vdr March 2007

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Info on function cSkins::QueueMessage
by lukkinosat 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hello I make a message with: cSkins::QueueMessage( mtInfo, "MyMessage", 30, -1 ) and the message is diplayed for 30 seconds. But if I wish to remove the message before, what I must make? Exist a function? Tank, Luca P.S. Excused me for my english :-) ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Understanding how vdr's tuning algo works.
by Stone 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hello All, I am curious how vdr's tuning algorithm, in general, works. With all the refactoring that has gone on with how vdr tunes, locks, retunes, and otherwise tries to anticipate various forms of interference, storms, or other activities that could hinder vdr from performing its job adequitely, please describe, in pseudocode, how the tuning algorythm actually works. Some of my questions are: 1) What do all the tuning timers mean? There are some constants in vdr code, what are the meanings of each tuning state? (i.e. the switch statement in dvbdevice.c. 2) Given that we understand what all the timers do, which ones depend on eachother? What are safe limits for each timer? For example, one timer is the DVBS_TUNE_TIMEOUT that traditionally is set to 9000 (miliseconds) but at times it takes my dvb card upwards of 18 seconds to actually tune the channel (so I might wish to set this to 19000 instead of 9000). What other timers need to be adjusted if any to account for this? 3) Does vdr care or know anything about a rotor setup where the channel isn't always present the moment the diseqc commands are sent? 4) There has been some talk in the past about refactoring this process some, do we think the current approach is the best approach? Does vdr-1.5.x plan to offer new and improved tuning algos? Best Regards.

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dvb-c usb box for vdr available?
by Halim Sahin 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hello @all, I am looking for a external usb dvb-c box for my vdr machine. CI isn't important but nice to have. Is there such a box available and works well with vdr? Thanks. Halim

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Handling of temporarily encrypted channels
by Ondrej Wisniewski 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I am using VDR 1.4.5 with the integrated auto pid feature and without any CAM. When tuning to an encrypted channel, the CA value gets set accordingly and "channel not available" is displayed. So far so good. However there are channels that encrypt only certain programs and are free the rest of the time. When tuning to this "free" channel while the program is encrypted, the CA value will be set and "channel not available" shown. But when tuning to the same channel again when it is not encrypted any more it seems that VDR just checks the CA value and displays "channel not available" instead of checking the currently broadcast CA value. So the channel cannot be watched even if it is free in the moment. This is quite annoying and decreases the WAF a lot :-/ Is there an easy way to fix this? -- Ondrej

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BUG: Incorrect playback times for radio channels
by Patrick Mackin 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I have noticed a potential bug in playing back radio channels. The playback time of recorded radio channels is inflated by almost 40%. This has been confirmed on four North American satellites on three different providers. The reported time for a 10 minute recording will consistently appear as 13:47. Some have hypothesized the problem comes from the fact that vdr's timers are based on video frame rates, which of course don't exist on radio channels. World Radio Network (wrn.org) is one example, and is broadcast on satellite worldwide, so perhaps this can be confirmed on other sats outside NA. The timing problem makes it very difficult to skip commercials or "top of the hour" news reports or to skip between programming that occurs, for example, every 30 minutes. In America, I have made observations on Telstar5. In Europe, you can try Sky Digital (Eurobird 1, 28.5E) or Eutelsat Hotbird 6 (13E) or Afristar (paytv). Additionally, there appears to be a problem that some have reported with certain NA provider varying the video frame rate, causing *underreporting* of playback time, which would seem to confirm this hypothesis.

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frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0
by Dieter Bloms 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi, I get a lot of these messages in my logfile. What does channel 0 mean ? --snip-- video:~ # grep "timed out while tuning" /var/log/vdr Mar 6 19:47:54 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212522 Mar 6 19:50:00 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212699 Mar 6 19:50:22 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212728 Mar 6 19:54:12 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 111914 Mar 6 19:59:49 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 112544 Mar 6 20:01:55 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 112721 Mar 6 20:11:01 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212090 Mar 6 20:14:52 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212522 Mar 6 20:16:58 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212699 Mar 6 20:17:19 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 212728 Mar 6 20:21:10 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 111914 Mar 6 20:26:46 video vdr: [19313] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 0, tp 112544 --snip the first lines of my channels.conf looks like: --snip-- video:~ # head /etc/vdr/channels.conf :Freie Sender Das Erste;ARD:11836:hC34:S19.2E:27500:101:102=deu;106=deu:104:0:28106:1:1101:0 ZDF;ZDFvision:11953:hC34:S19.2E:27500:110:120=deu,121=2ch;125=dd:130:0:28006:1:1079:0 Bayerisches FS;ARD:11836:hC34:S19.2E:27500:201:202=deu:204:0:28107:1:1101:0 RTL Television,RTL;RTL World:12187:hC34:S19.2E:27500:163:104=deu;106=deu:105:0:12003:1:1089:0 SAT.1;ProSiebenSat.1:12480:vC34:S19.2E:27500:1791:1792=deu;1795=deu:34:0:46:133:33:0 RTL2;RTL World:12187:hC34:S19.2E:27500:166:128=deu:68:0:12020:1:1089:0 ProSieben;ProSiebenSat.1:12480:vC34:S19.2E:27500:255:256=deu;257=deu:32:0:898:133:33:0 Super RTL,S RTL;RTL World:12187:hC34:S19.2E:27500:165:120=deu:65:0:12040:1:1089:0 KABEL1;ProSiebenSat.1:12480:vC34:S19.2E:27500:511:512=deu:33:0:899:133:33:0 --snip-- I use vdr-1.4.5-2 and v4l-dvb from todays hg. -- Gruß Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the From field.

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[ANNOUNCE] remoteosd-0.0.2
by Frank Schmirler 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi, another new version this week: remoteosd-0.0.2 is out. The remoteosd plugin allows a (client) VDR to operate the menu of a remote (server) VDR. Remoteosd requires the svdrpservice plugin, so make sure both plugins get installed on the client. The svdrpext plugin is required on the server. All three plugins are available on http://vdr.schmirler.de. Most important changes in version 0.0.2: New option "Tune server channel". When opening the remote OSD, the plugin tries to tune the server to the same channel the client is viewing. So when entering e.g. the remote schedules menu, the expected channel will be highlighted. Usually this option makes sense only if you are running a headless server. In this case I recommend to install the dummydevice plugin on the server, too. Otherwise, in some situations the server might not be able to switch channels as expected. Support for MainMenuHooks patch. With this patch a plugin can replace the VDR mainmenus "Schedule", "Channels", "Timers" or "Recordings" (read http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2007-February/012309.html for more information). Remoteosd allow you to replace "Schedule" and/or "Timers" by the corresponding remote menu. Note that you have to apply the patch before compiling remoteosd, otherwise the setup options won't show up. The MainMenuHooks patch is included in the patches directory of the remoteosd sources. See the patch file for further information and instructions. Changelog: - New option: tune channel on server - Support for MainMenuHooks patch. Plugin may replace the VDR mainmenus Schedule and Timers - Close remote menu when the local menu has been closed by menu key - OSD message if server is not reachable - Support for svdrpservice-0.0.3 default IP/port - Code cleanup Cheers, Frank

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 1.4.6 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

VDR version 1.4.6 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/vdr-1.4.6.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.5-1.4.6.diff A 'diff' against the latest maintenance patch is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.5-2-1.4.6.diff A summary of all the major changes since the last stable version can be found at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/download.htm This version is binary compatible with the previous version, so plugins don't need to be recompiled. Thanks to the many people who have contributed in the making, testing and debugging of this new version of VDR. Have fun! Klaus

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vdr-1.5.1 & problems with the new shutdown code
by Rolf Ahrenberg 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, I've noticed some shutdown problems with vdr-1.5.1 in my setup: when my vdr wakes up for a timed recording, it doesn't automatically shutdown itself anymore after the recording is done. The MinEventTimeout is set to 15 minutes and MinUserInactivity to 600 minutes, but in my case there hasn't been any user activity, so vdr should have shutdown in 15 minutes after the recording was stopped and the logs don't reveal anything unusual. Have I misunderstood something? Does this automatic shutdown feature still work in your setups? BR, -- rofa

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[ANNOUNCE] svdrpservice-0.0.3
by Frank Schmirler 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi there, svdrpservice is a helper plugin which makes it easy for other plugins to send SVDRP commands to an other VDR. Homepage: http://vdr.schmirler.de. Most important changes in 0.0.3: No longer using a fixed buffer size. Users of the epgsync plugin might appreciate this when using external EPG sources with e.g. tvmovie2vdr. The amount of data provided there was often too large for the old buffer. The plugin has its own setup menu now. You can specify default values for the server IP and port, so these values no longer have to be entered in each and every plugin using svdrpservice. If a plugin requests a connection to the special IP 0.0.0.0 or the IP is missing completely (empty string), the default value from the svdrpservice setup will be used. Likewise port number 0 will be replaced. Note that yet it's not possible to enter port number 0 in the plugins which use svdrpservice. Future versions will fix this. A silent change of the service specification came along with the new setup options: Server IP and port are now in/out parameters. After the service call for a new connection these parameter contain the actual values for IP and port, i.e. the svdrpservice default values are returned if they have been used. Note that the service version has not been increased as the modification does not break compatibility. Changelog: - Dynamic buffer size - New setup options: default server IP and port - Silent change of service interface: serverIP and serverPort are now in/out params - Connection handle was not reset to -1 when disconnecting a shared connection which is still in use - Non-blocking connect Enjoy, Frank

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