vdr October 2007

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[ANNOUNCE] AudioIndexer.patch for VDR-1.5.10 provides correct length for new radio recordings
by Reinhard Nissl 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, you may have noticed that radio recordings report a length which is much larger than the actual playtime of the recording. This is a result of VDR generating an index entry for every audio frame, but audio frames provide most often only 24 ms of music while VDR's recording length calculation is based on 40 ms per index entry. The attached patch fixes cRemux to only generate an index entry whenever the recorded amount of music crosses a 40 ms boundary. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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blank screen with xv softdevice on NVIDIA 6150
by Fabian Ritzmann 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, I am having a hard time getting softdevice-0.4.0 working on my system (VDR 1.4.7, Ubuntu 7.10, X.org 7.2, ASUS A8N-VM CSM with onboard GeForce 6150, not quite clear which version of the NVIDIA kernel module is being used as it is all mashed into Ubuntu's linux-restricted-modules package - probably 1.0-9639). My CRT TV is connected to the NVIDIA's TV-OUT with an S-VIDEO cable. This setup is working fine with MythTV (using the XvMC driver) as well as xineliboutput (using the xv driver, getting weird effects with the xxmc and xshm drivers though). The issue I am seeing with softdevice is that I have a black screen that displays the OSD just fine. In other words, the TV broadcasts are not being displayed but I can see and use the VDR menus as well as teletext and DVB subtitles (pretty weird seeing the subtitles displayed v-a-v a black picture). Sound is very choppy, too, but that's the lesser of my concerns right now. One thing that might cause issues is that this graphics card does not support a 768x576 resolution on the TV-Out. According to NVIDIA's documentation, the resolutions on TV-Out are hard-coded (they don't say which resolutions are available unfortunately). When I set 768x576 it is falling back to an internal default resolution of 720x576. I tried several other resolutions (720x576, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768). They all produce the same effect (black output but OSD is displayed). I am attaching the log messages I am getting from softdevice. Any advice appreciated. Fabian

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multi diseqc.conf setup
by Timothy D. Lenz 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

I have a nexus and am getting a usb tunner. I have 2 fixed dishes and a rotor. All the lnb's can feed 2 tunners, but clearly the lnb's on the rotor can only see 1 sat. It would be nice if there was a way to add more diseqc.conf or entries for same sats but alternate feeds so that when the dish is pointing at sat other then the ones the fixed dishes are, the other tunner can know to use those allowing tunning from more then 1 sat at a time.

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Problem with WideView USB DVB-T and vdr 1.4.7.
by Albert Gall 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

* *Hello: By changing the channel on the same frequency not tune, I use vdr 1.4.7 and *xineliboutput 1.0.0rc2: Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] ERROR: can't open filter handle on '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] status: cStatusTest::ChannelSwitch 0 1 Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] ERROR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0: Too many open files Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,686): Too many open files Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] ERROR: can't set PID 101 on device 1 Oct 25 18:34:19 ss3 vdr: [5031] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,711): Bad file descriptor *With kaffeine, vlc, mplayer, xine-ui not happen,Please help * Albert *

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2 DVB-T cards == can't record
by Jan Exner 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi all! I have a problem with my VDR setup (c't VDR 6): I currently use a DVB-S TT 2.3 card as output device (no dish/LNB attached) and a DVB-T Nova-T as input device for UK freeview channels. That works just fine. Now I want to add a second Nova-T so I can record and watch something else at the same time. But as soon as the second DVB-T card is inside the machine, I cannot record anything anymore. I think there's two problems: 1. I am trying to use the antenna out on one Nova-T to pass the signal through to the second. That does not seem to work and the second card does not find any signal when using channelscan. This is something I need to figure out myself. But 2. even if I am watching a channel and a timer starts on that very channel, VDR goes into the endless restart loop. I'm guessing it is trying to tune into the channel on the other card, but why? I guess the ultimate question is: once I've sorted the antenna out (I guess I'll buy a splitter or something), will it just work? Cheers, Jan -- Jan Exner · exner(a)gmx.net · 0x9E0D3E98 · http://www.jan-exner.de/ Neues aus Frankreich und England http://www.jan-exner.de/uk.html

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Missing sound..
by JJussi 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi! I have my vdr with DVB-C cards at livingroom and now I build other vdr (without cards) to bedroom and use NFS to connect to video directory. When I try to play recordings, everything except SOUND is fine.. I get following error: ffmpeg_audio_dec: increasing buffer to 98304 to avoid overflow. ffmpeg_audio_dec: trying to open null codec audio_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'MPEG layer 2/3' What libs (or something) I miss? -- JJussi

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softdevice 0.4.0 won't compile
by Darren Wilkinson 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

./configure ends up with an ffmpeg not found error that tells me to check config.log. Here are the contents of config.log. Parameters '' PKG_CONFIG_PATH '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' Testing system and cpu type.---------------------------- uname -a: Linux lfs 2.6.22.1-xbox-xbox #2 PREEMPT Tue Sep 11 22:21:18 GMT 2007 i686 pentium3 i386 GNU/Linux g++ -dumpmache: i686-pc-linux-gnu Checking for pkg-config.------------------------------- 0.22 Checking for ffmpeg.------------------------------------ try to use pkg-config. Package libpostproc was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libpostproc.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libpostproc' found /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2249: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2259: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /tmp/ccSYN0QX.o: In function `main': softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `avcodec_init()' softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `avcodec_register_all()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status pkg-config failed, try the default/parameter path. /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2249: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2259: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /tmp/cc215cp5.o: In function `main': softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `avcodec_init()' softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `avcodec_register_all()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Still failed. Maybe avutils is needed? /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2249: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2259: warning: 'ImgReSampleContext' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:2243) /tmp/ccmPArYO.o: In function `main': softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `avcodec_init()' softdevice-conf-24957-6749-13481.c:(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `avcodec_register_all()' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status No. Sorry giving up. However when ffmpeg is compiled libpostproc is built and installed but no libpostproc.pc is made or installed anywhere. There are no errors during compilation or installation either and the other libraries in ffmpeg make the corresponding *.pc file. Help!

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Reel Extension HD PCI
by Jeremy Jones 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Does anyone have one of these cards ? The online shop says delivery time is 1-3 business days so it seems they are actually available for purchase now. I'm thinking about getting one of these but was hoping that someone could answer a few questions about these cards: - Can I use this card in my own vdr box (with code from the Reelbox vdr tree) or will it only work in a Reelbox ? - How mature is the software for these cards (stability/image quality/features) ? Thank You, Jeremy

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Fast replay pauses playback for awhile
by Marko Myllymaa 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi, I have problem that when I do fast forward or rewind and return to normal speed by releasing the FF button, vdr pauses the replay for awhile. This pause lasts from 2 seconds up to 15 seconds. It's very very annoying, especially when I'm trying to edit recordings. Jumping with green and yellow buttons work ok. I'm using vdr-1.4.7, xineliboutput-1.0.0rc2, osdteletext-0.5.1, epgsearch-0.9.21, remote-0.3.9 and subtitles-0.5.0. And I have one technotrend C 1500 DVB-C budget card. Any help is appreciated. Marko

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frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel
by Oliver Joa 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, I have a vdr with the plugins streamdev and xineliboutput running. I use the vdr-sxfe client on one computer to also get the menu and vlc as another client on a second computer. I have 2 DVB Cards, so I can see different things on the computers. Everything is working, but one Channel does not. I can see it with the vdr-sxfe client, but not with vlc. With vlc I get the following Error: Oct 10 22:58:09 video4 vdr: [4257] Streamdev: Accepted new client (HTTP) 192.168.10.3:42635 Oct 10 22:58:09 video4 vdr: [4331] streamdev-writer thread started (pid=3820, tid=4331) Oct 10 22:58:09 video4 vdr: [4332] streamdev-livestreaming thread started (pid=3820, tid=4332) Oct 10 22:58:09 video4 vdr: [4333] receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=3820, tid=4333) Oct 10 22:58:09 video4 vdr: [4334] TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=3820, tid=4334) Oct 10 22:58:18 video4 vdr: [4250] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 15, tp 210949 If the vdr-sxfe Client is running I can not get this Channel with vlc, I get every other Channel, but not this. Strange! Here is the Channel: DMC TV;Globecast UK:10949:vC34:S13.0E:27500:6801:6811,6812:0:0:7459:318:12200:0 or: DMC TV auto;T-Systems/MTI:10949:vC45:S13.0E:27500:6801:6811=ITL:0:0:7459:0:0:0 Do you have any idea? Thanks Olli

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