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GOTOX patch for 1.7.5
by ThE-GuRuZ 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi to all, does anybody know if there is a patch for gotox like vdr-1.7.0?

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.10
by Klaus Schmidinger 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

VDR developer version 1.7.10 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.10.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.9-1.7.10.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. IMPORTANT: ========== Please remember that the VDR homepage has moved from http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr to http://tvdr.de, and the FTP site has moved from ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr to ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr. Please update all links to these URLs. The changes since version 1.7.9: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed wrong bracketing in cChannel::SubtitlingType() etc. (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed not logging changes for channels that have no number (reported by Timothy D. Lenz). - Changed the project's URLs and email to tvdr.de. - Added Lithuanian language translations (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras). - Updated Chinese language texts (thanks to Nan Feng). - Only checking DVB_API_VERSION to be >=5 in order to stay compileable in case the DVB API version number is increased (the API claims to always be backward compatible). - Fixed saving terminal settings when running in background (thanks to Manuel Reimer). - Fixed cFrameDetector::Analyze() to handle video streams where the frame type is not detectable from the first TS packet of a frame. - Fixed writing the PCR pid into the PMT in cPatPmtGenerator::GeneratePmt() (reported by Rene van den Braken). - Added Slovakian language texts (thanks to Milan Hrala). - Fixed EntriesOnSameFileSystem() to avoid using f_fsid, which may be 0 (thanks to Frank Schmirler). - Fixed starting a recording at an I-frame. - Fixed generating the index for recordings from channels that put a whole GOP into one payload unit. - The index file for TS recordings is now regenerated on-the-fly if a recording is replayed that has no index. This can also be used to re-create a broken index file by manually deleting the index file and then replaying the recording (at least until the index file has been generated). - The cRingBufferLinear::Read() function now returns -1 and sets errno to EAGAIN if the buffer is already full. - Fixed handling DVB subtitles for PES recordings (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Added the audio id to the call of PlayAudio() in cDevice::PlayTsAudio() (thanks to Andreas Schaefers). - Fixed references to old *.vdr file names in MANUAL (reported by Arthur Konovalov). - Reverted "Removed limitation to PAL resolution from SPU handling" because it cause nothing but trouble. Besides, the core VDR doesn't use this, anyway. - Fixed the default value for "Pause key handling" in the MANUAL (reported by Diego Pierotto). Have fun! Klaus

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vdpau experience
by Theunis Potgieter 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

So far getting vdpau to work on Gentoo wasn't that difficult. Overlay vdr-xine was used and then emerged xine-lib-1.2 to bring the library up to speed. After that I pulled vdr-xineliboutput from cvs. Compiled and it worked great especially deinterlacing! Only jaw dropping experience there. I have before got accustomed to using the cropping feature from vdr-xineliboutput plugin. Crop converts a 4:3 input to 16:9 format. In the README it states: VDPAU All video scaling, cropping, and postprocessing options must be disabled if the VDPAU output device is used. De-interlacing can be enabled with command-line option --post tvtime: Examples: vdr-sxfe --video vdpau --post tvtime:method=use_vo_driver vdr -P"xineliboutput --video=vdpau --post=tvtime:method=use_vo_driver" In the mean time, I have seen some patches floating on german speaking forums on how to get cropping feature to work with vdpau. http://vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=86804 Does seem to give the impression that it is doable. But I'm having trouble translating that into.. well meaning full non-german speaking end-user noob. Is there anybody that could explain where these patches fit in? I use vdr-xineliboutput, pulled in from cvs and tried to apply the patch xineliboutput-1.0.4-vdpau-support-v8.diff and failed. perhaps command line incorrect? any examples? I don't know how to patch xine-lib either, Gentoo pulls in xine-lib-1.2 from http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2/ The first line in the diff file for xine-lib is for vdr.h, which I cannot find. The find utility only returns ./xine-lib-1.2/.hg/store/data/include/xine/input__vdr.h.i ./xine-lib-1.2/.hg/store/data/include/xine/vdr.h.i ./xine-lib-1.2/.hg/store/data/src/vdr/combined__vdr.h.i ./xine-lib-1.2/.hg/store/data/src/vdr/input__vdr.h.i ./xine-lib-1.2/.hg/store/data/src/vdr/post__vdr.h.i So I'm stuck, any other Gentoo users here that got those patches working? Thanks, Theunis

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xineliboutput - audiotracck switching problems
by Marco Skambraks 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

hi, I'm using the latest xineliboutput with vdr-1.7.10 if I switch the audiotrack of a channel very rapidly xineliboutput produces dropouts and starts stuttering and after 5-10 sec. (still switching) the vdr -> vdr-sxfe connection will crash vdr-sxfe is abel to reconnect after 2s but audio and video is still unstable - if I wait for 10-20s audio/video is OK I tried udp and tcp (localhost) connection - same results any ideas? thanks marco

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vdr shutdownskript - wrong time
by Steffen Barszus 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hi ! Looks like vdr's shutdownskript hook is not properly working. Since it seems to be undocumented in vdr man page i took my information from here: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/C%27t-VDR_-_Hooks #!/bin/sh # Simple ACPI shutdown hook # $1 : Next timer seconds from 1970 from 1970/01/01, UTC # $2 : Next timer seconds from now # $3 : Next timer title # $4 : Shutdown forced If the time is far enough in the future this is correct, if it is only few minutes in the future it gets horribly wrong (now +30 minutes or something similar) (The argument $1 is supplied wrong to the script) This is vdr 1.7.10 . I remember that some people have written this is a known problem. But why is it happening ? Has somebody debugged this allready ?

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Record HD broadcasts not working if the FF card is the primary device
by Markus Ehrnsperger 10 Jan '10

10 Jan '10

Hi, I can record HD broadcasts only if vdr-sxfe is running. I can always record SD broadcasts. I have an FF and a DVB-S2 card. I cannot watch HD broadcasts using the output device of my FF card, of course. But, it should be possible to record these broadcasts, even if they cannot be displayed with the current primary device (FF card). In the log, there are the following messages (repeated very often): ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode ERROR: TS packet not accepted in Transfer Mode ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2 This error is reproducible during one recording: 1) vdr-sxfe running, start recording (recording works) 2) exit vdr-sxfe (recording interrupted from this time) 3) start vdr-sxfe again (recording continues) I use the xineliboutput plugin and starting vdr-sxfe forces this plugin to become primary device. I can start VDR without the FF card (using --device). In this case, HD recording works always. Markus

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vdr-xine - skipping audio & video
by Simon Baxter 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

Hi - am at my wits end!!! I've now tried vdr-xine-0.9.3 with XV and with VDPAU, and several settings in .xine/config for engine.buffers.audio_num_buffers (2300) and engine.buffers.video_num_frames (60) but I still get skips in audio and video when viewing recorded programs - which I don't get in vdr-xine-0.8.0. The skips occur at the same time as VDR console messages "buffering xx frames", and start out OK when watching the program but within a few minutes deteriorate further and further. I've been trying to upgrade from 0.8.0 since 2007 now - but it's the only version which works flawlessly for me. My production box has: vdr-1.6.0 fedora 10 with latest kernel fluxbox and X window manager latest standard v4l-dvb drivers plugins: vdr-xine-0.8.0, iptv, epgsearch, skinenigmang, femon, radio, recstatus, pvrinput. xine started with : xine --no-splash -Bfpqg --hide-gui -r anamorphic -V xv -Dtvtime:method=Greedy2Frame,cheap_mode=0,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1 --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes I've tested the following vdr-1.7.9 with the s2-liplianin drivers vdr-1.7.9 with the standard latest v4l-dvb drivers vdr-xine various versions from 0.8.1 right up to 0.9.3 xine-lib-1.2 with VDPAU and with XV output started by either: xine --no-splash -Bfpqg --hide-gui -r anamorphic -V vdpau -Dtvtime:method=Greedy2Frame,cheap_mode=0,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1 --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#dex:mpeg_pes OR xine --no-splash -Bfpqg --hide-gui -r anamorphic -V xv -Dtvtime:method=Greedy2Frame,cheap_mode=0,pulldown=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1 --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes Can someone share their experiences with VDPAU and vdr-xine, or offer any suggestions??? Thanks Simon

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vdr-xine 0.9.3 audio problems
by Simon Baxter 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi I've just upgraded from vdr-xine 0.8.0 to 0.9.3 (well overdue) and I'm having audio problems. When each of the following lines appeared in std-out, it coincides with skips in audio and gaps in audio sync buffered 6.3 frames (v:10.9, a:6.3) buffered 7.1 frames (v:13.5, a:7.1) buffered 8.5 frames (v:14.5, a:8.5) buffered 9.1 frames (v:15.1, a:9.1) buffered 10.3 frames (v:16.7, a:10.3) buffered 11.1 frames (v:17.3, a:11.1) buffered 12.2 frames (v:18.8, a:12.2) buffered 13.5 frames (v:19.7, a:13.5) buffered 14.1 frames (v:20.2, a:14.1) buffered 15.4 frames (v:21.0, a:15.4) I might have to revert back to vdr-xine-0.8.0 again - this was the same problem I had with all versions beyond 0.8.0, and previous attempts to upgrade Any ideas?

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[PATCH] GOTOX patch and vdr-1.7.10
by Ales Jurik 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Last version of this patch from is applicable and functioning also with vdr-1.7.10. See http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2009-April/020248.html. Regards, Ales

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Recommendation for new hd vdr system.
by Luca Olivetti 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hello, Now that I have an hd tv set, I'm looking at revamping my ageing vdr system for hd. Oh, and I want it to be really cheap ;-) It seems that the only reasonable option is a motherboard/graphic card supported by nvidia vdpau. I need a parallel port and a pci slot (I want to use my current dvb-s card), so the revo and similar nettops are out. The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing? According to this page http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU the only limitation is that it cannot do Advanced 2x for HD content, everything else is covered (I'm currently using temporal on my laptop and, while acceptable, it doesn't seem top-notch). Or should I better buy a cheap motherboard and add an external nvidia graphic card? Any suggestion? Bye -- Luca

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