vdr October 2009

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simple recordings patch
by martinez 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi Klaus, In connection to my previous message could this patch be added to vdr core? > Inspired by the channel sorting thread, I'm wondering if there's any way > to have vdr sort recordings by date rather than name? A very small patch instead of a plugin is at http://www.u32.de/vdr-1.3.37-simple_record_sort-0.1.diff Just press 0 (zero) in the recording list and the sorting toggles between date and name. The sorting is not saved. The patch is against 1.3.37. But it should work with older and younger versions too. Gruss, Walter

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Broken CAM handling with TechniSat TechniCAM and ORF Digital Card
by gimli 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, my setup : Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 vdr-1.7.9 xinelib 1.2 hg kernel 2.6.31 my DVB hardware : TechnoTrend TT3200 + Budget CI my problem : On the weekend i upgraded my VDR from 1.7.0 to 1.7.9 and discovered that the CAM handling with the TechniSat TechniCAM and ORF Digital Card is broken. Reverting back the changes in ci.c,pat.c and pat.h to the version of vdr 1.7.8 solves the problem temporarily. How can i help debuging the real problem in vdr 1.7.9 and fixing it ? Happy Penguin Edgar (gimli) Hucek

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New URL of the VDR homepage
by Klaus Schmidinger 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

The VDR homepage has moved to the new URL http://www.tvdr.de The VDR ftp server is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr My private email address has changed to Klaus.Schmidinger(a)tvdr.de The old URLs will be redirected to the new location for a while, but please update any links that point to the "cadsoft" pages or email addresses to the new URL as soon as possible. Please note that on the new server there are no more "people/kls/vdr" directories - it's plain simple http://www.tvdr.de. Klaus

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EPG problem with 1.6.0_p2 [gentoo]
by Lars Olsson 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hi, I am running VDR 1.6 as a DVB-C box. I have discovered that I am missing EPG data on a few channels When using the dvb box provided by the cable tv operator, I can access the EPG data on all channels. Some quick questions: - Have I missed something regarding configuration? - Does my cable tv provider send out the EPG in some special way for these channels? Can I patch VDR to get access to all EPG? - Can I debug this issue?. cheers, lasseo

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Setup more than 4 tuners to the same satellite
by Theunis Potgieter 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

I currently have a twin LNB on a single dish. I have read through some old threads but could not find what I was looking for. I need some advice on how to setup more than 4 tuners ( example 6 ) to see the same satellite with the same dish. I can only change the LNB and add cables and/or multiswitch/diseq. I did read http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Sat_antenna But I'm still not sure what I should get Should I get a 8x8 LNB ( http://www.ellies.co.za/index.php?id=548 ) and each card plugs in directly to this LNB? Or do I need to get a Quad LNB ( http://www.ellies.co.za/index.php?id=547 ) and add to that a multiswitch/diseq type ( http://www.ellies.co.za/index.php?id=795 ) ? Or should I keep my existing TwinLNB and simply add this http://www.ellies.co.za/index.php?id=796 ? Thanks for any advice in advance. Theunis

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Switching from MythTV to VDR
by Andre Newman 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hi, I'm looking for some pointers on VDR coming from a MythTV history. I'm happy with most of the MythTV features but not the stability or the playback image quality, I've been using MythTV as my only TV recorder for some years. I got around the image quality issues by using a PS3 for playback and have monit restarting mythtv-backend or mysql for me when it falls over. I have a vdr 1.7.8 on Ubuntu system running to try out, a long term vdr user German friend helped me get started with vdr as I found lots of things only really discussed or documented in German, I got past that and learned a little German, I now seem to be able to find most things but not all.... These are my questions and my friend does not know and cannot find me solutions, googling hasn't given me any answers and I've been reading this list for some time too. I don't have a full featured card, I tried to buy one at first but they don't seem to exist any more, I have a HVR4000 in my test PC, oh and I'm not really very interested in SDTV or analog TV, only HDTV. I am in the UK but have a system looking at 28E, 19E and 13E as well as local DVBT. The PC has an Nvidia 9400gt so VDPAU is possible, I have tried it through MythTV and standalone mplayer but I'm not very impressed with the image quality, I'll stick with the PS3 for now. Good stuff is mature DVBS2 support, bomb proof stability, sky and freesat epg, sc, vdr-admin, static network protocol, live streaming. In general I find that if vdr has a feature, it works really well. My problems, not many but they are stoppers. No ITVHD, I tried the fixed pid and turn off updates workaround but it didn't work for me, not so important as I suspect red button ITVHD will be history in a couple of months, not like I'd be missing many programmes anyway! no uPnP Ok have fixed this by running mediatomb pointed at the media directory, performance is great (better than MythTV's built in uPnP) but vdr's naming convention and file splitting makes this a mess. I was pointed to the max file size setting but this is only 2GB as a max or is it 4GB, either way even a 1 hour HDTV show on a low bitrate channel has several files. I get a very very long list of files all called 00001 00002 etc. to navigate through! Ok there's useful switches to make the directories more meaningful but that means a lot of digging through the file structure from the PS3 menu, not ideal. Timers, I'm used to MythTV's record programme "XXX" on any channel at any time flexibility which follows programme reschedules, new series starting without me knowing, all kinds of good stuff that I now take for granted. vdr seems to set the timer for a channel and a time like an ordinary PVR or VCR with EPG. If there's a plugin that takes this up a level I'm struggling to find it in English or German, please point me in the right direction. As an example I tried to record 3 minute wonder on CH4HD, it's a filler programme so on at all kinds of times, got the first one then who knows what that was on at the same time from then on. I really like the simplicity and robustness of vdr compared to the sprawling disjointed MythTV, I'm hoping I've missed a few tricks along the way or the things that cause me hassle are simple enough for me to patch, if pushed in the right direction. Any advice greatly appreciated. Andre

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Problems compiling xine-lib-1.2 for vdr-xine
by Simon Baxter 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi I'm getting a bunch of errors trying to compile xine-lib-1.2 for vdr-xine. First up, I had to disable musepack support - because I could find no source containing musepack.h. There is no libmusepack for Fedora, it's contained in libmpcdec but libmpcdec-devel does not have musepack.h. Only thing I could do to get past this is disable via: ./autogen.sh --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-dxr3 --enable-debug --disable-optimizations --with-mpc=no Now I'm getting the following error ff_video_decoder.c:1271: error: 'AVCodecContext' has no member named 'ticks_per_frame' ff_video_decoder.c:127: warning: 'AVPaletteControl' is deprecated ff_video_decoder.c: In function 'ff_handle_special_buffer': ff_video_decoder.c:954: warning: 'AVPaletteControl' is deprecated ff_video_decoder.c:958: warning: 'AVPaletteControl' is deprecated ff_video_decoder.c: In function 'ff_handle_buffer': ff_video_decoder.c:1271: error: 'AVCodecContext' has no member named 'ticks_per_frame' ff_video_decoder.c:1354: warning: passing argument 1 of 'pp_postprocess' from incompatible pointer type make[4]: *** [xineplug_decode_ff_la-ff_video_decoder.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/development/xine-lib-1.2/src/combined/ffmpeg' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/development/xine-lib-1.2/src/combined/ffmpeg' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/development/xine-lib-1.2/src/combined' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/development/xine-lib-1.2/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 I'm using ffmpeg svn revision 29766 Any ideas?

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Lot of dashes in console
by Arthur Konovalov 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hi! I observed that periodically appears lot of dashes in the console running my vdr-1.7.9. Probably this comes from this code in transfer.c: if (cPlayer::IsAttached()) { // Transfer Mode means "live tv", so there's no point in doing any additional // buffering here. The TS packets *must* get through here! However, every // now and then there may be conditions where the packet just can't be // handled when offered the first time, so that's why we try several times: for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { if (PlayTs(Data, Length) > 0) return; fprintf(stderr, "-");//XXX just for testing - remove when stable cCondWait::SleepMs(10); } esyslog("ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode"); } In syslog sometimes the following can be found: Sep 27 10:14:07 vdr vdr: [4806] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode Sep 27 11:22:02 vdr vdr: [5035] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode Sep 27 16:06:19 vdr vdr: [5168] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode Sep 27 20:52:02 vdr vdr: [5362] ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode What does this mean? Is it TS handling problem in vdr or hardware related? How bad is it and how to find the cause of this? Can it be reason why sometimes recordings are corrupted? I have 1 FF Nexus DVB-S (primary output device) and 2 DVB-C PCI cards on P4 HT 2.4GHz PC. AK

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vdr 1.7.9 with dxr3 problem
by H. Onur 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

hi, i upgraded my old pc which is using 1.6.0 to 1.7.9 with dxr3 plugin. but vdr outputs choppy sound. the console gives this error message. av_codec buffer is too small. anyone who runs vdr 1.7.x version with dxr3? or how can i fix this issue. Best Regards. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail: Arkadaşlarınız Facebook'taki güncellemelerinizi doğrudan Hotmail®'den alır. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-networ…

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[Announce] vdr-remoteosd-0.1.0 and vdr-svdrposd-0.1.0
by Frank Schmirler 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi there, I just published new releases of the plugins remoteosd and svdrposd (formerly svdrpext) on http://vdr.schmirler.de. The most important changes are the overdue gettext support for remoteosd and a major speedup of the remote menu in combination with the new svdrposd plugin. The remoteosd plugin provides access to the menu of an other VDR. Remoteosd relies on the svdrpservice plugin, which is also available from my website. I renamed the svdrpext plugin to svdrposd. The plugin publishes the textual contents of the OSD menu on SVDRP. In order to access the menu of a remote VDR using the remoteosd plugin, svdrposd or its successor svdrpext must be installed on the remote VDR. Changelog remoteosd: - if available, use svdrposd-plugin instead of svdrpext-plugin - added gettext support (thanks to Diego Pierotto) Credits to Udo Richter for his po218n.pl backward compatibility script - added Italian translation (thanks to Diego Pierotto) - log error if svdrpservice or svdrpext/svdrposd are not installed - replaced all occurences of asprintf - fixed not parsing replace mainmenu settings Changelog svdrposd: - renamed plugin from svdrpext to svdrposd - new command LSTO - number of items parameter to OSDI is now optional - improved selection of current item if multiple items have the same text - fixed memleak; no longer relying on OsdClear() being called before assigning new values - code cleanup Have fun! Frank

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