vdr February 2025

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Buffer overflows recording HDTV with saa7146 and mantis DVB-C tuners
by schorpp 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

> Hello, > > I've build a new VDR with h.264 xineliboutput plugin software decoding > > and got a problem now with > > buffer overruns and distorted recordings on all HD channels: > > ... > Nov 5 05:32:03 vdr2 vdr: [32753] ERROR: 47231 ring buffer overflows (8879240 bytes dropped) > Nov 5 05:32:09 vdr2 vdr: [32753] ERROR: 31042 ring buffer overflows (5835896 bytes dropped) > Nov 5 05:32:15 vdr2 vdr: [32753] ERROR: 47325 ring buffer overflows (8897100 … [View More]

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Thanks
by Bruce MacIntyre 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

About 10 years ago I built an OTA recording system using a SiliconDust ethernet receiver connected to a BeagleBone (linux) computer recording to a SD card and then uploading to a NAS file server in the wee hours. I hired an Elance programmer in Spain to write the code to interface with the SiliconDust "calls". I recorded Craig Ferguson and football programs mostly. Later I moved away from Denver and no longer needed the system. But all these years later I still was amazed and … [View More]

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.7.4 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

VDR version 2.7.4 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive git://git.tvdr.de You can also get the latest stable version with git clone --branch stable/latest git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git or as a tar archive with http://git.tvdr.de/?p=vdr.git;a=snapshot;h=stable/latest;sf=tbz2 The changes since version 2.7.3: - Removed all DEPRECATED_* code. - Fixed error checking in case the fps value can't be determined by the frame parser. - Updated the Italian OSD texts (… [View More]thanks to Diego Pierotto). - The VDR homepage is now accessible via HTTPS. - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed some typos in the translation files (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Added some missing locking. - TS packets with errors are now skipped when parsing for frames. - Fixed handling the fps value if it can't be determined from the video data. - Fixed accessing a timer's event schedule in case the event has been removed from the schedule. - Fixed a possible deadlock when canceling an editing process. - Checking for VPS control is now limited to local timers. - Added 1 to Utf8BufSize() for worst case (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed handling margins for timers that are not VPS controlled and not spawned (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). - Added a header to the backtrace (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Added parameter checks to strn0cpy() (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). Same for Utf8Strn0Cpy(). - The info files of recordings are now only re-read if they have been modified (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - The new virtual function cStatus::OsdItem2() can be used to get the information whether a menu item is selectable (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). Plugins that implemented cStatus::OsdItem() will still work as before, because the default implementation of cStatus::OsdItem2() calls cStatus::OsdItem(). APIVERSNUM is now 30006. - Fixed setting the file name of the info file after renaming a recording (reported by Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed an improper call of cStatus::OsdCurrentItem() before cStatus::OsdItem2() (reported by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Fixed an unnecessary redisplay of the menu when pressing a hotkey. - Fixed unnecessary calls to DisplayCurrent() for editable menu items (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). - The new virtual function cStatus::OsdCurrentItem2() can be used to get the index of the current menu item (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). Plugins that implemented cStatus::OsdCurrentItem() will still work as before, because the default implementation of cStatus::OsdCurrentItem2() calls cStatus::OsdCurrentItem(). - Fixed unnecessary calls to cStatus::OsdCurrentItem2() when scrolling. - Added missing calls to cStatus::MsgOsdStatusMessage() and added the new virtual function cStatus::OsdStatusMessage2(), which can be used to get the type of the message (thanks to Markus Ehrnsperger). Plugins that implemented cStatus::OsdStatusMessage() will still work as before, because the default implementation of cStatus::OsdStatusMessage2() calls cStatus::OsdStatusMessage(). - Adjusted PLUGINS.html to the new API version numbering introduced in version 2.7.2. - The function cPlugin::MainThreadHook() has been deprecated and may be removed in future versions. Use proper locking instead. - Fixed unnecessary redisplays of menus. - Added '~' to the list of delimiters in cTextWrapper (thanks to Stefan Hofmann). - Fixed progress display when switching from "pause" to "slow back" (reported by Andreas Baierl). - Fixed spurious fast frames when switching from "slow back" to "slow forward". - Fixed cPtsIndex::FindFrameNumber() to handle the case where Pts points to an I-frame. - Added missing locks to SetMenuItem() functions. - Revised locking in cMenuSchedule and cMenuWhatsOn. - Plugins need to be rebuilt. Homepage: http://www.tvdr.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VideoDiskRecorder Have fun! Klaus [View Less]

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25 years of VDR
by Klaus Schmidinger 21 Feb '25

21 Feb '25

25 years ago today, on February 19, 2000, I released the very first version of the VDR. I never thought that this project would keep me busy for a quarter of a century. I would like to use this special anniversary to thank the many users who have contributed to the further development of VDR with suggestions, patches, bug fixes and plugins. At its peak, there were more than two thousand VDR users around the world (who registered with the VDR User Counter), of which today there are still a … [View More]

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How to play MPEG PS files?
by Marko Mäkelä 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

I got some video files in MPEG PS format. These files would not play in VDR even if put them in directories named after timestamps and name them 00001.ts. The command vdr --genindex fails to create any index file. However, if I first convert them to MPEG TS format with ffmpeg -i file.mpg -c copy 00001.ts then VDR will recognize and play the files (but report at least one error per second). I was wondering if there is a way to play MPEG PS recordings in VDR, or a FUSE program that would … [View More]

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