vdr September 2005

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.32
by Klaus Schmidinger 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

******************************************************************** ** THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE! ** ** SEND BUG REPORTS ETC. AS A NEW MESSAGE, WITH A PROPER SUBJECT! ** ******************************************************************** VDR developer version 1.3.32 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.32.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.31-32.diff The changes since version 1.3.31: - Added some missing braces in remux.c (thanks to Wayne Keer for reporting this one). - Removed unused MAINMENUENTRY from svdrpdemo.c (thanks to Udo Richter for reporting this one). - Fixed appending sequence end code in cDvbPlayer::Goto() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Fixed syncing in cRepacker (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Now always using stream id 0xE0 for the video stream, to avoid problems with post processing tools that choke on different ids (suggested by Reinhard Nissl). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Fixed cDvbPlayer::SkipFrames() to properly handle radio recordings (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Updated the Swedish OSD texts (thanks to Tomas Prybil). - Updated the Slovenian OSD texts (thanks to Matjaz Thaler). - Updated the Danish OSD texts (thanks to Mogens Elneff). - Made LIRC command parsing more robust (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - Introduced a separate 'plugins-install' target in the Makefile (thanks to Daniel Thompson). - Re-introduced the code that waits for a tuner lock in VDR/device.c, since apparently some users actually need it. It's not active by default, you'll have to define the WAIT_FOR_TUNER_LOCK macro in that file if you need it (suggested by Malcolm Caldwell). - Adjusted the Makefile to the dvb-kernel driver on kernel 2.6 and up (thanks to Lauri Tischler). - Repeat keys are now ignored when waiting for a keypress to cancel an operation (thanks to Marko Mäkelä). - The main menu function of a plugin can now be activated through a key macro of the form "@plugin" even if that plugin doesn't have a main menu entry (using part of a patch by Hardy Flor, which originally implemented calling plugins from SVDRP). - The menu timeout handling is now done centrally in the main program loop. - Added missing help for the 'help' keyword in the SVDRP command PLUG. - The main menu function of a plugin can now be called programmatically through the static function cRemote::CallPlugin(). - The SVDRP command PLUG now has a new option 'main' which can be used to initiate a call to the main menu function of a plugin (using part of a patch by Hardy Flor). - The new command line option '--vfat' can be used to make VDR encode special characters in recording file names, even if it wasn't compiled with VFAT=1 (suggested by Peter Bieringer). The compile time option VFAT still exists and creates a VDR that always behaves as if it were called with '--vfat'. - Replaced the ':' delimiter between hour and minute in recording file names with a '.' under Linux, too. Existing recordings with ':' as delimiter will still work. - Implemented the SVDRP command MOVC (thanks to Andreas Brachold). - Added support for multiple audio language codes in ISO639LanguageDescriptors to 'libsi' (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg). - Changed the audio PID language codes to hold up to two 3 letter codes, separated by '+', to store separate languages broadcast in two channel audio mode. - If the preferred audio language is broadcast on a PID that has two different languages in the two stereo channels, the audio channel is now properly set when switching to such a channel (thanks to Mogens Elneff for his help in testing this). - Fixed some typos in MANUAL (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - Fixed the default value for "Setup/EPG bugfix level" (thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting this one). - Fixed defining timers that only differ in the day of week (thanks to Patrick Rother for reporting this one). - Fixed converting summary.vdr files that would result in a very long 'short text' (thanks to Carsten Koch). - Implemented a hash for the channels to reduce the system load in the EIT scanning thread (based on a patch by Georg Acher). Have fun! Klaus

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no remote on vdr-mplayer
by Leo Márquez 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Hi, Im using VDR with lirc without problem. But when I use mplayer remote not works. In mplayer.sh I have -slave -nolirc -quiet. What can be happen? -- Salutacions, Leo Márquez [ Enginyeria del Software / Internet ] [ Calidae - www.calidae.com ] [ Himalaya Servers - www.himalayaservers.com ]

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RE: [vdr] video data stream broken - again - (Privat)
by christian jacobsen 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hallo Reinhard, > christian jacobsen wrote: > > > 2620 - since 29. Aug. - with vdr-1.3.30 + 29 > > > > Here a list of the DVD drivers I used, I allways started > using them on > > the Day that I downloaded them : > > Up till vdr-1.3.17 - dvb-kernel-20041221 > > vdr-1.3.19 - dvb-kernel-20050118 > > vdr-1.3.23 - dvb-cvs-kernel-20050324) > > vdr-1.3.25 - dvb-kernel-20050617 > > vdr-1.3.27 (20. June) - back to dvb-kernel-20050324 (more stable) > > vdr-1.3.29 - dvb-kernel-20050826 (together with FW 2620) > > > > So if I see this right it comes down to that it probably is > caused by > > the New Firmware or maybe something that was changed in VDR > >= 1.3.25 ? > > cVideoRepacker was introduced. But it was wrong to reset it's scanner > and drop any buffered data when it discovered a system start > code. This > resulted in putting incomplete PES packets into result buffer > and later, > it was possible that cRemux::Get() couldn't return any > remaining data of > result buffer. The result was that the receiver's ringbuffer > filled up > and caused an overflow as the recording thread could no longer feed > cRemux due to the almost full result buffer. And finally, the > recording > thread caused an emergency exit as it didn't see any further > data for 30 > seconds. > > Since VDR-1.3.25 there have been many fixes and improvements. The > attached files will soon be released in VDR-1.3.32. OK, I will try VDR-1.3.32 and see if it has been fixed. > A further change happend in VDR-1.3.31: waiting for the tuner to get > locked on the signal before attaching the receiver was > removed. Several > versions ago, this waiting was introduced to fix the VDSB > error. But it > was removed now as no driver should need this waiting besides > it is buggy. Driver ist quite new 26.08.2005 so that shpuld be no problem. Otherwise if I get trouble again with VDR 1.3.32 I can try the attached Versions - with what VDR versions would they work ? Thanks for looking into this :) Greetings Christian Jacobsen

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RE: [vdr] DeleteResume patch for vdr 1.3.32.
by christian jacobsen 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hallo Carsten, > I currently have 519 recordings on 9 disks. > Even with my patch it takes 30-40 seconds to bring up > the recordings menu. > So some of my family members often inadvertendly start > the first recording in the first folder because they keep > pressing OK thinking VDR did not receive the previous OK > command. > > 3) You could spawn a separate thread for every disk > you process, so waiting for 9 disks to spin up does > not take 9*spinup_time, but only 1*spinup_time. Why does all the disks spinup ? IIRC VDR does only read the directory and the index.vdr file. If this is on the first disk (as it should be) then only the first disk is read ... and all other disks stay asleep! If I may guess then you have spread the recordings all over disks - including index.vdr, right ? Or maybe even linked the complete recording directory to another disk ? Other things that wakeup disks : - recording to a disk - Replaying Recording - Removing Deleted recordings every hour (that can be changed - see below) FYI I have a 2 disk system in my living room - the first disk is allways on, the second "allways" sleeping (and only wakeup if something is Cutted to it or a recording is replayed from it). The first disk is mapped on /video and only that one is used for recording. The secod disk ist /video1 and is only filled when cutting recordings (search for AutoCutter for more). One could also move the recordings at a certain time (like shortly after booting) with a script without cutting - IIRC Emil is doing that, maybe he could be so friendly to post his perl script :) If you only want to remove the Deleted recordings once a day you should change REMOVECHECKDELTA in recording.c to 86400. But you can also disable "Removing Deleted recordings" completely - thats what I did. The reason for tis is that I would like to keep the second disk sleeping as long as possible : --- vdr.c.ORG 2005-08-25 12:07:27.208113418 +0200 +++ vdr.c 2005-08-25 12:07:59.176569418 +0200 @@ -976,7 +976,8 @@ } } // Disk housekeeping: - RemoveDeletedRecordings(); + // CJAC - now deleting is done by a script + // RemoveDeletedRecordings(); cSchedules::Cleanup(); // Plugins housekeeping: PluginManager.Housekeeping(); You will then have to write a script that takes care of Removing the Deleted Recordings. On my system that is done on every boot 5 min. after VDR start (disk goes to sleep after 20min.). And I am booting once a day because the system goes to sleep at night and wakes up with NVRAM in the morning again - unless somebody watches TV all night ;) Here is my RemoveDeletedRecordings.sh script - I am sure it could be done a lot more nice, but thats what I "hacked togehter" and it works nicely :) Warning : you shold check that "rmdir -pv" does not do anything strange on your system - otherwiese you make end up with an Empty disk !! #!/bin/sh # This script Really Deletes the Recordings that was "deleted" by VDR VDRROOT=/video printf "\n\nStart $(basename $0) : $(date)\n" find $VDRROOT/ -name "*.del" -type d | while read i do printf "\n\nREMOVING %s :\n\n" "$i" SecondaryVideoDir="" for f in $i/*; do FileLink=$(readlink $f) if [ "$FileLink" != "" ]; then printf "Linked $(basename $f) : " rm -fv $FileLink SecondaryVideoDir=$(echo $FileLink|cut -f1-$(echo $FileLink|sed -e 's/\// /g'|wc -w) -d/) fi rm -fv $f done # Try to remove maybe empty Directory and Parents [ "$SecondaryVideoDir" != "" ] && rmdir -pv $SecondaryVideoDir rmdir -pv $i touch $VDRROOT/.update Greetings Christian Jacobsen

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Diskless VDR client ?
by Anne et Jean-Marc Baty 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello, I want to make a diskless vdr client box... I've got a VDR server whith streamdev-server, a full features DVB-S and a budget DVB-S cards. For the client side box i've got a PIII 866 Mghz whith a Matrox MGA 400 DH (so i need softdevice too) I want to know if it possible to get timeshifting, timers, and viewing recording from my VDR-server whith this configuration ??? JMB

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image plugin only YUV420 is supported
by Leo Márquez 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying yo use the image plugin but this error appears when I play the images: imageplugin.sh: called 'imageplugin.sh /cdrom/136_3644.JPG /tmp/image/VKA8Jtc.pnm 688 544 0 0 0' imageplugin.sh: jpegtopnm: WRITING PPM FILE imageplugin.sh: Success! Stopped with created /tmp/image/VKA8Jtc.pnm [mpeg2video @ 0xb7963008]only YUV420 is supported Killed Anyone could help me? I'm using VDR 1.3.22 dvb kernel driver (2.6.11) haupaugge nexus-s (FF) cinergy 1200 dvb-t (budget) Thanks

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DeleteResume patch for vdr 1.3.32.
by Carsten Koch 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

The attached patch lets VDR remove a resume.vdr instead of storing a position in it that points to the beginning. In big collections of recordings, this reduces the time to create/update the recordings menu quite a bit, since VDR does not have to open hundreds of files just to find out that the information in them is a non-information. After this patch has made it into standard VDR, the performance of the recordings menu can be further enhanced by *never* reading the file, not even when it does exist, since with the attached patch it is clear that an existing resume.vdr always means the recording is not rewound.

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Sky-Plugin doesn't compile with vdr-1.3.32
by Alfred Zastrow 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Am I the only one, who is getting this error? g++ -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"sky"' -I../../../include -I../../../../DVB/include sky.c sky.c:58: Fehler: expected class-name vor »{«-Zeichen sky.c:64: Fehler: ISO-C++ verbietet Deklaration von »cTSBuffer« ohne Typ sky.c:64: Fehler: expected `;' vor »*«-Zeichen sky.c:69: Fehler: »cPidHandle« wurde nicht deklariert sky.c:69: Fehler: ISO-C++ verbietet Deklaration von »Handle« ohne Typ [...] regards Alfred

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ac3 of old (pre1.3.19) cannot detected/decoded with ffmpeg
by Stefan Lucke 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi, software decoding/detection of old ac3 streams seems to be impossible with ffmpeg. To fix this I made a modification so that recognition works. Can someone with more ac3 stream knowledge can have a look at this diff ? This vdr-1.3.22 apply with some offset to vdr-1.3.32 and still works. -- Stefan Lucke

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Web interfaces
by Tony Houghton 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

A few months ago someone announced a new web interface for VDR, other than vdradmin. Can anyone remember what it is? Alternatively, maybe there are some simple fixes for vdradmin? There are two problems I have with it (currently using 0.96-5 from Debian): (a) When VDR and vdradmin are both run at startup, there seems to be a race condition. Most times it all works correctly, but quite often vdradmin seems to decide it can't communicate with VDR until it (vdradmin) is restarted. Couldn't it just try again when a page is reloaded? (b) Channels added in the Configuration screen often don't appear in the menus in the "What's on?" and "Channels" pages. I mentioned this before and one of the authors thought this might be to do with certain flags in channels.conf and maybe they should think about dropping the check. Looks like they didn't get round to that :-/. I use the scan program to generate my channels.conf so that I can have the Freeview numbers, but VDR isn't quite happy with the format and tends to create problems. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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