vdr February 2005

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"device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver", how to diagnose the problem?
by Lucian Muresan 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi folks, I'm pulling mai hair off with this. I have only installed a new gentoo (stock gentoo 2.6.10 kernel, DVB drivers for my Nova-S from this kernel), nptl enabled (I still have the old gentoo on another partition, nptl-enabled, too, where VDR works, for what I'm doing with VDR until now, I never had these famous NPTL-related problems), only this time udev-enabled. Well, after figuring out how to setup the dvb devices with udev in /dev/dvb/, I thought all was set, I copyed my old /… [View More]

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can't get lock on Astra 19.2
by tony 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi, I watched some German TV a few days ago while playing with config stuff. I can no longer get a lock on anything at 19.2E. I guess that it is just me but still... Can't understand what might have gone wrong Tony Grant

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can't get xine plugin to work
by Simon Baxter 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

I've installed the vdr-xine plugin "2005-02-13: Version 0.7.1" When xine starts I can see some vdr references : xine --verbose=2 load_plugins: plugin /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/post/xineplug_post_vdr.so found load_plugins: plugin /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_inp_vdr.so found but when vdr starts, there's an error. I start xine in one window then ./vdr -w 60 -Pxine and /var/log/messages looks like : Feb 20 20:06:54 nzbaxters vdr[6491]: VDR version 1.2.6 started Feb 20 20:… [View More]

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vdr 1.3.21
by Simon Baxter 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

I've complied a new version of VDR. Am running FC3 and executed the following just as a test : [root@nzbaxters vdr-1.3.21test]# cat $LANG en_GB.iso8859-1 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 export LC_CTYPE="en_GB@euro" ulimit -Sc1000000000 ./vdr vdr: please turn off UTF-8 before starting VDR Is UTF-8 being referenced somewhere else?

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scan sat / update channels.conf
by OlfaX 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

hi all, i want to scan sat to generate an update channels.conf for vdr, "usage: scan [options...] [-c | initial-tuning-data-file] " if i use "-c" scan current transponder, when i don't know how to scan all transpornder, i must precise "initial-tuning-data-file", but i dont know what to give for astra or hotbird. please help olfax No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 18/02/2005

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latest VDR src ??
by Simon Baxter 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

where can I get the latest sourcecode for vdr?

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vdr 1.2.6 and 1.3.17
by Simon Baxter 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

This is the first time I'v tried to get VDR working. Have a budget card (with no decoder) so had to extend xine with the vdr plugins. This seems to be working. when I run "xine --verbose=2" I can see the vdr drivers being loaded. Next step get VDR working I've followed all the xine plugin directions and got as far as ./runvdr "'-Pxine -r'" in the INSTALL [root@nzbaxters VDR]# ./runvdr "'-Pxine -r'" /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc4: No such file or directory head: cannot open … [View More]

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LNB-sharing for DiSEqC [BETA]
by Matthias Lötzke 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hello! Due to public demand I included DiSEqC support into the configurable LNB-sharing patch. This feature is beta and still needs testing. Please try the patch at: http://www.xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/BETA2-configurableLNB… The developement depends on your detailed feedback, because I have no posibility to test the patch myself. Matthias.

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RE: [vdr] OT: Best DVI Video Card for Xine
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

> I'm getting a 43" Pioneer 435XDE plasma TV delivered and want > to connect to it using the HDMI connection - obviously it > will be much better quality and capable of delivering High > Definition. Has anyone done this before? Yes. With DVI/HDMI the quality is superb. All the defects of DVB-picture are _too_ visible. With HDTV material system is great.. :-) But just to note, your display cannot make HDTV 720p resolution. Native resolution is 1024x768, 720p is 1280x720. But … [View More]they advertise it being HD ready, so it should understand HDTV timings. > What's the best way to do it and the best video card (I guess > a DVI based card with a DVI->HDMI cable??) I use NVIDIA cards, which have full XXMC / XVMC acceleration with X11. My system is DVI->DVI cable to Sony projector. I tried Radeon 9200 -card with DVI, but I could not get picture with 10m cable. NVIDIA worked instantly. > Do people generally use X11 to display the output from VDR > xine, or do people use framebuffer? If so, which card has > acceleration best supported? I'd say NVIDIA card has best acceleration (MPEG-playback) support for X servers. It includes 2048x2048 XV overlays for HDTV support if card is new enough (Geforce 3 I think is the oldest model, but I might be wrong). Lot of people are running with G400 series card, but I think it doesn't allow accelerated HDTV playback. But for SDTV it is ok. > Are there any problems with aspect ratio, how does this work > and what's the best X11 set-up if using X? Is the desktop > properly hidden? vdr-xine manages aspect ratios automatically. And on full screen mode desktop is hidden. I hope VDR could do aspect ratio thing this via signal tweaking (dreambox always 16:9-mode) or WSS-signals. My setup isn't the best, I run standard KDE desktop and it works. But it is a bit heavy system.. :-) Initial trials I made with TVWM which worked ok. You just need to make a decision how you want to drive your plasma TV: - 1080i, probably TV's deinterlacer generates progressive frames with low VDR cpu - 720p, xine has to make deinterlace => eats cpu cycles - native 1:1 resolution of plasma TV => same as 720p Also Europeans sucked at defining 50Hz HDTV-modes (IMHO), not neccessarily you TV-set supports that. Major HDTV material is 60Hz or 24fps, and now for us it needs to be downconverted, because it was decided by 'idiots'. With PAL we got a larger resolution with 50Hz system compared to NTSC on similar video bandwidth. But with 720p/50 or 1080i/50 we do not gain anything. Just degraded quality. Ok, enough whining. So your plasma might not support 1080i @ 50Hz, so euro-DVB video might judder. This information should be found on manual or net. SMPTE 296M-2001 (720p/50Hz) modeline is already archived at vdr mailing list. I also have SMPTE 274M timings (1080i/50). ATSC 60Hz modelines are available on multiple places at Net. Best regards, Jori [View Less]

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vdr 1.3.21 & bitstreamout
by Esa Viitala 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

Hi, Has anyone patched bitstreamout 0.61f to work with vdr 1.3.21 (or any version after .18)? ..Esa

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