vdr March 2005

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EPIA SP + budget hardware mpeg2/4 acceleration?
by Leo Márquez 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi all! I'm thinking to buy a EPIA SP (when it's be available) to work with VDR. My question is if VDR can use EPIA SP mpeg2 and mpeg4 accelerator that provides the CN400 chipset that comes with EPIA SP or I have to wait someone to develope a VDR plugins and linux drivers for CN400 chipset (I think it's inlcuded in 2.6 kernels). I want to use a budget card and save some money but I don't want use softdevice because EPIA SP provide the CN400 with this functionality. I hope you understand my explanations. Sorry about my english. Leo.

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Tivo patent info
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

clip clip Converge! Network Digest 02-March-2005 Volume 12, Number 039 TIVO GRANTED EIGHT NEW DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PATENTS The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued new patents to TiVo covering important aspects of DVR software and hardware design. TiVo also announced that it has obtained an exclusive license to an early DVR-related patent and has been granted Japanese and Chinese patents. Today's announcement brings TiVo's patent portfolio to 70 granted patents (domestic and foreign). In addition, TiVo has 106 domestic and foreign patent applications pending. Some of these include: * U.S. patent number 6,850,691, entitled Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System, describing a system that compensates for a user's reaction time when the user stops fast-forwarding or rewinding through program material. * U.S. patent number 6,847,778, entitled Multimedia Visual Progress Indication System, which describes, among other things, methods for displaying a trick play bar to a user which visually indicates the amount of stored program material or the length of a recording session as well as the user's current position within the stored program material. * U.S. patent number 6,792,195, entitled Method and Apparatus Implementing Random Access and Time-Based Functions on a Continuous Stream of Formatted Digital Data, which describes methods of controlling streaming media in a digital device, including the functions that enable DVRs to pause live TV as well as rewind, fast-forward, play, play faster, play slower, and play in reverse television signals cached by the DVR. * TiVo has also acquired the exclusive right to license and enforce U.S. patent number 5,241,428 entitled Variable- Delay Video Recorder known in the industry as the Goldwasser Patent. Filed in March 1991, the Goldwasser Patent is one of the earliest patents regarding digital video recorders of which TiVo is aware. This patent covers devices that permit the simultaneous recording and playback of video material with a variable time delay between recording and playback of a given video program segment. http://www.tivo.com 01-Mar-05

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Increase remote timeout?
by C.Y.M 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

What variable would I set to increase the time to enter numbers with the remote control before they timeout? I find that I have to enter the numbers really fast or vdr will switch channels before Im done pressing the keys. Best Regards,

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-osdteletext-0.4.2
by Marcel Wiesweg 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, it is time for another maintenance release. Changelog: - fixes for double-high characters, scaling and localization (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for his patch edition) - adapted to VDR API >= 1.3.18, reentrancy fixes - added Spanish and Catalan translation (thanks to Luca Olivetti) - create stored files with 644 permissions (suggested by Andreas Brachold) The new version is available from: http://www.wiesweg-online.de/linux/vdr/vdr-osdteletext-0.4.2.tgz Marcel

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[PATCH] Experiments with a dxr3 and the xine plugin
by Luca Olivetti 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Yesterday I was bored and tried to use the xine plugin instead of the dxr3 plugin. It works, it doesn't need more cpu than the dxr3 plugin (maybe a little more memory) *but* the osd is missing some colours (xine limits the number of colours to 4 for the dxr3 display, I think that it's the supposed limit, even if the dxr3 plugin manages to get more than that), the yaepg plugin only shows the summary (not the grid) and my plugin ;-) doesn't show at all. Anyway, the scaling of the osd is *much* better than what's provided in the dxr3 plugin, so I "transplanted" there some of the xine routines. Unfortunately I only managed to adapt the ScaleBitmapLQ (as in "Low Quality") and not the ScaleBitmapHQ one (the latter gives *very* good results with the xine plugin, the former only "good enough", pity for the missing colours). Note also that it does take care for the (rare) channels that have a different vertical resolution (the original dxr3 plugin always uses 576 lines), so I had to change some other files to get the vertical resolution from the pes frames. Here's the patch against the fully patched version at http://cachalot.mine.nu/src/dxr3/ There's also a little thing totally unrelated: a rate refresh limit, since the osd goes berserk here if it's refreshed too often. If you don't need it or don't like the delay simply change the #define FLUSHRATE 50 (that's 50ms) in dxr3osd_subpicture.h to #define FLUSHRATE 0 Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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after posting on the forum - burn and vdrsync gui
by tony 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

HEEEEELLLPPPP!!!! =;-D I feel better now. I can't get burn plugin to compile or vdrsync gui to work. I must be doing something wrong. vdrsync works. If this interests anybody the error messages are on the forum in the German threads and maybe even international. TIA as always Cheers Tony

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bitstreamout Plugin 0.70
by Tilo Jandt 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, today i tried to compile the bitstreamout plugin but it do not work. i'll get the following error: fernsehkiste:/usr/src/VDR# make plugins make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/vdr-1.3.18/PLUGINS/src/bitstreamout' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vdr-1.3.18/PLUGINS/src/bitstreamout' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/vdr-1.3.18/PLUGINS/src/bitstreamout' bitstreamout Version 0.70 g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include bitstreamout.c g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include iec60958.c g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include ac3.c g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include dts.c g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include lpcm.c g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../../../include -I../DVB/include channel.c channel.c: In static member function `static bool cChannelOutSPDif::GetCurrentAudioTrack(uint_16&, const char*&, cChannel*)': channel.c:993: error: `MAXDPIDS' undeclared (first use this function) channel.c:993: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [channel.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/vdr-1.3.18/PLUGINS/src/bitstreamout' make: *** [plugins] Error 2 does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? cya, Tilo

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RE: [vdr] question about vdr-vdrcd
by christian jacobsen 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hallo, > I have a quick question about the vdr-vdrcd plugin. In the readme and > on Sascha Volkenandt's website, I read that this plugin "makes (at > least) the two entries VCD and DVD obsolete, and that's why you can > disable them in the latest versions" AND "If the type of > media is known > and an appropriate PlugIn is loaded, it starts it". > > I assume this means the dvd and vcd entries in the main menu can be > disabled, not that I don't need to load the plugins at vdr > startup. Is > this correct? You must load all the Plugins the same way as you normally would (with all necessary options) and then you can go to setup and disable the Main Menu entry. Gretings Christian Jacobsen

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question about vdr-vdrcd
by Jeremy Jones 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hello, I have a quick question about the vdr-vdrcd plugin. In the readme and on Sascha Volkenandt's website, I read that this plugin "makes (at least) the two entries VCD and DVD obsolete, and that's why you can disable them in the latest versions" AND "If the type of media is known and an appropriate PlugIn is loaded, it starts it". I assume this means the dvd and vcd entries in the main menu can be disabled, not that I don't need to load the plugins at vdr startup. Is this correct? If I do need to load the dvd and vcd plugins, with what options? If I load the dvd plugin with options like "-C /mnt/dvd/0" and "-C /mnt/dvd/1", and there is no dvd in the drives to be mounted by automount, vdr will not start. Let's say I have two dvd drives, at /dev/dvd0 and /dev/dvd1. I setup automount thus: auto.master: /mnt/music /etc/auto.music /mnt/dvd /etc/auto.dvd /mnt/cdrom /etc/auto.cdrom in auto.music: 0 -fstype=cdfs :/dev/dvd0 1 -fstype=cdfs :/dev/dvd1 in auto.dvd: 0 -fstype=udf :/dev/dvd0 1 -fstype=udf :/dev/dvd1 in auto.cdrom: 0 -fstype=iso9660 :/dev/dvd0 1 -fstype=iso9660 :/dev/dvd1 To use this plugin to listen to audio cds, watch dvds, and watch vcds, I think I should load the vdrcd plugin like this: -P"vdrcd -c /mnt/music/0 -c /mnt/music/1 -c /mnt/dvd/0 -c /mnt/dvd/1 -c /mnt/cdrom/0 -c /mnt/cdrom/1" Is this right? Still, what about the vcd and dvd plugins? Thanks, Jeremy

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burn-plugin: menu and sync
by Thorsten Schnebeck 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi, first time I tried the burn-plugin to copy two recordings to dvd. I only generate an ISO-image and checked this via loop-device. Later I used a separate growfs-command to generate a dvd. It is not possible to use the generated menu with my dvd-players (checked: xine, powerdvd, vdr-dvd-plugin). A second issue is, that audio and video of the second recording are nearly one second out of sync. When I play the vdr-file sync is fine. Are these known problems? Especially the menu-stuff is annoying. Bye Thorsten

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