vdr March 2009

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72 discussions

DVD autoplay
by Petric Frank 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hello, i'm looking for a plugin or method to automatically display a play/stop/eject/... menu on the on the screen when a DVD is entered into the drive. Also a possible autoplay DVD via vdr ould be a good idea. Any thoughts or hints ? regards Petric

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Re: [vdr] Pvrinput and HVR1300
by Martin Dauskardt 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

There is basic preparation for a future support in the pvrinput plugin, but it can't work for now. I know that for sure because I am one of the pvrinput developers. The other developer who worked with the HVR1300 wrote a status report in the german vdrportal recently: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=789844#post789844 There are still problems with the driver (freezes), and (as far as I remember) the current release version of pvrinput would need additional hacks and patches. Have a look in the FAQ from the plugin sources: Q: What about the HVR 1300? A: support is not finished yet.

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Options for deinterlacing (or not)
by Scott Waye 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I want to replace my UK Sky digital box with VDR (I only want the free to air channels) for watching/recording TV over HDMI on my plasma. So far everything is working OK, I have vdr 1.7.3 and xine running on an ASUS M2N VM-HDMI (nvidia) mobo with the s2-liplianin drivers for my Nova SD2 card. My problem is interlacing. I've googled back through the archives and got a lot of info from there, however I still have one question and one request. If X is put into an interlaced mode (1920x1080i @ 50Hz), and I do not do any de interlacing in xine, why is this not the same as what my digibox does? I'm guessing it has something to do with xine outputting a complete frame when the broadcast sends each field? What I'd hope happen (for interlaced material) is that xine receives a field from VDR, scales it to the X resolution (halfed vertically of course) and sends it to the the graphics card which just passes it on to the TV which draws that field. That doesn't seem to happen so where have I gone wrong? There's a lot of options for tvtime in xine, TomsMoComp and full framerate seem popular. What settings are others using? -- Scott

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Re: [vdr] Pvrinput and HVR1300
by Martin Dauskardt 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

The HVR 1300 is not supported by the pvrinput plugin. Card/driver work in a very different way from ivtv-supported cards, using a second device for the mpeg encoder. It is not sure if pvrinput will ever support this card.

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Sound freeze and out of sync in xinelibout
by Alex Betis 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

An update, Just saw that my live stream also has a delay in sound. I probably switch channels too fast and didn't notice it before. Will be glad for any solution. Thanks.

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Sound freeze and out of sync in xinelibout
by Alex Betis 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello all, I'm experiencing some problems with sound when playing media files (movies) using xinelibout 1.0.3, xine-lib 1.2 Sometimes the sound freeze for few seconds and than continue and sometimes goes out of sync with the picture. I don't see it with live broadcast, but happens frequently while playing a video file. Anyone experienced the same? Is there anything can be done to fix it? I saw that xinelibout 1.0.4 is out, but I didn't see anything mentioned about sound in HISTORY file. Thanks.

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Pvrinput and HVR1300
by Kartsa 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Just bought a Hauppauge HVR1300 because of its hw encoder. The idea was to convert all my old vhs tapes to digital format. I thought I would use it in a windows environment but then I thought why not in linux and in VDR. Also I would get one more dvb card in use. I can use it easily as a dvb card with vdr but can not get it working with pvrinput. I've googled around but still no resolution. It would be neat to use vdr to record old tapes and then with burn plugin make dvd's out of them. I have vdr-1.6.0 with xinelibout and pvrinput plugins. If I try to switch to composite "channel" I just get an error stating that the channel is not available. I have tried different values for CARD# in channels.conf with no luck. I've installed vdr and the plugins using synaptic and e-tobi repo. So no compiling except I tried also to get latest v4l2 and dvb-apps which ofcourse had to be compiled :) I can on the other hand use mplayer to watch the signal from composite input. mplayer tv:// -tv input=1 gives me picture in composite w/o encoder mplayer pvr:// gives me an error stating that /dev/video0 is not capable of encoding which of course is the truth mplayer /dev/video1 shows me again the composite picture and now it is using the internal encoder mencoder /dev/video1 -oac copy -ovc copy -of mpeg -o test.mpg records to file as it should All it seems to say in the logs is that the channel is not available. Anu suggestions what to try next or is this doomed to be a failure :( \\Kartsa

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More features for Livebuffer
by Rene 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi All, I would have a feature-request for the LiveBuffer patch that is available VDR. Sometimes when I'm watching a program from the buffer, i accidentally hit the <up>/<down> button for pausing/resuming the program (or ch+/ch- too). This of course changes the channel, and i loose my buffer... What would be great is a feature that warns me before changing channels while watching from the buffer. A prompt like this would be great: "Do you really want to change channel?" Also a nice thing to have is a way of watching the saved livebuffer-files. Now it get´s saved into /video/LiveBuffer, and vdr does not see this. Maybe it could be saved into a subdirectory like /video/LiveBuffer/2100-01-01.00.01.50.99.rec, then vdr would always have it as the last recording available in the recordings-list... Regards, René

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Vote your VDR patches
by zulu＠zulu-entertainment.de 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, we have start a poll at http://www.nmsweb.de/vdr/patch.php where you have the possibility to vote for your favorite VDR patches. The result should show the most used ones to give Klaus an overview about our burning desires. In the hope of intense attendance Marc

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Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches
by Travel Factory S.r.l. 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

There was a patch I found interesting. In adding channels, the patch allowed vdr to create different lists based on satellite/terrestrial/cable, free/nonfree. It was really usefull for my motorised antenna. All new channels split in different "@" based sections.... Francesco

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