vdr March 2008

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DXR3 and subtitles in 1.5.x
by Sami Sundell 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, E-tobi's experimental VDR branch moved to 1.5.x series, so I did too, but I'm running into some problems. Specifically, this one: Mar 4 21:05:22 dvd vdr: [17719] dxr3: colormanager: bummer, too many sections (14), reusing last one I digged archives and found out the reason apparently is that DXR3 doesn't completely support 8-bit OSD but claims to do so. Result is OSD that's made illegible by tearing white lines etc. Ok, so the solution for OSD (and default themes?) seems to be to turn off the anti-aliasing, which then reduces number of colors enough to make it work. However, there's still the problem of (DVB) subtitles: similar tearing makes the subtitles unusable. On top of that, opening an OSD when there are subtitles seems to make VDR crash and burn. Has anyone had the same problem and possibly even come up with the solution? -- Sami Sundell sami.sundell(a)kotikone.fi

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[ANNOUNCE] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.18
by Reinhard Nissl 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, attached you'll find updated patches for VDR-1.5.18. The patch named *-dvbs2-* additionally adds DVB-S2 support to VDR (based on VDR-1.5.14) and requires to use the DVB drivers from the multi-proto tree (see URL below for further details). The other patch is without DVB-S2 support and therefore most suitable for DVB-C users. VDR-1.5.14 reported changes to transponder data incorrectly. The attached dvbs2 patch contains a fix for this issue by introducing TransponderDataToString(). The patch includes now the formerly addon patch which fixed building after recent multiproto changes. Have a look at this page for more instructions on this concern: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/OpenSUSE_VDR_DVB-S2_-_xine Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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vdr-1.6.0 and syncearly
by Boguslaw Juza 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi! Is the syncearly patch needed for new vdr? Boguslaw Juza

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Deinterlace / Motion Compensation
by Boguslaw Juza 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi! I have a quesion to LCD TV owners. Most of the new LCD TVs have a "motion compensation" feature. Is it deinterlacing the picture? I'm going to buy Sony40", to connect to PC via DVI/HDMI with 720p or 1080p and run VDR with vdr-xine. Now Im using nvidia xxmc and the deinterlace is ugly. With LCD TV it'll be visible much more, so I need better deinterlacing - so I'm wondering if TV hw motion compensation will do it... Boguslaw Juza

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HELP, no text in OSD anymore
by C.Scheeder 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

HI, i have a BIG Problem since this morning. ithought before i install vdr-1.6 it would be wise to update my debian-sid to the aktual packages. But thta was a BAD Idea, after it all texts in VDR's OSD vanished. the OSD is displayed correct, if you know what is in the higlighted line you can use the commands, but all texts are missing. No errormessages, no compiletime errors, nothing in syslog. NADA can anyone give me a hint where i should look for? tried the old 1.5.18 and 1.6.0, no matter which version, the symptoms are the same. the machine has a ff-card and a budget-card, TV connected to Videoout of ff-card. Christoph

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silly question
by Tony Grant 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

This must be a FAQ but it is new for me: - how do I stop VDR adding channels to channels.conf? It started doing this when I installed 1.5.13 Cheers Tony --

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Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)
by Timo Laitinen 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:02 +0100 Niko Mikkila <nm(a)phnet.fi> wrote: > All XvMC implementations that I know of have poor deinterlacing, which > makes them pretty useless for decoding interlaced video. Your > description suggests that openchrome just drops the other field, so > you lose half of both the vertical resolution and temporal definition > (50 fields/s -> 25 frames/s). Continuous small skips (at regular or > seemingly random intervals) could also be caused by a refresh-rate > mismatch, but if Xv is ok, this is not the main problem in your case. Hmm, it seems that I've not understood something... I assumed that if I don't say anything about deinterlacing, then the (s-video) output would be interlaced. This apparently isn't true, they do something (strange) to the video, because putting deinterlacing on (bob-deinterlacing) produces quite nice results! (well, 40-50% CPU usage, and a little-bit of jerking, 1/s, but the ticker is very sharp now). But shouldn't the device be able to send completely non-deinterlaced stuff to the tv-out? Maybe the unichrome chip does something, but can that something be turned off? Anyway, thanks for the info, it led me to a bit more tolerable results :-) -- Best Regards, Timo ------------ timo.laitinen(a)utu.fi FABRICATI DIEM, PVNK.

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[ANNOUNCE] extb-0.3.0
by Andreas Brachold 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, her is a new release of plugin extb. (This Plugin control a extension board.) Project's homepage: http://www.deltab.de/content/view/74/76/ http://www.deltab.de/content/view/24/63 Changes: - Updated i18n handling, required vdr-1.6 Enjoy, Andreas

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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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Missing EPG entry @ MTV3 now!
by Ville Aakko 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Hello VDR users, Is there a bug in VDR or is there a fault in the EPG data sent by MTV3? There is no Abyss in the EPG on my VDR box, even though it most certainly should be there, 22..25-01.05 EET (sat-sun). Is this a DST bug? I haven't noticed any errors on other channels. I'm using VDR 1.6.0 on Gentoo. -- Ville Aakko - ville.aakko(a)gmail.com

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