vdr May 2005

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SemiOT: vdr, suse, aver 771
by mc8647 04 May '05

04 May '05

I have an aver 771 (DVB-T) that I'd like to integrate into my vdr box actually running on Suse 8.1 and a Nexus. I read somewhere that tha aver card has better support in kernel 2.6 so I'm ready to update in-place to Suse 9.2. Please stop me if you think that the update will have no benefit or give me some clues on better integrating the Aver card. Thank you, Francesco

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initial tuning file
by tony 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hello, I have discovered that France Television is free to air in DVB on Atlantic Bird 5W. Does anyone have an initial tuning file for this satellite please? TIA Tony

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Anyone patched the Radio plugin for latest vdr?
by Laz 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hi, My brother was just asking whether it was possible to show an image for radio channels and that led me to the radio plugin. Unfortunately, this hasn't been updated for a while and uses the old "2 APID" interfaces rather than the arrays. Has anyone patched this already or shall I have a go at it?! Cheers, Laz

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VDR tuning to wrong channel
by Markku Tavasti 03 May '05

03 May '05

This mornig I found strange behaviour: VDR claimed to show & record Channel 4, but program was from Ch 1. And recording from yesterday was also similar way. I tested bit more, and found out that if I first tune to Ch 3, which is on same transponder as 4, I can get Ch4 working. But if I have tuned to Ch1 or Ch2, after it change to Ch4 shows picture of Ch1, but claims to be on Ch4. Ch1: YLE TV1;YLE:578000:I0C12D0M64B8T8G16Y0:T:27500:512+128:650=fin:2321:0:17:8438:4097:0 Ch4: Nelonen;Ruutunelonen Oy:490000:I0C12D0M64B8T8G16Y1:T:27500:512:650=fin:576:0:65:8438:8193:0 Channels have same pids, and apparently vdr commands tuning to another transponder, but it's not done, and vdr gets legal pid values from wrong transponder. My setups is: Technisat Airstar2 Nova-T TEchnotrend DVB-S 1.3 as output. My DVB-T signals is weak, but looks clean with Airstart (No bit errors). Tuning from 4 to 1 works perfectly, no confusion there. Apparently I could avoid problem saying '1+2 with card 1, 3+4 (possibly all other channels on same transponder) with card 0' or something similar. Is there some way to do it? -- M. Tavasti / tavasti(a)tavastisolutions.com / +358-40-5078254

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RE: [vdr] VDR tuning to wrong channel
by Rantanen Teemu 03 May '05

03 May '05

Markku Tavasti wrote: > This mornig I found strange behaviour: VDR claimed to show & record Channel 4, > but program was from Ch 1. And recording from yesterday was also similar way. > > I tested bit more, and found out that if I first tune to Ch 3, which is on same > transponder as 4, I can get Ch4 working. But if I have tuned to Ch1 or Ch2, > after it change to Ch4 shows picture of Ch1, but claims to be on Ch4. I remember having this symptom a long time ago. It usually happened with subtitles plugin, which tuned into a wrong device/channel, and there was no subtitles in the recording. I reported it into the mailing list long time ago but got no answer. If you looked at the syslog you could see 2 adjacent channel switches, first of which to the correct channel, the second to the "wrong" (as far as the subtitles plugin was concerned). I thought this was fixed (or cured away) also a long time ago, but if it is still there I'd debug the device-receiver logic, i.e. what happens if 2 threads does a simulaneous GetDevice() -> Addreceiver(): - GetDevice (thread 1 / frequency a) - GetDevice (thread 2 / frequency b) - AddReceiver (thread 1) - AddReceiver (thread 2) If both GetDevice() think the same device is free, I guess it could happen (if there is no double checks after the receiver has been added, that the frequency has not changed). But, if you are using an old VDR (<1.3 or <1.3.6 or <1.3.12 (I can't remember when the symptom disappeared)) you might first upgrade to a newer one to see if it helps. Teemu

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Dual Card causing recording problems (Dr Who)
by Adrian P Challinor 02 May '05

02 May '05

I have just started having problems recording from Terrestrial TV. I have two cards (TT-Full Featured card and Nova Budget card). I have been using VDR successfully for well over a year now and all has been well. Recently I started having errors "vdr[9978]: ERROR: skipped 152 bytes to sync on TS packet on device 2". The result is a totally unwatchable video stream. I didn't think I had done too much to the config recently. I know I added a few drivers but that was to get the VDR to DVD conversions working. I reloaded LIRC. But nothing I would call fundamental. I just started having these errors. I think I have solved it by removing the Nova budget card. Now, of course, I can only record one channel at a time (unless they are on the same Transponder, not all are from Crystal Palace), but at least I can record. The question is "Why?" and "Why now?". The second question is: Does anyone have a decent recording of Dr Who from 30-Apr-2005, the one with the Daleks? Adrian P Challinor

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