vdr April 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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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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vdr-1.6.0 channel not available
by Simon Baxter 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hello I have 2x DVB-C cards with Alphacrypt multi-cams. A TT-1500-C budget card and a TT-2300-C FF card and run vdr-xine. When recording one channel and attempting to watch another in the same transport stream, or trying to switch to another transport stream (and hence card) I get "channel not available" messages. After switching back and forth to other transport streams, usually I can overcome this problem. But occasionally I it won't play any channels in one specific transport stream or another. What's the best way to diagnose this? How do I enable debugging to see more info than is displayed in messages: Apr 24 18:53:56 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 8 Apr 24 18:53:56 callin vdr: [30940] transfer thread started (pid=7375, tid=30940) Apr 24 18:53:57 callin vdr: [30939] femon receiver thread ended (pid=7375, tid=30939) Apr 24 18:53:57 callin vdr: [30941] femon receiver thread started (pid=7375, tid=30941) Apr 24 18:53:58 callin vdr: [30940] setting audio track to 1 (0) Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 9 Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [30940] transfer thread ended (pid=7375, tid=30940) Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] buffer stats: 47564 (2%) used Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] info: Channel not available! Apr 24 18:54:04 callin vdr: [7375] ERROR: attempt to open OSD while it is already open - using dummy OSD! Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 1 Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30942] transfer thread started (pid=7375, tid=30942) Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30936] TS buffer on device 2 thread ended (pid=7375, tid=30936) Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30935] buffer stats: 84600 (4%) used Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30935] receiver on device 2 thread ended (pid=7375, tid=30935) Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30943] receiver on device 2 thread started (pid=7375, tid=30943) Apr 24 18:54:22 callin vdr: [30944] TS buffer on device 2 thread started (pid=7375, tid=30944) Apr 24 18:54:23 callin vdr: [30945] femon receiver thread started (pid=7375, tid=30945) Apr 24 18:54:23 callin vdr: [30942] setting audio track to 1 (0) Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 9 Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [30942] transfer thread ended (pid=7375, tid=30942) Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] buffer stats: 194204 (9%) used Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] info: Channel not available! Apr 24 18:54:26 callin vdr: [7375] ERROR: attempt to open OSD while it is already open - using dummy OSD! Apr 24 18:54:42 callin vdr: [7375] switching to channel 21 Thanks

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VDR 1.7.0 & ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument
by Igor 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi when I want to switch on dvb-s2 channel ASTRA HD+;BetaDigital:11914:hC910I1M2O35S1:S19.2E:27500:1279:0;1283=deu:0:0:131:133:6:0 I receive this error Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4188] switching to channel 2782 Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4535] transfer thread ended (pid=4188, tid=4535) Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4188] buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4756] transfer thread started (pid=4188, tid=4756) Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4537] TS buffer on device 1 thread ended (pid=4188, tid=4537) Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4536] buffer stats: 0 (0%) used Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4536] receiver on device 1 thread ended (pid=4188, tid=4536) Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4757] receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=4188, tid=4757) Apr 28 09:18:32 localhost vdr: [4758] TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=4188, tid=4758) Apr 28 09:18:40 localhost vdr: [4197] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 2782, tp 111914 Apr 28 09:18:40 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:18:40 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:18:50 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:18:50 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:19:00 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:19:00 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:19:10 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:19:10 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:19:20 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:19:20 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:19:30 localhost vdr: [4197] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,302): Invalid argument Apr 28 09:19:30 localhost kernel: dvb_frontend_ioctl: FESTATE_RETUNE: fepriv->state=2 Apr 28 09:19:41 localhost vdr: [4197] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 2782, tp 111914 in attachment you can find my dvbdevice.c Igor

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