vdr February 2006

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convert 16:9 letterboxed / anamorphous to DVD ?
by Harald Milz 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, I am trying to find out how to convert 16:9 broadcasts to DVD with anamorphous encoding. If I get the page http://www.dvd-tipps-tricks.de/index.php?url=3Dhttp%3A//www.dvd-tipps-trick… right, 16:9 broadcasts should be in the 16:9 letterboxed format (in any case softdevice displays them properly in 1280x720p). Or is it anamorphous? In any case, how do I make an anamorphous encoded DVD from such recordings, with the Wide Screen Signaling bits properly set? I can't find any corresponding options for vdrsync, for example. TIA! -- If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?

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UPC vienna - several dropouts
by Marco Skambraks 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

hi, last weekend I tried to get a vdr box running with "UPC telekabel wien" I used a box with a technotrend dvb-c v2.1 firmware 2622 and a 2.6.13 kernel UPC is using qam256 for modulation I received almost 170 channels, but the replaying of the channels produced several dropouts I assume the signal was OK because the UPC motorola box had no problem to replay the channels my frined in vienna also tried to amplify the signal, but that didn't help any ideas? thanks marco

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VPS timer and missing running state
by Frank Behrens 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hi, a recording last night failed and I ask, if someone can explain the reason. The timer was for german channel ZDF with VPS info, but apparently a running state was not broadcasted. The timer started on scheduled time, but stopped after 4 seconds. It seems VDR detected that no running state is availabe, but stopped the recording immediately. I know that VPS is not reliable, but when VDR can start the timer on right time without running state it should be able to stop it after scheduled time. Is it a problem in VDR or did I miss something? I'm using VDR 1.3.41 from c't distribution. The log entries during recording time, there was no user interaction: Feb 26 22:26:17 vdr vdr: [4646] timer 4 (5 2230-0005 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill') set to event Son 26.02.2006 22:30-00:05 (VPS: 26.02 22:30) 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill' Feb 26 22:26:29 vdr vdr: [4646] max. latency time 12 seconds Feb 26 22:28:00 vdr vdr: [4646] timer 4 (5 2230-0005 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill') entered VPS margin Feb 26 22:28:00 vdr vdr: [4646] switching device 1 to channel 5 Feb 26 22:28:00 vdr vdr: [4840] channel 7 (ZDFdokukanal) event 21:45 'Radfahrer - Von Pedalrittern und Bikern' status 4 Feb 26 22:28:00 vdr vdr: [4840] channel 9 (3sat) event 21:15 'Hoffnung - ein deutscher Winterstern' status 4 Feb 26 22:28:01 vdr vdr: [4840] channel 6 (ZDFinfokanal) event 22:15 'Herr der Regeln' status 4 Feb 26 22:28:01 vdr vdr: [4646] switching to channel 1 Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] switching device 1 to channel 5 Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] timer 4 (5 2230-0005 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill') start Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] Title: 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill' Subtitle: 'Schlussblende' Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] executing '/usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction before "/video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill/2006-02-26.22.30.50.14.rec"' Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] record /video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill/2006-02-26.22.30.50.14.rec Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] creating directory /video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] creating directory /video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill/2006-02-26.22.30.50.14.rec Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4646] recording to '/video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill/2006-02-26.22.30.50.14.rec/001.vdr' Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4852] file writer thread started (pid=4646, tid=4852) Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4853] recording thread started (pid=4646, tid=4853) Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4854] receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=4646, tid=4854) Feb 26 22:30:00 vdr vdr: [4855] TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=4646, tid=4855) Feb 26 22:30:01 vdr vdr: [4840] channel 6 (ZDFinfokanal) event 22:30 'Hilfe, mein Kind will nicht essen!' status 4 Feb 26 22:30:01 vdr vdr: [4646] switching to channel 1 Feb 26 22:30:01 vdr vdr: [4646] info: Kanal nicht verfügbar! Feb 26 22:30:01 vdr vdr: [4840] changing pids of channel 69 from 310+310:320=deu:330 to 310+310:320:0 Feb 26 22:30:02 vdr vdr: [4840] channel 7 (ZDFdokukanal) event 22:30 'Rahmen, Ritzel und rasierte Beine' status 4 Feb 26 22:30:03 vdr vdr: [4646] switching to channel 5 Feb 26 22:30:03 vdr vdr: [4857] transfer thread started (pid=4646, tid=4857) Feb 26 22:30:04 vdr vdr: [4853] recording thread ended (pid=4646, tid=4853) Feb 26 22:30:04 vdr vdr: [4852] file writer thread ended (pid=4646, tid=4852) Feb 26 22:30:04 vdr vdr: [4646] buffer stats: 60724 (1%) used Feb 26 22:30:04 vdr vdr: [4646] timer 4 (5 2230-0005 'Hautnah - Die Methode Hill') stop Feb 26 22:30:04 vdr vdr: [4646] executing '/usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction after "/video/vdr/Hautnah_-_Die_Methode_Hill/2006-02-26.22.30.50.14.rec"' Gruß, Frank -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.

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[Announce] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.13
by Christian Wieninger 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, here's a new version of epgsearch: 2006-02-28: Version 0.9.13 new: - support for vdr-1.3.44: works now, but: because of the summary/aux changes in vdr-1.3.44 the additional info about the search timer, that triggered a timer/recording, or the recording channel is currently not available. This info is now stored in the new aux field of timers/recordings, that can't (yet) be displayed in VDR. - blacklists: you can now maintain one or more blacklists and select them within a search or search timer. A blacklist works like a normal search and defines events that should be ignored in a search or search timer. Blacklists can be managed from setup or with the new search action 'Show blacklists' or directly when editing a search. Within a search you can select one or more or all blacklists. If any search result is also contained in a black list result set it will be skipped. - the switchtimer background thread is now only active, while there are any active switch timers. - when you unpack the tar file, the necessary link is now automatically created (like text2skin) - the result list of repeats of an event now omits the currently running event, suggested by Ronny Kornexl - thanks for beta testing to Mike Constabel - update for finnish translation, thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg fixes: - the setup option 'Add episode to manual timers' was not stored Description and download: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.13.tgz BR, Christian

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[patch] tvonscreen plugin broken with vdr 1.3.44
by Deti Fliegl 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, tvonscreen 0.7.0 with vdr version 1.3.44 seems to be broken (last working version was 1.3.42): vdr: /home/video/plugins/lib/libvdr-tvonscreen.so.1.3.44: undefined symbol: _ZN10cMenuEventC2EPK6cEventb Deti For me this little patch was needed: --- tvonscreen/timer.h~ 2006-02-28 19:47:38.000000000 +0100 +++ tvonscreen/timer.h 2006-02-28 19:47:38.000000000 +0100 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ private: const cEvent *event; public: - cMenuEvent(const cEvent *Event, bool CanSwitch = false); + cMenuEvent(const cEvent *Event, bool CanSwitch = false, bool Buttons = false); virtual void Display(void); virtual eOSState ProcessKey(eKeys Key); };

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Reelbox
by Peter Juszack 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hallo I found an interesting website about the Reelbox 'MediaCenter'. It uses VDR. Since a harddisc is an 'extra' the OS and VDR must be on an intergrated flash storage or something similar. Some time ago there were some negative postings about that company here. Does anyone know details about that box? Website and appearance of the box is quite smart. http://www.reel-multimedia.de Regards Peter

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.43
by Klaus Schmidinger 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

VDR developer version 1.3.43 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.43.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.42-43.diff The changes since version 1.3.42: - Removed an unnecessary toFile->SetReadAhead() from cutter.c (thanks to Artur Skawina). - The "Back" key now restores the original string when pressed while editing a string item (suggested by Markus Hahn). - Now stopping scanning the video directory if there are too many levels of symbolic links, which might indicate a recursive link loop (based on a patch from Helmut Auer). - Improved OSD area handling in cDvbSpuDecoder (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - Now logging the description (if present) in case a thread is canceled (suggested by Marco Schlüßler). - cMenuText now uses the given font (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - The ST:TNG skin now uses the fixed font if requested when displaying texts. - Fixed some typos in the CONTRIBUTORS file (thanks to Frank Krömmelbein). - Changed offset and size handling in 'libsi' from 'unsigned' to 'signed', so that overflows can be better detected (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg). - Checking data size in CaDescriptor::Parse() and LinkageDescriptor::Parse() of 'libsi' to avoid crashes with invalid data (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg). - Made CharArray::DataOwnData::assign() in 'libsi' more robust against invalid data (suggested by Oliver Endriss). Also changed CharArray::DataOwnData::Delete() so that it sets 'size' and 'data' to 0. - Now resetting the channel number if the number entered through the numeric keys exceeds the maximum channel number (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - The language code in the 'X' component records of EPG data can now consist of two codes, separated by '+'. - If a recording starts and there is no EPG data available for the recorded channel, the 'X' audio component records for the 'info.vdr' file are now generated from the channel's PID data. - Externally provided EPG data (with table ID 0x00) now gets its component descriptors set from the broadcast data, so that language codes and descriptions are available (suggested by Andreas Brugger). - When setting the audio track descriptions, the language codes are now also set in case this is a replay session (based on a patch from Rolf Ahrenberg). - If a recording starts and the channel's audio PID data has more language code information than the EPG's component data, the code from the channel is taken. - Fixed handling DPID when deciding whether to switch to 'Transfer Mode' (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - Fixed replaying recordings of radio channels with many audio tracks (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Added a comment to tChannelID::nid, explaining that is is actually the "original" network id. Have fun! Klaus

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Softdevice xv and nvidia
by diyab diyab 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

I am trying to use softdevice with vdr. When I use xv output the picture is something like colorless. I think i have a problem with colorspace. when I use the xine plugin everything works well with xv out. I also couldn't get working softdevice DFB out. Any made it working with Nvidia FX5200? BTW I am using Nvidia FX5200 and vdr 1.3.42 and softdevice 0.2.2 on Gentoo 2005.r1. diyab --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Announce: Radiolist plugin
by Peter Juszack 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hallo, in order to enable every key on my new remote control I wrote a little plugin which provides a second channel list. It includes all channels with VPID = 0 (usually radio channels). Mainmenu entry and channel seperators can be switched on/off in setup. Link: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pjuszack/digicam/download/vdr-radiolist-0.0… Regards Peter

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[ANNOUNCE] TVUpdate für DaLiBox 2.0 (DaLiMan)
by vdr＠daliman.de 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Das TVUpdate für DaLiBox 2.0 kann unter http://www.dalibox.de geladen werden. Die Neuerungen sind im Artikel "TVUpdate2.0" auf derselben Site beschrieben. Have a lot of fun!

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