vdr March 2010

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System unresponsive and picture breakup with VDR 1.7.10 and Tevii S660 (USB)
by Niels Wagenaar 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hello All, For a couple of months I'm very happy with my new Asus ION/330. But last week I decided to swap my Hauppauge NOVA-HD-S2 for an USB based Tevii S660. The reason, I wanted to get me a new HTPC enclosure and to use my Reel ExtensionHD (the Asus ATN37A only has one PCI-slot available). I use the The VDR Team PPA builds (VDR 1.7.10) with the latest CVS of the xineliboutput plugin. Now I encounter a strange problem. During the start of VDR I encounter system unresponsiveness. It hangs a bit, like if the CPU is at 100%. However, top doesn't show me anything out of the ordinary. And it seems to happen on SDTV (for example BVN) and HDTV (for example ArteHD). As a result, during LiveTV using vdr-sxfe, I encounter picture breakups. I tried removing all of the non-essential plugins and swapping xineliboutput for vdr-xine, but I have the same problem. I tried the "official" Tevii drivers as well as the drivers from s2-liplianin. The only thing I didn't try, is upgrade to VDR 1.7.13. But before the DVB-device swap it worked great, so I don't see a reason to upgrade.... I haven't build the reelbox stuff yet, so the EHD is *not* configured in my system. I'm a bit reluctant to remove the EHD since I just made everything nice (enclosure and furniture). Also, I tested my configuration with MS Windows in combination with DVB Viewer Pro and no issues. And a fast test with TVHeadend doesn't seem to give issues also. So it must be VDR in combination with my Tevii S660 USB device. Has anybody seen this kind of behaviour and have a solution or something else for me to look at? Regards, Niels Wagenaar

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-femon-1.7.7 vdr-iptv-0.4.0 vdr-skinsoppalusikka-1.7.1 vdr-rssreader-1.7.0
by Rolf Ahrenberg 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

New releases of my plugins are now available for vdr-1.7.13: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/ 2010-03-05: Version 1.7.7 - Updated for vdr-1.7.13. - Added a setup option to downscale the OSD size. - Updated Estonian translation (Thanks to Arthur Konovalov). http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/ 2010-03-05: Version 0.4.0 - Updated for vdr-1.7.13. - Fixed argument corruption. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/soppalusikka/ 2010-03-05: Version 1.7.1 - Updated for vdr-1.7.13. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/rssreader/ 2010-03-05: Version 1.7.0 - Updated for vdr-1.7.13. - Added Estonian translation (Thanks to Arthur Konovalov). BR, -- rofa

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enna + vdr
by martinez 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Can somebody confirm that using enna as a media player, integration with vdr via the vdr-xine plugin is good including the OSD? How does one navigate from enna to vdr and viceversa?

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VDR doesn't add new h264 SD DVB-T channels
by Magnus H 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hi. Since february there are some new h264 SD channels in the Swedish DVB-T network. I have my VDR 1.7.13 setup to automatically add transponders and channels and that has always worked before, both on DVB-T and -S/S2. However, if I manually add one channel on this new frequency: Discovery T&L;Discovery Communications:506000000:B8C23G8M64T8Y0:T:27500:489=27:0:0:0:570:8945:1026:0 , containing: Stream #0.0[0x1e9]: Video: h264, yuv420p, 544x576 [PAR 64:33 DAR 544:297], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc Stream #0.1[0x1e8](swe): Audio: aac, 32000 Hz, 5 channels, s16, 295 kb/s , it works just fine. But no other channels are automatically added. Can someone point me to where in the VDR code I should look to add some debug prints? /Magnus H

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streamdev-server and pvrinput: TS-mode streaming is not working
by L. Hanisch 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, I'm trying to get TS-mode-streaming working with pvrinput and streamdev-server but have no luck. pvrinput is sending a valid TS now including PAT, PMT and PCR packets (PCR is derived from the SCR of the PS). But streamdev-server does not receive any PAT and PMT so it will not send them to the client (vlc in my tests). So vlc doesn't display anything, because it doesn't know anything about the sent PIDs. The entry in channels.conf contains the right PIDs. I inserted debug-logs in livestreamer.c at cStreamdevLiveReceiver::Receive: all video, audio and PCR packets are received and cStreamdevPatFilter::Process: no packet at all comes here... I'm using vdr 1.7.13 and streamdev from cvs. vlc can play the recorded files if I open them directly and it doesn't complain about anything, so I think, the stream, pvrinput delivers, is "valid enough". What am I missing? Looking at cReceiver::AddPid, a receiver is not able to set the PID 0 (which is the PAT-PID), but PAT packets should be processed through a filter, right? But I don't think I understand the class-tree of the various filters and receivers in streamdev... Can anyone with a deeper knowledge of this all please enlighten me? BTW: PES-streaming does work (as it always has). Thanks! Lars.

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[ANNOUNCE] LoadEPG plugin version 0.2.3
by lukkinosat 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hello Is available the version 0.2.3 of the plugin LoadEPG. The sources is here: http://lukkinosat.altervista.org History: 2010-03-01: Version 0.2.3 - Fixed function set data transponder for VDR >= 1.7.13. This function is change from "SetSatTransponderData" to "SetTransponderData". Features: This plugin load EPG data sent to MediaHighWay (Canal+ group) or SkyBox (Sky Italy and Sky UK) receivers, or executes external scripts and load EPG data from file. Hi, Luca http://vdr-italia.phpbb24.com

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Re: [vdr] Timer macros vs. filename in "Edit timers"
by Martin Dauskardt 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

> I can give you a setup option that switches between the old and the > new version - if it really turns out to be necessary. Anything else > would probably quickly become "rocket science" ,-) > > Klaus As already mentioned by Udo, the current behaviour often generates useless names when using search timers for series. It may be a problem of bad epg data, but the quality of the epg data is as it is. I never had any problems before with displaying the recording name. But now I have wrong names for nearly every timer. My vote is to fully revert the change or make it selectable with a setup option. Martin

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vdr on system with raid during resync bus loading
by Timothy D. Lenz 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

I have been working on 2 vdr computers, both using raid and last night I noticed a problem. I saw the drive light was on steady shortly after I updated xine. So I checked to see if there was a problem and found the video was freezing for 10-20secs every 10-20 secs. I logged in through ssh and found the system very un-slugish. I it's once a month that mdadm checks the drives to make sure they are in sync. I stopped vdr/xine/x and it was still very slow to respond. It's an Athlon64 x2 and was still at 1000Mhz (lowest speed) with the operation using ~64% cpu. Since these cpus also slow down the bus as low speed, I changed the up point from the default 95% to 50%. But I don't know how much that will help. It was late so I wait till today to make the change. This resync operation had an eta of ~75 minutes. What I'm wondering is how much it would effect any recording vdr might be doing when that starts? Clearly it messes up xine/vdpau. The array on that computer is 2 sata drives each with 3 partitions creating 3 raid1 arrays.

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.13
by Klaus Schmidinger 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

VDR developer version 1.7.13 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.13.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.12-1.7.13.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. The changes since version 1.7.12: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Changed the position of Sirius 4 to S4.8E in sources.conf (thanks to Alexander Gross). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Moved the declaration of cMenuCommands to menu.h, so that plugins can use it. - Added a note to the MANUAL, saying that adding new transponders only works if the "EPG scan" is active (suggested by Halim Sahim). - Improved handling frames at the beginning and end of a recording in cDvbPlayer for devices with large buffers (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Implemented cDeviceHook to allow plugins more control over which device can provide which transponder (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Implemented cDevice::GetCurrentlyTunedTransponder() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Moved strictly necessary Makefile options into Make.global, which is included by all plugins (thanks to Paul Menzel). The Makefiles of existing plugins should be modified like this: ------------------------------------------------------------ --- PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile 2009/10/18 14:00:07 2.1 +++ PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile 2010/02/06 14:50:03 2.2 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ### The C++ compiler and options: CXX ?= g++ -CXXFLAGS ?= -fPIC -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses +CXXFLAGS ?= -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses ### The directory environment: @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ LIBDIR = ../../lib TMPDIR = /tmp +### Make sure that necessary options are included: + +include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global + ### Allow user defined options to overwrite defaults: -include $(VDRDIR)/Make.config ------------------------------------------------------------ - Added device definitions to the diseqc.conf file format, so that certain satellite positions can be limited to a given list of devices. This obsoletes the SOURCECAPS patch. - Keeping subtitles visible when pausing replay (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed adding new transponders in case there is only a single channel in the channel list (reported by Halim Sahin). - The file name in the "Timers" menu now shows only the base name of the recording without the folder path (if any). Otherwise with long folder paths the actual recording name was not visible at all. - Updated the Romanian OSD texts (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Exported some libsi functions (thanks to Lucian Muresan). - Improved scalability of the default skins. - Fixed the German translation of "Folder name must not contain '%c'!" (thanks to Frank Schmirler). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Plugins can now define new sources. In order to implement this, the following changes were made: + The transponder parameter string is no longer interpreted by cChannel, but rather stored as is and used only by the respective device. That way plugins can use a channel's parameter string to store arbitrary data (see vdr.5). + The new class cSourceParam can be used by plugins to define new sources, and to implement OSD items that will be used in the channel editor for editing the source specific parameters of a channel (see dvbdevice.c for an example of how this is done for the default DVB devices). + Purely numerical values are no longer accepted in the 'source' parameter of a channel. This obsoletes the PLUGINPARAM patch. - Updated the Lithuanian OSD texts (thanks to Valdemaras Pipiras). - cSafeFile::Close() now flushes the file (suggested by Stephan Austermu"hle). - The option "Setup/DVB/Use Dolby Digital" now only controls whether Dolby Digital tracks appear in the "Audio" menu. Dolby Digital is always recorded. This obsoletes the DOLBYINREC patch. Have fun! Klaus

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Xineliboutput Git mirror update
by Tobi 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi! Because `git cvsimport` didn't do a very good job, I switched to cvs2git. cvs2git seems to work fine and even takes care about the merges. Unfortunately this required to change the whole history. The new Git mirror is available by the same URL's: git://projects.vdr-developer.org/xineliboutput.git http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/?p=xineliboutput.git;a=summary If you rely on the old history, you must change your remotes to: git://projects.vdr-developer.org/xineliboutput-old-mirror.git The Git mirror is synced with the CVS every hour. bye, Tobias

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