vdr July 2006

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102 discussions

[Offtopic] US Television (near Washington D.C.)
by Marco Göbenich 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hi! Can somebody located in the US near Washington D.C. tell what US-wide tv-channels are broadcasted there, I need to know channels that broadcast mainly news/information. If you also can tell me how to recieve those channels (in Washington D.C via cable/satellite) it would be nice. Or does anybody know a page where a german can find out how the US tv market works with all ist's local stations? Regards Marco

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transcode any movie to vdr format
by Glyn Edwards 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi, I've just started playing with VDR again for the first time since version 1.2 something. It has improved immensely, well done to everyone, especially Klaus. My question is, has anyone made a script for transcoding video files to the vdr format? The reason I ask is that if I can play files from the vdr format I can fast forward etc... using the remote. I haven't managed to get that working as well with the mplayer plugin. Thanks, Glyn

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Some information about the Streamdev plugin wanted
by Torsten Schlabach 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi all! I am currentry trying to make the Streamdev plugin work, especially in non vdr-vdr setup, but more to establish a general streaming source on my network in order to use PCs and or standalone streaming clients with it, but my mileage is very limited. In other words: Sometimes I managed to get a radio channel streamed, sometimes I didn't. I am currently using vdr 1.4.0 together with a fresh CVS checkout from the CVS at vdr-developer.org (as of yesterday). Maybe someone could be so kind as to help me with some general information: 1. Does Sascha Volkenandt still develop the plugin? In the README file on the CVS his site http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=streamdev is still mentioned, but this hasn't been upgraded for quite a while and the move of the CVS to vdr-developer.org looks like someone else has adopted this ?? 2. Is this mailing-list an appropriate place to discuss usage and further development of the plugin? I am still struggling to understand how linuxtv.org, vdr-portal.de, vdr-wiki.de and vdr-developer.org relate. Some of them seem to belong together somehow. 3. Is there any documentation except the PROTOCOL and README files in the source tree? 4. Did I understand correctly that the streamdev server can be used in two *different* ways, 1. through the VTP procotol (as described in PROTOCOL), through default port 2004 and 2. independent of VTP through HTTP on port 3000? Regards, Torsten

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VDR does not save channels.conf
by Torsten Schlabach 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi all! I have used UpdateChannels = 4 in my setup.conf. I can see in the syslog that vdr is doing lots of updating, which is what I want. But it does not save these updates to channels.conf for some reaon. So whenever I restart vdr it has to get all the updates done from scratch. Is this by design or do I have a problem? I am running vdr 1.4.0. Regards, Torsten

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ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD!
by Pedja Vasiljevic 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

HI everyone when i tray to start vdr i see in my log next error ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD!

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OT: 4400 from july 3rd
by Klaus Gerding 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

hi friends, is one of you willing to share the episode of 4400 from pro 7 from the 3rd of july? i and my wife would be very pleased. thanks in forward, klaus

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[Patch] Cannot delete last char in insert mode
by Udo Richter 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hi list, I've fixed a small editing bug: For menu string edit items, when in insert mode, its impossible to delete the last character of the string. Steps to reproduce: - Go into some edit field: [A]BCDEF - Switch to insert mode : []ABCDEF - Move into the string : ABC[]DEF - Press yellow key : ABC[]EF - Press yellow key : ABC[]F - Press yellow key : ABC[]F - nothing happens. This doesn't happen if you move the cursor to the end once, as this will insert a blind space: ABCDEF[]_ The attached patch fixes this in one possible way: It deletes the last char, but keeps the cursor position by inserting a whitespace: ABC[]F -> ABC[]_ Without the whitespace, the cursor would have to move in an ugly way: ABC[]F -> AB[]C -> A[]B -> []A -> []_ The implementation requires another quirk: To do the delete-towards-left at the end of the string, just as the overwrite mode does, the delete key behaves differently if it deletes a final whitespace: Instead of deleting the whitespace, the second last char is deleted: ABC[]F -> ABC[]_ -> AB[]_ -> A[]_ -> []_ Cheers, Udo --- vdr-1.4.1-2-orig/menuitems.c 2006-07-24 00:24:25.176897944 +0200 +++ vdr-1.4.1/menuitems.c 2006-07-24 01:19:52.383818056 +0200 @@ -395,6 +399,16 @@ if (strlen(value) > 1) { if (!insert || pos < int(strlen(value)) - 1) memmove(value + pos, value + pos + 1, strlen(value) - pos); + else if (insert && pos == int(strlen(value)) - 1) { + // in insert mode, deleting the last char replaces it with whitespace to keep cursor pos + if (value[pos] != ' ' || pos < 1) + value[pos] = ' '; + else { + // unless the last char is already a whitespace + value[pos-1] = ' '; + value[pos] = 0; + } + } // reduce position, if we removed the last character if (pos == int(strlen(value))) pos--;

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More flexibility with fonts
by daliman 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, i describe my question in german. I hope somebody can help me. Ich möchte die Fontgröße in den OSD-Menüs und z.B. der Programminfo separat einstellen können. Dazu müsste ich wissen wie man abfragen kann ob man sich in Menüs oder z.B. der Programmliste, Channelliste etc. befindet. So könnte ich einen vierten Font erstellen den man dann separat für Menüs auswählen kann. Gruß, DaLiMan

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Writing a VDR frontend
by CR 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, I'm considering writing a frontend for VDR that talks to it via SVDRP. How does : 1. One grab the OSD data ? 2. Grab the (demuxed?) audio/video stream? For the OSD data I've looked in osd.h but wasn't sure how a client application hooks VDR's OSD. Any documents or code examples would be appreciate. Thanks. CR. P.S. Maybe I'm a fool taking this on, who knows...

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Compile error with VDR and latest drivers
by Stone 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, I was rebuilding my kernel to 2.6.17.7 and decided to update the dvb drivers (from the latest HG repository) at the same time. After that, I cant seem to build vdr-1.4.1-2 any longer. Has anyone seen this? dvbdevice.c: In member function `virtual uchar* cDvbDevice::GrabImage(int&, bool, int, int, int)': dvbdevice.c:553: error: aggregate `video_mbuf mbuf' has incomplete type and cannot be defined dvbdevice.c:554: error: `VIDIOCGMBUF' was not declared in this scope dvbdevice.c:559: error: aggregate `video_capability vc' has incomplete type and cannot be defined dvbdevice.c:560: error: `VIDIOCGCAP' was not declared in this scope dvbdevice.c:561: error: aggregate `video_mmap vm' has incomplete type and cannot be defined dvbdevice.c:572: error: `VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB24' was not declared in this scope dvbdevice.c:573: error: `VIDIOCMCAPTURE' was not declared in this scope dvbdevice.c:573: error: `VIDIOCSYNC' was not declared in this scope dvbdevice.c:573: warning: unused variable 'VIDIOCMCAPTURE' dvbdevice.c:573: warning: unused variable 'VIDIOCSYNC' dvbdevice.c:572: warning: unused variable 'VIDEO_PALETTE_RGB24' dvbdevice.c:560: warning: unused variable 'VIDIOCGCAP' dvbdevice.c:554: warning: unused variable 'VIDIOCGMBUF' make: *** [dvbdevice.o] Error 1 Best Regards,

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