vdr January 2007

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Re: Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x
by peter.dittmann＠freenet.de 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

> Christian Wieninger wrote: > > perhaps this is too trivial, but why not create a daily or whatever > > timer as you suggested before with a special name like '@epgscan' and > > react on that? > > This would be a dirty ugly hack. There must be some pseudo-recording > running so VDR does not restart the recording over and over again. And > then we'll end up with a recording hack that looks like a timer but does > not block devices and does not write to disk and has no recording folder > and and and... > > The alternative would be to implement a generic task scheduler and make > timers one special type of schedule. This would get REALLY big. Yes, but it will be the much better design. It will open the option to do VDR related timed and maintainance tasks. Don't reply this should be external scripts, as there is no way external scripts know what state VDR currently has without a lot more complexity. These are EPG scans (internal, infosatepg, nextview), sleeptimers, switchonly timers, cleanup tasks of plugins and so on. Think about external EPGs, especilly the ones that need VDR to tune to a channel, like infosatepg or nextview. This is painfull hack doing his outside VDR as these tasks mutually collide with VDRs internal activities and need to be integrated for realy using a KISS principle. The only benefit of scripting is that more people tend to write and change scripts that writing plugin or extend VDR code. The second is also cause by Klaus's reluctance to take over patches. Where there are patches there is need to change some VDR behaviour, so this behaviour should be changed. Of couse Klaus should be one deciding the way to implement it but he should be more open here to stimulate more people to contribute to VDR. It's like Linux and Linus, the first is a scaling system the second not. Same for VDR and Klaus ;-) The idea to create now a "external" Shutdown class by a second person seems like a good starter. It should be done for other functionalities too. kind regards Peter

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Centralized VDR solution?
by Pasi Juppo 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Hi, I've been thinking of a PVR solution where all DVB cards are installed on a server and several clients connect to it. Each client must behave like they are in control (normal menu operations even though most likely a bit slower due network delays). Of course the number of DVB cards define the limit how many different muxes are available or how many crypted channels can be viewed at a time but those are understandable limits. There would be at least 2 clients but most likely later on 4+ clients. Clients would be without HD most likely (network or USB stick boot). Is there a solution (reliable) for this kind of system available? Br, Pasi

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missing dvb subtitles in records
by Arthur Konovalov 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi. I noticed that dvb subtitles not recorded with video. Can anyone confirm that it works? My environment: Slackware-11.0, kernel 1.6.19, vdr-1.4.4-3 with vdr-1.4.4-liemikuutio-1.13.diff, vdr-1.4.4-subtitles-0.4.0-and-ttxtsubs-0.0.5.diff Recorded teletext subtitles are ok. Tried on YLE1 and YLE2 channels (for me these only available channels with both subtitles types). ProjectX demux not detect dvb subtitles too. Or I missed something? Regards, AK

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New UTF-8 patch is now available.
by Alexander Riedel 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi! New UTF-8 patch is now available at www.free-x.de/utf8 Changelog: v.0.1.3 for vdr 1.4.4-3 * Add workaround for buggy freetype libs 2.1.7 - 2.2.1 (segmentation fault) Enjoy !!!

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VDRAdmin-AM-3.5.2: Autotimer missing
by Pasi Juppo 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi, Upgraded to the most recent version of VDRAdmin (previous was 3.4.5a). Now AutoTimer menu item is missing and can't get it visible. There seems to be option for this (at least vdradmind.pl has reference to it) but does not matter if I change the status in vdradmind.pl or vdradmind.conf file (AUTOTIMER is missing from conf file - if it even should be there). How can I fix the problem? Br, Pasi

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mplayer plugin -> no sound on vdr-1.4.4 ?
by Soeren Sonnenburg 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Dear all, does anyone else observer that the mplayer plugin does no longer give sound output with vdr 1.4.4 ? Could it be that the sound device is somehow still locked/occupied by vdr ? I am using the latest vdr-mp3/mplayer (0.9.15) and it used to work with 1.4.1 ... so what changed ? Soeren

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mhwepg
by Rob Davis 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Anyone else getting seg faults on this for Sky Italia? -- Latest news on http://www.streetcredo.org.uk/rob Rob Davis

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prevernting vdr restart on bad signal?
by Ali H.M. Hoseini 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

hi all, I've noticed that when the signal quality goes low ( high BER or high UNC), and if a timer records that channel simultaneously, the vdr exits continuously, and hence produces too many recording files. How should I prevent vdr from exit, in this situations? Thanks. John.

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Seg Faults with remote vdr-sxfe
by Rob Davis 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

I am having trouble trying to get xineliboutput working correctly on ubuntu. I have three laptops, one with 6.10 (PPC), one with 6.06. I compiled xine-libs-1.1.3 whilst hiding the one already installed (1.1.1 on 6.06, 1.1.2 on 6.10) as I was having audio trouble with the default xine-lib. I have also compiled xinelibout-1.0.6. It all seems to work on my remote server ( a gentoo box running vdr 1.4.4) however, if there is any network lag both laptops die with a seg fault. I am at a loss to know how to fix this. I also get a seg fault using gxine and xine-ui. Any ideas?

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New VDR hardware
by Richard Scobie 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

If someone is able to produce a Linux driver for the hardware decoder on this board, the latest VIA Epia EX looks like the vdr setup for the future. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11511 Hardware accelerated MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV9, 720p and 1080i output via DVI, S-Video composite and component and 13.5W of power. Regards, Richard

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