vdr January 2006

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Where to send patch for vdr-locker plugin?
by Monchenko Vladimir 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello. I write small patch for vdr-locker-0.1.0a. This patch for >=vdr-1.3.34 with added russian translation. The letter to the author has come back with a mark "no mailbox here by that name". Sorry for my bad english. With the best regards. Monchenko Vladimir.

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Re: [vdr] Announce: vdr-eggtimer-0.0.2
by Stephan Loescher 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Peter Juszack <vdr(a)unterbrecher.de> writes: Hi! > there is a new version of the eggtimer plugin available: > http://194.95.44.38/~pjuszack/digicam/download/vdr-eggtimer-0.0.2.tgz > what is it? An eggtimer for vdr. After starting the plugin will Great idea! But I can't compile it: ... make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/vdr-1.2.6/PLUGINS/src/eggtimer-0.0.2' g++ -fPIC -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"eggtimer"' -I../../../include -I../../../../DVB/include eggtimer.c eggtimer.c:43: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `cString' with no type eggtimer.c:43: error: `cString' declared as a `virtual' field eggtimer.c:43: error: syntax error before `(' token eggtimer.c:147: error: syntax error before `::' token make[1]: *** [eggtimer.o] Error 1 I use Gentoo with g++ (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) Stephan. -- loescher(a)gmx.de http://www.loescher-online.de/ Try LEO: http://www.leo.org/

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Suggestion for live-pausing
by Rene Hertell 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hi, I have a suggestion for pausing a live program. Now when I want to pause a show, I have to stop it separately, or leave it on till the live-pausing time-out occurs (eg. 3 hours). What I think would be a nice enhancement would be to get an option to record the current program + 10min (as the normal timer-menu suggests), and the recording would stop automagically. This option would be visible right after I press pause, and it would be on the screen for eg. 5sec. The prompt could be something like: "Do you want to pause only the current program? Press ok to confirm or Back to keep going". Currently when I'm pausing a program I'm watching, i start the timer, and browse to my recordings-menu and start watching that way. The reason I do it this way is that I don't have to remember shutting down the program after watching it (otherwise It keeps going till time-out and wastes space on my hdd). Also if I have a timer for a channel that's on a different channel group that starts eg. after the program I'm pausing the, start-up of the recording would fail.. Regards, René

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conditional access and restarting
by Jouni Karvo 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

hi, perhaps it is just me, but I have some problems with recordings from encrypted channels... When there is no valid EMM received to the card, it naturally does not show the channel. My problem is that when in live viewing, there is just the xine-originated "No Signal" text on the screen, and everything works fine. When the EMM arrives, the card starts decrypting and the channel appears. But: When there is a timed recording, vdr tries to get data by restarting, which is naturally the wrong way to try to receive an EMM from the cable... Naturally, when there is a valid EMM already on the card, there are no problems in either case, but decrypting starts immediately. I use 1.3.34, so if this is OK in the newer versions, then sorry about disturbing. yours, Jouni

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how to stop timer?
by Markus Hahn 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hi there A full or not available disk causes a endless lopp of TimerStart and EmergencyExit if a timer is active. To avoid this, I added this code to cRecordControls::Start() : menu.c:3518 bool cRecordControls::Start(cTimer *Timer, bool Pause) { ChangeState(); if (!VideoFileSpaceAvailable(300)) { Skins.Message(mtInfo, tr("No disk space!")); if (Timer) Timer->Delete(); return false; } Now the message pops up endlessly, because the timer is still aktive??? Any suggestions? regards Markus

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vdr-1.3.39: VDR extremely sluggish
by Wolfgang Fritz 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello, I want to report a problem with VDR when a recording is tried while no signal is available. Last week a small local "blizzard" covered my dish with snow so I lost the sat signal. When VDR started a recording in this situation, its response to the RC became extremely sluggish with several seconds delay between a RC key press and the reaction. Whe the "recording" finally terminated, the response times became normal again. The sat signal was still unavailable. The CPU load stayed low (nearly 0) in this situation, and no RC keys got lost. This happened with VDR 1.3.39 with jummplay patch applied, Kernel 2.6.15 and v4l-dvb CVS drivers from 3.1.2006. I did not try a vanilla VDR but can do this if required. I have attached a syslog excerpt. Wolfgang Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: creating directory /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:00 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:02 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Jan 17 19:59:05 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr Jan 17 19:59:06 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:08 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953 Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: ERROR: device 2 has no lock, can't attach receiver! Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') stop Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: switching device 2 to channel 3 Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: timer 1 (3 1959-2017 'Tagesschau') start Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: Title: 'Tagesschau' Subtitle: 'Nachrichtenmagazin der ARD' Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: record /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: cFileName::SetOffset: removing zero-sized file /video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr Jan 17 19:59:11 vdr vdr[4211]: recording to '/video/Tagesschau/Nachrichtenmagazin_der_ARD/2006-01-17.19.59.50.10.rec/001.vdr' Jan 17 19:59:12 vdr vdr[4211]: frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 3, tp 111953

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-filebrowser-0.0.4
by Holger Brunn 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello list, I'm glad to announce a new version of the filebrowser plugin, you can get it from http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uqg8/vdr/filebrowser/vdr-filebrowser-0.0.… This release includes a directory "developers" containing an example how to use filebrowser in your own plugin - any comments on this are especially welcome. I decided against using Service() that you don't need to have users of your plugin to install the filebrowser plugin. Changelog: - Added some #ifdefs for simple recycling of filebrowser's classes in other plugins - refer to developers/filebrowserdemo/README on how to do this (thanks to Gerhard Steiner) - Superseded the possibility to change the base directory via setup menu by sources command to protect system files (inspired by Andreas Leipelt) - Changed file pattern matching not to treat beginning period specially - Use ksh-style file pattern matching - refer to http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Wildcard-Matching.html#in… on how to use this - Possibility to define filters in sources.conf - Added possibility to call plugins image mplayer mp3 via filebrowser. You need to apply appropriate patches to the plugins (or ask their maintainers to add them to upstream) Your comments, bug reports and patches would be appreciated, regards Holger

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Alphacrypt Light needs reboot?
by Peter Juszack 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hallo, I got an AlphaCrypt Light and it works with my Premiere Smartcard so far. Hauppauge Nexus-S with 3,5" CI device. Unfortunately the CAM ist not available after starting the VDR. I need to reboot to see it in the CI menu. Sometimes remove/ reload the dvb_ttpci module is sufficent but not every time. I googled about that but only found people who had the same problem without a solution. Is a reboot required or is there another solution? Peter

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[Announce] Master-Timer 0.7.0
by Matthias Schniedermeyer 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hi http://mt.citd.de/master-timer-0.7.0.tar.bz2 Intro: Master-Timer is a system for automatic recording of series and movies. Unlike VDR Admin or XXV it isn't a webfrontend for VDR with the added ability to define timers, but a tool which is dedicated for the task of creating and programming timers with the greatest possible power and flexibility. You have to define what/when/how you want to record something into text-configuration files. You should read the README/LIESMICH for more details. A little Warning for upgraders: - Margins are now in MINUTES not in seconds anymore It never really made sense for them to be in seconds so i changed them to minutes. You have to check your config-file and your torecord-file and divide the margins by 60 Otherwise you get margins of 10 HOURS with the previous default of 600 seconds. - You should delete or move aways the files of a previous version as i have changed the structure of the files a lot and i think it otherwise may go wrong. NEW: - Master-Timer now cares about it's timers When you change the entry in "torecord" the timer will be changed (if necessary) If the epg.data changes the timer will be changed (if necessary) if an entry vanishes from epg.data the timer will be deleted (can be switched off, default=on) - Master-Timer doesn't use it's own IDs anymore For Program-Datan and Timer-Data only Channel:EventID are used for identifikation: ' (MT-ID:<nr>' => ' (E-ID <Kanal>:<EventID>') Anyone using the .dat-files directly will notive that program.dat & timer.dat are restructured to $hash{$channel}{$event_id} - Related to previous bullet-point, Master-Timer doesn't store anything in the "Active"-Flag anymore. - New Option in torecord: "ChannelNo" (see sample/torecord) With this you can specify channels by number instead by name - Blocks in torecord can now have sub-blocks (see sample/torecord) Sub-Blocks share the part between block-begin and first sub-block You can uses this to consolidate blocks which are for 'nearly' the same thing - New Option 'ExpireTimer' When switched on (default=on) timers stored in timer.dat will be deleted 7 days after they were expired. Otherwise they will stay in timer.dat indefinitely (like before) - New Config-Option 'md5subtitle' (default=on) On channels with no subtitle or subtitles which equal title, but a description. Take the description, make all chars lowerces, strip whitespaces and punction and then create a md5-sum of the description and put it into the subtitle. This will make the 'done' option function as good as possible with such bad data. - New Config-File 'killsubtitle' In conjuction with the 'md5subtitle'-option this can be used to kill a 'bad' subtitle from epg.data. The way for md5summing the description is then clear CHANGED: - Almost everthing - There is only one multicall-binary "run-mt.pl", which has many symlinks to it with the former script-names. After starting run-mt.pl it will loads the necessary program-part(s) from the "parts"-directory and 'eval's (it/them). - parseepgdata.pl now distinguished between 'new', 'changed', 'unchanged', 'vanished' and 'vanished with timer existing' (In that order. Last two only if DeleteVanishedTimer is switched on) - The .pl-files which aren't for execution were moved into the lib-directory - All sub-routines which are only used in a single "part" where moved into that respective "part". - removed 'Vars/rVars'-Variable and use the Vars directly as they where global anyway. - Margins are now in Minutes (see 'A little Warning' above) - Master-Timer now detects lost connections to VDR and reconnects them and spits out a warning that "SVDRPTimeout" may be too short. - There were parsing errors in the code in process_summary for reading the 'info.vdr' of never VDR-Versions Thanks to Gregoire Favre for providing a bunch of files to test with. - Print a warning to read the paragraph about the 'done' functionality in the README. - It's is now checked if the config-file (may) have changed and a complete reevaluation of everything is done if so. - Many small changed which i forgot REMOVED: - Options 'rememberdata' & 'remembertimer' The only practical use was to reprogramm deleted timers when they where deleted from VDR. Replaced by new Option 'CheckForDeletedTimer' (default=on) - Reading of timers from VDR Master-Timer doesn't care anymore if there is are non-Master-Timer timers, you have to make sure that there are no conflicting timers yourself. This should't be as 'bad' as this sentence sound. :-) - Joining of timers Since VDR 1.1.3 you can have overlapping timers on the same channel, so this wasn't necessary anymore for a long time - Option 'preventDouble' The changed structure of Timers don't support conflicts anymore. - Option '--check' of movie.pl/series.pl The use of the 'title = movie'/'title = series' special-torecord has long superceded that option Deprecated: - Dbox2-stuff, the dbox2-recording didn't work reliable anymore, so i replaced my dbox2 with another VDR machine 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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Unknown message from CAM
by Wolfgang Goeller 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Hello I upgraded tonight from vdr-1.3.37 to vdr-1.3.40 Now I found in the log-file: CAM: different stream flag in CA descriptors I never saw this before. Can someone please explain, what this messages means. Thanks Wolfgang

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