vdr December 2014

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xmltv2vdr.pl
by Dominic Evans 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

I don't know if anyone else still uses the xmltv2vdr.pl perl script for piping XMLTV data into VDR's epg, but I've been keeping a version of it updated with some additional function here: https://github.com/oldmanuk/xmltv2vdr These are the changes since the last version (1.0.9) was released on the mailing list - Add support for XMLTV episode-num. Currently gets added as EPG entry 'sub-title', if no existing subtitle has been found, in the form sXXeXX (e.g., Bones~s01e01). - Change default SVDRP port number to 6419. - Better support for ATSC/PVRINPUT EPG sources. - Allow multiple channels to have the same XMLTV channel id, useful for multi input (e.g., DVB-T, DVB-S) systems where you want to feed VDR the same info. Previously only a 1:1 mapping was permitted. I've also received a pull request from someone who rewrote the whole script to be a lot more readable and to use full XML parsing (rather than just line-by-line scraping), but I still need to investigate what the performance penalty is before accepting that in.

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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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Re: [vdr] Freesat patch
by Richard F 31 Dec '14

31 Dec '14

Klaus / Mario - thanks for the feedback / info about filters. I will probably stay with the filters in 2.0.6 for DVB-T and DVB-T2 as it gives me good functionality. The Freeview HD EPG is quick in this config - a few minutes to get the full EPG. A couple more questions... a) In later versions, the conditional if (Setup.SetSystemTime && Setup.TimeTransponder) was removed for the TDT PID filter. What was the reason for that? b) With more recent kernels (3.4 and 3.12, I think anything higher than 3.0) I'm seeing regular dmesg events like so usb 1-1.2: dtv_property_legacy_params_sync: doesn't know how to handle a DVBv3 call to delivery system 0 I'm not sure what causes this (no other errors), but it's related to the older DVB-T receivers. VDR is built with the same kernel/DVB as the machine it runs on. Is this just a driver issue, or is there a test VDR could/should do based on API to avoid making the unhandled DVBv3 call ? The receiver functions well for TV reception as far as I can tell, and though I can filter the messages going to syslog, all these dmesg events lose the bootup info.

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still image with iptv without eating up all cpu
by Peter Münster 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hi, How can I display a still image with iptv + ffmpeg without eating up all CPU power? This my ffmpeg command, that uses 100% of CPU time: ffmpeg -analyzeduration 0 -loop 1 -i "${IMAGE}" -f mpegts -r 25 \ -vcodec mpeg2video -b 4000k -s 664x540 -an \ "udp://127.0.0.1:${PORT}?pkt_size=16356" TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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Mandatory elements in channels.conf?
by Pasi Juppo 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Can anyone tell me if there are mandatory elements (mandatory according to DVB standard) in channels.conf that needs to be provided by the broadcasting company? There are some issues currently with Digita (DVB-T/T2). They are not providing sufficient amount of information but cannot say for fact whether the information shall be provided or not. Digita is not currently interested in correcting these elements thus they have to be manually fixed. This means also that I cannot use automatic channel update at all (any elements). If there are mandatory elements is there other body in EU whom is certifying or something similar Digita and other broadcast companies - or is this just a wild west; follow standard if you like? TIA, Pasi

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Freesat patch
by Richard F 27 Dec '14

27 Dec '14

The Freesat patch at http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Freesat-patch adds the following PID filters in eit.c - cEitFilter::cEitFilter Set(3842, 0x4E, 0xFE); // event info, actual(0x4E)/other(0x4F) TS, present/following Set(3842, 0x50, 0xF0); // event info, actual TS, schedule(0x50)/schedule for future days(0x5X) Set(3842, 0x60, 0xF0); // event info, other TS, schedule(0x60)/schedule for future days(0x6X) Which eats up hardware PID filters on my older USB DVB-T receivers (Freeview SD), and stops them working on most transponders. I removed them to test, because Klaus had removed these similar ones as long ago as 1.7.9 which was very helpful: Set(0x12, 0x50, 0xF0); // event info, actual TS, schedule(0x50)/schedule for future days(0x5X) Set(0x12, 0x60, 0xF0); // event info, other TS, schedule(0x60)/schedule for future days(0x6X) And I still receive the full 8 day EPG on Freeview, including HD channels, with just the PID filters defined in vanilla 2.0.6 - everything else appears OK, including DVB subtitles, audio description etc... Does anyone know if these extra PID's are definitely required? Maybe only for DVB-S/2 ? Thanks and merry Xmas Richard

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IPTV Plugin - having trouble configuring
by Norm Dressler 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi all, I've began playing with the IPTV plugin and just can't figure out some things. I have VDR configured with a headless server running streamdev. Works great with ATSC channels and the like. I've installed IPTV plugin and added a vlc2iptv channel to my channels.conf and added the URL into the appropriate file. The channel is Sky News. I run VDR as root on my headless box. I'm not getting any errors to indicate there is something wrong so I'm guessing its the 'can't run vlc as root' issue I'm encountering since the batch file vlc2iptv is launching it directly. How can I get this to work? Is there a better way to play streams then using vlc2iptv? Perhaps someone can sure their free TV iptv channels.conf that don't use vlc2iptv so I can at least see if it works with streamdev properly? The documentation on this plugin is sparse - not much available especially about the file format of the .conf file used by vlc2iptv, which I've had to guess at. Hoping to get more info! Thanks Norm Dressler

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Raspberry Pi, Streamdev + rpihddevice
by Norm Dressler 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Hi all, I just set up a couple of RPI's with the configuration of a Raspberry Pi, rpihddevice and streamdev-client. Works great but a couple of questions. When I'm watching TV with one of the RPI's and want to move to the other RPI, I cannot change the channel from what the first RPI was viewing. I am not sure how to tell streamdev to stop streaming so that I can watch TV on the other RPI? I hope I've been clear with that - it does sound a bit confusing. I know there is a mainmenu entry that says suspend server, but it didn't seem to do anything, unless its done in the background. In relation to this, the RPI doesn't have a power switch so shutting it down is a pain because when you do the halt -p it doesn't actually power off and in order to restart it you must cycle the power to the unit. I'm interested to know what others have been able to accomplish with this configuration to make it work better for them. I've added a number of plugins to improve the viewing pleasure and everything has been fast and clear. In regards to the rpihddevice I am seeing some tearing or 'flutter' when there is high motion with 1080 HD. Its not so bad that it isn't usable - it most certainly works 99% of the time just fine. The one feature I miss with the rpihddevice that softhddevice had was the automatic zoom - hoping that gets added to the wish list at some point. Thanks Norm

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Trying to install ttextsubs plugin into vdr 2.0.0
by Jari Fredrisson 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

1. I downloaded the plugin using got clone. 2. I patched vdr, that went OK and compiled. But compiling the plugin does not go fine. 3. It complaints about #include <vdr/xxxx.h> directives. Fine: I created a symlink /usr/include/vdr pointing to my vdr src dir. 4. Then something that I could not figure out: # make g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Werror=overloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses -fPIC -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"ttxtsubs"' -o ttxtsubsdisplayer.o ttxtsubsdisplayer.c ttxtsubsdisplayer.c: In member function ‘virtual void cTtxtSubsPlayer::PES_data(uchar*, int, bool, const tTeletextSubtitlePage*, int)’: ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:116:57: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:116:58: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:121:49: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:121:50: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:121:88: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:121:89: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:122:35: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:122:36: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:122:81: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.c:122:82: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ ttxtsubsdisplayer.h:46:84: error: forward declaration of ‘const struct tTeletextSubtitlePage’ Makefile:65: recipe for target 'ttxtsubsdisplayer.o' failed make: *** [ttxtsubsdisplayer.o] Error 1 Well. tTeletextSubtitlePage is defined in vdr/channels.h. That was not included the ttxtsubsdisplayer.h... I tried to add it into it, but does not work. Somehow the error is still the same. I tried and copied the struct definition alone from channels.h into that, and it worked a bit better, but I could not understand why! The the same class came haunting back in some other .c file compilation... Went back to the clean setup, nothing is edited now by me. Googled with the gcc error messages, and found talk about circular refences and includes. I don't know... What next? br. jarif

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vdr with different type DVB tuners
by Jari Fredriksson 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

I have vdr 2.0.6 on a Rasperry PI, and using it via vdradmin-am and vlc. Works fine. I have a DVB-T/T2 tuner, and a DVB-C tuner on it currently. Both the tuners work fine when alone in the system. Anyway, I connected them both to the RasPI and tried to tune the DVB-T tuners to the free channels, and DVB-C to the pay channels. Now the DVB-C tuners is device 0 and works fine. But when I try to watch the free channels, VDR log file tells me that device 0 was not able to connect to the channel. My channels.conf has the pay channels scanned with w_scan -f t and w_scan -f c and woth outputs combined. Is it possible to do what I am trying to accomplish? channels.conf has the letters T and C for the channels, as specified by w_scan. Thanks. -- jarif.bit

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