vdr August 2006

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(no subect) = softdevice: audio device selection
by Alex Golks 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

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Re: softdevice: audio device selection
by Alexander Golks 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

i think i'll try this "-ao alsa:pcm=default". but as i already mentioned, the softdevice complains about the ac3 stream. perhaps something like "-ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=default#" will do the job. so, my real problem was, that i hadn't found any information in how to build up this "-ao whatever" line. it would be nice to know, how this whole '-ao alsa:"description"' thing is working. e.g. where can if find out, what to use as $dev_name in: -ao alsa:pcm=dev_name# -ao alsa:ac3=dev_name# alex

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Error while Recording and loose signal
by daliman 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Sorry but it is not possible for me to describe this error in english. Maybe the google-translator work. Bei Aufzug eines Gewitters empfängt die Satanlage kein Signal mehr, so daß ich nur noch schwarz sehe, jedoch habe ich nach einiger Zeit wieder Empfang. Wenn während dieser Zeit aber eine Aufnahme läuft, dann beendet sich der VDR. (Restart; runvdr). Gruß, DaLiMan

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softdevice: audio device selection
by Alex Golks 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

hello, i have a little question concerning the audio device selection of the softdevice. i'm running vdr 1.4.1 with softdevice 0.2.3a. my tv card is recongized as: bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected] with frontendend: DVB: registering frontend 0 (DST DVB-T)... and my soundcard is a: C-Media CMI8x38 PCI they are all recognized by my kernel v2.6.17. my commandline is like $vdr -P 'softdevice -vo xv: -ao:dummy'. but, for my tv-card has no audio out, i would like to get the sound out of my soundcard. the example commandline "-ao alsa:pcm=plug:spdif#ac3=plug:spdif#" doesn't work for me, i think because there is no spdif... other experiments didn't work either. and i didn't find any information about this alsa device stuff. but there must exist, cause running xine with vdr-xine plugin i get sound out of my snd-card. here some takeouts of my syslog: ... Dec 22 20:52:41 gockels-video vdr: [11772] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device plug:spdif Dec 22 20:52:41 gockels-video vdr: [11772] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 device hw:0,1 Dec 22 20:52:41 gockels-video vdr: [11772] [softdevice-audio] Playback open error: plug:spdif, Invalid argument FATAL exiting ... Dec 23 00:20:25 gockels-video vdr: [7907] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device plug:default Dec 23 00:20:25 gockels-video vdr: [7907] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 device hw:0,1 Dec 23 00:20:25 gockels-video vdr: [7907] [softdevice-audio] Playback open error: plug:default, No such device FATAL exiting ... Dec 23 00:19:57 gockels-video vdr: [7760] [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device plug:front Dec 23 00:19:57 gockels-video vdr: [7760] [softdevice-audio] Using alsa AC3 device hw:0,1 Dec 23 00:19:57 gockels-video vdr: [7760] [softdevice-audio] Playback open error: plug:front, Invalid argument FATAL exiting ... i would be very thankful for some hints! alex -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*. Nur noch kurze Zeit! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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[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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Bug? Missing next timer event
by Udo Richter 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hi list, I just noticed a serious issue with a missed timer event. After a daily timer, VDR did an automatic shutdown, but not for the next day to record the same timer again, but for the next following timer event! I never noticed this before, so my guess is that this issue is somehow quite sensitive to bad timing. And: This shutdown was done by the original 1.4.1-2 code, not using any of the experimental shutdown patches since then. I followed the source code for such situations, and thats what should happen: cRecordControls::Process(t) and cRecordControl::Process(t) do the timer checks periodically by calling cTimer::Matches(t). As soon as cTimer::Matches(t) returns false, the recording is stopped. Some minutes later, the next timer is searched by cTimers::GetNextActiveTimer(), returning the closest (oldest) start time timer that has a stop time that is not yet passed. *speculation* Could the timer still be on the stopped time event? That way GetNextActiveTimer would ignore it. cTimer::StopTime() has a cache that has to be refreshed by calling cTimer::Matches(t). Could it be that Matches was not called after the event and before the shutdown? There's one call to Matches for sure: The one from cRecordControl::Process, that returned false and stopped the timer. But: If Matches(t) was called /exactly at/ t=StopTime, then Matches(t) returns false, but the cached StartTime/StopTime refer to the last timer hit, not the next one! If there was no call to Matches() after that and before the shutdown, then the timer may be skipped! Well, thats speculative. There should have been a call to Matches before from the TIMERCHECKDELTA loop in vdr.c. But it may be a good idea to call Matches() from within GetNextActiveTimer(), just to make sure. Cheers, Udo

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Error when i start vdr
by Pedja Vasiljevic 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '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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mplayer and softdevice
by Cyrille Grange 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi all, I own an Nova-T and i just build a VDR 1.4.1 on debian testing. VDR work fine on my 19" monitor Throu Xorg and my Nvidia card, but i can't play my videos (divx and others) with mplayer 'cause it didn't find a valid DVB card (that's true, it's a soft device). Do you know wich "-vo" option i had to pass to mplayer for the soft device or an other solution ? Regards. Cyrille

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