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determine within plugin, whether radio or tv station
by Joerg Riechardt 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hi, what is a safe way to determine within a plugin, whether the stream it is receiving from VDR is a radio or a tv stream? There are tv streams with slowly changing still pictures, there are radio plugins which insert grafical information, so I am not sure if this could be achived by analysing the stream. Of cause there is the video pid. Is there a standard way to get that to the plugin? Do I think to complicated or am I missing something? The plugin needs to know within less than 100ms after start of stream. Joerg

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How setup VDR to import external EPG data (XMLTV file)
by Chris R. 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Hello i have got a rpi2 + dvb-t tuner that run under openelec 6 and VDR for the TV. This system work well and i would now import external EPG data... i read several thread about xmltv2vdr and it isn't so clear for me : - i was thinking of download xmltv file from internet (kazer.org for france) with a cron task - and use xmltv2vdr to import the downloaded file into VDR Is it possible to do like this ? Thanks

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playing VDR-recordings on Samsung Smart TV with subtitles
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

Hi, Is is possible to play VDR-recordings on Samsung Smart TV with subtitles, and if yes, how please? It seems, that the Samsung Smart needs 2 files: an mp4 and an srt file. I've tried: "ffmpeg -i 00001.ts -vn -an -codec:s:0 srt 00001.srt" But no 00001.srt is created... TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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[ANNOUNCE] vdrcm-0.0.2 - interactive console dialogs script for managing VDR configuration files
by Lucian Muresan 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

Hi all, vdrcm-0.0.2 - the VDR Config Manager for managing VDR configuration files is now available at [1]. What is this all about? You may remember the ARGSDIR feature introduced in VDR last year, which allows to store all the CLI parameters supplied to VDR and its plugins spread over several files with the extension *.conf in INI style, located for example in the /etc/vdr/conf.d directory. They only need to contain INI sections named like [vdr] or [plugin-name], followed by one option per line, then vdr launched with no CLI-parameters at all will read these files in their file name order. Just like other implementations (for example vdrctl used by yaVDR), vdrcm will actually symlink config files from a pool directory /etc/vdr/conf.avail to ARGSDIR, when it enables a plugin, or delete the symlink only, when disabling it. It also lets you define the explicit order of the plugins, by prefixing the symlinks with a number, or fires up the text editor defined in the EDITOR environment variable, and all this interactivlely in a CLI console, by using whiptail or dialog, see sreenshots at [2]. Note that the screenshots are from version 0.0.1, running with dialog, now I noticed that whiptail looks a lot better and is now preferred if both are present on the system. There is also a non-interactive pure CLI-mode supporting enabling or disabling a plugin by its name, and promoting the order of a plugin before another one, by the index before re-ordering. These CLI-options should be suitable for writing a true vdr Plugin for managing plugins, which should need to call these commands with setuid in order to be able to execute them, and scan the directories for refreshing the list of available/active/inactive plugins in the OSD. There were such type of plugins in the past, but they were too distribution-specific. The ARGSDIR-feature would allow any distribution to use this type of VDR/plugins configuration, therefore also the usage of the same management tools for them. I'm planning to write such a plugin in the near future, as spare time will permit it. The runtime dependencies of vdrcm are quite basic: - which - coreutils - util-linux - grep - pkg-config (optional, see README for a workaround when missing) - whiptail or dialog (optional if only the CLI-mode is used). For more information and a short visual usage summary, check the README.md at the homepage. Have fun, Lucian [1](Homepage) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm [2](Screenshots) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm/wiki/Short-visual-usage-summary [3](Releases) https://github.com/lucianm/vdrcm/releases

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VDR + SatIP + Octopus Net - no more data on SD channels
by Patrick Boettcher 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hi list, I'm facing a problem with the following configuration: - VDR on a Raspi2 (raspian with packages from e-tobi) - Digital Devices' Octopus Net with 2 DVB-S2 receivers I'm using vdr-plugin-satip with the following arguments: -s <host>|DVBS2-2|Octo -d 2 Everything works fine. Except that after some time streaming on SD-channels seems to stop. Zapping to a HD-channels works. When trying to receive a non-working SD-stream I can see, via the satip-config-menu, that no PIDs seem to be delivered. Restarting the vdr-process (via the menu) works. While trying to understand the problem I have the feeling that zapping to non-existent services makes it appear faster. Not sure though. Is this a known issue? What can I do to better analyse the problem? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Patrick.

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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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