vdr January 2007

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VDR & Multiple frontends
by Eddi 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi, I wrote a patch to Steve Toth hvr3000 repository, so my FlyDVB Trio can use multiple frontend. So I get: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 The bus of the two frontend is shared, isn't possible to get access to both frontend simultaneously, so I get an -EBUSY error by trying accessing frontend1 if frontend0 is in use. VDR doesn't support yet the second frontend, and it try to get exclusive access on both frontend on start, so the second frontend is inusabile. Vdr should probe for multiple frontend at start, and access frontend only on channel change. Please can someone give me an help to wrote a patch for this issue? Best Regards, Eddi

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[Announce] LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4.0-3
by Matthias Lötzke 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hello! A new release of the configurable LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4 is available at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/configurableLNBshare-VDR_… Changes: - added a missing "break" statement which froze vdr after pressing channel up/down buttons when the main menu was displayed. Thanks to Christian Jacobsen, "Horchi" and Anssi Hannula for reporting and analysing. - adapted to VDR 1.4.3 For general information about the LNB-sharing patch have a look at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/Description.txt http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Lnbsharing-patch (german) Matthias.

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EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes
by Harald Milz 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi, now that my VDR works fine with 2 satellites thanks to the help of some kind folks here and the SourceCaps patch (did I mention it should be in the mainstream VDR?) I have now a couple of FTA programmes in russian language for my better half :-) The only problem is, none of these programmes carry any EPG information. The schedules are available on the web sites, mostly. Has somebody written a plugin that retrieves the schedules and creates proper EPG data from them? I might but not too soon... I understand this task can be a pain in <pick your favourite body part> because people use no SOA interfaces. TBNRussia provides an Excel file (yuck). TIA! -- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

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vdr on PS3
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it seams logical to, at least, think about it. i came to the following pro/contra list: pro: it supports HD (and Blue-Ray), is small and living room ready, comes with linux, has powerful CPU, you get a gameconsole for free ;-) contra: gets hot, likly DRM locked in some regards, it's a sony the last point may be even not so bad, as sony loses money on each selled device. so what do others think about this idea? anything i have not thought about that makes it even impossible to run vdr (or some other softdevice client) on the PS3? best regards ... clemens

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Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de
by Michael Stepanov 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hi Klaus, Could you tell me, please, are you planning to add support of MPEG4 to VDR? It's good front-end for HTPC but era of HDTV is coming. So, people need it. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Michael Stepanov, www.stepanoff.org

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NIT handling change in 1.4.3-4
by Anssi Hannula 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

NIT handling was changed in 1.4.3-4 by adding an additional check if we're actually receiving this transponder. See the current code: > for (cChannel *Channel = Channels.First(); Channel; Channel = Channels.Next(Channel)) { > if (!Channel->GroupSep() && Channel->Source() == Source && Channel->Nid() == ts.getOriginalNetworkId() && Channel->Tid() == ts.getTransportStreamId()) { > if (Setup.UpdateChannels >= 5) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Transponder())) { // only modify channels if we're actually receiving this transponder The above check was added. However, the variable 'Frequency' may not always be the current transponder frequency. The current transponder could also be in the Frequencies[] array. This causes the channel update to be always disabled. Below we search the array if the transponder of the 'Channel' is there: > if (!ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > for (int n = 0; n < NumFrequencies; n++) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequencies[n] / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > Frequency = Frequencies[n]; > break; > } > } > } Maybe the new check should be moved here, so that it uses the new correct 'Frequency' that was found from Frequencies[] in the loop above? > Channel->SetCableTransponderData(Source, Frequency, Modulation, SymbolRate, CodeRate); > } > } > found = true; > } > } -- Anssi Hannula

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[RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x
by Udo Richter 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Hi list, The program code for automatic and manual shut down and for automatic restarts for timer recordings is in VDR 1.4.x very complex and error-prone, and behaves strange in some situations. With Klaus' permission I am working on a re-implementation for the upcoming 1.5.x developer builds of VDR. I now want to publish a first draft version for testing and further comments. Not all issues are fixed yet, but it already gives an impression of the new code. http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.html#shutdown http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#shutdown New: - Shutdown related code is now in shutdown.[ch]. vdr.c mainly delegates the work to the cShutdown class, that does all necessary steps for manual or automatic shutdown. - cShutdown tracks whether there is an interactive user or not. (eg. Min User Inactivity run out) - cRemote tracks time of last key press separately and autonomously. - The old 5-minute "Press any key to cancel..." message got replaced by a 5 minute countdown message that counts in 10-second steps - Since the new code is modularized, plugins will have access to activity tracking, can mess with inactivity state, and can initiate shutdown behavior similar to the kPower button. (But, please, only if you have to. ;) ) Fixed: - Pressing power button while recording playback works again, instead of doing nothing visible. (and not shutting down within 5 seconds at playback end.) - Show 5-minute shutdown message after background activity ends, if power button was pressed but not confirmed - Not freezing the VDR main loop while 5-minute shutdown message - Background activity now cancels the 5-minute shutdown message - Not messing with watchdog (and forgetting to re-enable) while 5-minute shutdown message - Timers set via SVDRP while in 5-minute shutdown message did not start and were not considered for reboot time. - Calling the main menu action of a plugin and closing a menu doesn't count as user activity any more Todo: - Start the 5-minute countdown 5 minutes _before_ min user inactivity runs out. (also does not add 5min to SHUTDOWNRETRY any more) - Fix negative time in shutdown confirm if VPS timer is in run-out phase Possible changes: - Make the 'inactive' mode (waiting for background activity to end, then shut down) more visible to the user: - Suggestion was to put up a message 'VDR will shut down when idle. Press power button again to force shutdown' before starting the confirms. - Alternative may be a message 'VDR will shut down later when idle' if shutdown was not confirmed - Alternative may be to permanently put up a message 'VDR is waiting for background tasks to complete'. - What should happen if a user confirms to shut down while a running / pending timer is scheduled. Currently, VDR will reboot after MinEventTimeout, but VDR could also reboot at the next timer that starts after MinEventTimeout - or never. - There is a feature request that the caller should be able to notify VDR whether VDR was started manually or automatically. (VDR currently guesses by searching for nearby timers) - There is a feature request to start the external shutdown script asynchronously, so the shutdown script does not block VDR any more. - A 'bug' in the old code allows to automatically shut down VDR at the end of a playback, though this was probably never intended. It could however be re-added as 'feature'. There's some debug output code to monitor the various timers on console. If you don't want that, you can disable it in vdr.c, search for #define DebugTimeouts and comment it out. Cheers, Udo

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[ANNOUNCE] VDRAdmin-AM v3.5.3
by Andreas Mair 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hi! The new release is available at http://andreas.vdr-developer.org/en Have fun, Andreas *** HISTORY *** - Fixed: epgsearch's LSTT/DEFT commands need at least epgsearch v0.9.20. - Added: Klaus Schmidinger's "lste" speedup patch. - Changed: Do not send every HTTP header line in its own TCP packet (Speedup!). - Changed: Display error message if VDRAdmin-AM can't connect to VDR if index.html is requested. - Changed: Added warning in epgsearch edit if neither "title", "subtitle" nor "description" is checked. - Changed: Don't show recording commands drop-down if there are no reccmds. - Fixed: When sorting recordings by name, sort folders by name too. -- http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM VDR user #303

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ANNOUCEMENT: xmltv2epg
by Pjotr Kourzanov 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Dear all, Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in the attachment. If you want to try it, put your channels.conf.xmltv in one folder with these two scripts, and then run cat *.xml | ./xmltv2epg > epg. My mileage: 54MB XML -> 18MB EPG in 44 minuties (xmltv2vdr used to take 9 hours). Pjotr

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ERROR: plugin mldkgui doesn't honor APIVERSION - not compiled!
by h.h.braun＠arcor.de 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

When I try to compile the mldkgui I get the following message: ERROR: plugin mldkgui doesn't honor APIVERSION - not compiled! Cheers H.Braun

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