vdr August 2006

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xineliboutput: "No usable fronteds"
by Jens Auer 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi all, I'm new to vdr and am now trying to set up my first system. I don't have a ff-card and decided to use a NVidia graphics card to connect my system to the TV (I considered using a DXR3, but I want to play DIVX movies as well, for which my computer is too slow). So, i am trying to install the xineliboutput-plugin. I downloaded, compiled and installed the 0.99rc5 version from the homepage, all with no errors. When I try to start vdr as mentioned in the README, the program immediately stops without any message. In var/log/messages, I found the following error message: sudo vdr -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --noremote" Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] VDR version 1.4.1 started Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] Bigpatch 18.06.2006 is active! Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] switched to user 'vdr' Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading plugin: /usr/local/lib/vdr/libvdr-xi neliboutput.so.1.4.1 Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/setup.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/sources.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/diseqc.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/channels.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/timers.confJul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/svdrphosts.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/remote.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/keymacros.conf Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] found 1 video device Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] initializing plugin: xineliboutput (0.99rc5) : X11/xine-lib output plugin Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] setting primary device to 2 Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] SVDRP listening on port 2001 Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] setting current skin to "sttng" Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] loading /multimedia/vdr/themes/sttng-default .theme Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] starting plugin: xineliboutput Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9673] [xine..put] No usable frontends found, giving up ! Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9673] [xine..put] cXinelibLocal: Error initializing frontend Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9673] [xine..put] cXinelibLocal::Action: thread fi nished Jul 19 20:50:11 arrakis vdr: [9667] [xine..put] cXinelibDevice::Start(): Local frontend init failed Jul 19 20:50:12 arrakis vdr: [9667] deleting plugin: xineliboutput Jul 19 20:50:12 arrakis vdr: [9667] exiting I use an Ubuntu Dapper Linux with the official xine-package. The xine input plugin is installed properly in the plugin-directory: ls /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_inp_xvdr.so /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_inp_xvdr.so I tried to fix everything by copying the generated frontend-library files into the vdr-plugin directory: ls /usr/local/lib/vdr/*xinelib* /usr/local/lib/vdr/libvdr-xineliboutput.so.1.4.1 /usr/local/lib/vdr/libxineliboutput-fbfe.so /usr/local/lib/vdr/libxineliboutput-sxfe.so

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Blank screen when switching channels on same transponder with Dpid
by Tomas Berglund 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi all. Please help me with my problem. When switching channel between two channels on same transponder with both Apid1 and Dpid1 set the screen goes blank and the sound stops.. I can switch between a channel with only Apid and a channel with Dpid without problems. I have only two channels with dolby and they are on the same transponder so I can't test with another channel. My channel.conf: SVT1;Com Hem:290000:C0M64:C:6875:4102:4358=sve;4614=sve:7942:500,B00:1097:40999:45:0 SVT2;Com Hem:290000:C0M64:C:6875:4103:4359=sve;4615=sve:7943:500,B00:1098:40999:45:0 TV4Plus;Com Hem:378000:C0M64:C:6875:4130:4386=sve:7970:500,B00:1074:40999:36:0 TV4;Com Hem:290000:C0M64:C:6875:4147:4403=sve:7987:500,B00:1012:40999:45:0 I start vdr with SVT1, ok switch to SVT2, ok and back to SVT1, blank screen and no sound (EPG ok) switch to TV4, ok switch to TV4Plus, ok back to SVT1, ok switch to SVT2, ok switch to SVT1, blank screen and no sound If I set "update channels=no" in setup and Dpid1=0 on SVT1+SVT2 everything works... UseDolbyDigital=yes/no has no effect. My stuff: Nexus-CA DVB-C, 3.5" CI, Conax CAM (tested with Viaccess also) VDR 1.4.1-2 no plugins Newest dvb-driver (many tested) 1.34 firmware (app 80f22623) How do I debug this...? Regards, Tomas Berglund

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2.6.18-rc4-mm1 plays video at speed 3x with xine
by Gregoire Favre 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hello, just tried 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 without any patch and every movies played with xine play really too fast (mplayer is fine). With http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115547315918564&w=2 and the one from Frederik Deweerdt about kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c but thats don't solve my issue... -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org

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Re: Re: [vdr] next developper version
by peter.dittmann＠freenet.de 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

> VDR User wrote: > > You could always just include a disclaimer in the list and refer people > to > > it any time they ask questions like those. :) > > It would not help, the list would still be full of whinings and moanings > that, "why *my* important stuff has not been done" (replace *my* with > your name) > Security through obscurity works here :) > ... not to forget hundrets or grown up persons with wet eyes when discovering the new marvels of VDR when unwrapping the newes gift pack from Klaus every other Sonday. Do we realy want to replace it by whinnings and moarnings ". . . but I have wished feature x for christmas . . . " ;-) regards Peter

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.1-4
by Klaus Schmidinger 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

VDR maintenance patch 1.4.1-4 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.1-4.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.1-3 (which is the official version 1.4.1, patched with ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.1-1.diff, ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.1-2.diff and ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.1-3.diff). Small fixes to the officially released VDR versions will be first made available as "maintenance patches" in the Developer directory, so that they can be reviewed and tested before a new official release is published. So please apply the above patch and report whether it works (or if it causes any new problems). This version requires plugins to be recompiled. The changes since version 1.4.1-3: - Fixed converting the port number in the "connect from..." log message of SVDRP (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - Made the cCiSession members sessionId and resourceId uint16_t and uint32_t, respectively, to match their types in the CI session data (thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting that there are places where ntohs() is assigned to different types). - Changed the way a device is selected for receiving in order to keep devices with CAMs better available, even if this means recording on the primary device (reported by Jörn Reder; thanks to Anssi Hannula for improving handling Transfer Mode devices in this). - No longer stopping removing empty directories if an error occurs (thanks to Oliver Endriss). - Added a log error message to cPlugin::ConfigDirectory() in case a plugin calls it from a separate thread (reported by Udo Richter). Have fun! Klaus

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RFC: Man page intstallation support for plugins?
by Christian Wieninger 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hi Klaus, the next release of my plugin will have a couple of man pages. I included an 'install-doc' section in the Makefile. But one has to do a 'make install-doc' in the plugins source directory to install them. What do you think about a 'make install-doc-plugins' in VDR's Makefile like that: install-doc-plugins: @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do $(MAKE) -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" install-doc; done BR, Christian

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Audio muted when recording starts on other channel
by Peter Marquardt 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hello list, yesterday I got some interesting effect: I was watching a program on ARD transponder (DVB-S) with a recording scheduled on that transponder but a different channel. When the recording started Audio on the channel i was watching muted and didn ´t come back by switching channels. This is the first time this happened so I wonder if anybody had a similar issue? I´m using vdr 1.4.1-2 (ct-vdr 4.5 with a lot of updates from e-tobi´s repository). I had a look at various log files but found nothing related to dvb or vdr to explain this. I haven´t been able to duplicate this but I thought I´ll just post it in case anyone has an idea what might have happened. with kind regards Peter Marquardt

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[ANNOUNCE] DaLiBoxSW3000MediaCenter
by vdr＠daliman.de 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

The second try of DaLiBoxSW3000MC (rev. 02) is (the first was to buggy) ready for Downloading. I described a lot in the start article on the homepage www.dalibox.de. But only in german. (With Antialiasing and TrueType). Ther is nothing ro do. Only run the installerprogramm. If you have any problem, use the support -> dalibox(a)daliman.de DaLiMan

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ATSC Card (Air2PC) can't get scan
by Mlists 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Hi there, I picked up a Skystar2 Air2Pc card. I've tried to scan for channels with it (Rogers Cable in Canada) with no success using the dvbapps atscscan tool. I seem to just get alot of timeouts. I'm not sure how to get a scan of available channels from this card. I've tried using a list of freq I found somewhere online: A 525000000 QAM256 A 579000000 QAM256 A 597000000 QAM256 A 657000000 QAM256 A 681000000 QAM256 A 699000000 QAM256 A 771000000 QAM256 A 837000000 QAM256 A 843000000 QAM256 I'm not certain these are even correct. I don't get anything with them either. I've tried each of the standard files with the same results. I found a one line example from a channels file, and it looks like azap locks to the channel so I *think* its working. My dmesg output is: b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter. flexcop-pci: card revision 2 DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device). b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:30:1a:8c b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed nxt200x: nxt200x_readbytes: i2c read error (addr 0x0a, err == -121) Unknown/Unsupported NXT chip: 00 00 00 00 00 b2c2-flexcop: i2c master_xfer failed lgdt330x: i2c_read_demod_bytes: addr 0x59 select 0x02 error (ret == -121) bcm3510: Revision: 0x1, Layer: 0xb. b2c2-flexcop: found the bcm3510 at i2c address: 0x0f DVB: registering frontend 0 (Broadcom BCM3510 VSB/QAM frontend)... b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Air2PC/AirStar 2 ATSC 1st generation' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete I'm not certain if this is correct -- are there module options I should be using to make sure I get the correct frontend? An example or a channels.conf file would be appreciated too but any advice please. Thanks Norm

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two cams with vdr 1.4.1-2
by Marco Skambraks 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

hi, I use a technotrend dvb-c 2.3 premium card with latest firmware 2623 and almost the latest dvb drivers and also one CAM for RTL, SAT1 etc. and one for premiere if I switch to an encrypted channel like premiere - vdr always try to get the key from both CAMs that results in a CAM message like this: "Sie haben keine Berechtigung für diesen Sender" so, I turned the smartcard-messages off (CAM menu) now it seems that it is OK, but sometimes it takes a long time to switch from one premiere-channel to another if I remove the iesy-smartcard (iesy - my cable provider in hessen) switching channels is much faster this works also in the other direction removing the premiere smartcard switching RTL SAT1 only if I insert both cards at the same time I run into problems another funny thing is that - if I insert both cards and switch to "premiere krimi" I get a CAM-message "1 sendungfreigeben" but the channel is already decrypted in the background and I can see and hear the movie any ideas? marco

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