vdr June 2005

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VDR and Sky Digital
by Adrian P Challinor 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I apologise in advance for my lack of knowledge regarding satellite DVB and Sky's implementation. I am reading and googling all the time, but I will admit to a degree of confusion. Simply put, if I add a DVB-S card to my VDR setup, connect my SCA card to this, and have a dish installed on my roof, can I then connect the dish directly to VDR and use the sky card to decode the signal? I am only interested in the FTV and FTA channels, not in illegally decoding the Sky premium channels. (I may upgrade the card to premium channels in future. ) Will this work, or do I need to take the output from a Sky digibox? Secondly, and assuming the above will work, can I also have a second LNB to watch channels on hotbird and use Diseqc to switch between them? Thanks - adrian

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motor dish and sharedLNB
by Rainer Zocholl 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

luca(a)ventoso.org(Luca Olivetti) 07.06.05 20:28 >Don't worry: I don't need the feature and >I've also disabled the automatic epg scan >(as I said, I don't like the dish moving randomly >when an epg scan starts). Your motor dish seem to have the same problem with VDR as a sharedLNB. How do you prevent VDR from moving the dish when you are watching TV and a timer should record a channel only available in an other dish position or 2 timers are trying to record from two different satellites? Or other way: While a recordings from pos 1 is running, it would be no a good idea to move the dish for the live screen to pos 2... The problem looks very similar to those with "sharedLNB". If one timer requires vertical polarization and the other horizontal, it is not allowed the second timer to switch the polarity. And of cause the user should not switch polarization while zapping. Why is that an entire separate patch and can't be handled like a "motor dish with 4 positions"? (hor/vert lo/hi freq). Rainer

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encoding streams
by Simon Baxter 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Hi. I want to set VDR to encode edited streams into .avi or .mpeg. Can someone recommend an encoding type and method? I have used mplayer's mencode, but never found a good setting for video and audio streams which plays well under WMP. For good file size and quality (for about 700MB per hour) what should I use? mp3 audio? or just pcm? divx? Thanks Simon

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[Announce] Master-Timer 0.6.3
by Matthias Schniedermeyer 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Intro: Master-Timer is a system for automatic recording of series and movies. Upon start the configuration files are read. Then, depending on configuration the "epg.data" in the current directory is used or the EPG-data is requested with the "LSTE"-command directly from VDR. After that matching entries are looked for and then programmed via SVDR into VDR. That's about it. URL: http://mt.citd.de/master-timer-0.6.3.tar.bz2 Change: - A new format is used for the summary-field in timers(.conf). The new format is very close to VDR own format only a ' (MT-ID:<id>)' is appended to the title, everything else equals VDRs format This Master-Timer-release is backward compatible to it's "old" format, so you don't have to reprogramm all your timers. - The change above is because of the recent changes in VDR 1.3.25 regarding the removal of "summary.vdr" and the successor "info.vdr" This release has also support of the new "info.vdr"-files and is backward compatible to the summary.vdr in current & old Master-Timer format. The only NOT supported variant is old Master-Timer format in info.vdr! - Rewritten the LIESMICH and changed a few wordings in other files - VERY VERY VERY old bug that prevented the revaluation of "torecord" and "deepblack" when the macros-file was changed NEW: - README: A translation of the "LIESMICH"(german) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.

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Premiere HDTV ?
by Grégoire Favre 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello, just found http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=34722&sid= and I don't understand whether it's possible to try or not ? I have a budget card, and my mplayer is able to play x264. Anyone got an idea ? Thank you very much, -- Grégoire Favre

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Ghost channels?
by Rainer Zocholl 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello for a while (1.3.18?) i see channels in the channel list which can't exist. For example Source:"C" but i don't have DVB-C, only DVB-S and -T. Deleting the false entries does not help: A few seconds later they are back at the end of list. # grep 586000 /video0/channels.conf SAT.1;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:385:386=deu;392=deu:391:0:16408:8468:8705:0 N24;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:225:226=deu:231:0:16398:8468:8705:0 ProSieben;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:305:306=deu;312=deu:311:0:16403:8468:8705:0 KABEL1;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:161:162=deu:167:0:16394:8468:8705:0 N24;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:16398:8468:3074:0 ProSieben;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:16403:8468:3074:0 KABEL1;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:16394:8468:3074:0 SAT.1;ProSiebenSat.1:586000:I0C23D0M16B8T8G8Y0:T:27500:0:0:0:0:16408:8468:3074:0 All those channel seems to have no EPG.. but whe i select the broken entries, i see the EPG! (EPG scan is disabled here because of single LNB). But more fun: # grep ":C:" /video0/channels.conf WEBCam:1:C0:C:0:160:80:0:2001:65002:0:0:0 3sat;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:210:220=deu,221=2ch:230:0:28007:1:1079:0 DKULTUR;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:0:710=deu:0:0:28012:1:1079:0 DLF;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:0:810=deu:0:0:28013:1:1079:0 EuroNews;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:2221:2233=deu:768:0:28015:1:1079:0 Eurosport;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:410:420=deu:430:0:28009:1:1079:0 KiKa;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:310:320:330:0:28008:1:1079:0 ZDF;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:110:120=deu,121=2ch;125=dd:130:0:28006:1:1079:0 ZDFdokukanal;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:660:670=deu:130:0:28014:1:1079:0 ZDFinfokanal;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:610:620=deu:130:0:28011:1:1079:0 ZDFtheaterkanal;ZDFvision:1:C0:C:0:1110:1120=deu:130:0:28016:1:1079:0 Test-R;ARD:1:C0:C:0:701:702:204:0:28130:1:1101:0 Bayerisches FS;ARD:1:C0:C:0:201:202=deu:204:0:28107:1:1101:0 Bayern 4 Klassik;ARD:1:C0:C:0:0:3001=deu:0:0:28120:1:1101:0 B5 aktuell;ARD:1:C0:C:0:0:3101=deu:0:0:28121:1:1101:0 WDR Köln;ARD:1:C0:C:0:601:602=deu:604:0:28111:1:1101:0 NordwestRadio;ARD:1:C0:C:0:0:3801=deu:0:0:28128:1:1101:0 hr2;ARD:1:C0:C:0:0:3301=deu:0:0:28123:1:1101:0 arte;ARD:1:C0:C:0:401:402=deu,403=fra:404:0:28109:1:1101:0 Bayern 1;ARD:1:C0:C:0:0:3601=deu:0:0:28126:1:1101:0 etc.. msi:~# grep ":C:" /video0/channels.conf | wc -l 56 But i don't have any DVB-C card in the box! (Some time ago i started an experiment with "webcam", that may be the reason for that "WEBcam" entry?) 3 TT FF DVB-S 1 AverMedia 771 DVB-T VDR 1.3.25 with lnbsharing patch Kernel debian 2.6.11 OSD text femon Question: Why do the first eintries do not have EPG anymore? (after the 31.Mai they "moved" the transponders) Why do i get/have all those "C-Cable" entries?

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RE: em86xx based "dxr6" hdtv output hardware card (was: RE: [vdr]vdr and YUV output)
by Weinberger, Andreas (EBV) 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

hey, > > It looks like this is for kernel version 2.3.46? > > It seems that 2.3.46 is the version of the driver / app > suite. I didn't find the environment yet. the kernelmodul (em8xxx.o) is completly build from the sources, works here on 2.4.31; only the libaries are closed, like the em8475 stuff (rmf/fmp drivers), which uses a libnetstream.o. there should be a MRUA.env - and make kernel which builds mum.o and the em8xxx.o. make insmod will create the /dev/mum device files. -- randy

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em86xx based "dxr6" hdtv output hardware card (was: RE: [vdr] vdr and YUV output)
by Weinberger, Andreas (EBV) 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

hi, > This card is based on a sigma design chipset. Will there be > open source drivers available? ftp://66.15.209.17/EM8621L/ - there you will find the drivers; in all the sample files sigma has no gpl license used - so i'm not sure what the correct license is. the kernel module (em8xxx.o) loads as tainted/non-gpl. the vdr plugin will be opensource of course. the card is available as a test version, mine has serial# "test-0018". also, sigma announced the successor already (em8622l), which can handle h.264 native (see also those premiere sends hdtv threads). the em8621l is only capable of h.263. perhabs interesting: the allwell card has a spi in connector where a dvb tuner can directly be connected, for use as some kind of "hdtv-ff card". -- randy

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Pace sat-receiverremotes
by Rene Hertell 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hi all! I have an old Pace MSS series remote laying around from the days when analog satellite receivers and videocrypt were young and beautiful. The remote has quite many nice buttons, and I thought that it would be really nice to use it for VDR. My problem is that VDR (through lirc) does not recognise any of the buttons when I want to learn VDR this remote. When using the commandline tool that displays the key codes (don't remember the name of it, maybe mm-something??), I'll get an output on all keys. Is there something special with these remotes that makes VDR incapable of recognizing this remote, or has maybe to do with my lirc-setup? My current remote from an sony television works perfectly with VDR Regards, René

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RE: [vdr] vdr and YUV output
by Weinberger, Andreas (EBV) 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

hey, > > no, the AX1 don't have a OSD via YUV (only with FBAS und Y/C). fyi: we are just working for a plugin for em862x based pcicards (see also http://www.allwell.tv - around $165 / 195eur). this hw hdtv capable card supports rgb, yuv and dvi output in nearly all needed resolutions + 16mb fullscreen, fullcolor osd. playing 1080i hd1 stream (szap & sample app) takes about 1% cpu load on a p3 933. perhabs you want to wait with your new hardware? :) -- randy

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