vdr August 2005

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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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RE: [vdr] Problem: Conax not available after VDR startup
by Rantanen Teemu 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >You could test the following: change the line > > newSet.Wait((ciHandler && (time(NULL) - startTime < 20)) ? 100 : 1000); > >to > > newSet.Wait((ciHandler && (time(NULL) - startTime < 80)) ? 100 : 1000); > >(make the 20 an 80). Does this change anything? Nope. Three attempts, still 66-67 seconds each. If I initiate an EPG scan as soon as it's possible from the menu, then the time gets down to 26-27 seconds. Teemu

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RE: [vdr] Problem: Conax not available after VDR startup
by Rantanen Teemu 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Strange. My two CAMs (both connected to my third DVB card) are detected > some 15..20 seconds after VDR is started - long before the EPG scan kicks > in. I didn't have any timers right now, so I could do some timing. The times between "VDR version 1.3.23 started" and "CAM: Conax ..." were: 56, 66, 66, 67, 67, 67 and 68 seconds (in the same order). Weirdly regular times, but cannot (shouldn't) be CPU related as there's lots of idle on the CPU. Well, it isn't *THAT* long time, but still feels a lot longer as you know it *COULD* detect Conax right away, and you know you're missing something on live-tv or on recording... If I knew what does make driver detect the Conax card, then I could hack my VDR to do that on a startup... Teemu

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Problem: Conax not available after VDR startup
by Rantanen Teemu 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

I have a problem with my VDR setup. VDR does not see my Conax cam after a (VDR) restart. It is not possible to watch encrypted channels after the restart (channel not available), and VDR does not continue timer on an encrypted channel. VDR does detect Conax after some time, and then the timer continues to record and it is possible to switch to an encrypted channel on a live view, but the time before this happens can be annoyingly long. It is possible to make VDR detect Conax (almost) immediately if I initiate an EPG scan after the startup. I'd like to know if this happens to someone else too, and is there a workaround (or fix) to make VDR probe CI/cams immediately at startup. My Technotrend DVB-C is not a primary card (as I use xine -device), could this have something to do with the problem? Teemu

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-iaxphone-0.0.3 - a softphone for vdr
by Luca Olivetti 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '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: - Reworked the osd (using own cStatusMenu class instead of cOsdMenu, the former reserves some lines on top to show status information) - Display call format (codec) and duration - Display remote name (stripping account information) - Load phonebook when showing the main menu 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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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-actuator-0.0.9 plugin
by Luca Olivetti 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hello, I'm releasing a version 1.0.0 of the "actuator" plugin available at http://club.telepolis.com/l.o/vdr/ This plugin controls a linear actuator (or an horizon to horizon one) through the parallel port with a simple circuit. CHANGES: - It's been working for a year, let's call it 1.0.0 ;-) - Save channels after a transponder/satellite scan - New menu entries to mark, unmark and delete marked channels ("mark" means prepending '+' to the name to aid finding stale channel entries) - After a satellite scan the transponder index was reset at 1 but the pointer was NULL. Fixed to point at the first transponder. - Added a note in module/README about possible problems with irq7 (as reported by Frank Welter) - fixed test.py (in the module subdirectory) to work with python 2.4 - wrap-around menu - themes support - use setup settings for osd position and width 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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Content Descriptor
by Lauri Tischler 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Reading thru Nordig spefification for DVB, it seems that it is obligatory to send Content Descriptor. It would be nice use that for something. A beginning would be just to log the state of content-descriptor to a log to see if it were usefull. Same way as the state of running status is logged. -- lwgt(a)iki.fi * Using HTML-mail is like breaking wind in a church * 60.2N 24.7E * it is not illegal, just extremely bad manners *

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[FYI] Image-Plugin homepage has moved
by Andreas Brachold 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, the homepage of image-plugin has been moved from http://www.deltab.de/vdr/index.html to http://vdr-image.berlios.de/ this new location comes with some nice features like svn access. If you has linked to old page, please adjust your page/script to the new location. BTW: Current release 0.2.3 hasn't changed. Thank you. Andreas

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vdr slowness when browsing channels
by Guy Roussin 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I notice that vdr is slow when i try to quickly browse channels. it eats around 18-20% of the cpu (atlon1200) when i hold left or right key when browsing channels (vdr 1.3.27 vanilla - classic skin) . With text2skin (1.0) and Enigma, it eats around 40-50% of the cpu and browsing channels is very very slow ... Note: cat channels.conf | wc -l --> 2600 lines Thank you. Guy ___________________________________ NOCC, http://www.teledetection.fr

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Problem with cChannel's copy constructor
by Marcel Wiesweg 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I just ran into a problem with cChannel's copy constructor. The problem is that this is actually not a copy constructor, because it sets the values to 0 instead of copying, and - most important - it behaves different from operator=. It seems these two are not used in VDR except for one place (where I found this), cSectionHandler::SetChannel. The value stored by cSectionHandle has nid,tid,sid set to 0. In the line shp->channel = Channel ? *Channel : cChannel(); there seems only the operator= involved, but actually the copy constructor is invoked before the *Channel is given to opertator=. Attached is a short test program which illustrates the problem. Solution is to make the copy constructor do copying. Marcel

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