vdr September 2009

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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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CAM auto resetting - feature request??
by Simon Baxter 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

Hello My v 1.6.0 system has 2x Alphacrypt multi-CAMs. Occasionally one of the CAMs seems to "crash" and if I go into Setup > CAM one of the CAMs changes from "Alphacrypt" to "CAM Ready" - and will no longer decrypt channels. I then correspondingly get a bunch of timer conflicts, as 1/2 my CAM resources have vanished. Only ever one CAM fails, never both. I rectify this by selecting the CAM, and then hitting "reset" (sometimes a couple of times) - and it comes back. Unless I go into the Setup > CAM menu, I'm unaware that the CAM has "crashed". My request is...... Is there a way I can either 1)Automatically reset a CAM if it falls into this state or 2)Be notified, by generating a console/kernel message, so I can know to come in and fix this. Any ideas?

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[PATCH] vcd-0.9 for VDR >= 1.7.3
by Thomas Günther 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi! Here is a patch for the vcd plug-in and VDR >= 1.7.3: http://toms-cafe.de/vdr/download/vcd-0.9-1.7.3.diff Tom

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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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Dual DVB-S2 Tuner cards
by Theunis Potgieter 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

Hi guys, do any of you have information with regards to Dual DVB-S2 Tuners on a PCI or preferably a PCI-E type card working on vdr? I did have a look on http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards But only mentions 2 and they seem to be a rare find. Well at least where I live. Does anybody else know of working DVB-S2 cards for Linux? I did find plenty of Hybrid/Dual type cards but they seem to be supporting DVB-T + DVB-S/S2 and not even both at the same time :( Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Theunis

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Re: [vdr] VDRAdmin-AM with UTF-8 support?
by Jose Alberto Reguero 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

El Viernes, 13 de Marzo de 2009, H. Langos escribió: > Hi, > > I just installed vdr and vdradmin-am on Debian lenny and it seems that two > years down the road the problem still exists. (Though in a more subtle way) > > I even tried the 3.6.4-1 from debian testing and still the pages have > this in the head section: > > meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" > > My system default locale is en_US.UTF-8 > # cat /etc/default/locale > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > > Only switching to something like de_DE.UTF-8 seems to fix the problem. > Seems like gettext('ISO-8859-1') is not the best way of handling > encodings after all. > > Anyway, isn't it time to make a move towards a default UTF-8? > > cheers > -henrik > > PS: I'm not subscribed to vdr or vdradmin-am. So please CC me. In my case the problem is that the directory where the UTF8 locale is stored is: /usr/share/locale/es_ES.utf8/ if I change to: /usr/share/locale/es_ES.UTF8 All work ok. Jose Alberto > > On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Jose Alberto Reguero wrote: > > El Mi?rcoles, 28 de Marzo de 2007, Lucian Muresan escribi?: > > > Jose Alberto Reguero wrote: > > > > El Martes, 27 de Marzo de 2007, Harald Milz escribi?: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> > > > >> is anyone working on a UTF-8 version of VDRadmin-AM? I'm using vdr > > > >> with the UTF8 patch (de and ru) and need to always select UTF8 > > > >> manually in the browser to avoid seeing the ? stuff. Looking at the > > > >> html files in template/default/, I see everything is hardcoded in > > > >> iso-8859-1, but that should be a configuration option. Setting > > > >> LANG=de_DE.utf8 doesn't help, it is silently ignored. > > > >> > > > >> Anyone? > > > >> > > > >> THX. > > > > > > > > I run: > > > > > > > > sed -i -e s/ISO-8859-1/UTF-8/g *.html > > > > > > > > in the template/default/ directory. > > > > > > Andreas Mair already adopted my UTF-8 patch for the vdradmin locales, > > > months and versions ago. It patches the makefile and adds targets for > > > generating the UTF-8 locales out of the stock ones. For more info, > > > check this thread: > > > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-July/010116.html > > > > > > Regards, > > > Lucian > > > > I use make.sh utf8add and make.sh po but the html files in > > template/default/ still have references to ISO-8859-1, as Harald Milz > > says, and firefox put the encoding to ISO-8859-1. That is with > > vdradmin-am-3.5.3. > > > > Jose Alberto

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No Audio on ATSC Qam256 or OTA..
by Rob Davis 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

I've just moved to the US from Europe and trying to get my head around ATSC. I have a Hauppauge HVR950q which works in Windoze and Linux (With Kaffeine) and almost with VDR (my preferred platform). I have it normally connected to Comcast cable which should pipe through a bunch of FTV channels using QAM256. These I can see and hear in kaffeine with AC97 audio. However, in VDR it appears to change the pids automatically so that the audio stops working. If I manually change VDR to not auto update and put the APID in then it squeeks rather than works. However, streaming to mplayer using streamdev seems to work. (It does the same this with OTA channels too - although I can only get 4 with a portable antenna.) I am using Ubuntu's VDR source 1.6.0 something or other, but patched with the ATSC patch. I had a really hard time trying to work out the channels.conf file, and in the end settled for something like: WIFR-Wx�;(null):495000:M256:C:0:1984:0:0:0:2:0:0:0 WQRF-DT�;(null):495000:M256:C:0:2048:0:0:0:3:0:0:0 WIFR-HD�;(null):495000:M256:C:0:2112:0:0:0:1:0:0:0 This is after VDR has eaten the audio pid away. Normally this is one number higher than the vpid. So for WIFR 1985, WQRF 2049 etc. I'm willing to believe I've cocked it up as nothing I had would automatically scan the QAM channels. In the end I used scan and it added "VDR Doesn't support ATSC yet" instead of M256:C:0. Thanks guys... Fairly soon my shipping will arrive from Italy with my main server, sat cards and Hauppauge MVP's to stick around the house. I wonder what could possibly go wrong?

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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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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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[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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