vdr October 2005

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lagged responce on Nexus 2.2
by Vladimir Shved 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

On my system I get lagged response from VDR until I start recording on budget card. The system just responds very slow, or kind of jumpy, its like if system is busy with something but CPU usage is 0%. The recordings seem to pause for millisecond from time to time. The only work around I found is to start and stop recording on budget card, then it starts to respond smooth and nice. Any suggestions how to solve it, things to try? So far I've tried pulling all cards out, left only single FF card in the system. Tried moving FF card to different slots, starting/stopping recording on FF card does not make the problem to go away. I tried different kernels, 2.6.8 through 2.6.14-rc3 and firmwares 261f to 2621. Tried vanilla VDR sources and heavy patched VDR, versions 1.3.15 to 1.3.33. If VDR restarts the problem comes back right away, I have to record something again using budget card for the problem to go away. Newest drivers do not produce any error messages of any kind, all loads fine and tried running it for over 48 hours without restart. When using single FF card in the system, I can't find a way to get rid of the problem. I just ran out of ideas on what to try next. Thanks in advance. --Vlad My system specs: Nexus-S 2.3 SkyStar 2 (2.6c) Technotrend budget, (like Nova-S S1102) Athlon-XP 2200+ cpu Asus A7V880 via KT880 motherboard 1Gig of RAM(x2 512Mb sticks) running in dual channel config.

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RE: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2
by Vladimir Shved 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

That does not seem to be an issue here, output should be attached with this message. --Vlad > -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces(a)linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf > Of Jon Burgess > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:49 AM > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR > Subject: Re: [vdr] lagged responce on Nexus 2.2 > > Vladimir Shved wrote: > > On my system I get lagged response from VDR until I start recording on > > budget card. The system just responds very slow, or kind of jumpy, its > like > > if system is busy with something but CPU usage is 0%. The recordings > seem to > > I saw something similar before when a SATA controller was spamming the > system with 100,000+ interrupts per second. Could you run "vmstat 1" for > a few seconds when you find the slugish behaviour? >

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Re: [vdr] Allocating Channels to Specific Devices
by Morfsta 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

> The problem with hdtv is afaik the mpeg2decoder of the tt-premium cards. > So I think your can't do anything to get it work with a skysta and a > tt-premium. > > Halim I am using xine output plugin, not the mpeg2decoder on the TT premium. However, the TT premium is attached to a CAM so I would prefer to still use it. Morf

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VDSB with Kernel 2.6.13
by Stephan Schreiber 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi, I got something I desperately need help with: I have got one FF card plus 3 Nova CI Budget Cards, usually using the latest driver, firmware and VDR versions. After having upgraded to Kernel 2.6.13, I get the dreaded "Video Data Stream Broken" error as soon as a recording starts. Vanilla VDR 1.3.32 (no plugins besides remote) with "WAIT_FOR_TUNER_LOCK" reports "no dvb card available for recording" instead: Sep 20 17:40:44 [vdr] timer 5 (1 1740-2040 '@TITLE EPISODE') start Sep 20 17:40:44 [vdr] record /video0/(a)Brisant_Boulevardmagazin/2005-09-20.17.40.10.01.rec Sep 20 17:40:49 [vdr] ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Sep 20 17:40:49 [vdr] ERROR: Keine freie DVB-Karte zum Aufnehmen! The log reports 4 video devices found. When switching back to 2.6.12 everything works fine again (same driver, same firmware)...no problem recording from 4 different transponders... Of course I also tried the latest (yesterday's) CVS driver and the latest Firmware (fb2620). >From looking at dmesg I can tell the cards' IRQ assignments have changed, but still each card uses its own one. Also, they still share their IRQs with the very same other PCI devices. szap seems to be able to tune, though, as it reports FE_HAS_LOCK on all 4 cards when tuning to "Das Erste". Any hints on how to debug this further? Thanks, Stephan

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softdevice plugin - fullscreen
by Simon Baxter 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi. I've been using vdr-xine, and am giving softdevice a go instead. How do you get it to start in full-screen mode?

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[PATCH] Base64 output (and related stuff) for the SVDRP GRAB command
by Darren Salt 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

The attached patch does three things to the GRAB command: * If the filename is "-", it outputs the file, encoded using base64, to the socket. Result code 216 is used. * Files are restricted to being in "/tmp" and "$VIDEODIR/snaps.dir"). If a full pathname is not given, the default is "$VIDEODIR/snaps.dir". (This is my previously-existing fix for CAN-2005-0071. It's rolled up into this patch because it gets reindented; it occupies the section between the two "we're using a ..." comments.) * Writing to files is permitted only for connections from localhost since it is _likely_ that only users on the local machine have access to them. (This is done entirely in the first patch hunk for svdrp.c.) It works with 1.3.33 and is cleanly applicable to 1.3.34. Ideally, cDevice::GrabImage (and methods which override this) would require a file handle instead of a filename. This change would require that some plugins (vdr-xine, for one) also be patched, so I've not done this - yet. -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> There is no time like the present to postpone what you ought to be doing.

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how to disable EPG scanning.
by BRUNETON Béranger 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hi, How can I disable the EPG scanning in VDR? I've set EPG scan timeout = 0 without any success. Even if I do a svdrpsend.pl CLRE the EPG data still there I'm using vdr-1.3.32 Thanks

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Feature request - 1.5x playback with sound
by Kartsa 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

I've once asked about this from Klaus and he did not see this feasible at that time. If I remember correctly he thought that this would be something that should be done in the device itself. Well I was just watching a DVD with PowerDVD windows player and it has the ability to play back with 1.5x and 2.0x speeds with sound. Without changing the pitch. And that has to be done with software since I have no kind of hardware to do that. I know that mplayer can play with many speeds with sound but the pitch changes also. So I am not sure in which direction this feature request should be aimed at :) Originally I had this idea from my JVC hd recorder which has 1.5x playback possibility. Sometimes there are programs that you just wand to speed up a little :D Oh, and ofcourse subtitling should work also as it does with PowerDVD. BR Kartsa No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/90 - Release Date: 5.9.2005

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Radio channels in VDR
by Joerg Knitter 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, there are some points that I don´t like with the current implementation of radio channels: 1) I have sorted my channel list lately and have put the new German radio channels (BR, HR, WDR etc.) at the beginning of the channels.conf. But after an EPG scan, I got all those channels again and the end of the channels.conf, so that I have all of them twice. Unfortunately, I don´t have access to my channels.conf now so that I can´t post parts of it, but if somebody else has this problem, this seems to be a VDR bug as long as Astra does not send those channels twice. 2) I was told (if I understood correctly) that because radio channels don´t transmit video data, the index.vdr contains an I frame for every audio packet. This has 2 disadvantages: 1. The time is displayed wrong, and 2. starting a radio recording takes very long (around 10 seconds without any reaction of VDR?) on a 90 minutes recording from "WDR Mehrkanaltest" until I hear anything, maybe because it takes so long to read the index.vdr? The advantage seems to be that I can cut radio at every single frame, but as I am also not able to this with TV and need external tools for this (I use Cuttermaran for Win), I would rather prefer exact time information and a faster start of playback and use external tools if I want it exact (e.g. for archiving it on DVD). Frame exact cut for TV and radio could then become a goal for VDR 1.5.x. 3) A separate main menu entry for radio channels. With kind regards Joerg

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RE: [vdr] Re: Wanted: Filesize of recordings available in skins
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

> I think it would be also very useful to have the lenght of a recording > availible. There exists the "ShowRecordingLenght-Patch" for vdr-1.2.6 and > some early 1.3.x versions, but unfortunately it isn't ported to recent vdr > versions. Maybe this function could be included into vdr too. Have you tried Bigpatch, it contains enhanced AIO-patch with the features you described. But anyhow, there is "showrecording" length patches up to recent VDR versions. http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=39474&sid=967c6f7f158a9ac… Cut from other thread for older big patch version: --------------------------------------------- Bigpatch für VDR 1.3.27 enthält folgendes: Bigpatch für VDR 1.3.27 enthält folgendes: Patch: enAIO Version: vdr-1.3.27-enAIO-2.3 Autor: Rolf Ahrenberg Weitere Infos: HISTORY-enAIO oder www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/ enAIO Sammelpatch enthält folgende Patches: - Easyinput Patch by Marcel Schaeben / Patrick Maier - Rename Recordings Patch by Torsten Kunkel - Menu Selection Patch by Peter Dittmann - Recording Length Patch by Tobias Faust Patch: enAIO-rm Version: 1.3.24-enAIO-2.2-rm-b Autor: ralf1970@vdrportal Weitere Infos: HISTORY-enAIO-rm oder www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?thread...ht=enAIO+2+2+rm enAIO-rm "Rumpf" Sammelpatch enthält noch folgende weiteren Patches: - DVDArchiveDisplay-Patch - ShowLongPath-Patch - CmdSubmenu-Patch - JumpPlay-Patch --------------------------------------------- Regards, Jori

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