vdr October 2005

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Softdevice or Xine?
by Jan Ekholm 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi, We've been happily using VDR with a video projector for almost a year now without any problems. The projector gets a s-video signal from VDR using one of those "add-on" cards that plug into the J2 connector. S-video gives an ok but kinda blurry image. The card seems to be able to provide some kind of component signal too as it has an additional SCART-connector as a separate module, but we've never figured out how to get that one connected and as we've already burnt the J2 of one DVB card, we're a bit careful with anything connected to the J2 connector. So, as s-video seems to be the best we can get out from the DVB cards we've looked at getting the image out using the normal video output of the system. The projector has an input for DVI/HDMI/VGA and the VDR system has DVI/VGA out, so it seems like that would be the best way to go to get a good image out, preferably avoiding any analog conversions along the way. There seems to be two solutions that are currently used: Softdevice http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Softdevice-plugin Xine-plugin http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Xine-plugin Those seem to be the best homepages for the plugins, but as I'm no native German speaker (I can order a beer, but that's about it) I have a fairly hard time grokking the finer details of pros and cons. What do you others use when you want to get a good image from VDR? Which of those plugins is the preferable solution in this case? The system in use should cope just fine with some decoding done by the CPU. The system has a Sempron-something 2400+ and an ATI fanless 9250 card (I think it was). Comments? -- Jan Ekholm jan.ekholm(a)smultron.net

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Allocating Channels to Specific Devices
by Morfsta 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hi, Could anyone tell me if its possible to allocate channels to be played only through specific DVB devices This would be useful in my system as I have a TT Premium DVB-S and a Skystar 2. The TT premium obviously can't handle HDTV so when I select a HDTV channel I would prefer it only to be handled by the Skystar card and not the TT premium. Its rather like the 'sourcecaps' patch but channel based rather than satellite based. TIA, Morfsta

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[PATCH] Mark up a few functions for format string checking
by Darren Salt 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

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Cleanup Thread (like .update)
by hgm.bg 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi Klaus, Is there a possibility to implement the same way .update works a way to start the cleanup thread which is deleting the deleted recordings ? I'm usually low an diskspace and when try to free space for new recordings it takes mostly more than 5 minutes of an idle VDR to delete the recordings on the system. Sometimes 5 Minutes is too long :). Is this harcoded anywhere in the code ? Than it would be enough for me to shorten this amount of time. /hgm.bg

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RE: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2
by Vladimir Shved 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Yes, dma is enabled. > -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces(a)linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf > Of Stefan Taferner > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:04 AM > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR > Subject: Re: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2 >

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Alphacrypt Light doesn't work...
by Christian Stangier 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello, I'm running vdr 1.3.31 with a Cinery DVB-C 1200 card. Everything has been working fine: I've been able to watch FTA channels with no problems. Last week I was subscribing to PayTV and therefore I installed the CineView CI (http://www.knc1.com/gb.htm) with the CAM AlphaCrypt Light. Free To All television is working until I plug in the CAM. After that I don't get any more data and I can't watch anything until the next reboot. The smartcard that I'm using has not been activated yet (wanted to do this but didn't work as everything else :-() BTW: Accessing the CAM menu and viewing informations about the smartcard is possible so I don't think the CAM is damaged. This what the kernel says: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb /w video in'. PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0a.0 saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem f0920000 (revision 1, irq 5) (0x153b,0x1156). DVB: registering new adapter (Terratec Cinergy 1200 DVB-C). adapter failed MAC signature check encoded MAC from EEPROM was ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Obudget-av: ci interface initialised. KNC1-0: MAC addr = 00:0a:ac:01:e0:fc DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10021 DVB-C)... ...vdr's output: VDR version 1.3.31 started vdr[2682]: loading plugins [..skipped..] kernel: budget-av: cam inserted kernel: dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM detected and initialised successfully vdr[2682]: found 1 video device vdr[2682]: setting primary device to 2 vdr[2682]: SVDRP listening on port 2001 CAM: AlphaCrypt Light, 01, 4A20, 4A20 switching to channel 46 switching to channel 44 thanks in advance, chris.

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Easy TV and VDR
by Robert Schneider 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

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RE: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2
by Vladimir Shved 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces(a)linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf > Of Jon Burgess > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:22 PM > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR > Subject: Re: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2 .... > > I think it would be worth noting which processes are high in the 'top' > list, is it VDR? > > I've seen VDR occasionally switch the system time backwards and forwards > repeatadly which can upset some of VDR's internal time() based loops > causing spikes of CPU usage. Are there any messages like these in > /var/log/messages? Thank you for pointing those out, I've checked my system and ruled out all your mentioned causes. The vdr is on top all the time, top shows 0-0.5% cpu utilization, even when I do 2-3 recordings at the same time. I've disabled time setting in VDR from sat stream, the system is set to sync time using ntp. So those are not the problems here. I'm trying to figure out why starting recording on budget card would fix this lagged behavior on FF card. Its like something flushes/clears the data pipe to FF card when I start recording on budget card, the FF card starts to respond very fast and without pauses. I guess the issue is specific to my setup only, possibly an issue with PCI bus transfers. I'm going to try to move my FF card to another system and see how it behaves there.

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Wanted: Filesize of recordings available in skins
by Christoph Hermanns 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello @all, when showing the details of a recording, i'd like to know how much diskspace in MB is needed on my HD (e.g. sum of .vdr files). This size in MB is very useful when archiving some recordings on dvd or copying the data to another limited storage place. My questions to Klaus and Sascha or others that can be of help: 1. Is this size information already available for a plugin ? If not, i would highly welcome that this size information can be accessed from a plugin. 2. Because i used the text2skin plugin this size information has to be implemented into the text2skin plugin. Due this plugin has been not changed in the last months i'd like to know if the development is going on in the next time and if such a new feature can be implemented. Best regards, Christoph

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[ANNOUNCE] LoadEPG version 0.1.6
by lukkinosat 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi 2005-10-05: Version 0.1.6 - Improved the source code for better preformances - Add Finnish translation (by Rolf Ahrenberg) - Add provider Canal Digital on S1W satellite (by Rolf Ahrenberg) http://www.kikko77.altervista.org/index.php Lukkino ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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