vdr December 2015

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VDR ISDB-T support
by Christian Rodriguez 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hello everyone! I'm from Argentina, and up to last month I've been using VDR 1.7.262 with an ISDB-T USB adapter. It works really good, but the last week I've been trying to upgrade to VDR 2.2 and I've found a problem with ISDB-T cards: they are not supported. As I'm really interested in using VDR, I was digging inside the code and found a partial solution for this problem: as ISDBT is the same as DVBT, I've changed the way delivery system is queried. My changes are applied in a cloned repo at github: https://github.com/chrodriguez/vdr/commit/dadbca57c2dc55c1c53b4fa8f68b56728… That's the only change I've made. Now I can enjoy my fresh upgraded VDR installation!! I think a better refactor should be made, but for now it's working perfectly deployed as a docker container: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/chrodriguez/vdr Thanks for this wonderfull project! -- Lic. Christian A. Rodriguez @car_unlp

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Using a rasberry pi as vdr client
by Damien Bally 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi I want to use raspberry pi as if it were a graphic card : I mean the dvb devices on a PC style server, IR receiver preferably on the server too (rpi and server in the same room) I don't know how to configure it, there is apparently 2 ways of doing it (from what I understood) + xineliboutput with vdr-fbfe (rpi plugin is closed source ? the one here : http://www.vdr-portal.de/board18-vdr-hardware/board98-arm-co/118588-rasperr…) + streamdev and rpihddevice (which additional plugins ?) The second way seems to be more complicated to configure, and I'm not sure it suits my project, but the rpihddevice is well maintained though. The first solution is perhaps much straightforward and includes a media player (?) Could you tell me more please ? Damien

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[PLUGIN] pulsecontrol - configure Pulseaudio via vdr's OSD
by Lars Hanisch 26 Dec '15

26 Dec '15

Hi all, While releasing yaVDR 0.6[1] (blog post will come after the holidays) I wrote a little plugin called pulsecontrol: Announce: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/12… Source: https://github.com/flensrocker/vdr-plugin-pulsecontrol If you use Pulseaudio for audio output, you can change some settings of it via the vdr's OSD like moving a sink-input between sinks or selecting different card profiles. You can also change the passthrough settings of a card. If you want to select a specific card profile or sink on vdr's startup, you can place a file called "startup.script" in the plugin's config directory. The plugin will run it while starting. For now only two commands are supported: set-card-profile and move-sink-input. But more will come if needed. If there are multiple files with the script-extension in this directory you can select and run them via OSD. Hopefully someone will find it useful. :) A hint for pulseaudio-newbies: if you want to use AC3 etc. passthrough over hdmi with softhddevice, select the profile "output:hdmi-stereo", not "output:hdmi-surround". And don't forget to activate passthrough in softhddevice. It's a bit confusing to use the stereo-profile, but it's the right one. With Kodi you have to select it as well. Hint 2: On my Asrock HT330 pulseaudio always forgets the selected profile. You can modify /etc/pulse/system.pa (or default.pa) for selecting it or the plugin's startup.script. With "svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol list-cards" you can determine the right card and profile name. Bug reports and feature wishes are welcome. Lars. [1] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board99-distributionen…

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projects.vdr-developer.org maintenance
by Tobi 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Hello! Most likely during the weekend, I will do some maintenance work on projects.vdr-developer.org (mainly software updates and installing letsencrypt certificates). This may cause some downtime, so please be patient. bye, Tobias

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diseqc usals communication protocol
by Luca Olivetti 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Hello, In cDiseqcPositioner the last nibble (corresponding to the first decimal) of the angle is calculated as a % 10 * 16 / 10 With, e.g. angle -123 (-12.3) the resulting diseqc command would be 6e e0 c4 (i.e. the last nibble is 4 to represent 0.3). OTOH the enigma2 implementation uses a lookup table for the decimal digit: .0 -> 0x00 .1 -> 0x02 .2 -> 0x03 .3 -> 0x05 .4 -> 0x06 .5 -> 0x08 .6 -> 0x0A .7 -> 0x0B .8 -> 0x0D .9 -> 0x0E https://github.com/OpenViX/enigma2/blob/master/lib/dvb/sec.cpp#L526 so for the same angle -12.3 it would send 6e e0 c5 (at least looking at the code, I don't have an enigma 2 receiver). Since I'm implementing the receiving side and the only "reliable" documentation is either the enigma2 code or vdr, I wonder which one is correct. Bye -- Luca

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[PATCH] sorted sources.conf by continous azimuth
by Lucian Muresan 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hello, while trying to setup DiseqC and scanning to my new Wetek Play OpenELEC edition which uses VDR as a backend, I found out that the order of satellites which is read from VDR's sources.conf is a bit weird. This might not be too obvious when one is used to only look at that file when editing a customized diseqc.conf for example, but it shows clearly when the list read out of this file is displayed in a graphical, scrollable control in which you look for a certain satellite (no comments or groups lilke Europe, Atlantic, Asia, America displayed in that case). While the list starts with ascending "E" positions from Europe over to Asia, ending the Asia part with "S177W NSS 9", it then turns back to Western Europe, S0.8W in order to continue again with ascending "W" positions towards Atlantic and America groups. In my patch I'm proposing a re-ordering of "W" positions in descending degree order, that way also the groups "Atlantic" and "America" can be swapped and the result is a list ordered by continous azimuth, I think it's more intuitive when scrolling through such a list with the remote control. The patch is done against vdr-2.2.0, but I think it would apply to 2.3.1 as well, but haven't tried myself. Best regards, Lucian

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How to convert e.g. mp4 to VDRs .ts file?
by Stephan Loescher 09 Dec '15

09 Dec '15

Dear VDR users, I try to convert some mp4 files (in different video resolutions) to native VDR .ts files, because I want to access this videos in the very same way, as I am used to do with VDR recordings. (So mplayer-plugin or xinelib-mediaplay is not a solution.) I had some success with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -f mpegts -vcodec mpeg2video -aspect 16:9 -s 4cif -acodec mp2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k -q:v 1 00001.ts But there is some "stuttering" and artefacts/dropouts when replaying in VDR (full-featured DVB card) What is the best way to convert video files to VDR or how to create the same files, like VDR records itself? Thanks for any help in advance! Best regards, Stephan. -- http://www.loescher-online.de/

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bad characters in epg.data
by Peter Münster 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hi, It seems, that the encoding of the epg.data file is utf-8, but sometimes, there are lines like this: C S19.2E-133-3-263 18:00 GRÖD - RBS The "Ö" is one byte (0xD6) that seems not conform to utf-8 encoding. How could I avoid such characters in the epg.data file please? TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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Dear TV card experts - I need you help
by Mr Andersson 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Hi, Let me start of by presenting myself. I am a Computer Engineer and a business man, looking to launch a service where TV channels from primarily satellites will be made available to the public. I am trying to garner more info on this topic but it is so difficult to figure out the requirements are and what the best/most optimal solution would be. I'd appreciate if you could take some time to help me figure out what is out there, and where our focus should be on first. >From linuxtv i understand that there are a number of cards one could use for this purpose. I am interested in good quality cards, that allows us to record and present as many channels as possible for as little money as possible. Most cards out there supports maximum 4 channels per cards. Some I've looked into costs around 200 USD per card and for 2000 channels, excluding all other hardware, that would cost around 100 000 USD. Do you know of any suitable cards to look into for this matter? Also, what software solutions would one need for the tv card up to the presentation part? Also, maybe there are already services out there which would allow us to get access to channels content, without setting up a satellite and such cards. For instnance, free linux tv services with already existing content. However, relialibilty is the key here, and channels cannot come and disappear. What else would one need to consider in order to provide such a solution? Also, do you know of other similar existing and competing solutions out there already? I know of some of these sites, but non of them are comprehensive or good enough. If you were to help out and become a valuable contributor, you will indeed be rewarded with shares and money generated from this project. I can't go into great detail now what those plans are, but your help will certainly not go unrewarded, especially if you were to become more involved, whether as an consultant or as an active participator. I appreciate your time, and hope that you are able to shed some light on some of these questions, and possibly others.

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