Hello.
I set up VDR (1.4.7) with xineliboutput (1.0.0~rc2) on a VIA EPIA
SP-8000E. For xineliboutput I use an X11 window with the xxmc
driver. X is set up to do TV out (PAL) via the composite jack. My
problem is now that I can barely see the menu on my TV. The menu is
very transparent and no option in the plugin settings menu seems to
change this. Interestingly the menu is all right when viewed via
vdr-sxfe. There I can toggle transparency and adjustment but it
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Is this a known problem or has anyone any tips for me? Searching
google and the list archives didn't yield anything related.
I'd appreciate any help,
Tobias
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Hi!
Have anybody notice that playback is little bit too fast.. Here easy way to
determit that..
1. Select channel X and press REC to start recording
2. Change channel to Y
3. Start playback of recording of point 1.
4. Press Enter to get progress bar. Make note how many seconds behind you are
from live.
5. OK, shall we assume that you are now 10 seconds behind...
6. After 5 minutes, make note how much gap is now.. OH! It's only 5 seconds...
7. After next 5 minutes playback WILL STOP and you …
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channel Y (from point 2.)
;-)
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JJussi
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Hello,
I have (with somewhat difficulties) to configure vdr with softdevice
plugins on vesa fb (don't want X11 stuff and directfb doesn't seems to
work on Ati Radeon 9100 IGP). I have also stopped to try to use a DXR3
card as well ;(.
My problem is that I have some /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file for my remote
control, but I cannot map the controls I have in /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
into remote.conf.
Vdr tell me to go to hell with a "error in remote.conf".
lircd.conf file is http://www.…
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, with kernel 2.6.23.9 and v4l drivers of my Nova-T-500.
I used the file from http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Struktur
with the help of google translate to adapt german text into french.
Any help ?
/Xavier
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Hello list,
I have in a Gentoo system, a Hauppauge Nexus-S card (FF card), which is
used with vdr 1.4.6 (media-video/vdr-1.4.6) and with firmware version 1
(media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware-1) and dvb lib 0.5.5.1
(media-libs/libdvb-0.5.5.1-r3). De kernel is 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. In this
configuration, I can recieve the FTA channels as defined in the default
channels.conf (/etc/vdr/channels.conf).
When a connect a 3.5 inch Hauppauge CI module
(http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/…
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front panel, http://www.hauppauge.com/html/dvb_s.htm, bottom of page) to
the Hauppauge Nexus card, I can no longer recieve the FTA channels (no
image, no sound, no EPG, no new descriptors, no timeout on a choosen
channel). It does not matter if a insert a CAM (Alphacrypt) or not. I
don't have a working smartcard right now, so I did not test that.
If I do insert the CAM, in the log file, the message is found:
Dec 8 11:33:39 vdr_gentoo vdr: [29572] warning: Resetting CAM...
Dec 8 11:33:42 vdr_gentoo vdr: [29572] info: CAM has been reset
The LED on the CAM is on as well, so it has power, but still no FTA
channels visible.
On the mailing list was this:
http://www.linvdr.org/mailinglists/vdr/2005/03/msg00573.html, which
looks familiar, with one difference: In that email, nothing was stated
about the FTA channels.
My question is: When I have a CI module connected to the Nexus card,
should I then still be able to see the FTA channels ?
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Hello list,
I followed the recent messages about the future of VDR with great
interest .
I would like to share my recent experiences about HDTV. As I
consider myself
to be open for "new technologies" like HDTV is now, I recently
bought an HDTV receiver.
It doesn't matter who produced it, I think my hardware is an average HDTV
setup for 2007: a DVB-S2, MPEG4, H264 compatible receiver with a 1368x768
LCD display.
My first impressions are: yes, it looks better, than SDTV. Some say the
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I don't see any reason to watch a news or a serial in HDTV. I
think HDTV would be fine for a couple of premium channels/package, for ex.
a
movie and a sport channel, and the rest should remain in SD.
Considering the huge technical investment (20Mbit/sec/channel, high speed
dedicated MPEG4 decoders, which consumes a lot of energy, HDready
displays, etc), I'm not sure it worths to watch a wheater report in HD.
Compared to a well encoded 16:9 SDTV channel (for ex. ZDF), an HDTV
picture does not take my breath away.
And one more thing, as I tested this brand new receiver: things that for
us, VDR users, are usual for several years, are selled as brand
new innovative features for a 2007 model set-top-box, and a lot of common
VDR
features are unknown for these receivers. Shortly: VDR is the best
satellite receiver in 2007 :)
What I want to say with this long story: I'm not sure if we (meaning the
users) should push Klaus to the HD, or just wait him to finalize
current tasks, and when time comes (and when there will be suitable HW),
I'm sure we will have HD-VDR.
Remember: HDTV is not a new era, as manufacturers try to sell us. It just
looks a LITTLE better.
István
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I have a couple of SkyStar cards on a VDR server, running xineliboutput
on an NVidia card using a VGA cable to my HDTV. I am seeing lagging,
tearing and noticeable interlacing.
Is it worth buying a DXR3 on ebay?
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Rob Davis
Hi!
I reworked my ancient vdr system and build a new hardware around
my DVB-S card (after a long time of not-usage).
I want to use my server using a diskless architecture to run
vdr.
Idea, which dritribution for vdr to choose ?
I intend to have a Debian/Ubuntu system for the vdr system,
the distri should be easy updateable, but up-to-date current.
I do not want to do manual updates in the form (get source, build,
test, install, get plugins, etc.) the building / testing / installing from
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that this way.
So, which remote boot capaple distri do you use ?
Which is best to choose ?
TIA
mfG
Jürgen Sauer
automatiX Linux Support Crew
PS: due heavy personal work load I interrupted my vdr usage a year ago
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Jürgen Sauer
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I've prepared a patch that solves blue faces on saa7134 based card.
I've wrote it over vdr-plugin-analogtv-1.0.00 and is available on my home
server: http://tux.dpeddi.com/lr319sta/vdr/analogtv-20071204.diff
Included in this patch a minimal makefile for v4l2-ctl (I've renamed it to
vdr-v4l2ctl to avoid conflict)
This should be used to look what control ctrl are available for the card and
what is the maximum value of each control.
Then, with readed value you could fill out plugins.analogtv.…
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-b 255
-s 127
-c 127
-h 0
Since saa7134 card hasn't hue control, by setting -h 0 the hue control is
not displayed on plugin setup screen and the control is not initialized on
channel change.
Perhaps I could write a small post-install that use v4l2-ctl to initialize
automatically plugins.analogtv.conf.
My patch don't work over v4l(1.0), but I think v4l(1.0) support only few
cards brockertree based.
Regards, Eddi
P.S.: Tobias, you are welcome, if you wan't to add to your e-tobi.net
repository.
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