vdr July 2005

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cRemux single threaded?
by Udo Richter 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi list, I've been hunting down a bandwidth problem in my little streaming plugin, and finally realized that the performance bottleneck actually is cRemux and its internal resultBuffer. The resultBuffer is initialized with resultBuffer->SetTimeouts(0, 100), in other words, if no data is available, cRemux::Get will wait up to 100ms for data to arrive. Thats fine as long as cRemux is filled from another thread, but wastes time if cRemux is only filled from within the same thread. Unfortunately, the resultBuffer is completely hidden inside the cRemux, so I cannot change this behavior. Does anyone have good ideas how to avoid this without spawning another thread? (the thread would actually just copy data from one buffer to another...) This resultBuffer is really some kind of black hole, no way to control it, no way to know how much is in it... Cheers, Udo

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[PATCH] obey Power key while replaying a recording
by Marko Mäkelä 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi all, Klaus responded to my private message about the Power key being ignored while playing back a recording. He suggested to add a cControl::Shutdown() call to the kPower handler. I did that, and the attached patch (against vdr-1.3.27) works for me. I'm not sure if it is necessary to move the assignments before the cControl::Shutdown() call, but I thought it would be safer that way. Marko

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Re: Wishlist: running status
by Anssi Hannula 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Sorry for not posting in thread, I copypasted this old message from archives. Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Lauri Tischler wrote: >> >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> > Lauri Tischler wrote: >> > >> >>VPS uses running status. Unfortunately Finnish Digita does not >> >>use VPS, but, they do send 'running status', sort of... >> >>They appear allways to send 'running' (status 4) but never any >> >>other type. >> >>This could be used with Timers, like... >> >>- switch to appropiate channel using Timer Info >> >>- start recording when running status goes running >> >>- stop recording when next running status on this channel goes active. >> > >> > >> > VDR sets the running status accordingly, so that at any given time there >> > is only one event with running status 4. >> > >> > Are you sure that the stations you are talking about actually switch >> > the running status when the broadcast begins or ends, respectively? >> > RTL, for instance, switches the RS at times that are only loosely >> > related to the actual begin or end of a broadcast. >> >> some log from 9th Apr. [...] >> -- starts 1:08 late >> Apr 9 18:31:08 vdr vdr[2596]: channel 8 (YLE24) event 18:30 'MOT' status 4 >> Apr 9 18:32:01 vdr vdr[2596]: channel 2 (YLE TV2) event 18:30 'Pisara' status 4 >> Apr 9 18:35:11 vdr vdr[2596]: channel 1 (YLE TV1) event 18:35 'Top40' status 4 >> Apr 9 18:36:01 vdr vdr[2596]: channel 9 (YLE FST) event 18:35 'Kulttuuriprofiili: Jan-Erik Slätis' status 4 >> -- starts 2:15 late >> Apr 9 18:37:15 vdr vdr[2596]: channel 2 (YLE TV2) event 18:35 'FST: Kulttuuriprofiili: Jan-Erik Slätis' status 4 >> >> yep, should work > > Have you verified that these broadcasts actually started at the exact moment when > the status has switched? I mean, by watching what was actually visible on the tv > screen at that time. I verified this. > > You could make VDR use the event's running status (even if there is no VPS > time provided by the event) by changing the line > > if (HasFlags(tfVps) && !Directly && event && event->Vps()) { > > in VDR/timers.c into > > if (HasFlags(tfVps) && !Directly && event) { > > You would still have to set the VPS flag for the event, though. > I haven't tested this, but I would expect it to work. I modified VDR 1.3.27 according to attached patch, and the running status works as expected. Klaus, could this be included in the next version of VDR? -- Anssi Hannula

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MP3/MPlayer plugin 0.9.13 available
by s.huelswitt＠gmx.de 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi, a new version of the MP3/MPlayer plugin is available from my homepage. <http://www.muempf.de/down/vdr-mp3-0.9.13.tar.gz> NEWS: 31.07.2005: Version 0.9.13 development (vdr 1.2.6/1.3.24) - Moved OSD position selection to plugin setup menu (as before this works for non-skined vdr <1.3.7 only). - Removed DVD navigation from MPlayer slavemode. - Added support for configurable keys (0-9) in MPlayer slavemode. The slave command can be entered in the plugin setup menu and is sent to MPlayer during playback if the key is pressed. - Added support to display a summary file (plain ascii) in the MPlayer browser. If you are on a video file, press '0' to display the summary. The summary file has to be named like the video file but with ".summary" appended (e.g. video.mpeg -> video.mpeg.summary). - New MP3 plugin setup option to keep the selection menu opened after selection. Suggested by Mikko Mäkinen. - Fixed ringbuffer timeouts in network code. - Fixed ID3 V2 tag handling. Unusual big tags caused the ID3 scanner to mark the file as bad. Now correctly skipping ID3 tags during playback too. Reported by Olaf Henkel. - Prevent writing to a broken pipe in mplayer slave control. Reported by Gerhard Steiner. - Fixed passing AID 0 to mplayer.sh. To allow MPlayer autoselect the audio stream, set AID to -1 (this can only be achieved by entering 0 and than pressing left). - Improved creation of LPCM frames. Based on the changes in muggle 0.1.8. - Updated french translations. Provided by Jerome Rousset. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt(a)gmx.de | http://www.muempf.de/

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mplayer error
by Leo Márquez 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi!, I'm trying to run mplayer plugin with the second dvb card as primery device. Actuallt I get this error when play a xvid movie: Opening /dev/dvb/adapter0/video0+audio0 DVB VIDEO DEVICE: : No such device Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. In mplayer.sh i have: # mplayer options, -vc will be added below # add "-lircconf <lircrc>" to enable LIRC support OPTS="-vo mpegpes -dvbin card=2" I have two cards: 1 nexus-s (ff dvb-s) 1 cinergy 1200 (budget dvb-t) Any ideas? Thanks

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OT: "taken" from 25.07.2005
by Klaus Gerding 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hi, is somebody out there, who recorded the episode "taken" from last monday? greetings, klaus

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-iaxphone-0.0.1 - a softphone for vdr
by Luca Olivetti 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I'm releasing a simple softphone as a vdr plugin. This plugin is available at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/ From the README file: This plugin is a very simple (read: not very featureful and hopefully with an high WAF ;-) softphone using the iax protocol (asterisk server). It uses the iaxclient library (http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net) to handle every details of the call, so the plugin is just an user interface. It needs a free (i.e it isn't used by something else, like a softdevice plugin), full-duplex sound card. Enjoy -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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credits
by Wolfgang Rohdewald 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Im Forum hatte jarny eine nette Idee: > Warum gibts im VDR-Hauptmenü eigentlich keine 'Credits'. Da könnten > sich die Entwickler wenigstens mal namentlich verewigen. Ruhm und > Ehre in tausenden Wohnzimmern weltweit sind besser als nix Ich würde das aber eher ins Setup - Menü stecken. Wenn ich dazu im September einen Patch schreiben würde, hätte der Chancen, im vdr aufgenommen zu werden? char *cPlugin::Credits(void) kann LF enthalten, dann gibt es mehrere Zeilen. Vor die erste wird der Name vom Plugin gesetzt. Anzeige: vdr: Klaus Schmidinger mp3: Stefan Hülswitt weitere, die ich nicht kenne muggle: etc -- Wolfgang

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-iaxphone-0.0.2 - a softphone for vdr
by Luca Olivetti 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I'm releasing a new version of a softphone plugin for vdr (http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr). This plugin is available at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/ From the README file: This plugin is a very simple (read: not very featureful and hopefully with an high WAF ;-) softphone using the iax protocol (asterisk server). It uses the iaxclient library (http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net) to handle every details of the call, so the plugin is just an user interface. It needs a free (i.e that isn't used by something else, like a softdevice plugin), full-duplex sound card. CHANGES: - Better (hopefully) parsing of the called number, now it is possible to specify the host, username and password for each entry in the phonebook, so it is also possible to directly call another iax phone - Added ringback tone when the called phone is ringing - Now the phone rings only for incoming calls (duh) - The ring command now uses the script "iaxphone-ring.sh" - It should be possible to send dtmf tones during a call - Yellow and Blue keys to enter '*' and '#' - Added settings for caller id - Show text events on the osd (though they're impossible to localize since they come straight from the iaxclient library) Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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xine-lib patch fails with current cvs
by C.Y.M 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

Would this change be OK? The following hunk failed with the current xine-lib.patch so I changed it like this and would like to know if this change is correct: --- xine-lib/src/xine-engine/xine.c.orig 2005-07-31 04:00:10.000000000 -0700 +++ xine-lib/src/xine-engine/xine.c 2005-07-31 04:12:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -536,7 +537,7 @@ */ pthread_mutexattr_init(&attr); pthread_mutexattr_settype(&attr, PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE); - pthread_mutex_init (&stream->frontend_lock, &attr); + _x_rmutex_init (&stream->frontend_lock); /* * Clear meta/stream info Note that the current cvs of xine-lib's pthread_mutex_init is using &attr now (instead of NULL). Best Regards, C.

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