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Newbee questions about HDTV VDR system with TT-budget S2-3200.
by Carsten Koch 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi, I would like to get a HDTV VDR system started. I have the following hardware to play with: gigabyte m55plus s3g main board (nVidia GeForce 6100 / nForce 430) with Athlon 64 3500+, 1GB RAM GeForce 9500GT card with 1GB RAM 2 TT-budget S2-3200 DVB S2 cards I have installed OpenSuse 11.1 on it, which comes with vdr 1.6.0, the xine 0.8.2 plugin and dvb-1.1.0_CVS20080331-1.48. Is there a "getting started with HDTV VDR" FAQ somewhere? My first 3 questions questions are * Will a new VDR version be released today? The latest I could find is 1.7.7 (3 weeks old). * Where do I find the right DVB driver? * How do I configure LIRC, so it works with the S3-3200 and the remote control included with it? Thanks in advance for any hints, Carsten.

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vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf
by martinez＠embl.de 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi Klaus, /var/log/vdr.log doesn´t contain any info regarding problems with channel s.conf I start vdr with -l 3 dmesg |grep vdr shows nothing where else should I look? Using ubuntu 8.10 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 13:30:40 +0200 From: Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger(a)cadsoft.de> Subject: Re: [vdr] vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf' To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org Message-ID: <4A192FE0.2080001(a)cadsoft.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 24.05.2009 13:24, martinez(a)embl.de wrote: > vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf' > > > I have 5000 channels there. > Is there some way vdr can tell me what is the offending channel line? Should be logged in your syslog file. Klaus

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xineplayer uncontrolable...
by martinez＠embl.de 24 May '09

24 May '09

VDR 1.7.7 I have installed the mplayer plugin and read the MANUAL in the xine plugin, consequently modified mplayer.sh to call xineplayer instead of mplayer So far so good but when I open the mplayer plugin and play any file (for example a .avi ) the movie displays correctly but there is no way to pause it, or otherwise control it. I press pause and I see the pause symbol on the screeen but whereas playing normal vdr recordings it works fine, with the mplayer plugin and xineplayer the movie does not pause. Anybody has experienced this and more important found a way to get this working?

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test material to evaluate image quality on TV set
by Paul Menzel 24 May '09

24 May '09

Dear list, I searched for all variants of "test material" for ff-card or "full featured" tv set vdr "test material" on the WWW to no avail. I only found [1] which also voices this wish. Could you please tell me where I could get some video files to test the quality of my setup/system. I remember sometimes there is some test images on the TV broadcasted by the TV station if there is an error(?). Thanks a lot, Paul [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/vdr@linuxtv.org/msg09256.html

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vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf'
by martinez＠embl.de 24 May '09

24 May '09

vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf' I have 5000 channels there. Is there some way vdr can tell me what is the offending channel line?

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Timeouts and lost locks
by Jan Ekholm 24 May '09

24 May '09

Good morning, I see logging like this all the time in my syslog file: May 22 06:36:45 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 31, tp 298 May 22 06:37:06 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 timed out while tuning to channel 33, tp 322 And: May 22 09:59:58 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 41, tp 338 May 22 09:59:59 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 41, tp 338 May 22 10:00:01 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 lost lock on channel 41, tp 338 May 22 10:00:01 hex vdr: [31292] frontend 0 regained lock on channel 41, tp 338 What does this mean? The channels referred to (31, 33 and 41) are channels that we never, ever watch as they are encrypted. Normally these three or neighbor channels are referred to in the error logging. We almost never use channels above 20. So, why does VDR try to tune into them and why would it fail? We have two FF cards but we still would like them both to do something that benefits us, not go randomly tune into uninteresting channels. :) Best regards, Jan Ekholm -- "Stercus, stercus, stercus, moriturus sum." -- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

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Re: [vdr] How to keep the channel list tidy automatically
by Mike Booth 24 May '09

24 May '09

I have that autosort and i tworks with 1.7.7 however it has always been a problem causing segfaults regularly.Let me know if its ok for you. Mike

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What is the best linux distribution for VDR?
by Fabio Bordin 23 May '09

23 May '09

Last week arrived to me new hard disk I ordered so I reinstalled my os. My goal is to have a updated linux system which let me see vdr throw xineliboutput or xine. I have a Skystar 1 and a Hauppauge HVR4000. I did many tests without any success: - Debian Sid 64 (problem with alsa and remote) - Archlinux 64 (problem with remote and no image throw xineliboutput) - Sidux 32 (problem with remote and no image throw xineliboutput) I tried vdr version 1.7.0 and 1.7.7 with s2api driver. I think my main problem is evdev and xorg: evdev let every device under /dev/input/event* input in X: this mean that remote controlled by HVR4000's ir can input directly to X. Someone knows how to tell evdev to skip a particular /dev/input/event* ? or how to disable evdev?

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Re: [vdr] lyngsat/kingifsat 2 vdr script
by martinez＠embl.de 22 May '09

22 May '09

Thanks for the perl script! It generates channels.conf like this: Canal + Dcine:11436:vC23:S19.2E:22000:160:81:0:0:29903:0:0:0 TVC Internacional:11686:v:S19.2E:22000:161:84:0:0:30201:0:0:0 Will VDR 1.7.7 be able to read them and update them to the current format?

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What is the best linux distribution for VDR?
by martinez＠embl.de 22 May '09

22 May '09

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1126258 For the remote control problem you mention, see my howto and the remote control part, you basically have to specify an exception in HAL so that it does not try to configure your remote as a keyboard

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