vdr March 2007

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CurrentChannel
by Boguslaw Juza 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Hi! I updgraded VDR from 1.4.4 to 1.5.1 today. Everything works fine, even better :), but there is one thing broken: When I'm restarting VDR (from setup menu), VDR doesn't save CurrentChannel setting. So when it starts again, it switches to channel I have set last time in 1.4.4. Boguslaw Juza

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vdr-xine adjusting audio-volume
by Halim Sahin 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hello, Is it possible to adjust audio-volume ins software without chaning the master control? Thanks halim

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VDR 1.4.5 problem replay old recordings
by Per Mellander 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

I have recently upgraded my VDR from 1.3.31 to 1.4.5 ( 1.3 starting from 1.3.20 something ). I have problem with replaying some ( not all ) of the old recordings. When starting replaying, the live TV is freezed and some kind of audio ( at high speed and chopped ) from the recorded material is heard. During my update I've also gone from FF-card output to softdevice. I've tried replaying the recordings with softplay and in that case the video is shown distorted and at a very low speed and with no audio. My setup: VDR 1.4.5 softdevice CVS 20070312 softplay CVS 20070312 FFmpeg version SVN-r7991, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-shared --enable-pp --enable-gpl libavutil version: 49.3.0 libavcodec version: 51.33.0 libavformat version: 51.10.0 built on Feb 17 2007 21:53:00, gcc: 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51) I haven't yet tested to replay with 1.4.5 and my Nexus-S FF because the card is still in the old VDR machine. Sincerely, Per

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Two Satellites - Two DVB-S cards - No Multiswitch
by Peer Oliver Schmidt 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Good day, I want to connect a single LNB pointed to Astra2 and another LNB connected to Astra1 each to a different DVB-S card in the same VDR. Is this possible? (Unfortunately, my electricians configured a single LNB and not quad for the second satellite :-() -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt PGP Key ID: 0x83E1C2EA

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Full featured card + budget card
by alex bustamante 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi list, Let's say that i have one FF-card (dvb-c) and one budget card (dvb-t) in my vdr-setup. I have connected the FF-card to my TV via RGB-scart. Now, if i watch a dvb-t channel, will the mpeg stream still be decoded by the FF-card and will the picture be sent out to the tv via the FF-card? -Alex

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softdevice audio problem. audio repacker issue?
by Stefan Lucke 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, need some help in locating a decoding issue with old vdr recordings and softdevice. Recordings were done with vdr-1.2.1. They play fine when using ffplay . They play fine when using ffmpeg svn revision 6040 via vdr + softdevice. With vdr + softdevice there is no sound in ffmpeg svn rev 6147. With rev 6398 and newer sound is garbled and a lot of error messages are printed out. Dumping the first 16 bytes of audio packets we get, shows the following: ff fc a4 0d b6 64 88 55 33 65 56 54 44 21 33 33 ff fc a4 0d 54 6a 88 65 33 44 56 54 33 33 33 33 ff fc a4 0d 02 a4 88 55 33 54 66 44 43 33 33 33 99 77 1b e6 34 b2 5f 41 e8 5b 90 a9 d2 04 24 5e ff fc c4 04 7c c4 dd 44 44 66 57 55 55 55 33 33 ff fc c4 04 1d 61 dd 46 44 66 55 55 55 55 33 33 68 6a 60 18 d8 52 92 4f 54 98 0b 93 27 22 4e 74 ff fc c4 04 94 01 dd 44 56 66 55 55 55 55 33 33 Is audio repacker active even for old recording ? When I deactivate audio repacker, sound is garbled allways. -- Stefan Lucke

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Hard link cutter [was: Suggestion: High speed cutting]
by Udo Richter 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Udo Richter wrote: > I've been thinking about video cutting strategies, and I think its > possible to speed up the cutting process noticeable, with some > modifications to VDR. Hi list, I just had to do this in self-reply. ;) For reference, this is my 'original' post: http://linvdr.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/12/msg00552.html This has been in my mind for over two years, and now I just wanted to see it working: Using hard file system links to speed up editing whenever a 00x.vdr file is copied from source to destination recording without modification. A first patch is available on my web page: http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.html#hlcutter http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#hlcutter Though the patch has been working for a week for me very well, it is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL and should be used with caution. The patch is COMPLETELY UNTESTED and NOT ADAPTED for multiple /videoxx folders. The safety checks should prevent data loss, but hard linking may fail more often than necessary. While editing a recording, the patch searches for any 00x.vdr files that dont contain editing marks and would normally be copied 1:1 unmodified to the edited recording. In this case the current target 00x.vdr file will be aborted, and the cutter process attempts to duplicate the source file as a hard link, so that both files share the same disk space. If this succeeds, the editing process fast-forwards through the duplicated file and continues normally beginning with the next source file. If hard linking fails, the cutter process continues with plain old copying. (but does not take up the aborted last file.) After editing, the un-edited recording can be deleted as usual, the hard linked copies will continue to exist as the only remaining copy. To be effective, the default 'Max. video file size (MB)' should be lowered. The patch lowers the smallest possible file size to 10mb, though this limits the recording length to 10*255 Mb (~100 minutes). A value of 100mb is a good compromise between speed improvement and recording length (~16 hours). The patch must be enabled in Setup-> Recordings-> Hard Link Cutter. When disabled, the cutter process behaves identical to VDR's default cutter. There's a //#define HARDLINK_TEST_ONLY in the cutter.c file that enables a test-mode that hard-links 00x.vdr_ files only, and continues the classic editing. The resulting 00x.vdr and 00x.vdr_ files should be identical. If you delete the un-edited recording, dont forget to delete the *.vdr_ files too, they will now eat real disk space. Note: 'du' displays the disk space of hard links only on first appearance, and usually you will see a noticeably smaller size on the edited recording. Future plans ------------ To solve the file size vs. recording size conflict, dynamic file sizes could be implemented, so that a recording starts with small file sizes, and increases the file size at some point to ensure enough space for huge recordings before 255.vdr is reached. For example, using 32Mb up to 192.vdr and 2000mb from 193.vdr on will give a total of 128 Gb or 84 hours, while using small files for up to 4 hours. To support multiple /videoxx folders, the hard link must be placed on the same disk as the source file. This requires a more advanced linking strategy. Since original and edited copy share disk space, free space is wrong if one of them is moved to *.del. Free space should only count files with hard link count = 1. This still goes wrong if all copies get deleted. For more safety, the hard-linked files may be made read-only, as modifications to one copy will affect the other copy too. (except deleting, of course) SetBrokenLink may get lost on rare cases, this needs some more thoughts. Cheers, Udo

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VDR stops replay due to strong wind condition
by martin 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello, I try to watch recored material with my VDR. This is basically nice, but today we have strong wind. And sorry to get rude, but: Es ist so zum Kotzen, dass der VDR meint er muss sich neu starten, wenn das DVB-S signal mal nicht so gut ist. How should I explain my friends that we can't watch the movie, because the perception of the DVB signal is currently bad. Why does VDR exit, when the signal is bad? It's not VDR's Problem, but makes many things different. Regards, Martin Mar 18 15:23:00 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 504, tp 112515 Mar 18 15:23:21 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 501, tp 112574 Mar 18 15:24:27 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 27, tp 112633 Mar 18 15:24:45 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 36, tp 112662 Mar 18 15:24:46 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 36, tp 112662 Mar 18 15:24:47 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 36, tp 112662 Mar 18 15:24:47 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 36, tp 112662 Mar 18 15:24:48 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 36, tp 112662 . Mar 18 15:30:22 htpc vdr: [13543] frontend 1 lost lock on channel 4, tp 111953 Mar 18 15:30:22 htpc vdr: [13543] frontend 1 regained lock on channel 4, tp 111953 Mar 18 15:30:24 htpc vdr: [13541] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 501, tp 112574 Mar 18 15:30:27 htpc vdr: [13538] stopping plugin: streamdev-server Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] stopping plugin: text2skin Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] stopping plugin: epgsearch Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13548] EPGSearch: Leaving search timer thread Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] stopping plugin: femon Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] stopping plugin: xine Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] timer 58 (4 1507-1600 'Matrix statt Mattscheibe') stop Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] executing '/home/martin/rec.sh after "/video/Matrix_statt_Mattscheibe/2007-03-18.15.07.50.50.rec"' Mar 18 15:30:30 htpc vdr: [13538] saved setup to /video/setup.conf Mar 18 15:30:32 htpc vdr: [13538] deleting plugin: streamdev-server Mar 18 15:30:32 htpc vdr: [13538] deleting plugin: text2skin Mar 18 15:30:32 htpc vdr: [13538] deleting plugin: epgsearch Mar 18 15:30:33 htpc vdr: [13549] EPGSearch: Leaving conflict check thread Mar 18 15:30:33 htpc vdr: [13538] deleting plugin: femon Mar 18 15:30:33 htpc vdr: [13538] deleting plugin: xine Mar 18 15:30:33 htpc vdr: [13538] exiting Mar 18 15:30:34 htpc vdr: [15308] VDR version 1.4.6 started

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-span-0.0.4
by Christian Leuschen 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi, I uploaded the fourth version of the SpAn-plugin. It can be found at http://lcr.vdr-developer.org/ Changelog: 2007-03-19: Version 0.0.4 - Changed the way PCM16-providers interact with SpAn (all providers must adapt the changes) - thx to Stefan Huelswitt for the suggestions and support. Only really visualized data is now being processed by the FFT, resulting in the positive side-effect that the CPU load of SpAn is slightly decreased. As to that change the define SPAN_SET_PCM_DATA_ID has now changed either to "Span-SetPcmData-v1.1" - Updated the patches for mp3, cdda, graphlcd. - Thanks to Morone there is no patch needed for his latest music-plugin = "The Amazing Plugin Formerly Known As Mp3ng" (TAPFKAM). Kindly Christian Leuschen

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leaving vdr transfermode
by Halim Sahin 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, Does vdr leave the transfermode after a recording ends? Thanks

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