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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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portability or VDR on FreeBSD
by Joerg Pulz 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list. As the subject already says, this is about VDR portability, or how to get VDR up and running on a FreeBSD system. In times where we have such really nice plugins like softdevice and streamdev, we no longer need real MPEG2 or DVB hardware in a VDR system. As i want to use my FreeBSD systems to watch TV or play VDR recordings i decided to give porting VDR to FreeBSD a try. Attached you can find the results. In short terms: It simply works! The only missing feature right now is, starting VDR as root and switching to another user (-u command line option). For now it is possible to watch any recording made by a VDR with real hardware if the video directory is directly accessible over the network (mountable by the client) or the use the streamdev plugin to stream VDR to VDR. All tests where done using a Linux system with two FF-DVB-S devices, streamdev-server plugin and NFS exported video directory plus a wired and a wireless FreeBSD-7.0 client running VDR with streamdev-client and softdevice plugin. As far as i could test the whole setup until now, everything works the same way on FreeBSD as it does under Linux and i now have real channel-hopping. The patches are made in a way that a patched VDR will still compile under Linux. Every modification, to the source or to the Makefiles is ifdef'd out. So unless you say you want to compile VDR for FreeBSD you have an unmodified version of source. In case the ML software strips the attachments, the files are also available for download at: ftp://ftp.frm2.tum.de/pub/jpulz/VDR/ Thoughts or comments from others are welcome. regards Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFH0Dy8SPOsGF+KA+MRAmVBAJ9Tzfxg0zWNN/fEX8vfeMOW2muvSACgivha raTzC4R92jZ+Petp9Mqwr9E= =f08n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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vdr-1.5.18 subtitles issue
by matthieu castet 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, I tried subtitle features and I saw some problems (I am using vdr-1.5.18 with softdevice and streamdev). First auto channel update is need : there no way to save subtitle pid in channel.conf. I haven't info about this on the manual and it takes me some time how to make it works. Next osd behaviour is weird : as soon as subtitle is started, when it will refresh it will mess up with other osd. For example if I start subtitle and then go to the menu, the menu will be clear by subtitle refresh, but I am still in menu mode. Next, why like audio aren't there an entry in main menu for showing current subtitle tracks ? The only way to know that is to use keymacro with Subtiles key, but that could be hard to map it with remote with few keys. Finally I have the impression that the subtitles synchronisation isn't good. Thanks, Matthieu

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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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