vdr February 2006

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.44
by Klaus Schmidinger 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

VDR developer version 1.3.44 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.44.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.43-44.diff *** IMPORTANT NOTE ************************************************** *** *** *** This version changes the handling of the "summary" and "flag" *** *** fields in timer definitions. So in case you are using an *** *** external tool for programming timers, which uses that field, *** *** please wait until the author of that tool has adapted it to *** *** the new handling. *** *** *** ********************************************************************* The changes since version 1.3.43: - Fixed setting the audio language codes in 'Transfer-Mode' (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg). The actual problem was the call to the Transferring() function in cDevice::AttachPlayer() before assigning the player. - Fixed removing the '-' when entering a channel number where there is no other one that fits the input (thanks to Joachim Wilke). - Fixed the 'libsi' function CharArray::checkSize(), which made a previous workaround in libsi/descriptor.c obsolete (thanks to Marcel Wiesweg). - The "Ok" key in the "Jump" mode of the replay progress display now confirms the jump instead of closing the display (thanks to Christoph Haubrich). - The 'summary' field of a timer definition has been renamed to 'aux', and is now only used for external applications to store auxiliary information with a timer, which has no meaning whatsoever to VDR itself. The contents of the 'aux' field of a timer is copied into the recording's 'info.vdr' file, using the tag character '@'. - The description of a recording is now taken exclusively from its related EPG data. If an application wants to use a different description it needs to set it with SVDRP/PUTE and use table ID 0x00, so that it won't be overwritten (as a side effect, however, this also disables VPS for such an event). - There is no more "Summary" menu when pressing "Ok" in the "Timers" menu. The "Ok" key now always opens the "Edit timer" menu. - The upper 16 bit of a timer's "flags" are no longer treated specially when a timer is modified in the "Edit timer" menu. If an external application needs to know if a timer was modified, it has to keep a copy of the timer's data and compare that to the actual data. - The new function cRecordingInfo::ChannelID() can be used to retrieve the ID of the channel a recording was made from. - The 'info.vdr' file of a recording now also contains the 'E' and 'V' records of the EPG event used when creating it. - The option "Setup/OSD/Sort timers" has been removed. Timers are always sorted by their start time and priority. - The "Blue" key in the "Timers" menu now displays the EPG info of the event the selected timer will record (if available). The "On/Off" function has been shifted to the "Red" button. Editing a timer is done by pressing "Ok". - When determining which event a timer is going to record, all available events in the future are now taken into account (no more limit to 4 hours in the future). This has been done so that the event info is available in the "Timers" menu when pressing the "Blue" button. In order to avoid unnecessary work, each timer now has its own timestamp to control whether its schedule has changed since the last time its event has been set. - Fixed setting events to timers in case a non-VPS event has expired. - There is now a log message "timer ... set to event ..." when defining a timer from the EPG menu. - Lines tagged with '#' in the 'info.vdr' file of a recording are now silently ignored when reading that file (suggested by Peter Bieringer). Such lines can be used by external tools to store arbitrary information. - The 'event id' in EPG data has been extended to 32 bit, so that external tools can generate ids that don't collide with those from the DVB data stream (suggested by Matthias Schniedermeyer). - The DrawBitmap() function now has a new parameter 'Overlay' that allows a bitmap to be drawn with a transparent background (thanks to Alexander Hans). - Fixed cSchedule::GetFollowingEvent() in case there is currently no present event running (thanks to Pekka Mauno). Have fun! Klaus

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[Announce] Master-Timer 0.7.1
by Matthias Schniedermeyer 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi URL: http://mt.citd.de/master-timer-0.7.1.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. Changes: - This release in mainly for the change in the 1.3.44 Version of VDR, which changes the timer-field: Summary to be the AUX-field. The new field "@" in the info.vdr will be taking the data which where stored in the "D" field in earlier VDR versions The only change is in the "done"-functionality to also look for the "@"-field in the info.vdr. If you don't use the "done"-functionality you can ignore this release - I ran README & LIESMICH and sample/torecord through a spell-checker, man i'm bad at writing documentation with proper spelled words. ;-) - clear-vdr.pl didn't work correctly, but it shouldn't be needed anymore anyway. 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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Wrong language selected from transmission (YLE2 Olympics)
by Ville Aakko 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, It seems VDR chooses the wrong language on some transmission for some reason. I have three favourite languages (i.e,. "Äänen kielet: 3") chosen in VDR: Finnish, Swedish ang english. On the Finnish Broadcasting Networks YLE2 Olympics, VDR chooses the Swedish commentary for some reason, and I need to manually choose the Finnish one every time. I have VDR 1.3.42 (compiled on Debian stable/testing/unstable) and a DVB-C card (Technisat Cablestar2). I live in the Oulu region. Is the problem with the transmission (YLE/OPOY), my settings, or could this be a VDR bug? I haven't noticed this problem on any other channels (like YLE1 and YLE24) when they are transmitting both Swedish and Finnish commentary. Has anyone else here (using VDR in the Oulu DVB-C nerwork) noticed this problem, or the lack of? -- - Ville Aakko

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hardware pecularities...
by Guido Fiala 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Did anyone notice, that the picture (at least th OSD-portion) becomes unsharp when the card is becoming hotter? This is not just "a bit" - at my DLP i can see the difference easily... Is this a problem of all FF-cards or only certain ones? (i have still a version 1.3 one) I also noticed, that other problems seem to happen more often if i close the case of my system, hell - i'am not speaking of really hot parts, one could still touch it after all. There are visible artifacts on the screen when content is changing dramatically and/or freezes which can only fixed by restarts/reboots, sometimes even having let it cooling down for a few minutes. It is already the second card (first one the MPEG-decoder has died, it still gives a budget-card equivalent), so whenever it finally burns out i want to buy a good designed FF card next time. Suggestions? Or, alternatively - are there any easy methods to cool the cards better? What chips beside the tuner would have to be cooled? My bttv-card sits exactly on top of the saa7146 and has absolutely no problem dealing with that temperature, i blame the hardware manufacturer that it gets so hot in the first part at all (it is not even a LNB connected, it should stay stone cold) :-(

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VDRAdmin doesn't display preview of channel
by Michael 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, First of all thanks for excellent software! VDR is very good and I hope it won't stop its improving in the future :) Now about my problem. I've installed VDR and VDRAdmin using RPMs. Everything works fine but preview of channel on the page 'Watch TV' is not working. It displays nothing. I tried to find what is problem. As I understand VDRAdmin grab video as images and then shows them on the web page. I didn't see any error messages in the VDRAdmin log or VDR log. (the fragment of VDR log): Feb 15 21:26:30 localhost vdr: [3807] connect from 127.0.0.1, port 3035 - accepted Feb 15 21:26:30 localhost vdr: [3807] closing SVDRP connection So, everything seems ok but video is not displayed. Any idea why? Thanks in advanced. My configuration: VDR 1.3.37 and vdradmin-0.97-1. -- Best regards, Michael Stepanov, www.stepanoff.org

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VDRAdmin-AM autotimer problem
by Anders Gunnarsson 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

I recently upgraded from VDRAdmin 0.96 to VDRAdmin AM 3.4.3rc2. Great to see all new functionality such as Playing Today and Timeline. I have one problem though. I have autotimers for two consecutive shows on the same channel. With the extra padding before and after the shows they are overlapping. As I can recall this wasn't a problem in 0.96, timers were set for both shows and both were recorded. In 3.4.3rc2 timer is set for only one show, priority seem to have nothing to do with it since the later show which has higher priority is the one left out. I would appreciate if timers would be set for all autotimers to let VDR worry about what to record or not. thanks /Anders My system: PII with Single FF Siemens DVB-C board Suse 9.0 with perl v5.8.1 VDR 1.3.22 -- Anders Gunnarsson Medicinaregatan 2 413 46 Göteborg Tel: 031-7804498 Mob: 070-2644901 e-post: d00guan(a)dtek.chalmers.se

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[ANNNOUNCE] Nordlicht's EPG-Plugin 0.7
by Martin Prochnow 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi folks, I'm pleased to announce version 0.7 of my epg-plugin. What's new? - added option to switch with Ok; see README - timers are now set instantly, timer-edit-menu is only shown for channels without event info (because there are no reasonable values) - added option to delete timers Screenshots and download: http://martins-kabuff.de/nordlichtsepg_en.html Greets Martin ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

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TS buffer size
by Olaf Titz 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Something changed between VDR 1.3.34 and 1.3.42 which leads to a much higher rate of (apparent) TS read errors. I'm getting corrupted pictures and no sound with repacker error messages all the way with .42 or .43, while .34 is okay. This happens on two different machines with different hardware (FF vs. budget DVB-S card) and kernel versions. I have no real idea which change caused the problem, but this seems to cure it: --- dvbdevice.c 25 Feb 2006 09:46:06 -0000 1.1.1.2 +++ dvbdevice.c 25 Feb 2006 12:01:30 -0000 1.2 @@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@ CloseDvr(); fd_dvr = DvbOpen(DEV_DVB_DVR, CardIndex(), O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK, true); if (fd_dvr >= 0) - tsBuffer = new cTSBuffer(fd_dvr, MEGABYTE(2), CardIndex() + 1); + tsBuffer = new cTSBuffer(fd_dvr, MEGABYTE(5), CardIndex() + 1); return fd_dvr >= 0; } Perhaps the repacker changes need somehow more buffer space, packets, processing time (but I have <50% CPU load even with xine on one box) or whatever? Olaf

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Can I remove the "Sort timers" setup option?
by Klaus Schmidinger 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

I would like to remove the "Sort timers" setup option to make things simpler in the "Timers" menu. Since IMHO it only makes sense to display the timers sorted by their start time (and priority) there's no real need to have this option. But I might be mistaken and somebody absolutely needs this. In that case, please "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" ;-) Klaus

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[PATCH] SHUTDOWNRETRY-FIX
by W. 25 Feb '06

25 Feb '06

Hi everybody, this is the missing diff from mini discussed here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=45103&sid=&threadview=0&… Bye, Yaris

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