vdr November 2005

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is anybody working on a EM86xx driver/plugin?
by Harald Milz 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, there used to be a thread in the German-speaking vdrportal about developing a driver for the http://www.allwell.tv/ EM8621L PCI card but the discussion seems to be dead as far as development. How about the Odyssey development or evaluation kits from Sigma Designs themselves? http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/odyssey_features_specifications.htm has the specs. Sounds very promising for HDTV. Anybody??? And while we're at it - the em8300 Hollywood cards appear to be able to decode a 720p MPEG2 stream. Does that mean if I convert a HDTV stream to a MPEG2 stream (and possibly rescale it from 1920x1080 to 1280x720), and throw the resulting stream at the card it will provide a proper picture? What CPU would be needed for this? Just curious. A full hardware decoder like the 8620 family is definitively the better solution, especially with a DVI out. How about the EM8400 plugin? Any success? -- Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

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vdr-burn 0.0.6 errors
by Nicolas Huillard 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello, I have two annoing errors with the burn plugins 1) freeze when removing finished job * some times, the OSD freezes, and no watchdog restarts VDR, when I manually erase a finished job from the VDR menu * only a restart can solve the freeze, but then the temporary files remain on-disk without possibility to delete them unless using SSH * (as a side-note, I think the limit between user interface and background jobs is not exactly at the right place : one should be able to run all tasks in one script run, and maybe get back the OSD counterpart of a dead job, after restart) 2) shell character escape missing * the DVD title "C'est pas sorcier" (note the ') gives a shell error * from the dvd.log file : ++ started: sh -c '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-burn/vdrburn.sh BURN '/home/video/.vdr-burn.R6MZM8' '/dev/dvd' 'C'est pas sorcier'' sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file -- NH

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Aspect ratio changes causes a/v sync problems
by Tero Siironen 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I've problems with playback of recording where two aspect ratio changes occurs in a short time. This causes audio and video to lose their sync. Usually this happens when last ad in commercial break is in 16:9 format, "returning to program"-clip is 4:3 and the program is again in 16:9 format. After this sequence video playback starts to drop frames and audio gets played late compared to video. Rewinding or forwarding the playback a bit corrects the problem until the next commercial break ends. I uploaded a short example clip (12,1MB) to: http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/001.vdr Tested with vanilla vdr, versions 1.3.27, 1.3.33 and 1.3.36 and ttpci firmware versions 261a, 261d and 261f. Nothing is printed to syslog when this happens. Any ideas what might cause this? P2 350MHz Technotrend FF card 128MB RAM -- Tero Siironen

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MP3 plugin and ALSA
by Harald Milz 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi I recently suggested adding proper ALSA output to the MP3 plugin. Reason: I switched over to softdevice and have no FF card in my system any more (the CPU is not the box heater, as opposed to the rev 1.3 card before ;-) and hence can't use the J2 SPDIF out any more. I noticed last night that softdevice AC3 SPDIF does work for the MP3 plugin as the DVB output channel if MP3 is configured for DVB. D'oh. *rolling eyes* So - for now I'm not going to dig into it - lacking time. -- The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away.

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[Fwd: Softdevice and AC3 Passthrough]
by Dave 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

softdevice cvs vdr 1.3.34 kernel 2.6.14-rc3 using kernel ALSA drivers I have got softdevice working with sound via SPDIF for PCM, but cant get AC3 to pass through to the decoder, mplayer and ac3dec both pass AC3 no problem, but with softdevice I get error: ac3play: Unable to update the IEC958 control: No such file or directory -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,0#" -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,1#" -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=plug:iec958#" it doesnt matter which of the above commandlines I use, same error all the time. ALSA lib is 1.0.10-rc3, Driver is 1.0.10-rc1. Any ideas?

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vdr + dvd plugin
by João Mamede 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

hi vdr +dvd doesn't work on me...dvd plugin starts reading the dvd but when it comes to play...it crashes vdr when there's something about audio :/ does the plugin uses the same audio device as vdr? Best Regards João Mamede

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Remote plugin breakage with 2.6.15-rc1+ kernel
by C.Y.M 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

As of 2.6.15-rc1 (actually the change was originally made in 2.6.14-git8), there is no more /dev/input/event0 node. The nodes now start at event1 and up. This breaks the autodetect feature in the remote plugin for VDR. I was able to kludge a fix by hacking the default to the event I am currently using, but a real fix should be made instead. This is *hacked* fix for a remote that is using event3. This only a kludge. --SNIP-- --- remote-0.3.3/remote.c.orig 2005-11-13 01:59:30.000000000 -0800 +++ remote-0.3.3/remote.c 2005-11-13 02:19:18.000000000 -0800 @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ // use default device if nothing could be identified if (devtyp[i] == 'i' && strcmp(devnam[i], "autodetect") == 0) - devnam[i] = "/dev/input/event0"; + devnam[i] = "/dev/input/event3"; } // for i for (int i = 0; i < devcnt; i++)

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-autosort-0.0.4 - a channel autosorter
by CopyPoint 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi all, this is the first release of AutoSort-Plugin. Description: AutoSort Plugin adds the capability to define rules for automatically sorting your channels.conf with every housekeeping thread. You have to define some rules in autosort.conf, like this: FreeTV:HasNoCa:Sort Premiere:HasProvider=premiere:Sort whitch results in channels.conf like: your old channels :Auto Sort :FreeTV ARD... BR-alpha... ... :Premiere Premiere 1... ... :Unsorted other channels -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep in mind that this is early beta state, so don't forget to backup your channels.conf before trying -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments and bug reports are welcome. Thorsten Scheck =============================================================== Project's homepage: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/autosort.htm Latest version: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.0.4.tgz ===============================================================

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softdevice with xv-plugin does not start
by Andre Bischof 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hello, I'm trying to get softdevice working. Compilation went well (vdr-1-3-31), but starting vdr-daemon --config=/var/lib/vdr --lib=/usr/lib/vdr/plugins -d -l 3 -p 2001 --video=/video -w 60 -u vdr -g vdr -P remote -P "softdevice -L /usr/lib/vdr/plugins -vo xv:" gives me: Nov 12 21:03:50 linux vdr[10465]: probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: found 1 video device Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: initializing plugin: remote (0.3.3): Remote control Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: initializing plugin: softdevice (0.2.0): A software emulated MPEG2 device Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: tuner on device 1 thread started (pid=10465, tid=-1220461648) Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: Section handler thread started (pid=10465, tid=-1228850256) Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: patch version (2005-07-20) Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [XvVideoOut]: Could not connect to X-server Nov 12 21:03:51 linux vdr[10465]: [softdevice] videoOut failure exiting I put LoadModule "XvMC" in xorg.conf as mentioned in the plugin's README, and libxvmc1 and libxvmc-dev are installed. I guess it could be that I have to put up an additional screen-section in xorg.conf, but I'm not really familiar with that. Or does that error derive from s.th. totally different? Any help is greatly appreciated! André

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vdr-xine, changing priority of the receiver when connected
by syrius.ml＠no-log.org 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, Sorry if it's a trivial question (or a non-sense one), i'm wondering how I could change the priority of the receiver when xine is connected to vdr-xine. (i may not be using the correct vocabulary) In fact i'd like to resolve some priorities issues. I'm running 2 vdr instances, both with vdr-xine; one is accessing the dvb devices and running streamdev-server, the other one just running streamdev-client. I'd like streamdev-server not to take over vdr-xine when xine is connected to vdr. I thought i could do that playing priorities. Could you give a little explanation on how i could do that ? TIA. --

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