vdr January 2007

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.4-3
by Klaus Schmidinger 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

VDR maintenance patch 1.4.4-3 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.4-3.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.4-2 (which is the official version 1.4.4, patched with ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.4-1.diff and ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.4-2.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). The changes since version 1.4.4-2: - Fixed a possible segfault if VDR gets terminated while a message is displayed (thanks to Udo Richter). - Fixed the INSTALL section on retrying shutdown later (reported by Udo Richter). - When entering text via the numeric keys, the characters are now checked against the allowed characters (thanks to Frank Schmirler). - Added a missing break statement in cCiHandler::OpenSession(). Have fun! Klaus

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RFC: multiple channel sources in EPG
by Pjotr Kourzanov 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Dear all, I have a request for change in EPG data format. Currently, a lot of space is wasted when dealing with EPG for massive amounts of channels which are available from several different sources. Suppose that CNN is receivable from 10 satellites. Then, 9x the size of EPG data for CNN of storage waste is observed, as dictated by VDR's epg.data format. I propose to change the VDR's epg.data format as follows. Now, for each channel we have: C <channel id> <channel name> What if we do C <channel id1> <channel id2> ... <channel idN> <channel name> or C <channel id1> <channel name1> <channel id2> <channel id2>... <channel idN> <channel nameN> if you prefer in BNR: C (<channel id> <channel name>?)* <channel id> <channel name> The semantics is that every name is for any preceding unnamed channel id(s). An alternative would be to introduce a form of redirection in epg.data, which is less attractive than this (backwards compatible) solution. What do you think? Greetings, Pjotr Kourzanov P.S. Massive amounts of (generated) EPG also make scripts like xmltv2vdr completely unusable - yesterday one run took ~9 hours for a moderately sized installation (50M of XML data).

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flooded log when using status plugin
by Joachim Wilke 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello everyone, when using the status plugin and tuning to a channel without an epg schedule, the syslog gets flooded with some hundreds of OsdProgramme messages: Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] status: cStatusTest::OsdChannel 2079 TechniSat Kanal 50 Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] status: cStatusTest::OsdProgramme Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] 01:00 (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] 01:00 (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] status: cStatusTest::OsdProgramme Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] 01:00 (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] 01:00 (null) Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] (null) [...] These messages are caused by the else part in cDisplayChannel::DisplayInfo in menu.c: void cDisplayChannel::DisplayInfo(void) { if (withInfo && channel) { cSchedulesLock SchedulesLock; const cSchedules *Schedules = cSchedules::Schedules(SchedulesLock); if (Schedules) { const cSchedule *Schedule = Schedules->GetSchedule(channel); if (Schedule) { const cEvent *Present = Schedule->GetPresentEvent(); const cEvent *Following = Schedule->GetFollowingEvent(); if (Present != lastPresent || Following != lastFollowing) { SetTrackDescriptions(channel->Number()); displayChannel->SetEvents(Present, Following); cStatus::MsgOsdProgramme(Present ? Present->StartTime() : 0, Present ? Present->Title() : NULL, Present ? Present->ShortText() lastPresent = Present; lastFollowing = Following; } } else cStatus::MsgOsdProgramme(0, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL); } } } I would suggest removing the else part, because this MsgOsdProgramme call provides no information. As an alternative it should be limited to one call, similar to the check "(Present != lastPresent || Following != lastFollowing)" some lines above. Regards, Joachim.

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Any knowledge or experience in Fusion dual tuner cards
by Kartsa 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Looking for dual tuner cards and found out that Fusion has a couple of these. Anybody know if they are supported by linux? Or if they will be? http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/Products/DualDigital.aspx \\Kartsa

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background vdr thread eating cpu
by Torgeir Veimo 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Every two and a half minute, my syslog gets an entry like: Jan 3 06:04:40 htpc kernel: cx88[1]/2: cx8802_timeout Jan 3 06:04:49 htpc vdr: [2369] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 9, tp 578 About 30 seconds before i get this entry, thee's a vdr thread that eats about 25% system cpu time. I'm wondering what it's doing with all that processor power? As I'm using budget cards with softdevice, this has an effect on tv playback.. It only happens when I'm using two cards at the same time. top - 06:10:04 up 21 min, 2 users, load average: 2.18, 2.63, 2.10 Tasks: 96 total, 7 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 24.3% sy, 0.3% ni, 24.6% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si, 0.0% st Mem: 515672k total, 160352k used, 355320k free, 22520k buffers Swap: 1815304k total, 0k used, 1815304k free, 61232k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2388 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 R 46.9 5.8 13:28.16 vdr 2369 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 S 17.6 5.8 1:04.57 vdr 2368 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 3.0 0.0 0:13.46 kdvb-fe-1 -- Torgeir Veimo torgeir(a)pobox.com

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VDRAdmin and character mapping
by Pasi Juppo 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I have a small annoying problem that most likely is quite trivial but can find the cause. All characters above ASCII 127 are converted to something else. E.g. 'ä' gets converted to ','. Funny thing is that on my server (FC4) the conversion is done like that but on windows computer they are converted to '?' chars. On the machine where VDRAdmin is running characters are shown correctly. It seems to be related to language setting but can't figure out how to fix this. Could someone with more knowledge help me? Br, Pasi

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[ANNOUNCE] Maintenance update - image-0.2.7
by Andreas Brachold 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi folks, There are a simple maintenance release available for vdr-image-plugin. Thanks to all supporters! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- image-0.2.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This plugin allows the display of digital images, like jpeg, tiff, png, bmp and some more, on the TV screen, using the DVB out device from vdr. Changes: - Add checks for sanity of memory buffers - Create LIBDIR if'nt exist - Updated some i18n text - Updated french translations. (Thanks to NIVAL Michaël) - Updated finnish translations. (Thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Warn if wrong APIVERSION used Details: http://vdr-image.berlios.de/ Download: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4286 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy new year, Andreas

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Removing newline characters from EPG entries.
by Carsten Koch 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, I found the following code in epg.c lines 633-636: // VDR can't usefully handle newline characters in the title and shortText of EPG // data, so let's always convert them to blanks (independent of the setting of EPGBugfixLevel): strreplace(title, '\n', ' '); strreplace(shortText, '\n', ' '); AFAIK, VDR _can_ handle newlines in the title and shortText, as long as they are represented as '|'. So I wonder if it would not be an improvement to change the above code into // Change newline characters into '|', which will be displayed as newline. strreplace(title, '\n', '|'); strreplace(shortText, '\n', '|'); Carsten.

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