vdr July 2007

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vdr 1.5.5 and NextChapter
by JJussi 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi! I upgraded vdr to version 1.5.5 and after that, button from remote what generates "NextChapter" command don't "work" anymore.. Earlier it made 60 second jump at replay-mode, now nothing happend... How I can fix this... -- JJussi

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VDR shutdown question
by Norbert Goebel 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi, does vdr (especially version 1.4.7 as I am using this right now) tell the shutdownscript in any way what caused the shutdown-request (pressing the poweroff button on fb or the idle timer)? I am asking this cause I switched from 24/7 to nvram-wakeup and it (in the form it is implemented today) failed the waf-test. My wife (and somehow me too) does not like the behaviour of VDR that there is no way to choose a timeperiod where the idletimer is inactive. Let's say you like the comfort of 24/7 but nevertheless want to save some energy. Normally vdr is not used between 0:00 and 8:00, so it could be off at these times (but only if no recordings are to be done). During 8:01 - 23:59 we don't want vdr to idle-shutdown (but manual shutdowns should still work). For this it would be nice to have a) a direct vdr feature (like no idletimer from x to y (and maybe more than one range)) or b) a way to distinguish between manual shutdown and idletimer shutdown in the shutdownscript. Today we can choose between a) a long idletimeout (but that also leads to long unused uptimes in the middle of the night after a recording) b) short idletimeout (which is annoying cause you always have to tell vdr to keep alive) c) a shutdown-hook that disables shutdowns from 8-24 (which a) still can't stop the annoying message to appear on screen and b) will stop manual shutdowns from working too) So somehow I see a missing feature here ;) Many thanks for your answers, Norbert

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Why does vdr-1.5.x poweroff my computer at boot ?
by Gregoire Favre 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hello, I use Min. event timeout/user inactivity of 60 minutes but when my computer poweron vdr only seems to wait for about 5 minutes before shuting down my computer if a timer isn't programmed which is quiete bad if I power it by hand and don't come after it directly. Of couse I could add a simple svdrp command at boot time to prevent this bug, but certainly they are better way to handle this. Any clue about it ? Thank you very much, -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org http://picasaweb.google.com/Gregoire.Favre

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EPG: Events with same <event id> on different channels?
by Friedhelm Büscher 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hi everybody. I wonder, if <event id> (according to vdr.5) must be uniq among *all* events known to vdr or only among the events of the current channel? Is it valid to have a <event id> of 4711 for "ard" and a <event id> of 4711 for "zdf"? Or will these both events clash? regards, Friedhelm.

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How to compute length of a recording?
by Dirk 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hello, how do I get the duration in a shell script? The following code does not always compute the correct value: sumlen=0 for i in "$recdir"/0*.vdr ; do # length in sec. in ID_LENGTH ergebnis=$(/usr/local/bin/midentify "$i") eval $ergebnis sumlen=$(echo "scale=3 ; $sumlen + $ID_LENGTH" | bc) done echo $sumlen (midentify is mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify "$@") Can you tell me a correct way? Thank you, Dirk

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by Vladimír Bárta 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

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no sound on output of TT-premium C-2300
by Chris F 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi everyone, I've got a problem setting up a vdr system. I installed Debian Etch with a vanilla 2.6.21 kernel and vdr using the e-tobi packages. I used the development firmware (f12623) and also tried the firmware from linuxtv.org Apart from the DVB-C FF card there is a WinTV PCI analogue TV-Card in that I want to use to record analogue TV channels that are not broadcasted in DVB-C. The system works so far, however the analogue sound output of the card doesn't work and I have ne idea why. I hope someone who uses the same card can help me out on that. My second problem is getting the analogue card to work. I installed the analogue-tv plugin and using scantv I can find some channels, however if I set up the channels.conf vdr doesn't add the channels to its list (i stopped vdr before editing the channels.conf) Whe can help me out on that ? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Chris

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Burning DVB (non-Teletext) subtitles to the video prior to editing and transcoding
by Samuli Seppänen 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I did not find anything definite about this subject from LinuxTV wiki, mailing list archives or google, so here it comes. Please point me to a previous thread if there is one - I did check the mailinglist archives for the last 12 months or so. Ok, so I'm using VDR as the software for my dedicated VDR box - see http://users.utu.fi/sjsepp/gentoo_vdr/gentoo_vdr.html for more information. There are some recordings that I like to archive. The process which I use currently is like this: 1. Fix / demultiplex the recordings with ProjectX 2. Multiplex the recordings with mplex 3. Edit and transcode the videos (to xvid) with Avidemux Now this works just fine for those recordings that don't have separate subtitles. Here in Finland we do have separate subtitles on some channels. The subtitles are not s.c. teletext subtitles, but "normal" dvb subtitles. VDR can record these just fine and ProjectX can extract them as well. The files ProjectX creates for the subtitles are .sup and .sup.IFO. I tried selecting the subtitle export format in ProjectX, but it did not seem to have any effect - I guess it's only valid for teletext subtitles. The DVB subtitles don't seem to be that well supported, so I can't edit the recordings at all unless I want to break the timings in the subtitle files. So I was thinking of a couple of approaches: - Convert the subtitles to some other (bitmap) format (dvd subtitles, for example) which is better supported and which the editing software (avidemux) can understand - Converting the subtitles as above plus streaming them IN the video stream with vlc (I guess this is possible?) - Burning the subtitles into the video stream prior to editing and transcoding with avidemux - this is what I'd prefer Could someone point me to the right direction - I don't really care how to get to my goal, as long as I get there. All guides I've found make use of Windows programs, which do work in Wine at least to a degree. I'd rather do this 100% natively in Linux, as I haven't got any Windows boxes around. Best regards to all, Samuli Seppänen

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Bitstreamout and VDR 1.5.2
by Rene Hertell 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi all! Is there any patch for either the Bitstreamout-plugin or VDR that would allow the plugin to compile against VDR 1.5.2? I run Gentoo on an Epia-board. This is the output i get when trying to compile the plugin. vdr bitstreamout # make all bitstreamout Version 0.85 g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include bitstreamout.c g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include iec60958.c g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include ac3.c g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include dts.c g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include lpcm.c g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -fPIC -DPIC -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../DVB/linux/include -I../DVB/linux/v4l -I../../../include -I../DVB/linux/include channel.c channel.c: In constructor 'cInStream::cInStream(int, spdif*, ctrl_t&, cBounce*)': channel.c:62: error: no matching function for call to 'cReceiver::cReceiver(int, int, int&)' ../../../include/vdr/receiver.h:41: note: candidates are: cReceiver::cReceiver(tChannelID, int, int, const int*, const int*, const int*) ../../../include/vdr/receiver.h:17: note: cReceiver::cReceiver(const cReceiver&) make: *** [channel.o] Error 1 vdr bitstreamout # Any help would be appreciated, Best Regards, René -=-=- ... Don't worry about temptation--as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

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[PATCH] softdevice segfaulting on stream errors
by Artur Skawina 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Some time ago the softdevice plugin started crashing when playing video streams containing errors, both while live viewing and watching recordings. Today I found a transponder where it reliably occurred within seconds and decided to investigate. The picture buffers used for video were 8-byte aligned, which happened to work for "normal" mpeg decoding, but wasn't enough. ffmpeg was executing SSE instructions when doing error concealment and those were segfaulting. Fix below. artur diff -uwp softdevice.noalign/PicBuffer.c softdevice/PicBuffer.c --- softdevice.noalign/PicBuffer.c 2007-03-13 02:57:19.000000000 +0100 +++ softdevice/PicBuffer.c 2007-07-10 15:25:38.000000000 +0200 @@ -316,9 +316,8 @@ bool AllocatePicBuffer(sPicBuffer *buf,P if ( !isPlanar(pix_fmt) ) { buf->stride[0]=ALIGN(pixel_size*w,16); - buf->pixel[0]=(uint8_t*)malloc((buf->stride[0]*h)+16); - if (buf->pixel[0]==NULL) { + if (posix_memalign(&buf->pixel[0], 16, buf->stride[0]*h+16)) { printf("could not allocate memory for picture buffer!\n") ; exit(-1); return false; @@ -337,9 +336,7 @@ bool AllocatePicBuffer(sPicBuffer *buf,P buf->stride[i]= ALIGN(pixel_size*w>>h_shift, STRIDE_ALIGN<<(h_chroma_shift-h_shift)); - buf->pixel[i]= (uint8_t*)malloc((buf->stride[i]*h>>v_shift)+16); //FIXME 16 - - if(buf->pixel[i]==NULL) { + if(posix_memalign(&buf->pixel[i], 16, (buf->stride[i]*h>>v_shift)+16)) { //FIXME 16 printf("could not allocate memory for picture buffer!\n") ; exit(-1); return false;

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