vdr October 2018

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Trouble with DVB-T2 on frontend 1
by Marko Mäkelä 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Hi all, I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use with VDR. It comprises two frontends: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T) /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (DVB-T2 and DVB-C) I guess it is similar to this one; just a slightly different plastic case with some more ventilation holes: http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/09/naked-hardware-18-astrometa-amdvb-t2-v2.ht… The hardware appears to work fine, once I copied the /lib/firmware/dvb-demod-mn88473-01.fw from somewhere. The firmware upload has failed at least once on the Raspberry Pi 2 (using Linux 4.9.59), but never on another machine that runs a 4.13.0 kernel. I did not yet get the infrared remote control to produce anything in evtest. With dvbv5-zap (after running dvbv5-scan), I can tune into DVB-T2 channels like this: dvbv5-zap -a 0 -f 1 -c dvb_channel.conf 'Yle TV1 HD' -r After this, I can play the video and audio stream on the Raspberry Pi 2: omxplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 Unless I explicitly specify the options -a 0 -f 1, then dvbv5-zap will fail to find any DVB-T2 senders, because it apparently defaults to frontend0, which is DVB-T only. In VDR 2.3.8, I have only been able to view DVB-T from the first frontend. When I did a trick and renamed /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 to frontend0 before starting VDR, VDR no longer complained that the DVB-T2 channels (which I converted from the dvb_channel.conf to channels.conf with dvb-format-convert) not being available, but it did not seem to receive anything from these channels either. Also, after using dvbv5-scan or dvbv5-zap, I sometimes have to invoke w_scan to "reset" the hardware so that VDR can receive DVB-T channels. I would like to receive and record DVB-T and DVB-T2 on this setup. I am willing to try patches or do some programming myself, but I would appreciate some hints to get started. Marko

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French DVB-T Channel IDs vs. EIT Channel IDs
by Patrick Boettcher 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

Hi list, since some time (1-2 years) I noticed that the DVB-T channels do not show EPG anymore. I'm not sure what is the root-cause: either it was the migration of French DVB-T to HD (in 2016) or an update of VDR. Anyway, this morning I took the time to figure out what is wrong and here is what I found. In short, the channel-ID generated from the one received in the EIT does not correspond to a known channel-ID from the channel list, and VDR drops the whole section: In cEIT::cEIT (from eit.c) we see tChannelID channelID(Source, getOriginalNetworkId(), getTransportStreamId(), getServiceId()); cChannel *Channel = Channels->GetByChannelID(channelID, true); and channel is NULL in my case. I added some debug prints to GetByChannelID() in the search loop: printf("sid: %d == %d, %s, %s %d\n", Channel->Sid(), sid, (const char *)ChannelID.ToString(), (const char *)Channel->GetChannelID().ToString(), Channel->GetChannelID() == ChannelID); And here is an example of what I get: sid: 517 == 517, T-8442-2-517, T-0-506-517 0 The internal channel ID of vdr reads T-0-506-517. 517 is the SID, 506 is the radio-channel frequency in MHz. This is the right internal channel for this EIT-section. The EIT-channel-ID is telling me that 8442 is the original network ID and 2 might be the radio-channel ID. I tweaked the operator==() of ChannelID to make it work, but not in a contributable manner. How should this be fixed correctly? Is this a regression introduced somewhere? Can it be solved by configuration? Thanks for any help. best regards, -- Patrick.

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Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels
by prelude 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Karim AFIFI kirjoitti 2018-10-30 01:16: > Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best > plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment? I do not know a best one but.... I faced same situation when my old good nvidia ion platform cannot handle hd channels properly. I tested different plugings with intel HD graphics (integrated in dell laptop via vaapi) but did not get any of those working as old systems. Facing problems with instability, splitted pictures, out of syck, and "jumping" fast forward modes (I look a lot of movies/series in 2-4 times speed up as in here we have subtitles). Shortly to say i did not manage to archive proper system with any of vdr plugins. Now im trying using VNSI & kodi in android tv and it still look promising. Just testing it currently inside on older laptop. Other great thing there is that i can move my server (including dvb sick) away from living room to garage and use only small and better looking device in living room.

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Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels
by VDR User 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

> >xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is > >being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding > >and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv. > Correct, my 4K mkv files are using H.265 codecs, HD files are using H.264. Since dumping Nvidia I haven't kept up with what their current cards capabilities are so I can't advise on an Nvidia card that does HEVC/h265. My NUC handles it great though! ;) > I didn't understand which player/plugin you advise in VDR. > - MPlayer was very good but no longer works... > - Media Player in Xineliboutput is convenient but little buggy under VDPAU... I originally used mplayer, then mplayer2, and lastly mpv player. The vdr-mplayer plugin + mpv player has worked great. All you have to do to switch from mpv is just change your mplayer.sh (or whatever you call your player script) from using the mplayer bin to mpv bin.

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Re: [vdr] vdr Digest, Vol 161, Issue 4
by master.of.brainless.things＠gmx.net 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Am Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:01 +0000 schrieb vdr-request(a)linuxtv.org: > > I plan to upgrade my VDR box, with these two important features : > > - reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau. > > MKV is just a container for data streams and support is wide-spread. > Any half-decent player supports mkv. It's also unrelated to > xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is > being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding > and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv. VDPAU is EOL. > Nvidia currently has NVDEC but I can't speak to how well it's > supported since I dumped VDPAU for VAAPI a while back. > > > - receiving 4K channels => for HD, I am using old PCI/PCIE motherboard + TBS6928 (with CI). > > > > Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment? > > When I switched from VDPAU to VAAPI I retired my old hardware and just > spent about $120 on an Intel NUC, and couldn't be happier. I'll never > bother with video cards again for htpc/media playing boxes. And also > non-usb tuners. Low power/low space is my theme now so my days of > building pc's for this purpose are over. You might want to look at > other options unless you actually want a pc tower. you can have a look at the nvidia gt 1030 cards. there are lowprofile and fanless versions, but pay attention to card size. and you may need to install correct drivers manually. but, half the price then an intel nuc with luck. i'm considering this myself, too, instead of this buggy intel hd grahpics... (well, nvidia isn't better, i know...) afaik, the gt 1030 is capable of playing 4k hdr h265 encoded videos, what is presumably what you need. i've read about netfix 4k support, too. -- /* * printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Something Wicked happened! %4.4x.\n",...); * linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/sundance.c */

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Re: [vdr] Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels
by VDR User 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

> I plan to upgrade my VDR box, with these two important features : > - reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau. MKV is just a container for data streams and support is wide-spread. Any half-decent player supports mkv. It's also unrelated to xineliboutput and VDPAU so I assume what you actually mean by mkv is being able to play back HD or greater content using VDPAU for decoding and xineliboutput to get the decoded frames to your tv. VDPAU is EOL. Nvidia currently has NVDEC but I can't speak to how well it's supported since I dumped VDPAU for VAAPI a while back. > - receiving 4K channels => for HD, I am using old PCI/PCIE motherboard + TBS6928 (with CI). > > Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment? When I switched from VDPAU to VAAPI I retired my old hardware and just spent about $120 on an Intel NUC, and couldn't be happier. I'll never bother with video cards again for htpc/media playing boxes. And also non-usb tuners. Low power/low space is my theme now so my days of building pc's for this purpose are over. You might want to look at other options unless you actually want a pc tower.

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Advice for best hardware and plugins to play MKV files and receive 4K channels
by Karim AFIFI 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hello, I plan to upgrade my VDR box, with these two important features : - reading mkv files => I am using xineliboutput and vdpau. - receiving 4K channels => for HD, I am using old PCI/PCIE motherboard + TBS6928 (with CI). Could you share best hardware cpu/video/card,motherboard/..., & best plugin/driver/... you advice at the moment? Thanks for ther feedback. Karim

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diseq.conf
by Jose Alberto Reguero 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

I have a lnb monoblock pointing to astra 19.2E hotbird, with a internal diseq 2x1 wich I use with diseq enabled and the default diseq.conf: S19.2E 11700 V 9750 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F0] W15 A W15 t S19.2E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F1] W15 A W15 T S19.2E 11700 H 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F2] W15 A W15 t S19.2E 99999 H 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F3] W15 A W15 T S13.0E 11700 V 9750 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F4] W15 B W15 t S13.0E 99999 V 10600 t v W15 [E0 10 38 F5] W15 B W15 T S13.0E 11700 H 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F6] W15 B W15 t S13.0E 99999 H 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F7] W15 B W15 T I have another lnb that point to astra 28.2E. Can I use another diseq 2x1 to join this two lnbs? If it is posible, how must be the diseq.conf with these two diseq in cascade? Thanks. Jose Alberto Reguero Enviado desde mi Huawei

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[ANNOUNCE] Duplicates plugin 1.0.1
by Timo Eskola 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Description: Shows duplicate recordings. Changes in 1.0.1: - Fixed header row after deleting or hiding recordings.

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dvbhdffdevice.c:569:33: error: 'AUDIO_GET_PTS' was not declared in this scope
by Martin Gansser 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

Hi, i am trying to compile vdr-2.4.0 for Fedora 30 on the Fedora rpm build server, but this fails with the following error message [1]: g++ -O3 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -fPIC -Werror=overloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I/builddir/build/BUILD/vdr-2.4.0/include -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"dvbhddevice"' -o dvbhdffdevice.o dvbhdffdevice.c make: Leaving directory '/builddir/build/BUILD/vdr-2.4.0/PLUGINS/src/dvbhddevice' dvbhdffdevice.c: In member function 'virtual int64_t cDvbHdFfDevice::GetSTC()': dvbhdffdevice.c:569:33: error: 'AUDIO_GET_PTS' was not declared in this scope if (ioctl(fd_audio, AUDIO_GET_PTS, &pts) == -1) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ dvbhdffdevice.c:569:33: note: suggested alternative: 'VIDEO_GET_PTS' if (ioctl(fd_audio, AUDIO_GET_PTS, &pts) == -1) { ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ VIDEO_GET_PTS make: *** [Makefile:64: dvbhdffdevice.o] Error 1 [1] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/6531/29936531/build.log thanks Martin

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