vdr March 2013

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NVOD feeds
by Lucian Muresan 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi, recently I started to give some maintenance to a plugin [1] which seemed to be orphaned for a while and needed by several, as I knew from the German VDR-Portal, subscribers of Sky Germany. The plugin was called Arghdirector, it is a fork of an even older one, called "director", possibly because of the marketing name used by Sky Germany and former Premiere for their NVOD feeds at that time. Nowadays they call this "Sky select", so that's for now the new name of the plugin. We even had some discussion on vdr-portal on the new name, someone even suggested NVOD [2], others emphasized this would be only usable to german Sky subscribers, and I only recently found out that NVOD is actually established terminology [3]. Just by chance, I discovered that the plugin actually also triggers on several of the plethora of channels called "NVOD" which seems to be mostly if not all from Sky UK, so the plugin might even work with them, allowing to find on which of the feeds what show is just about to start. So my question to Sky UK subscribers, would you care to give it a try, would this plugin be of any use for you? Well, I do not know of any alternatives (in terms of VDR plugins) you might be using, please mention them if that's the case. If you find the plugin useful also for you, I'm considering yet again renaming it to something more generic, like "NVOD Feeds" and the german translation can still sound "Sky Select" as that's the current name of this feature at Sky DE... Regards, Lucian [1] http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/SkySelectFeeds-plugin [2] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board17-developer/board21-vdr-plugins/p1132335-arg… [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_on_demand

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Patch: Add 'MUTEON' and 'MUTEOFF' options to the SVDRP VOLU command
by Sebastian Frei 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi all, I made a tiny patch to extend the SVDRP VOLU command. Up until now VDR only had an option to _toggle_ the current audio muted status, but no options to force the audio muted status on or off. I want to mute the audio via SVDRP and unmute it again later. My usecase: I'm running mpd on the same host as VDR, if I start playing music with mpd from my tablet I can mute VDR automatically with a shell script and unmute it again after stopping the music. Using the (already implemented) VOLU 0 command also mutes the audio, but the previous audio volume gets lost, so you cannot unmute audio again and return to the previous volume. Best regards Sebastian --- vdr-1.7.41/svdrp.c 2013-02-17 14:17:36.000000000 +0100 +++ vdr-1.7.41.mute/svdrp.c 2013-03-21 20:30:53.440746278 +0100 @@ -317,12 +317,13 @@ "UPDR\n" " Initiates a re-read of the recordings directory, which is the SVDRP\n" " equivalent to 'touch .update'.", - "VOLU [ <number> | + | - | mute ]\n" + "VOLU [ <number> | + | - | mute | muteon | muteoff ]\n" " Set the audio volume to the given number (which is limited to the range\n" " 0...255). If the special options '+' or '-' are given, the volume will\n" " be turned up or down, respectively. The option 'mute' will toggle the\n" - " audio muting. If no option is given, the current audio volume level will\n" - " be returned.", + " audio muting, 'muteon' will turn muting on, 'muteoff' will turn muting\n" + " off. If no option is given, the current audio volume level will be\n" + " returned.", "QUIT\n" " Exit vdr (SVDRP).\n" " You can also hit Ctrl-D to exit.", @@ -1609,6 +1610,10 @@ cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->SetVolume(-VOLUMEDELTA); else if (strcasecmp(Option, "MUTE") == 0) cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->ToggleMute(); + else if ((strcasecmp(Option, "MUTEON") == 0)&&(!cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->IsMute())) + cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->ToggleMute(); + else if ((strcasecmp(Option, "MUTEOFF") == 0)&&(cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->IsMute())) + cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->ToggleMute(); else { Reply(501, "Unknown option: \"%s\"", Option); return;

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VDR form packages
by Marx 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello I use Debian for years and to keep it clean I'm trying to use all software from packages. It generally works, hovewer I have problem with VDR, XBMC and drivers. Usually to have the newest driver I need to use some unstable version of VDR with the newest possible kernel. VDR in Debian is an option, hovewer it's usually behind the newest VDR, and number of plugins in repository is low. This lead to alternative repositories. I know two valuable: e-tobi and yavdr. I was using e-tobi but it lately isn't updated to the newest VDR. Yavdr is built on top of Ubuntu, and while it generally works on Debian, it's not recommended (some things doesn't work). So there is an option to build packages myself - really no option, because I have to make package manually for every plugin and for every new version of VDR. Any idea? Marx

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VDR's UpdateChannels destroys channel information
by Teemu Suikki 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi! I have mysterious problem with some channels.. All seem to be on S13.0E, but on different transponders. According to http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-13E.php page, "Disney Channel HD Italia" is DVB-S2, 8PSK, SR 29900. However, I seem to have DVB-S, QPSK, SR 27500 in my channels.conf. I have tried editing the channel directly to channels.conf, while vdr stopped. Also I have tried editing it inside vdr, from channel list -> edit.. After the edit, channels shows fine for a few seconds, but then VDR updates it back to old values and channel stops showing! Mar 21 10:41:53 yavdr vdr: [16964] edited channel 179 Disney Ch. HD;SkyItalia:12207:HC34M5O0S1:S13.0E:29900:164=27:0;416=ita@106,417=eng@106:701: 919,93B,9CD:4128:318:7501:0 Mar 21 10:41:56 yavdr vdr: [16964] switching to channel 179 -- Mar 21 10:41:59 yavdr vdr: [17038] changing transponder data of channel 179 from 12207:HC34M5O0S1:S13.0E:29900 to 12207:HC34M2S0:S13.0E:27500 Mar 21 10:42:00 yavdr vdr: [16964] retuning due to modification of channel 179 Mar 21 10:42:00 yavdr vdr: [16964] switching to channel 179 -- If I set Setup UpdateChannels to 0, vdr will not update the channel and it will show. But I'd like to keep channel updates enabled.. Is the transponder sending incorrect data, or what is going on? Teemu Suikki http://www.z-power.fi/

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Audio problem on Channel 4 HD on Freeview
by Tony Houghton 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

The last two times I looked at Channel 4 HD on Freeview (DVB-T2) there was a strange problem with the audio. All the ambient sounds and background music were there but voices were very muffled. One time was a film and the other was a US drama series (Revenge). The same channel on Freesat (DVB-S2) was OK. This was on a "remote client" using xineliboutput + vdr-sxfe with analogue stereo audio. I just tried it on my main TV (also using vdr-sxfe but connecting to VDR on localhost) with HDMI audio, and the sound was normal on that, but it was a British cookery show. I don't know yet whether the difference was because of the type of programme or the respective PC's audio settings. I tried changing the stereo mix settings in VDR's xineliboutput plugin config, but one setting didn't do anything and the other turned it into a loud, harsh noise. Is this just the wrong audio stream being selected (I didn't think of trying to find an alternative stream at the time) or the player discarding channels instead of downmixing into stereo?

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frontend invalid argument / frequency X out of range
by Dominic Evans 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Running vdr 1.7.41 I have previously seen this issue on earlier development snapshots, but had simply ignored it as I was running development code. However, as we near 2.0, I thought I might query it on the mailing list. In my syslog I occasionally see an error related to my DVB-S frontend attempting to tune to an unusually high frequency: Mar 18 16:51:43 ion vdr: [11405] ERROR: frontend 2/0: Invalid argument Mar 18 16:51:43 ion kernel: [153047.448733] DVB: adapter 2 frontend 0 frequency 89399000 out of range (950000..2150000) There's no obviously bad entry in my channels.conf that would cause this: $ awk -F: '/S28.2E/{print $2}' /etc/vdr/channels.conf | sort -n | uniq | tr '\n' ', ' 10714,10729,10743,10758,10773,10788,10802,10817,10832,10847,10861,10876,10891,10906,10920,10935,10964,10993,11023,11052,11126,11222,11223,11259,11261,11307,11343,11344,11390,11426,11469,11488,11507,11526,11546,11565,11584,11603,11623,11661,11680,11719,11739,11758,11778,11797,11817,11836,11856,11875,11895,11914,11934,11973,11992,12012,12031,12051,12090,12109,12148,12168,12187,12207,12226,12246,12265,12285,12304,12324,12343,12363,12382,12460,12480,12523,12559,12560,12606,12643 So I presume it is happening during a 'search for transponders' or an epg update scan?

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Intermittent hangs when start playing a channel
by Andrey Pavlenko 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi, I've submitted an issue against the XVDR plugin, but seems it's VDR but not XVDR issue. Can someone, please, look at this https://github.com/pipelka/vdr-plugin-xvdr/issues/103?

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Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG
by Ville Skyttä 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, Should probably have spoken earlier, but is there any particular reason for the ugly and hard to read Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG? I suppose they're short for LOCALBUILD and PLUGINCONFIG, but why do they have to be short for anything, it's not like we're running out of space for their names anywhere, is it? Besides, I don't think LCLBLD describes what its effects are very well, INPLACE would sounds better to me. The ship may already have sailed for plgcfg in vdr.pc as it's being used by many plugin Makefiles already, but I believe the attached patches should be safe for 2.0.0.

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[PATCH] minor vdr.5 formatting fix
by Dominic Evans 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

The formatting of the sample channels.conf entry for RTL Television gets badly paragraph wrapped in vdr.5. Simple fix to prevent line wrapping happening is to put it into a table. Patch attached. This also fixes a lintian warning about this line in debian build logs.

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recording hook
by Marx 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

I would like to make after recording hook which create symlink for 00001.ts file. Name of this symlink should be made of title (T in info file). I will take care of duplicates etc, but now I would like to know if it's possible to easily read title. For now I have a script which simply parse info file, but maybe there is simpler way? Maybe VDR sets some environment variables or something? Marx

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