vdr November 2005

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[PATCH] suspend output adapted for vdr 1.3.35
by Marko Mäkelä 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I adapted my "suspend" patch for vdr 1.3.35, since one of the context lines has changed between vdr 1.3.34 and 1.3.35. The updated patch is available at http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/software/vdr/#suspend In its current form, the patch is mostly useful for the users of the softdevice plugin. The patch does not suspend output of full-featured cards displaying live stream, nor does it blank the screen (which softdevice does after a timeout). OSD translations are welcome. Currently, the OSD is available in Finnish, English, German, Swedish and French. Marko Mäkelä

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collecting some Information for developing VDR Plugins with KDevelop
by Patrick Fischer 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello I have written some informations for developing a VDR-Plugin with KDevelop. I think the most Plugin-developers develops the Plugin with KDevelop. So I have written a small howto. It is not complete, so I want your help :-) Maybe somebody knows some good Information ..... At the moment the howto is only written in german :-( Patrick Link http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Einrichten_einer_Entwicklungsumgebung

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RE: [vdr] [Feature request] Always prefer DolbyDigital-track
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

> > I guess the only way to resolve this in a flexible and consistent way > > is to extend the preferred language system > > Wouldn't it be natural to remember the channel selection per channel? It > will probably be a long preference list for dvb-s setups, but that's > what we have computers for.. It would, but on the other hand not every movie on particular channels has DD/DTS tracks. So you'd still end up manually switching sound tracks? -- There should be an option in DVB specs: Original movie soundtrack (If movie is French, then soundtrack would be in French, in English ....). Generally I don't want to hear dubbed soundtracks. Only actors whose face is on the picture and name is on the end titles is qualified to speak to me, not some bad dubbing actor. Generally if movie is in French, I can follow the movie from subtitles (ttxt or dvb). If it doesn't have subtitles, perhaps then dubbed soundtrack is possible. Now for original soundtrack I'd always want best possible soundtrack: DTS,DD,MPEG2. And to mix things up, if DTS is 2.0 (if some format is standardized?) and DD is 5.1, I'd probably want DD5.1. Or if there is DD2.0 and DD5.1 then 5.1. But some ppl has different preferences (only 2.0 equipment for example). So _my_ chain would probably be: DTS5.1, DD5.1, DTS2.0, DD2.0, MPEG2 Then the audio language: - original, english, finnish, swedish So somekind of matrix combining subtitling languages, preferred languages what user can understand, info if subtitles are burned into picture etc. But it is a shame that providers use DVB languages incorrectly. Finnish spoken movie with DD5.1 in finnish is on English-marked audio track, and mpeg2 audio on finnish audio track. In Finland national broadcast company uses "dut" (Dutch) as speech-synth spoken subtitling audio track. So people with reading problems can hear what subtitles are saying, and with original soundtrack faded on the background.

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Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T card problems
by Andrew Herron 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi there, I am new to VDR and to DVB-T and I have been trying to configure VDR 1.3.34to work with 2 Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T cards under Debian (kernel 2.6.13) and have run into some problems. Can someone confirm that the output of dmesg (below) looks to be ok in respect of the NOVA-T cards? dmesg output; cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:02:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:02:0a.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:02:0a.4 cx88[0]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected] TV tuner 4 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe cx88[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=90002, tuner=76 cx88[0]: registered IR remote control cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:02:0a.0, rev: 5, irq: 5, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf4000000 cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.7 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:0b.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:02:0b.4 cx88[1]: subsystem: 0070:9002, board: Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T [card=18,autodetected] TV tuner 4 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe cx88[1]: hauppauge eeprom: model=90002, tuner=76 cx88[1]: registered IR remote control cx88[1]/0: found at 0000:02:0b.0, rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf1000000 cx88[1]/0: registered device video1 [v4l2] cx88[1]/0: registered device vbi1 cx2388x blackbird driver version 0.0.5 loaded When we run w_scan to generate channels.conf we get the following error; moon2:/tmp/w_scan# ./w_scan -o3 >> /var/lib/vdrdevel/channels.conf Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. Info: unable to open frontend /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' Info: unable to open frontend /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0' Info: unable to open frontend /dev/dvb/adapter2/frontend0' Info: unable to open frontend /dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0' main:1779: FATAL: ***** NO USEABLE DVB CARD FOUND. ***** Please check wether dvb driver is loaded and verify that no dvb application (i.e. vdr) is running. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andrew

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[Feature request] Always prefer DolbyDigital-track
by Antti Hartikainen 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi. I'll repeat myself as it seems that nobody read my last message posted few weeks ago. I can't find feature that prefers always Dolby Digital/DTS track, even there it's not preferred language (on dolby digital), and there is MPEG track in preferred languages. Some channels (like canal+) has 4 MPEG audio tracks (fin, swe, nor, dan) and one DD-track (which is eng or nor, depending on channel). I have 2 preferred languages; finnish as primary and english as secondary. VDR always chooses finnish MPEG-audio as default audio track. Setting norwegian as preferred track is not an option, as there are many mpeg-only channels that have norwegian audio. Setting english as primary language worked for such channels that have dolby track as "english" language. I would like to _ALWAYS_ prefer dolby digital (if present) track as default, even if it's not on preferred languages. I tried to patch this myself and got dolby digital selected if present, but got no audio (or crashed =) at all if there wasn't dd track available =)

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xmltv2vdr timeout
by tony 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi Now that ITV is FTA I have started updating my xmltv2vdr setup. I updated xmltv to the latest version. I have removed all old files and am using a correct channels.conf etc. My gb.xml file grabbed from radio times is 13 Mb and xmltv2vdr is timing out on "Connect to SVDRP socket" Any ideas? Cheers Tony -- Tony Grant www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA Epia-M

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Re: Fw: [vdr] Hollywood+ card working??
by michaelip＠free.fr 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Selon Christian Balzer <christian-balzer(a)gmx.de>: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christian Balzer > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:56 AM > Subject: Re: [vdr] Hollywood+ card working?? > > > > > michaelip(a)free.fr schrieb: > Selon Christian Balzer <christian-balzer(a)gmx.de>: > > Hi Michael, > > - the drivers are loaded > - i installed FFMPEG manually, but i thought that the c't vdr managed > the installation of all needed hollywood+ stuff correctly. Anyway, the > installation of ffmpeg didn't change anything > > When i try "mplayer -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -vo dxr3 dvd://1" i can see > the DVD via the h+ card. So now i know that is not broken. But i cant't > imagine, what's wrong when i try to disply the vdr ... > > Christian > > > michaelip(a)free.fr schrieb: > > Selon Lars Bläser <lars.blaeser(a)lycosxxl.de>: > > > > Christian Balzer wrote: > > > second a dum question: where can I change the primary device? I found > various discussions about the primary device but i didn't find anything > about where to set this. In which configure file is this done??? > > > hi, > > to be certain that the h+ is working you could have a look at the init > parameters of the dxr3 drivers, there is a picture generator function > intergrated (can´t remember witch module, its to long ago) > > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr(a)linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > > > > Christian, > > A Hollywood+ card needs some specific drivers to be loaded prior to use it ! > If your TV is flickering when loading the drivers, it seems that you have > some > drivers... Meanwhile, the TV screen should normally (often) became grren > for > a > while, before displaying the channel you're watching ! > > So that, could you please look at the following: > > 1. If you display loaded modules (bash command is lsmod), do you see the > em8300 > drivers ? > 2. Do you have FFMPEG installed correctly ? EM8300 drivers needs that ! > > EM8300 is the driver used to manage the Hollywood+ card. > > More informations about installing/using the DXR3 plugin is located at > http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Dxr3-plugin > > PS: Before changing the setup.conf file for changing the primary device, > make > sure that vdr is not working ! > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr(a)linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > > > > > > Ok. Your card and cable are working fine ! Nice ! > > So now let's try changing the setup.conf ! But bne sure that vdr is stopped > before changing the file as vdr saves the setup.conf file before leaving > (well, > that's what I noticed !)... > > By the way, before doing that ! Did you load the DXR3 plugin when starting > vdr ? > Because even if you use the wrong primary device for input, you should at > least > see the OSD on the TV ! > > Hope it helps. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr(a)linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > I tried to change settings in the setup.conf with a stopped vdr. But it > didn't work. :-( > Even the OSD is not displayed. I get nothing expect the flickering while > drivers are loaded. > Err, the dxr3 drivers are loaded by /etc/init.d/vdr start -dxr3 or not?? > When VDR is started these are last the ouput lines: > > av7110: found av7110-0 > adv717x.o Configuring for PAL > am8300_audio.o: Analof audio enabled > em8300: Microcode version 0x29 loaded > > Christian > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr(a)linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > Christian, I not use the same command than you for starting vdr ! To load plugins, I use -Ppluginname so, for the dxr3, it is -Pdxr3 ! You should also have a look at log files in case there is more messages ! Hope it helps... but not sure !

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xmltv2vdr timeout
by Gregory Dudek 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

The problem is that xmltv2vdr sets it's timeout for the whole EPG conversion process, I think. If your xmltv2vdr conversion takes along time (due to large files, slow computer, slow network connection, slow disk, etc.) then you can get a timeout. I think the problem can be fixed by editing the file xmltv2vdr.pl and making a minor edit to the function (subroutine) ProcessEpg. Look for ProcessEpg, and the look for the code below. The line "alarm($Timeout);" needs to be inserted. It resets the timeout counter after each line of the XML file is processed. (This is a bit excessive, but fixes the problem.) foreach $xmlline (@xmllines) { chomp $xmlline; alarm($Timeout); $xmlline=xmltvtranslate($xmlline); # New XML Program - doesn't handle split programs yet Greg > > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:13:53 +0100 > From: tony <tony(a)tgds.net> > Subject: [vdr] xmltv2vdr timeout > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR <vdr(a)linuxtv.org> > Message-ID: <1130937234.9481.79.camel(a)hush.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi > > Now that ITV is FTA I have started updating my xmltv2vdr setup. I > updated xmltv to the latest version. I have removed all old files and > am > using a correct channels.conf etc. > > My gb.xml file grabbed from radio times is 13 Mb and xmltv2vdr is > timing > out on "Connect to SVDRP socket" > > Any ideas? > > Cheers > > Tony > -- > Tony Grant > www.tgds.net - vente d'ordinateurs mini-itx en ligne > www.tgds.net/epiaix1.html - A fedora Core 4 based live CD for VIA > Epia-M > >

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[PATCH] Update to Dutch language support
by Maarten Wisse 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear Klaus, please find attached a small thank you patch for VDR, with updated support for Dutch. It is a patch to 1.3.34, but I guess it will be valid for .35 too. Best regards, Maarten Wisse

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vdr 1.3.35 crashing when leaving a recording at the end
by Joachim Wilke 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi everyone, i have experienced some strange behaviour of my plain vanilla vdr. When vdr reaches the end of a replay it segfaults. Core file analysis showed the following backtrace: #0 cUnbufferedFile::Seek(long, int) (this=0x0, Offset=0, Whence=0) at tools.c:884 #1 0x080dab2c in cFileName::SetOffset(int, int) (this=0xb56a1540, Number=3, Offset=0) at recording.c:1345 #2 0x080dac5d in cFileName::NextFile() (this=0x0) at recording.c:1358 #3 0x0809d8e1 in cDvbPlayer::NextFile(unsigned char, int) (this=0xb56a1540, FileNumber=64 '@', FileOffset=0) at dvbplayer.c:306 #4 0x0809db67 in cDvbPlayer::Action() (this=0x3) at thread.h:94 #5 0x080fce56 in cThread::StartThread(cThread*) (Thread=0x3) at thread.c:234 #6 0xb7fbab63 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 It seems that vdr tries to access a reference to an cUbufferedFile object in cFileName::SetOffset which is a null pointer. The following quick and dirty hack solved the crash, but as I don't know this code deep enough it may have other side effects. --- recording.c.sav Mon Oct 31 13:27:58 2005 +++ recording.c Tue Nov 1 19:20:27 2005 @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ cUnbufferedFile *cFileName::SetOffset(in // found a non existing file suffix } if (Open() >= 0) { - if (!record && Offset >= 0 && file->Seek(Offset, SEEK_SET) != Offset) { + if (!record && Offset >= 0 && file && file->Seek(Offset, SEEK_SET) != Offset) { LOG_ERROR_STR(fileName); return NULL; } Regards, Joachim.

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