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[Announce] MobileVDR 0.0.2
by Manuel Hartl 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

moin link: http://projects.hartl-it.de/?view=1 bug fixes and included a INSTALL-HOWTO. bye manuel.

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[ANNOUNCE] vdradmin-0.97-am2b
by Andreas Mair 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi, I've just released VDRAdmin-0.97-am2b at http://andreas.vdr-developer.org which is a 0.97-am2 including complete French translation which has been submitted by Trois Six. Regards, Andreas

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RE: [vdr] MSI MS-6215
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

> >>>Finally, does anyone have any good ideas to minimise dust entry to > >>>the machine other than putting the machine inside a cabinet. > > > > Dust covers which are sold or shred a vacuum cleaner bag as > a DIY project. > > I tried this, but airflow is very impacted. It's better to > have naturally low airflow (low fan speed) than to put a > barrier on the path (air will pass elsewhere, and will > accumulate dust where you don't expect it : in the DVD-tray > opening, near the connector palates, etc.) Probably this is the case, but I meant if you have fan sucking air in, then put such cover beneath finger protector or between two finger protectors. But I was just a suggesting, probably someone have ruled it out, because fan might heat more by trying to suck a vacuum. Or vacuum cleaners have ~1kW motors because of reason. I second you if you have just fans pushing air out. System will suck air from 'easiers' point available. But dust is the most common material in universe.. :) You cannot get rid of it easily.

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RE: [vdr] MythTV vs. linvdr
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

> I'm considering setting up a PVR. Could someone suggest which > software might be best for me. For example, how does linvdr > compare to MythTv? I am not 100% sure about this, but linvdr supports only full featured DVB-hardware as tv-out. For using MS-6215 capabilities for TV-out you would need so called soft-device (vdr-softdevice or vdr-xine) plugins. But this is no problem if you already have FF DVB-card or you are willing to invest on more expensive card (> 200 Euros). MythTV is build for computer video output, which can be redirected to TV-out. Better support for other media's than just MPEG1/2-video stream. Second point might be are you European? Europe utilizes DVB-standard, and MythTV isn't as good as VDR on it. Still might be beta support. On hardware side MythTV needs more memory and other resources. CPU MPEG decoding, SQL databases etc. So if you are european and require nice 'VCR' I'd go for VDR-based solution. With one DVB-card you can record multiple channels as long as they are on single transponder (frequency, polarity, modulation). And with multiple cards you can record multiple transponders. (All DVB types uses transponders). If you are willing to setup a bit more, ditch the linvdr and install your favorite linux distro, DVB driver, LIRC and VDR-software. Then the plugins you need. Best regards, Jori

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MythTV vs. linvdr
by xzzyx＠hotmail.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I'm considering setting up a PVR. Could someone suggest which software might be best for me. For example, how does linvdr compare to MythTv? How mature are both? Do I need to be a German speaker to setup LinVDR? I'm intend to buy a digital tuner for use with a 2nd hand MSI MS-6215 (possibly utilising the oboard video and TV-out). Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, Andrew

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Web Admin tool
by norm＠dressler.ca 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi all, I'm looking for a web tool similar to vdradmin but lists the epg in a table format like many popular dvb receivers. Basically, a timeline across the top and the channels down the side. I really like the functions of VDR admin but showing what's coming up isn't intuitive. Anyone have anything like that? Norm

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Help: USALS -
by Andrey Vlassov 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi, I am looking for information about "How can I drive USALS STAB HH motor?". Is anybody has such configuration? It looks that some support was added in February/April 2004 http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2004-April/020929.html http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UnderDevelopment http://linvdr.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/02/msg00000.html http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/01-2004/msg00962.html http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2002/09-2002/msg00986.html What is the current state of the plug-in? I am in particulary looking if possible to enter in setup my location and let the motor to position dish to the satellite. Is it possible? If yes, where should I look further? If not, how can I help to implement it? Thanks, Andy

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Q::Recording several channels from one transpoder at the same time
by Andrey Vlassov 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi, on internet I came accross a post which stated that with budget card the user was able to record several channels at the same time. In the same post user said that it is impossible with Nexus-s. I guess that it should be possible in vdr as well. How such task can be acomplished.? Andy

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Help: Twinhan VP-1022a
by Andrey Vlassov 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi, I am looking for a help with Twinhan Vision Plus 1022a DVB card. Upto this moment I didn't had any luck with this board. So far I tried to configure it in Windows 2000, Windows Media Center and Linux. In windows envirovment Twinhan recommends to ignore installaton of drivers when windows find a new hardware (this is what I did) and use their installer which will install the drivers (this is what I did). On next restart the installer should continue and find the card but it never worked for me :( and software refused to install. I found that windows can see hardware (Hardware Manager) but can not install software as from software point of view the card is not present in the computer. (It is brand new card) I was looking on internet for information how this card can be configured in Linux. So far I found that the card will hang the system with standard 878 driver (and it does with knoppix 3.3 -- knoppix 3.7 can not boot on my computer by some unknown reason). As I understood to make this card work it will require to patch kernel driver for 878 chip driver. At the same time Fedora Core 2 can boot with this card but I do not know what I should do after that. Does FC2 has driver for this card? Is it possible to make it work? Now about system and what already work: 1. AMD 1.2GHz CPU 2. 512MB RAM 3. FC 2 OS 4. Nexus-S 5. Driver for Nexus-S 6. Scanned transporders on Telstar5 7. Tuned to FTA channel and got video/sound 8. vdr is running and able switch channels 9. location: North America -- Canada Now a few remarks about problems I found: 1. vdr refused to compile complaining about DVB_API_VERSION 3 although I run "makelinks". To solve the problem I had to modify dvbdevice.h (do not remember at this moment correct name) and put full path in include #includ </usr/local/linux/include/linux/dvb/version.h> 2. If I tune on crypted channel or radio channel I am getting "rolling screen" -- I see that name of the channel and time string roll over screen. -- Is there a fix for this problem. Thanks in advance for any help, and I would not mind if somebody will push me in right direction to make this card work. Andy

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HELP::Scan::Satellite/Transpoder/Channel - North America
by Andrey Vlassov 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi, I am sorry if this question can sounds a stupid but I still will ask it as it can save a tons of time to me and may be some other people. I got a test run for VDR and found that it looks very nice. But what I found quite unconvenient is finding stranspoders for available satellites for North America. Procedure which I run through is 1. Go to http://www.satcodx.com or http://www.lyngsat.com 2. Manually create a file with transpoders for "scan" program from dvb-apps package 3. Scan a satellite to create channels.conf file 4. Use channels.conf with vdr The problem with this procedure is that it consumes a lot of time just to retype transpoders for each satellite. I could spend some time to write a utility in perl to retrieve this information from two above websites. But I would expect that such utility could exist already. It could happen that somebody wrote an utility which could scan satellite itself to get transpoders as it done in standalone receivers. Could somebody give an input on this subject? If such utility exists I could look into automatisation of this procedure. At the moment I found that there is a plugin which allow control dish through USALS. I could use some script/program which would position dish sequentially at visible satellites and then scan for transpoder/channels and store this information in database. I could make this database available on internet so that other people had access to it as well. In return people at their location could run same script/utility and upload their data into database. As time will go we will have a very good database which can be used at installation time so that user enter his location and script/program will generate required config files for transpoders/channels. I am new to vdr and probably this alredy could be done but I do not know about it yet. What information available for this subject which I should learn? Thanks, Andy

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