vdr April 2005

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29 Apr '05

All, I'd like to copy my favourite DVD to harddisc. I copied the contents to a directory and used -C in the DVD-plugin to point not to /dev/dvd anymore. Plugin refused to work because of some hardware checks which fail ... no wonder, it is an directory and no dvd drive ... Manually invoking mplayer works only partially and mplayer expects the single vob files to be submitted. Same when starting mplayer by the VDR menu with according mplayersorces.conf entry. Are there any suggestions how to have DVD Playback with navigation and the DVD's Menu under VDR _without_ having the disc in drive but any kind of files/images on harddisc ? Any hint appreciated! Cheers, Ralf

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Darren Salt's vdr-dev Debian packages does not include /usr/include/vdr/patchlevel
by Nicolas Huillard 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hello, The debian/rules of that source package generates the debian/patchlevel file for inclusion into debian/vdr-dev/usr/include/vdr/patchlevel, but does that *after* the creation of the vdr-dev binary-indep package... The following added dependency solves that : 106 # Build architecture-independent files here. 107 binary-indep: build install 108 dh_testdir -i ... "debian/rules" 158 lines (This tiny bug prevents recompiling Tobias source packages with Darren vdr-dev) -- NH

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RE: [vdr] 1.3.15: VDSB errors when recording
by christian jacobsen 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hallo, > Hmmm - my SUSE 9.0 VDR has only the FF card while the 9.2 system has 2 > budget cards (FSC Activy and a Skystar2). On the 9.0 system I use the > linuxtv-1.1.1 DVB drivers. Since I could not get these to > compile on the > 9.2 system I'm using the DVB drivers that come with the SUSE > 9.2 kernel > (latest YOU one). Sorry for tha late answer, not reading so offen. On the Suse 9.0 system you could try a newer version from here (contains the VDSB Fix from Olive - see below) : http://www.linuxdvb.tv/download/ The bug was Fixed by Oliver - see here : http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=28559 On the 9.2 system I would recommend a newer kernel and a DVB-Kernel CVS driver. See : http://www.linuxtv.org/cvs.php Not sure, maybe the CVS Driver compiles on a Suse 9.2 kernel !? At least you could try that ;) I am using Suse 9.1 with Kernel 2.6.10 and a CVS Driver from 24.03.2005 and it runs _very stable_ with 2xFF (1.6 and 1.3) and VDR 1.3.20 - 1.3.23 :) Not sure what DVB Driver date one should use for the Skystar - maybe somone can recommend one ? If you are not used to cvs then you can get another version by date this way : cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -D "2005-03-24 23:21" dvb-kernel That was the time when I got my CVS Driver ;) Greetings Christian Jaobsen

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Upgrading from DXR3 to FF, and not happy
by Markku Tavasti 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

I lost my temper with crashes with dxr3, and now I have DVB-S FF (Technotrend 1.3) to be used as output only. Here are pros and cons: + display is not getting messed with OSD/mp3 plugin + no more hard crashes where conputer needs reset. VDR watchdog takes care - Jammed and killed by watchdog all the time. I had problems with DXR3, but now usability is worse. After pressing back from viewing recoderd program 50% it gets jammed and watchdog restart. There was recording running at the same time, and also noad running (with nice). - Picture, all colors are too bright. I need to adjust brigtness, color and contrast (and still not happy). I suppose this would need some module parameter, but did not had time to study this far. - After boot vdr thinks volume is 0, and when I start adjusting volume, for 0.5s it is FULL, then it gets to where it should be. My system is P350, 224M memory, vdr 1.3.23, 2.4 kernel, dvb-kernel drivers from CVS ~2 weeks ago (needed CVS version for Airstar2) I was expecting to get stable usable system by getting FF card, but no way. Any ideas what might the problem be: - Too slow CPU - 2.4 kernel, everybody uses 2.6 ? - Using DVB-S as output only is bad idea - Bad HW (computer or DVB-FF) - Bad DVB driver version - Bad VDR version - Bad luck - Nothing broken, this is the way it is for everybody. I should use more M$-products to get to used crashes -- M. Tavasti / tavasti(a)tavastisolutions.com / +358-40-5078254

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FATAL: Module dvb not found.
by Nicolas Huillard 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hello, I was wondering why my runvdr program does not reload the DVB kernel modules (Skystar2), and found that I lacked a /etc/modutils/dvb describing what modules the "dvb" alias represents (Debian). I created the following one from a dvb-ttpci one : root@vdr:/etc# cat /etc/modutils/dvb probeall /dev/dvb skystar2 alias char-major-250 dvb alias dvb skystar2 below skystar2 alps_bsrv2 alps_tdmb7 alps_tdlb7 add below skystar2 grundig_29504-401 grundig_29504-491 add below skystar2 stv0299 ves1820 But I still can't load the modules : root@vdr:/etc# modprobe dvb FATAL: Module dvb not found. Questions : * is the syntax of the /etc/modutils/dvb correct ? * what must I do after modifying the file (I did update-modules.modutils and update-modules, even depmod) I usually run the following and they're in memory, but runvdr doesn't reload them like this : modprobe skystar2; modprobe stv0299 -- NH

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DXR3 broken audio frames / subtitles get lost
by Jukka Tastula 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I keep getting these nasty _loud_ high pitch noises whenever broken data comes out of the dvb card. As it appears absolutely impossible to get so strong signal that there are never any errors in the stream I think it would be nice if the plugin could just ignore the broken audio frames instead of trying to decode them. I get the feeling this is actually a "feature" in libavcodec as I get the exact same behaviour when playing recordings with mplayer using the ffmp2 codec. With mp3lib, however, everything is fine. This is definitely the number one on my list of annoying features and I don't understand why no one has ever brought it up before. Maybe because no one ever thought it would even be possible to fix? Have I missed something? Is there a patch for ffmpeg/libavcodec I forgot to put in? The other bug I feel is worth mentioning is that the dvb subtitles disappear after a while (20 minutes maybe) when playing a recording. What makes it interesting is that this never seems to happen when watching a live broadcast (or maybe it just takes over 2 hours or something). This is really a minor annoyance, though. It doesn't happen all the time and when it does all it takes to fix it is to quit the recording and start it again. Two buttons to push. But still, bug is a bug. Other than that the GetSTC patch really does its job beautifully. The subtitles are always perfectly in sync even after seeking and long pauses. No more tweaking the timing manually and changing it all the time when playing a recording.

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DXR3 WSS patch
by Stuart Morris 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hello For those that are not aware, Seppo Ingalsuo's em8300-adv7170-wss (Wide Screen Signaling) patch works only with DXR3 cards with the ADV7170 TV encoder device to produce the line23 WSS signal for PAL TV. For those of us unfortunate enough to have a DXR3 card with a BT865 TV encoder chip, the WSS patch will not work because the BT865 is incapable of producing line23 WSS for PAL TV (Google "bt864a/bt865a errata"). I would like to ask the DXR3 plugin developers if an alternative could be devised whereby for BT865 DXR3 cards some general purpose hardware pin could be toggled between 12Volts(4:3) and 6Volts(16:9) to emulate a pin8 Peritel/SCART wide screen signal? Many thanks to all of the DXR3-plugin and EM8300 driver developers. The driver and plugin have recently improved dramatically. Special thanks to Ville Skyttä for providing the very useful "Unofficial Hollywood+/DXR3 patches and CVS snapshots". Stuart Morris Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Creating Keymap for remote-plugin (receiver on nexus-s)
by devzero 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I'am using the remote plugin with the keymap "alles.rc5", found on vdr-portal.de. Now I'm going to use another remote but I need to create an new keymap, because the keys are not defined. I found somewhere on the net, that u must load the modul dvb-ttpci with the parameter av7110_irdebug=1 or something (don't really know at the moment) - but this doesnt work any longer. I'am using a 2.6 kernel with the dvb cvs-kernel from april 15th. dev0 root # modinfo dvb-ttpci parmtype: debug:int parm: debug:debug level (bitmask, default 0) that's the only debug thing i can select, but there are no entries for the keymap in syslog. I need the keycodes in syslog while pressing the buttons on the remote to create the keymap. How? thx and cu /devzero

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RE: [vdr] hard lifetime feature
by Vladimir Shved 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I'm not really interested, but I would like to have it just for collection, in case I'll need it in the future... :) --Vlad > -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces(a)linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf > Of Husterer, Thomas RD-CP1 > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:09 AM > To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR > Subject: [vdr] hard lifetime feature > > > Hi, > > I use vdr to view the ´tagesschau´ some time delayed every day. > This leads to a collection of many recordings of this program > but I am only interested in viewing the last one. > Therefore I wished that old recordings disappear after some > days to retain my overview and to increase my operating comfort. > I thought that the parameter ´lifetime´ would be a solution for > this problem, but this parameter is only a very soft hint to the > vdr to kill some programs if it needs the disk space. > To fullfill my requirements I modified vdr in that way that it > kills programs after expiry of the given lifetime without > any ifs and buts. > The only condition is that the given lifetime lies below some > limit (like 10 days). > I added a new setup parameter ´hard-lifetime-limit´ which lets > you control this limit. > By default this parameter is zero and the vdr behaves like > before. > If you increase this value then any lifeteme which lies below > this limit is treated as a hard lifetime limit and programs are > killed in the described manner. > > Is anybody interested in this patch? > > > Regards, thus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr(a)linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

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cursor positioning with wrap
by Husterer, Thomas RD-CP1 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi, while using the vdr I missed the following feature: When using the vdr-menus I often have to move to the end of the menu-list but the cursor normally appears on the first menuitem. In this case I wanted to jump from the first item directly to the last item. This could be implemented as wrap-feature in the cursor-up-down methods. After this change I noticed a little loss of orientation when I moved through the whole menu-list with the autoscroll cursor. The time delays of screen update and of the remotecontrol leaded to confusing wraps at the end of the menu. This could be solved by watching timeouts before the wrap-around is executed. This means that the wrap is only done when the cursor keys are pressed slowly (without auto repeat). My orientation was then increased by another modification which ensures a strict pagination. This means that a page starts always at the same item regardless of any cursor or page movement, at the last Page are shown only some remaining items. It is not filled by moving the contents towards the bottom of the screen. Page starts are always at indices i*PAGELENGTH. There is the possibility of showing some overlapping items by reducing the PAGELENGTH by M and show M items of the next page at the generated free space at the end of the screen. Is anybody interested in these features? How shall this behaviour be activated? Via setup or via compiler switches? I could generate a patch but the customization code is still missing. Regards, thus

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