vdr November 2007

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xxv-1.0 Release Announcement
by Andreas Brachold 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hello, The xxv project team is proud to announce the official release of xxv-1.0. xxv-1.0 is a major new feature release for XXV the "Xtreme eXtension for VDR", containing a large number of bug fixes and enhancements and more. Read the full announcement : http://xxv.berlios.de/content/view/37/1/ Enjoy, Andreas

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xxv-1.0 recording thumbnails
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

when i list the recordigs i get no thumbnails and in the console the following error message apears: Invalid conversion in sprintf: "%"" at /opt/xxv/lib/xxv/Tools.pm line 154. to create the thumbs i configured mplayer. xxv is from svn, checked out aproximatly an hour ago. bug or ebkac ? best regards ... clemens

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nfs sharing epg.data
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

is it save to share one epg.data file between multiple vdrs over nfs? or should each client maintain its own copy? thx ... clemens

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vdr-1.5.10, dxr3 and subtitles
by Ville Aakko 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi! Anybody using vdr-1.5.10, dxr3 and subtitles? I'm (trying to) use it, but all subtitles have the lines caused by "too many colors in a region". I can't find the dxr3-compatibility option that used to be there in the plugin. I have disabled antialiasing in vdr's OSD settings. Anybody got dxr3 working with subtitles properly in this version? Perhaps there's a patch somewhere I haven't found? Or the setup option is hidden somewhere I couldn't find it? Or, maybe it hasn't been implemented yet in vdr-1.5.10 at all? Just wondering, - Ville -- -- Ville Aakko - ville.aakko(a)gmail.com

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.11
by Klaus Schmidinger 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

VDR developer version 1.5.11 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.5.11.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous developer version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.5.10-1.5.11.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment, I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The changes since version 1.5.10: - Fixed checking compatibility mode for old subtitles plugin (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - Updated the French OSD texts (thanks to Michael Nival). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - The "Play" key now starts replay of the selected recording in the Recordings menu (thanks to Ville Skyttä); - Improved shutdown handling (thanks to Udo Richter). - Housekeeping now waits for a while after a replay has ended (thanks to Udo Richter). - Added more special characters to the list of allowed characters when entering strings (thanks to Thomas Günther). - Added Ukrainian language texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk). - Added a workaround for recovering from wrongfully interpreted "pre 1.3.19 PS1 packets". - Fixed a possible blocking in replay when subtitles are active. - Fixed displaying subtitles in live mode. - Fixed handling CONFDIR (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Added some missing 'const' keywords (thanks to Sascha Volkenandt). - The 'Allowed' parameter in cMenuEditStrItem() is now NULL by default, which results in using tr(FileNameChars) (suggested by Thomas Günther). - Added a missing '.' to the date returned by DayDateTime() (thanks to Lauri Nurmi). - Improved the 'i18n' target in the Makefile to avoid unnecessary work (thanks to Stefan Huelswitt). The 'newplugin' and 'i18n-to-gettext.pl' scripts have been changed accordingly. Plugin authors may want to adjust the 'i18n' target of their Makefiles. - Fixed a crash if no fonts are found (thanks to Mario Ivankovits and Clemens Kirchgatterer). - Fixed decoding filename characters in case there are not two hex digits after the '#' (reported by Helmut Auer). *When reporting problems, please don't reply to this message!* Create a new thread instead, using a descriptive subject! Have fun! Klaus

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vdr-1.5.10, segfault on startup
by Mario Ivankovits 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi! Due to some weird "Sans Serif:Bold" bold font on my freshly installed open-suse 10.3 system I get a "segmentation fault" on startup. I had this already with one of the previous vdr versions and on my suse 10 linux, I just thought there must be something messed up on my rather old system. Now, that I still got this exception I tried to track it down using gdb: I've come to cFont::GetFontFilename where FcFontSort returns "null". I simple check (if fontset != null) fixed the segfault: FcFontSet *fontset = FcFontSort(NULL, pat, FcFalse, NULL, NULL); if (fontset != NULL) { for (int i = 0; i < fontset->nfont; i++) { FcBool scalable; FcPatternGetBool(fontset->fonts[i], FC_SCALABLE, 0, &scalable); if (scalable) { FcChar8 *s = NULL; FcPatternGetString(fontset->fonts[i], FC_FILE, 0, &s); FontFileName = (char *)s; break; } } FcFontSetDestroy(fontset); } VDR then started, just without any text output. After installing some additional fonts this has been fixed too ... I think the NPE check would be great to be added to VDR. Thanks! Ciao, Mario

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VDR 1.5.10, Subtitles gets out of sync
by Tero Siironen 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Great that the subtitles are now part of the VDR. Unfortunately, there seems to be some problems still. I tested this new VDR version for some minutes and noticed that some subtitles were shown too late in live tv watching. I didn't check how the timing of subtitles is done, but it seemed that VDR missed one "sync-point" and after that all the subtitles were shown one "sync-point" too late. Channel change seemed to correct the situation for a while. Similar problem was seen on two channels, so I think that the broadcast was ok in this case. Also, I haven't seen similar problems earlier with subtitles-plugin. I didn't notice this kind of error either when viewing recordings made with subtitles-plugin. I didn't test yet if the problem can be seen also with recordings made with 1.5.10, but I think I can test that later today. Testing was done with VDR 1.5.10 without any plugins, TT FF 2.1 DVB-C card and YLE 2 and YLE Teema channels here in Finland. Anyone else seen this kind of problems? -- Tero

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[ANNOUNCE] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
by Reinhard Nissl 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi, attached you'll find an updated patch for VDR-1.5.10. It replaces the formerly patch for VDR-1.5.9. Have a look at this page for more instructions on this concern: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/OpenSuSE_DVB-S2_-_Step_by_Step_Instal… Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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switch xine/hw decoders on the fly?
by Simon Baxter 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi Can you switch MPEG decoders on the fly, perhaps through a macro/user key? I have one box which I share between two LCD screens. One attached to the VGA (using vdr-xine output) and the other attached to the composite output of my TT-2300 dvb-c card. Can I switch outputs without reconfiguring/restarting VDR? Thanks Simon

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vdr-autosort plugin download
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, I am having problems downloading it.. ---- wget http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.1.3.tgz --12:38:29-- http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.1.3.tgz => `vdr-autosort-0.1.3.tgz' Resolving www.copypointburscheid.de... 62.116.158.141 Connecting to www.copypointburscheid.de|62.116.158.141|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 12:38:29 ERROR 403: Forbidden. ---- Another question, is it still under development as no new versions since VDR 1.4.5. BR, Jori

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