vdr May 2005

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Re: How to play vdr recordings on your phone
by Ed 31 May '05

31 May '05

Ed wrote: Clipped from http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?showtopic=4959 If you have a nice new mobile phone there is a good chance it supports 3pg video files. For example the Nokia 6320. Follow these steps to transfer a vdr recording to your phone. Lets face it - it will impress your mates when you watch tv on your mobile (Sorry to all the linux fans. This uses a windows pc for the transfer and processing so you need to copy your files off to that pc using samba shares or winscp) To make the conversion work you will need codec drivers to see the video and hear the audio. The easiest way to get everything you need is to download the ffdshow codec set. Get a copy of PVAStrumento and run it. Click on the file browse button "..." Select vdr file (you can select multiple files if recording is split) Select MAKE PS Use all default settings except set packet size to 2048 If you are getting the output from this program split into seperate files then take out the 3 options that say 'split if .......' in video and audio. This may not be a good idea as the video or audio format has changed during the recording. Change the file name and take away the starting '\' otherwise the output file is going to be on the root of your C: drive. Hit start (this takes just few minutes but some people have said it looks like it freezes at about 90% and waits for 10 minutes) Now get a copy of VirtualDub-MPeg2 (note it has to be the MPEG2 version not the standard version) click on file and open and select the MPEG file you just created. You need to set one option. Click on video / compression and select the codec for compression (eg ffdshow codec) select save as AVI (This takes about the same time as the recording) If it errors out during the encode with an error about bad frames - run it again but select options and debug and tell it not to stop encoding. and for the final step you need the Nokia Media player. Note if you have installed the cd that comes with your nokia phone that gives you the suite of tools you will probably already have this installed. Click on file and open. select your new avi file. press STOP as it will start playing it. click on file and save as select '3gp video files' as the type of file and select the 'no size limit' and the screen size of your mobile phone for example for a nokia you would use 128x96 select the location and give it a name. (this step takes about the same time as the recording) Once this file has been created you can transfer to your phone memory and watch. This may not be the fastest method (or give the best quality) but I have to start somewhere. Feel free to comment if you know of better tools or better settings.

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[PATCH] femon-0.9.0 with stuttering patch
by Thomas Günther 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi! To compile the femon plugin (0.9.0) with VDR and stuttering patch I have included a version number into the stuttering patch that is used in the femon-stuttering patch. http://toms-cafe.de/vdr/download/vdr-stuttering-1.3.22+version.diff http://toms-cafe.de/vdr/download/femon-0.9.0-stuttering.diff The stuttering patch is originally downloaded from http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?postid=289928#post289928 It is needed for the analogtv plugin and works with VDR-1.3.25 too. Tom

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Summary missing when using Text2skin
by C.Y.M 31 May '05

31 May '05

When using vdr-1.3.25, I cant seem to find the code in text2skin to display the recording summary properly. The summary just comes up blank. When I do not use text2skin, then it works just fine. The conversion of summary.vdr to info.vdr went fine. Can anyone give me a hint? Best Regards,

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timercmds in epgsearch for .25
by C.Y.M 31 May '05

31 May '05

Is there a fixed patch for timercmds-0.1.diff (contained within epgsearch-0.9.4) and vdr-1.3.25? menu.c: In member function `eOSState cMenuTimers::Commands(eKeys)': menu.c:910: error: no matching function for call to `cRecording::cRecording( cTimer*&, const char*, const char*, const char[1])' recording.h:55: error: candidates are: cRecording::cRecording(const cRecording&) recording.h:71: error: cRecording::cRecording(const char*) recording.h:70: error: cRecording::cRecording(cTimer*, const cEvent*) make: *** [menu.o] Error 1 Best Regards,

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Lockup problem
by Jarmo Järvenpää 31 May '05

31 May '05

Dear list, I've got a linux 2.6 system which locks up (not respoding to keys, blank display - can't be sure if its a kernel panic) totally about twice a day. I've narrowed the problem either to em8300 driver itself or the vdr-dxr3 driver. Vdr is running nicely without dxr3 plugin and the system is stable more than a day :-) Vdr with the plugin, random lockups appear. Messages-log may say about ring buffer to be full near the lockup time, but not always. em8300 version 0.15.rc4 and vdr-dxr3 version 0.2.3-cvs20050528.tgz (I've tried some earlier versions too). I thought about creating a blank-screen and feeding it (instead of tv-picture) constantly to dxr3 and see if the lockups appear. The sources seem quite complicated, thus help will be appreciated ;-) BR, Jarmo

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Recording format changed?
by Ronald Schaten 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hey... I have used vdr for almost three years now, and I must say that I'm very happy with it. But a few weeks ago, I upgraded from the stable to the developer-version (1.3.17, Debian-packages from e-tobi.net), and now I have a problem: tosvcd doesn't work with recordings of the developer-version. I use tosvcd to convert certain series to SVCD. I have collected many SVCDs over the years, and I wouldn't like to switch to DVDs at this moment. It seems as if the file-format of the recordings has changed between the stable and the developer-version, but I can't figure out the differences. And I fear that even if I knew the changes, I'm not C-hacker enough to fix tosvcd. Has anybody experienced the same problems? Did the file format really change between the versions? If yes, where can I find the differences (in which file)? I already posted my problem (including some log-output, but with german text) to the forum vdrportal.de (http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=33904), but it seems as if there's no solution in sight... :-( Thanks in advance! Ciao, Ronald. -- http://www.schatenseite.de

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xine to choose AC3 by default ?
by Grégoire Favre 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello, is there a way to have ac3 sound choosed when available by default if watching with xine ? Thank you very much, -- Grégoire Favre

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Bug in subchannel scan ?
by Karsten Müller 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi Listies, today I subscribed to a movie on Premiere Direkt (currently there is a free movie for subscribers at http://www.premiere.de/gratis-film ) I tried to watch the movie and tuned to "Premiere Direkt 2". To my surprise the radio plugin showed its background picture as if it thought I tuned to a radio channel. I opened my channels.conf and found this: D 1 - 20|00:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:245:133:3:0 D 1 - 20|30:386000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:212:133:1:0 D 2 - 17|30:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:240:133:3:0 D 2 - 20|00:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:244:133:3:0 D 2 - 20|30:354000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:211:133:17:0 D 3 - 20|00:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:243:133:3:0 D 3 - 20|30:378000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:210:133:4:0 D 4 - 20|00:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:242:133:3:0 D 4 - 20|30:378000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:209:133:4:0 D 5 - 20|00:362000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:241:133:3:0 D 5 - 20|30:378000:C0M64:C:6900:0:0:0:0:208:133:4:0 which seems kinda strange to me. After some digging and zapping I actually found the movie at F1_Infokanal:362:M64:C:6900:3071:3072=deu,3073=deu;3075=deu:0:1801,1702,1722:244:0:0:1 Is there a (known) bug in automatic channel scans ? Maybe only subchannels are scanned wrong since all my other channels are working absolutely perfect. Does anybody know what's wrong there ? Thanks in advance best regards Karsten

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Vdr and Parental Lock
by Sad 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi, I'm planning to work back on the parental lock plugin that I've made loong time ago, and which doesn't work anymore on the last VDR version (by the way, congratulations to all vdr/plugin developer) I'm thinking of a way to "limit" the needed patches for such "options", and I wonder if there is no way to include one more field to the channels.conf, which would enable/disable the viewing of the channel (in locked mode). What I propose is to implement by myself this features (to the cChannel class) and I wonder if this could be implemented to the next VDR versions (not the full parental lock functions, but only the channels.conf field, reading functions and one little more function such as bool cChannels.IsLocked(), the rest of the parental lock implementation still under plugin form). I guess this should not break anything... @Klaus : Do you think it is possible? Sad

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wapd patch for vdr 1.3.25
by Ville Skyttä 30 May '05

30 May '05

Attached is a patch for wapd 0.7a, fixes build with VDR versions up to 1.3.25 + contains one WML escaping fix.

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