:38:58 Video source: 4: 08:38:58 NEW videodev=/dev/video0 08:38:58 Detected V4L version 2 08:38:58 Detected capture device Vanilla iTVC15 card 08:38:58 Detected hardware Hauppauge PVR 08:38:58 This device have a tuner 08:38:58 This device is able for capturing 08:38:58 This device have a onboard MPEG-Encoder 08:38:58 Detected Input#0: Composite 0 08:38:58 Detected Input#1: Composite 1 08:38:58 Detected Input#2: Composite 2 08:38:58 Detected Input#3: Composite 3 08:38:58 Detected Input#4: Tuner 0 08:38:58 Detected Input#5: Composite 4 08:38:58 Detected Input#6: S-Video 0 08:38:58 Detected Input#7: S-Video 1 08:38:58 Detected Input#8: S-Video 2 08:38:58 Detected Input#9: S-Video 3 08:38:58 NEW Frequency=335250 + 0 08:38:58 NEW videonorm=PAL 08:38:58 NEW videosource=4:Tuner 0 08:38:58 NEW picture properties 08:38:58 setPictureProperties(fd=9) failed, 34:Numerical result out of range 08:38:58 Could not set (all) picture properties 08:38:58 tune(5364) [frequency=335250, freqOffset=16, ofs=0] 08:38:58 setNorm(0:PAL (0xff)) 08:38:58 Switching to channel 1 on device 4 SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 08:38:58 Switching to channel 1 on device 5 SetVolumeDevice: 255 SetPlayMode: 1 08:38:58 NEW Audio-PID=300, Video-PID=301 08:38:58 runEncoder(Apid=300, Vpid=301) 08:38:58 mp1e -m 3 -j -e 1 -t 256 -g I -p /dev/dsp -c /dev/video0 -x /dev/mixer -d 4 -a 3 -b 5000000 -B 80 -r 14,91 -s 480x576 -S 44.1 -F 8 -G 496x576 -o /tmp/.analogtv.avi & 08:38:58 Sucessfully set encoder priority to -15 08:38:58 flush_buffer() mp1e:v4l25.c:216: /dev/video0 ('WinTV PVR 350') does not support streaming i/o. read(4) returned 0, error 0: Success vdr-xine: Client disconnected! SetPlayMode: 0

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image/sound stutter when watching live, but not in the processed recording
by Borghart Steffen 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, I am using vdr with the xine output plugin. When I tune to a certain channel the image stutters slightly, and the sound is off for more than half of the time. I thought this is the result of a bad signal, but the femon Plugin showed similar signal strength/ snr for all channels. Now i discovered the following: The divx file vdrconvert produces from recordings from that channel is as bad as watching that channel life; but the mpg file that vdrconvert uses temporarily in a certain encoding step is absolutely fluent without any stutter in image or sound! I have no clue why the quality is so bad when watching the channel life, because i guess the received data is o.k. My System is powerful enough, the load is not more than 60% when using vdr. What is going on there? Borghart

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Error when grabing an image from vdr
by Guy Roussin 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, I have 2 tv cards : 1 analog (/dev/video0,tvtime) and 1 dvb-s (/dev/video1,vdr) When i grab an image with vdr 1.3.34 (telnet 2001), i get an image from /dev/video0 and not from /dev/video1. Thanks. Guy ___________________________________ NOCC, http://www.teledetection.fr Hi, I have 2 tv cards : 1 analog (/dev/video0,tvtime) and 1 dvb-s (/dev/video1,vdr) When i grab an image with vdr 1.3.34 (telnet 2001), i get an image from /dev/video0 and not from /dev/video1. Thanks. Guy ___________________________________ NOCC, http://www.teledetection.fr

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