vdr May 2007

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR sync early patch
by Reinhard Nissl 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hi, the motivation for this patch was to speed up zapping channels when using vdr-xine, i. e. to shorten the time from pressing the remote button till audio and video appear. FF card users may only see the effect of this patch when the FF card is running in transfer mode. The idea is to not wait for the first I frame in transfer mode. Although output devices "can't" decode any frames before the first I frame, the contained PTS in the PES packets allows the device to synchronize audio and video even before the first video frame appears on screen. Another issue which is addressed by this patch is that audio packets were not delivered to the device immediately after switching the channel, so the above change didn't have any effect. Calling EnsureAudioTrack() fixes this. How much speed up can be expected? Well, it varies from zap to zap as it depends on a couple of parameters like the offset of audio and video PTS, whether a PTS is available per frame, the number of frames till the next I frame arrives, etc. But a speed up should be noticeable. BTW: Testers of plugin ** should comment out the following line in cTSBuffer::Get() in file device.c, like that: // if(!device->***) device->***=new c***; This change is highly recommended if you experience buffer overflows while switching channels, though they are not related to the sync early patch. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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Cut marks editing problem
by Olaf Titz 06 May '07

06 May '07

I'm editing a recording with some errors in it (errors of the kind "broken MPEG kills vdr-sxfe"). Looks like the index.vdr is broken, so I run genindex. After that, some existing cut marks are not on a GOP boundary any more (looks like genindex really has fixed something). I can't edit these cut marks any more. When I put the cursor on the broken mark, neither of 4 6 7 9 keys do anything. With 0 the mark is not deleted, rather a new one generated at the right position but I can't get rid of the broken mark. Proposed fix: on the 7 and 9 keys, look if the mark is really on a GOP boundary, and if not, scan for the next one, adjusting the mark. This would also help with manual editing of the marks.vdr file. Olaf

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epgsearch compile error vdr-1.5.2
by Simon Baxter 06 May '07

06 May '07

I'm getting the following error when I try and compile epgsearch-0.9.19 Plugin epgsearch: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/development/vdr-1.5.2/PLUGINS/src/epgsearch-0.9.19' g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I 18N='"epgsearch"' -I../../../../DVB/include -I../../../include -I../../../.. /DVB/include conflictcheck.c conflictcheck.h: In member function 'int cConflictCheckDevice::ProvidesCa(const cChannel*) const': conflictcheck.h:106: error: 'class cDevice' has no member named 'ProvidesCa' make[1]: *** [conflictcheck.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/development/vdr-1.5.2/PLUGINS/src/epgsearch-0.9.19' Any ideas?

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remoteosd / multi-box question
by Simon Baxter 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hi. I use remoteosd to schedule and record programs on a remote device, which I access from the primary device via an NFS share. Problem is, new programs only appear in the primary device once VDR restarts. Is there a way to refresh recording directories without restarting VDR?

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Help with channels.conf for analogtv + xine
by Toufeeq Hussain 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hi all, I'm using vdr with the analogtv and xine plugins to receive input from a VCR and trying to display it on my PC. The installation of the software and the plugins went well and vdr also seems to be working with y TV-tuner card. However when I use xine(with the vdr plugin) to try and connect to the vdr stream it says that there is 'NO SIGNAL'. I've tried different settings in my channels.conf but nothing seems to get me the output on xine. So, I'm guessing the problem is with the way I've configured my analogtv plugin and my channels.conf entry. Here is what my channels.conf reads like : Television:591250:B0C0D0:C:0:160:160:0:A0:65003:0:0:0 591250 : The frequency at which the VCR is displaying the "channel". B0 : PAL VCR C0 : /dev/video0 which is my TV-tuner card D0 : television Source : As per README , I've this fixed as 'C' Srate : Again as per README , this is '0' VPID : Picked this up from the VDR wiki which says it should be 160 for analogtv APID : Picked this up from the VDR wiki which says it should be 160 for analogtv TPID : Picked from README which shows it to be '0' CA : From wiki, I've fixed this as 'A0' SID : '65003' from the readme NID , TID, RID : All '0' I think the problem is with the SID which I've set as 65003, Since the input here is television I don't know what should be the value of SID as there is none corresponding to TV in the ChannelMap.h file. Please tell me what is a good value for SID for normal TV. Thanks, Toufeeq -- blog @ http://www.toufeeq.net

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skinenigmang question
by Simon Baxter 04 May '07

04 May '07

Question for you. When you FF/REW etc, the .xpm file for the FF etc (i.e. plugins/skinenigmang/icons/replay/fastForward1.xpm) is overlaid on a white/blue icon that looks kind of like a video tape. Where is the xpm for this blue/white thing? I'd like to edit it Thanks

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recording directory changes after timer resume
by Christian Wieninger 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi, I noticed a problem with the recording directory of the following timer 9:S19.2E-1-1092-10100:M------:2000:2200:50:99:Musik~DELUXE: in a situation where the recording gets interrupted by any other recording due to higher priority (with vdr-1.4.6): > Mar 19 20:00:00 Kanotix vdr: [4293] timer 1 (44 2000-2200 'Musik~DELUXE') start > Mar 19 20:00:04 Kanotix vdr: [4293] record /video0/Musik/DELUXE/_/2007-03-19.20.00.50.99.rec > Mar 19 20:00:05 Kanotix vdr: [4299] channel 44 (DELUXE MUSIC) event Mon 19.03.2007 19:52-20:11 '(null)' s > tatus 4 > Mar 19 21:03:00 Kanotix vdr: [4293] stopping recording on DVB device 1 due to higher priority > Mar 19 21:03:01 Kanotix vdr: [4293] timer 1 (44 2000-2200 'Musik~DELUXE') stop > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix vdr: [4293] timer 1 (44 2000-2200 'Musik~DELUXE') start > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix vdr: [4293] executing 'noad before "/video0/Musik/DELUXE/Den_Song_für_Ihr_Privata > rchiv_kaufen_Si/2007-03-19.20.00.50.99.rec"' > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: noad arg[0]: noad > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: noad arg[1]: before > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: noad arg[2]: /video0/Musik/DELUXE/Den_Song_für_Ihr_Privatarchiv_kaufe > n_Si/2007-03-19.20.00.50.99.rec > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: noad args done > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: noad called with 'before' and online=1 and liverecording is no > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix noad[4502]: nothing to do yet > Mar 19 21:03:03 Kanotix vdr: [4293] record /video0/Musik/DELUXE/Den_Song_für_Ihr_Privatarchiv_kaufen_Si/2 > 007-03-19.20.00.50.99.rec as you can see the timers recording directory changes from empty ('_' ) to 'Den_Song_für_Ihr_Privatarchiv_kaufen_Si' when the recording is resumed on device 2, resulting in 2 single recordings. Background: the timer is responsible for a recording on DeluxeMusic. DeluxeMusic delivers their EPG for the current and the next track. So its permanently changing. When the recording is finished it will be processed with the deluxe-plugin to extract mp3's. But this only works with one consistent recording. The reason for VDRs behaviour is probably that at the beginning of the recording there's no EPG at all, while after the resume there is one. Any ideas how to avoid the two recordings? BR, Christian

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TT-1500 & Irdeto CAM working anyone??
by Simon Baxter 03 May '07

03 May '07

Does anyone have a TT-1500 DVB-C card working with an Irdeto CAM? Or in that case, any other CAM? If so, what kernel are you running? What v4l-dvb snapshot?? I'm lost! Thanks Simon

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Re: [linux-dvb] en50221_tl_poll: CAWrite failed
by Simon Baxter 03 May '07

03 May '07

> Am Mittwoch 02 Mai 2007 12:01 schrieb Simon Baxter: > > > > > [root@media1 gnutv]# ./gnutv -cammenu > > > > > en50221_tl_poll: CAWrite failed > > > > > en50221_stdcam_llci_poll: Error reported by stack:-2 > > > > > > > > It is indeed not flaky hardware as i wrote earlier. -2 is timeout. It > > > > is due to a bug in debiread/write > > > > > Which lines should I comment in dvb_ca_en50221.c ??? > > > > [root@media2 v4l-dvb]# find . | grep dvb_ca_en50221.c > > ./linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c > > ./v4l/dvb_ca_en50221.c > > In dvb_ca_en50221_read_data outcomment this block: > > if (status & STATUSREG_RE) { > ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_LINKINIT; > status = -EIO; > goto exit; > } > > and this one in dvb_ca_en50221_write_data: > > if (status & (STATUSREG_DA | STATUSREG_RE)) { > status = -EAGAIN; > goto exitnowrite; > } > > you might also try to outcomment this, also in dvb_ca_en50221_write_data: > > if (status & STATUSREG_WE) { > ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_LINKINIT; > status = -EIO; > goto exit; > } > > Pleas keep in mind that this just disables some error checks. Actually for me > it solved some troubles. > > Regards, > Julian I made the above changes, but still get the error?? [root@media2 v4l-dvb]# gnutv -cammenu en50221_tl_poll: CAWrite failed en50221_stdcam_llci_poll: Error reported by stack:-2

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Audio delay on only channel
by lukkinosat 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hello When I tune this channel Canale 5:11919:V:S13.0E:27500:513+129:660=ita,661=ita:577:0:2:272:6000:0 the audio is delayed of 4-6 seconds. The problem is only for this channel. With a classic receiver, the problem not exist. What can be? Tanks Hi, Luca ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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