vdr May 2005

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vdr + xine 0.7.4 - now using the budget card.
by syrius.ml＠no-log.org 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, I've just upgraded from vdr-1.3.24+vdr-0.7.2 to vdr-1.3.24+vdr-0.7.2. And I've discovered vdr is now using my budget card (card #2) for live tv while it was using the ff one (card #1) before. PrimaryDVB = 3 xine.autoPrimaryDeviceMode = autoPrimaryDeviceOff I don't use the FF output at all, but I'd prefer to have the FF card used for live TV. Is there something I missed ? is there a setting for that ? (iirc, a change concerning the fact vdr prefers budget cards to record has been made in vdr but i'm not sure it's really related) Ideally I'd love that to be configurable on a channel basis. For ex in channels.conf, having the CA field set to '1,2,realCA' would make vdr prefer card #1 for live watching. (or to record) hmm but atm that's not really the point, I would prefer to make vdr+xine use the FF card for live watching. (and the budget to record). Any advice ? TIA --

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hard lifetime feature
by Husterer, Thomas RD-CP1 15 May '05

15 May '05

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

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Best Linux Distro for XDirectFB, DirectFB, softdevice? Slightly OT
by anthony hornby 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi All, I am currently using fedora core 3 as my VDR box and it has served me reasonably well. However I have just switched from using Hauppauge Nova-T & Nova-S budget cards with a Hollywood+ card and DXR3 plugin to using a Matrox G550 and softdevice+DirectFB. I want a distro that has all the latest versions of plugins ( especially femon, streamdev, remote, mplayer, dvd, softdevice) and latest development releases of VDR + XDirectFB, DirectFB, DFB++ available as packages that can be easily added /removed. I would also like it to be fast and the base OS to be stable and easy to keep updated. >From what I have looked at so far Gentoo is looking pretty good. Any comments / suggestions ? -- Mr Anthony Hornby RHCE BIT ALIATEC Library Systems & Technology Coordinator Charles Darwin University | CRICOS 300K anthony.hornby(a)cdu.edu.au | office +61 8 89 466011

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[Announce] showdetails-patch for vdr-1.3.24
by Gerhard Steiner 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hello, I adapted one of my earlier patches for the actual vdr-1.3.24. If there is a recording played, there is now a new entry in the main menu to get the summary directly. Runs with vdr-1.3.24, but should also be ok together with the bigpatch (some hunks, but succesfully). For download see: http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?sid=&postid=308467#post308467 have fun. lg, Gerhard -- Weitersagen: GMX DSL-Flatrates mit Tempo-Garantie! Ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Attaching additional 'keyboards' to vdr...remote plugin?
by Laz 15 May '05

15 May '05

I'm in the process of building a new vdr box with an Epia mini-itx motherboard and I intend to build it into the case of an old video recorder. The front panel has loads of buttons on it such as play, pause, rew, stop, rec, etc. and it would be really good if I could connect these up. :-) I have bought a USB numeric keypad (meant for laptops) that I found cheap in a sale and I have rewired the buttons on the front panel of the video into a matrix and connected them in place of the numeric keypad (it is basically just a small usb module with a keypad membrane plugged into it). All seems to work: I get a new usb input device when I attach it and if I cat the relevant input device, I can see the keypresses. So far so good. My problem now is how to actually use the thing to control vdr! At the moment, the keyboard driver is grabbing it and all I get is a series of keycodes such as numbers, *, /, -, etc. I am using vdr with a LIRC remote but it also has the keyboard remote compiled in, and, at the moment, pressing random buttons on the front panel does strange things, as would be expected! I can see at least two options: 1. Delete my remote.conf and program the 'keyboard' remote using the front panel (I won't be able to use the proper keyboard to control vdr but I'm sure I can cope with that!). 2. Use the remote plugin with the input device. If I do this, I will still be getting random commands sent to vdr through the keyboard driver, unless I can remove the usb keyboard driver and get the remote plugin to talk to the remote plugin using a raw device, or something. Has anyone managed to do something like this? I know that it is possible to use buttons attached to a gameport in conjunction with the joystick plugin but this motherboard does not have a gameport. Thoughts? Cheers, Laz

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[ANNOUNCE] OSD Picture in picture plugin 0.0.8 (vdr-osdpip-0.0.8)
by Andreas Regel 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, A new version of the OSD picture in picture plugin is available at http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=osdpip A small patch is needed for vdr. It fixes a problem regardings osd usage and will be included in future versions of vdr. changes since 0.0.7.2: - Added Navigation through channel in a way like with ordinary VDR. Use the Left/Right keys to select channel groups, OK to choose one or the number keys to directly enter a channel number. All this only works with enabled info window. - Extended the info window to contain more information. The amount of information shown can be chosen through the setup menu. This directly affects the height of the info window. - Using the info window to show vdr messages if they occur. - Changed the manner the moving of the PiP window works. Now move mode is enabled or disabled by pressing the green button. In move mode, the cursor keys can be used to move the PiP window. - Added some more predefined PiP window sizes. You have to reset your size in setup menu. - Added support for ffmpeg 0.4.9 (works with 0.4.8, too) - Updated finnish translations (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Cleaned up, dropped support for vdr versions older than 1.3.8 MfG Andreas

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Bug in ProvidesTransponder() makes EPG Scan impossible???
by Michael Reinelt 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi there, I debugged a bit my "EPG Scan not working" problem, and maybe I found a bug: in eitscan.c around line 160 theres something like if (Device->ProvidesTransponder(Channel)) I found out that this method always returns 0 here, therefore preventing the EPG Scan to start. ProvidesTRransponder() is defined in dvbdevice.c line 776, and it reads: bool cDvbDevice::ProvidesTransponder(const cChannel *Channel) const { return ProvidesSource(Channel->Source()) && ((Channel->Source() & cSource::st_Mask) != cSource::stSat || Diseqcs.Get(Channel->Source(), Channel->Frequency(),Channel->Polarization())); } ProvidesSource() returns 1 here, but the second expression is always zero, both sides of the || the first one I do understand: I'm on Sat only. The second one is clear to me, too: I'm not using diseq at all. So this returns 0, too. But I have no idea how this sould be fixed. Any ideas? thanks a lot, Michael (who wants a working EPG scan for threee years now :-) -- Michael Reinelt <reinelt(a)eunet.at> http://home.pages.at/reinelt GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50 ICQ #288386781

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Problems with TT FF Card in VDR
by Adrian P Challinor 15 May '05

15 May '05

Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box crashes? This has started happening with alarming regularity. Its making the VDR box virtually unusable because I cant trust it to be available to record. The only way to clear this seems to be to get the TT card to reload, ie reboot the VDR box. Any clues, assistance, points accepted. This is a Linux 6.11.5 build, with the stock DVB drivers. VDR is v1.3.23 May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: VDR version 1.3.23 started May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading plugin: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-statusleds.so.1.3.23 May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading plugin: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-status.so.1.3.23 May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/setup.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/sources.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/channels.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/timers.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/commands.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/svdrphosts.conf May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/remote.conf May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/keymacros.conf May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: found 1 video device May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: initializing plugin: statusleds (0.0.7): show vdr status over kbd led's May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: initializing plugin: status (0.1.0): Status monitor test May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: setting primary device to 1 May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: SVDRP listening on port 2001 May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: starting plugin: statusleds May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: starting plugin: status May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme May 14 08:33:57 vdr lircd-0.7.1[2683]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: switching to channel 1 May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 11 (BBC NEWS 24) event 08:00 'Breakfast' status 4 May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 16 (CBBC Channel) event 08:00 'ChuckleVision' status 4 May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 3 (BBC THREE) event 05:35 'This Is BBC THREE' status 4 May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 2 (BBC TWO) event 06:00 'Breakfast' status 4 May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 1 (BBC ONE) event 08:15 'The Mummy' status 4 [SNIP] May 14 13:34:13 vdr vdr[26081]: info: Starting EPG scan May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 12 (ITV News) event 13:00 'ITV News' status 4 May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 5 (ITV1) event 13:10 'Kid Galahad' status 4 May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 7 (ITV3) event 13:15 '2001: A Space Odyssey' status 4 May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 8 (Channel 4) event 13:00 'T4: Point Pleasant' status 4 May 14 13:34:18 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 6 (ITV2) event 12:10 'Coronation Street Omnibus' status 4 May 14 13:34:58 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 26 (BBC 7) event 13:00 'When We are Married' status 4 May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 23 (BBC 5L SportsX) event 12:00 'Coming Up...' status 4 May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 17 (CBeebies) event 13:20 'Bits and Bobs' status 4 May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 4 (BBC FOUR) event 12:00 'This is BBC FOUR' status 4 May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 28 (BBC Asian Net.) event 13:00 'The Album Chart with Bobby Friction' status 4 May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 27 (BBC PARLMNT) event 13:15 'Water Charging Debate' status 4 May 14 13:35:19 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 29 (The HITS) event 13:00 'R'n'B Hits Weekend' status 4 May 14 13:35:19 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 24 (BBC World Sv.) event 13:05 'Newshour' status 4 May 14 13:35:40 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 30 (bid tv) event 13:00 'Bid for a Bargain Live' status 4 May 14 13:35:41 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 9 (five) event 13:35 'The Elevator' status 4 May 14 13:36:02 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 10 (UKTV History) event 13:00 'Hunger Strike: Hidden History' status 4 May 14 13:36:02 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 13 (Sky News) event 13:00 'Sky News' status 4 May 14 13:36:03 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 15 (Sky Spts News) event 13:00 'Football Today' status 4 May 14 13:36:03 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 14 (Sky Travel) event 13:30 'Airline' status 4 May 14 13:37:04 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 17 (CBeebies) event 13:35 'Wide Eye' status 4 May 14 13:40:18 vdr vdr[26081]: connect from 10.0.0.91, port 33343 - accepted May 14 13:40:21 vdr vdr[26081]: closing SVDRP connection [SNIP] May 14 17:59:55 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!! May 14 17:59:55 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec May 14 18:00:00 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!! May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error May 14 18:00:05 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver! May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') stop May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!! May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error May 14 18:00:11 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver! May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') stop May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec May 14 18:00:12 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!! May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error May 14 18:00:17 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!

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Channel order problem
by David Barker 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi I have run scan with the -u option which then adds a comment like this ":@1" before every channel which is the channel's number. It works fine but the problem is vdr seems to totaly ignore these comments! Any ideas? Thanks

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"EPG Scan" button in EPG setup menu
by Michael Reinelt 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi there, I wonder what *should* happen when I press "Scan" (red) in the EPG setup menu. I think this should trigger a full EPG scan, tuning to every transponder at least for one channel. But here nothing happens. Is this the intended behaviour? Or did I miss something? TIA, Michael -- Michael Reinelt <reinelt(a)eunet.at> http://home.pages.at/reinelt GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50 ICQ #288386781

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