vdr February 2007

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VDR & Multiple frontends
by Eddi 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi, I wrote a patch to Steve Toth hvr3000 repository, so my FlyDVB Trio can use multiple frontend. So I get: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 The bus of the two frontend is shared, isn't possible to get access to both frontend simultaneously, so I get an -EBUSY error by trying accessing frontend1 if frontend0 is in use. VDR doesn't support yet the second frontend, and it try to get exclusive access on both frontend on start, so the second frontend is inusabile. Vdr should probe for multiple frontend at start, and access frontend only on channel change. Please can someone give me an help to wrote a patch for this issue? Best Regards, Eddi

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[Announce] LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4.0-3
by Matthias Lötzke 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hello! A new release of the configurable LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4 is available at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/configurableLNBshare-VDR_… Changes: - added a missing "break" statement which froze vdr after pressing channel up/down buttons when the main menu was displayed. Thanks to Christian Jacobsen, "Horchi" and Anssi Hannula for reporting and analysing. - adapted to VDR 1.4.3 For general information about the LNB-sharing patch have a look at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/Description.txt http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Lnbsharing-patch (german) Matthias.

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EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes
by Harald Milz 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi, now that my VDR works fine with 2 satellites thanks to the help of some kind folks here and the SourceCaps patch (did I mention it should be in the mainstream VDR?) I have now a couple of FTA programmes in russian language for my better half :-) The only problem is, none of these programmes carry any EPG information. The schedules are available on the web sites, mostly. Has somebody written a plugin that retrieves the schedules and creates proper EPG data from them? I might but not too soon... I understand this task can be a pain in <pick your favourite body part> because people use no SOA interfaces. TBNRussia provides an Excel file (yuck). TIA! -- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

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vdr on PS3
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it seams logical to, at least, think about it. i came to the following pro/contra list: pro: it supports HD (and Blue-Ray), is small and living room ready, comes with linux, has powerful CPU, you get a gameconsole for free ;-) contra: gets hot, likly DRM locked in some regards, it's a sony the last point may be even not so bad, as sony loses money on each selled device. so what do others think about this idea? anything i have not thought about that makes it even impossible to run vdr (or some other softdevice client) on the PS3? best regards ... clemens

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FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)
by Ville Rannikko 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

> > Hi! > > > > The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync > > problems > > for me. > Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current > firmware? Oh, well. Turns out that I had somehow failed to install the new firmware properly. My test patch is possibly not needed at all. Ville

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Announce: mplayer.sh version 0.8.7
by Juri Haberland 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hi, this release mainly adds support for MPlayer versions newer than 1.0rc1. Unfortunately, I had to drop the support for MPlayer versions prior to 1.0pre series (0.9x...). This step was necessary, because current MPlayer development version stopped accepting the '-vop' option. The '-vf' option must be used instead. As usual you can get the new version of mplayer.sh from http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/VDR/ Changelog: - added 544x480 as valid NTSC resolution (thanks to C.Y.M) - removed 688x576 from the valid PAL resolutions; - calculate USE_SPEED with 30 fps instead of 29.97 - use '-vf' and '-af' instead of '-vop' and '-aop', as the latter are deprecated Enjoy, Juri

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Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de
by Michael Stepanov 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hi Klaus, Could you tell me, please, are you planning to add support of MPEG4 to VDR? It's good front-end for HTPC but era of HDTV is coming. So, people need it. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Michael Stepanov, www.stepanoff.org

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NIT handling change in 1.4.3-4
by Anssi Hannula 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

NIT handling was changed in 1.4.3-4 by adding an additional check if we're actually receiving this transponder. See the current code: > for (cChannel *Channel = Channels.First(); Channel; Channel = Channels.Next(Channel)) { > if (!Channel->GroupSep() && Channel->Source() == Source && Channel->Nid() == ts.getOriginalNetworkId() && Channel->Tid() == ts.getTransportStreamId()) { > if (Setup.UpdateChannels >= 5) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Transponder())) { // only modify channels if we're actually receiving this transponder The above check was added. However, the variable 'Frequency' may not always be the current transponder frequency. The current transponder could also be in the Frequencies[] array. This causes the channel update to be always disabled. Below we search the array if the transponder of the 'Channel' is there: > if (!ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > for (int n = 0; n < NumFrequencies; n++) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequencies[n] / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > Frequency = Frequencies[n]; > break; > } > } > } Maybe the new check should be moved here, so that it uses the new correct 'Frequency' that was found from Frequencies[] in the loop above? > Channel->SetCableTransponderData(Source, Frequency, Modulation, SymbolRate, CodeRate); > } > } > found = true; > } > } -- Anssi Hannula

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6-channel audio from analog?
by Simon Baxter 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi y'all. My media box has 6 channel output LF,RF,LR,RR,C,SW which I'm using with ALSA. Mplayer plays through all channels fine (settings in ~/.mplayer/config), but VDR sourced audio only plays in stereo from the LR,RF output. Given that there is no way to play 'real' surround sound from pvrinput sourced audio, what is the easiest way to 'copy' the audio to the other channels, so I at least get sound out all the speakers? Hmm, perhaps this is a setting in xine...? Thanks Simon

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Vdr or driver performance dropout
by Kartsa 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr 1.4.4 after fourth recording starts vdr becomes sluggish and there starts to come errors on log: dvb-ttpci: warning: timeout waiting in LoadBitmap when pushing menu button. And ofcourse no menu appears or menu appears only partly. Is this vdr related or firmware related. After all the error is fw error isn't it? \\Kartsa

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