vdr February 2008

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VDR & Multiple frontends
by Eddi 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi, I wrote a patch to Steve Toth hvr3000 repository, so my FlyDVB Trio can use multiple frontend. So I get: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 The bus of the two frontend is shared, isn't possible to get access to both frontend simultaneously, so I get an -EBUSY error by trying accessing frontend1 if frontend0 is in use. VDR doesn't support yet the second frontend, and it try to get exclusive access on both frontend on start, so the second frontend is inusabile. Vdr should probe for multiple frontend at start, and access frontend only on channel change. Please can someone give me an help to wrote a patch for this issue? Best Regards, Eddi

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[Announce] LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4.0-3
by Matthias Lötzke 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hello! A new release of the configurable LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4 is available at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/configurableLNBshare-VDR_… Changes: - added a missing "break" statement which froze vdr after pressing channel up/down buttons when the main menu was displayed. Thanks to Christian Jacobsen, "Horchi" and Anssi Hannula for reporting and analysing. - adapted to VDR 1.4.3 For general information about the LNB-sharing patch have a look at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/Description.txt http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Lnbsharing-patch (german) Matthias.

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[ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.1
by Martin Prochnow 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi folks, another release of my Extendend Recordings Menu plugin. - fixed an issue with starting an editing process; thank to Andreas Mair for the patch - new marker ('*') is shown despite the setup option 'Show alternative to new marker' is on and 'Patch font' is off; fixed; thanks to Saxman2k from vdr-portal.de for reporting - added option to switch off cutter queue Screenshots and Download: http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu_en.html Greets, Martin

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EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes
by Harald Milz 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi, now that my VDR works fine with 2 satellites thanks to the help of some kind folks here and the SourceCaps patch (did I mention it should be in the mainstream VDR?) I have now a couple of FTA programmes in russian language for my better half :-) The only problem is, none of these programmes carry any EPG information. The schedules are available on the web sites, mostly. Has somebody written a plugin that retrieves the schedules and creates proper EPG data from them? I might but not too soon... I understand this task can be a pain in <pick your favourite body part> because people use no SOA interfaces. TBNRussia provides an Excel file (yuck). TIA! -- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

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vdr on PS3
by Clemens Kirchgatterer 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it seams logical to, at least, think about it. i came to the following pro/contra list: pro: it supports HD (and Blue-Ray), is small and living room ready, comes with linux, has powerful CPU, you get a gameconsole for free ;-) contra: gets hot, likly DRM locked in some regards, it's a sony the last point may be even not so bad, as sony loses money on each selled device. so what do others think about this idea? anything i have not thought about that makes it even impossible to run vdr (or some other softdevice client) on the PS3? best regards ... clemens

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contact to femon plugin developer
by Sebastian Dellit 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

Hello vdr readers, is there a possibility to contact the femon-plugin developer? I want to give any feature request for make the femon plugin accessible for braille users. -- Best regards Sebastian ICQ: 264706583 | MSM: sebo(a)blinzeln.de | Skype: sebo_de | Yahoo: de_sebo E-Mail: sebo(a)blinzeln.de | Web: www.blindzeln.de

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BBC EPG from sat ? (loadepg equivalent ?)
by Gregoire Favre 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hello, even if my english is quiete limited, I really enjoy the program from the BBC (S13.0E/S19.2E/S28.2E) which are FTA :-) The only thing I miss is an epg of more than current and next. Is it a limitation of VDR (I mean does it work for other receiver) or are the BBC only broadcasting current and next epg ? I have internet access on my computer, maybe it could be a way to go, but I would find much cleaner from the sat. I wanted to try something like loadepg, but version 0.1.12 fails with : g++ -O3 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -DPIC -pipe -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"loadepg"' -I/usr/src/CVS/multiproto/linux/include -I../../../include loadepg.c In file included from loadepg.c:9: loadepg.h:20:33: error: vdr/dvb_api_emulate.h: No such file or directory make: *** [loadepg.o] Error 1 And version 0.1.11 also fails. g++ -O3 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -DPIC -pipe -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fPIC -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"loadepg"' -I/usr/src/CVS/multiproto/linux/include -I../../../include loadepg.c loadepg.c: In member function `bool cLoadepgOsd::SwitchToEpgChannel()': loadepg.c:1057: error: no matching function for call to `cChannel::SetSatTransponderData(int, int, char&, int, fe_code_rate)' ../../../include/vdr/channels.h:226: note: candidates are: bool cChannel::SetSatTransponderData(int, int, char, int, int, int, int, int) make: *** [loadepg.o] Error 1 Which I didn't investigate further, because loadepg don't mention anything about BBC channels, so it's current incompatibiliy with multiproto isn't a real problem for me right now... Any idea on how to have better epg for BBC channels ? If there is no other choices, I should give getskyepg.pl a try :-) -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org http://picasaweb.google.com/Gregoire.Favre

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How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?
by Klaus Schmidinger 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

I'm looking for a method to convert a JPEG image to an MPEG-2 I-frame that can be displayed through VDR's cDevice::StillPicture() function. The conversion should be done by a (sequence of) shell command(s). Can anybody advise how this can be done? Klaus

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Plugins DVD and Dolby Digital
by NIVAL Michaël 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, With VDR-1.5.10 and cvs version plugins DVD, it is not possible to have audio. The syslog shows: [4223] switching to pre 1.3.19 Dolby Digital compatibility mode UseDolbyDigital is disabled. The solution I have for the moment is to apply the patch that I put in attachment. Thanks for your help.

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VDR 1.5.15 on Gentoo: random and silent crash at startup
by Ville Aakko 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi! Since VDR 1.5.10 (or thereabouts) VDR has had this weird problem - and now that the 1.6 RC is near, I decided to report it (also I've been a bit busy so I wouldn't had had the time to look into this before myself). VDR dies at startup randomly, at around 5 seconds after the startup (the Gentoo init script detects this fail, and so watchdog is newer started). Just as randomly (~50% of the times) it start without errors and is stable (as rock) in my working environment =). When it crashes, I can sometimes see the "Welcome to VDR" in my VFD, sometimes even on the output of my DXR3 (if not always but I don't have my TV turned on always), but right at that point the gentoo-vdr-scripts decide they have waited enough. This could be a gentoo-vdr-scripts bug, too. btw., this is what I run in my root crontab to work around this: ---- START VDRpurkkakoira.sh ---- #!/bin/bash while true ; do /etc/init.d/vdr start if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ### punch the VDR sleep 5s else sleep 30m fi done ---- END ---- This also works as an additional layer of a watchdog; hence the script name =) Usually it needs 1-5 punches (but sometimes none). I believe some plugin is to blame. At VDR upgrade (when no plugin is loaded as they usually need a recompile) VDR has never died this way. I have my suspicions but I'm not going to tell them before I do some more testing, to not to upset developers for nothing =) Here are my plugins: dxr3 femon osdteletext mplayer undelete streamdev-server lcdproc control externalplayer epgsearchonly text2skin epgsearch quickepgsearch burn So, I'm going to do some testing by disabling plugins, but in the meantime, has anyone run into the same problem? Or does anyone have any suggestions I should try? Also, I'll provide the syslog of my VDR in case someone is interested - though it didn't provide anything to me that would tell why it fails (and why it doesn't, when it doesn't). - Ville -- Ville Aakko - ville.aakko(a)gmail.com

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