vdr May 2007

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what are section filters?
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

hi. since i get many lines of read incomplete section - len = 1127, r = 334 when my machine is recording and under heavy CPU load, i was curios what this means. i had a look at the vdr source and saw that there is nearly no code to recover from short reads from the corresponding filedescriptor. my guess is, that this data is not important enougth to be handled more carfully. but what is it for? i searched the web for EIT DVB section filters a.s.o. but couldn't find any useful information. can anybody give me some hints or point me in the right direction regarding section filters? thanx ... clemens

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RE: [vdr] Feature requests
by Martin 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I totall support your feature request.Regards,Martin> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:06:35 +0300> From: pasi.juppo(a)iki.fi> To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org> Subject: [vdr] Feature requests> > Hi,> > There are couple of annoying problems in vdr (v1.4.4 at least but most> likely also in never ones):> > 1) If there is data stream problems in a channel VDR initiates emergency> exit. This can be a temporary situation and gets fixed in few seconds to> minutes.> > To solve this: change to other channel and infor user via OSD ("Channel> not available" or something similar)> > 2) If there is no data comming from the channel (e.g. new decrypting> card that needs to be updated first before it is ready to be used or for> some reason the key is not available) VDR initiates emergency exit.> Unnecessary action and user can do shutdown action if this is really a> problem.> > To solve this: do not initiate emergency exit but show message in OSD> ("Channel not available").> > Basically every unnecessary exit should be avoided because it does not> provide any advantage to the user - just the opposite. Problems should> be informed to the user and let user decide what to do in case of long> lasting problem such as missing data stream.> > > Minor feature that would be nice:> > 3) If there is a problem like crash with VDR and a timed recording did> not get recorded VDR simply deletes the timer without notifying user. Of> course the timer as such is useless but it would be nice to see that> this and this recording was not done at all, was not started in time or> was not recorded fully. This way the program can be re-recorded if/when> it is broadcasted again.> > And if this information can be asked from VDR then epgsearch or other> plugins can try to find missed programs again automatically.> > Br, Pasi> > _______________________________________________> vdr mailing list> vdr(a)linuxtv.org> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail: Der kostenlose E-Mail-Dienst - schnell, einfach & sicher! http://mail.live.com

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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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analogtv, pvrinput & PVR 250 VBI support
by Raphael Coeffic 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hi! i have a vdr installation with a PVR 250 analog tv card and xineliboutput as output device. On the input side, i tried pvrinput and analogtv. I could get both to work. However, there is still an issue with VBI support. Using pvrinput, teletext support only works if patched as shown on the german wiki page (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Pvrinput-plugin). But then, the tv output is not working anymore: i get about 1 picture / 2 seconds, and the sound is very very choppy. Using analogtv, i could not get the teletext support to work. If both cases (analogtv, and unpatched pvrinput), the files written by the osdteletext plugin to the cache directory have very strange page numbers and are full of garbage. Has anybody any experience with a "PVR250-only" VDR install? I'd be happy about any comments on the issue i encounter. Thanks Raphael. -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

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Dropping pixel font in VDR 1.5?
by Klaus Schmidinger 29 May '07

29 May '07

I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely drop all the pixel font stuff. Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs the pixel fonts, please let me know if this is ok. Since probably most of you will be running VDR with UTF-8 anyway (once it is supported, which will be very soon), my guess would be that the pixel fonts are really obsolete. Klaus

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How to change Pro7 SAT1 Channels via Menu
by Helmut Auer 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hello List, What is the preferred way to change the settings of the channels Pro7 ... ? I have a lot of users which do not have a pc to take the easy way (shutting down vdr and editing channels.conf) Yesterday I had a phone call with one of these and changing the channel settings via the menu is horrible, because after changing the channel some minutes later vdr replaces the channel with the old settings. Looks like he has to turn the automagic channel update off for doing this ? Now the next persons have the same problem and I don't like to spent more time on the phone then necessary ;) -- Helmut Auer, helmut(a)helmutauer.de

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new video-card with h264 decoder
by Igor Nikanov 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hello what do you think about this card ? Is it good choice for future vdr with hdtv support ? http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc/sho...=622&pageid=644 From the results we can see the HD acceleration of HD2600 and HD2400 is striking. The CPU usage is only about 5% by using 1.6GHz Sempron 2800+ to decode 1080p H.264 movies.

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1.5.x Shutdown
by Chris 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hi there, I recently updated from VDR 1.4.6 to 1.5.2. (with no problems so far, by the way :)) But today I noticed something which seems to me like a small bug in vdr's shutdown routines. My shutdown script checks for different running processes (or connections) and does not quit vdr if at least one of the tests returns true. But since 1.5.2 (or probably since 1.5.0) the shutdown script remains as a zombie in such cases until vdr actually quits. I haven't checked the sources yet, but I guess there's somewhere a call to close() (or pclose()) for the opened pipe(s) missing. -- Chris

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Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich
by Martin 28 May '07

28 May '07

and again, start separating the services .. PS: sorry for the 3-times :( saw it now .. my apologies! > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 16:43:33 +0200> From: Klaus.Schmidinger(a)cadsoft.de> To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org> Subject: Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich> > On 05/28/07 16:44, Lars Bläser wrote:> > Klaus Schmidinger wrote:> >> On 05/28/07 11:30, martin wrote:> >>> Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community.> >>> ...> >> [ ... lengthy pamphlet, repeated three(!) times ... ]> >>> >> Martin, why don't you simply remove the cThread::EmergencyExit(true)> >> calls from recorder.c and remux.c?> >>> > > > how about a compile or start switch for this> > I'll change this in version 1.5. This hint was just to tell> Martin how to immediately make VDR 1.4.x work the way he apparently> expects it to.> > Klaus> > _______________________________________________> vdr mailing list> vdr(a)linuxtv.org> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Messenger: Jetzt den Nachfolger vom MSN Messenger kostenlos downloaden! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich
by Martin 28 May '07

28 May '07

because i'm speak some dialekts like basic or turbo pascal .. but not C :( and i am not the only one, who has got the problem. and i can't tell my granny to remove the cThread :)) > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:23:04 +0200> From: Klaus.Schmidinger(a)cadsoft.de> To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org> Subject: Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich> > On 05/28/07 11:30, martin wrote:> > Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community.> > ...> > [ ... lengthy pamphlet, repeated three(!) times ... ]> > Martin, why don't you simply remove the cThread::EmergencyExit(true)> calls from recorder.c and remux.c?> > Klaus> > _______________________________________________> vdr mailing list> vdr(a)linuxtv.org> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _________________________________________________________________ MSN Unterhaltung: Alle TV - Highlights - Mit der MSN Programmsuche! Jetzt checken! http://tv.unterhaltung.msn.de/tv?ocid=BAN1v0

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