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H264 and VDR 1.7.2
by Artem Makhutov 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hello, is h264 working with VDR 1.7.2? Thanks, Artem

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Re: [vdr] New Video Decode and Presentation API from NVidia
by Niels Wagenaar 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Op Di, 25 november, 2008 03:59, schreef VDR User: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Huillard <nicolas(a)huillard.net> > wrote: >> It's still good news to know that open-source software allowing current >> fanless integrated motherboards to decode HDTV at ~10% CPU is on its >> way... >> >> Going from 87% of 2 cores, to ~10% of an entry level CPU is good, >> specially when the load is taken care of by existing chips. > I agree on that point. I would rather have ~10% or ~20% then the regular 57% per core on my Core 2 Quad system when I view H264 channels of my provider. > Yes, I agree. Just pointing out that you certainly do not need a quad > core, that's all. Also, the price of the cpu is the same whether > you're using 87% or 10% of it. ;) The point is you can already have > cheap HDTV without using the new Nvidia api. > Well, in my case I do. When I view BBCHD, ArteHD, AnixeHD or the AstraHD channels I don't encounter many problems. Image is clear and no stutter. But as soon as I watch the 1080i/H264 channels of my provider (Canal Digitaal) on Astra 23.5e, I have major stuttering. BravaTV in HD doesn't have much problems, but NGC HD and Discovery HD is an other matter. My Core 2 Duo just couldn't handle it with FFMPeg and Xine-lib 1.2. But since I've put in a Core 2 Quad, I'm able to watch those channels even with fast moving images :) >> I'd like to have full-HDTV on a single x86 mini-ITX board. I'm now >> seeing this will happen soon enough, and I'll wait until then before I >> spend money on new hardware. > > Yes it's nice! My goal is diskless, fanless, low power consumption > dedicated HDTV box. Very small, very low cost! > I again agree :) I would like an additional HDTV box in my bedroom. It needs to have the options you wrote. But I don't want a Popcorn or some other kind of device. I want the option to enhance it myself (flexability) so I'm waiting desperately for GPU based decoding of H264 and VC-1 transport streams :) Niels Wagenaar

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vdr 1.7.2 + h264-patch + xineliboutput + vdr-xine + softdevice
by Goga777 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Dears developers of such nice these plugins/patch are you planing to adapt your plugins to vdr 172 ? Will someone release h264 patch for vdr 172 ? Goga

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VDR with S2API
by Klaus Schmidinger 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

The attached patch is what I've gathered from various postings regarding adapting VDR to the S2API driver API (thanks to Igor M. Liplianin, Niels Wagenaar and Edgar Hucek - did I forget anybody?). Since the S2SAPI doesn't provide a way of determining whether a DVB-S device supports DVB-S2 (at least I didn't find any), you need to apply the second attached patch to the driver in order to impelement a new capability flag that reports the availability of DVB-S2 support. If you don't want to patch the driver, you can change the line case FE_QPSK: frontendType = (frontendInfo.caps & FE_CAN_2ND_GEN_MODULATION) ? SYS_DVBS2 : SYS_DVBS; break; in dvbdevice.c to avoid FE_CAN_2ND_GEN_MODULATION. Either set frontendType permanently to SYS_DVBS or SYS_DVBS2, depending on what you have. So far DVB-S and DVB-S2 appears to tune fine. DVB-C is completely untested. With DVB-T tuning doesn't work, even though my TDA10046H based DVB-T card does work with the S2API driver under VDR 1.6.0. So for the moment I would appreciate if people could test DVB-T tuning and check whether maybe I made some silly mistake in the DVB-T tuning code. Klaus

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ANNOUNCE vdr-ttxtsubs 0.6.0
by Tobi 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hello! This is the first release of the VDR Teletext Subtitles plug-in from http://projects.vdr-developer.org. New develpment site: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-ttxtsubs Downloads: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/list_files/plg-osdteletext Git-Web: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/?p=vdr-plugin-osdteletext.git Anonymous Git-access : git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-osdteletext.git For the required VDR-patches, I've also set up a Git-Repository, based on the one maintained by Dieter Hametner: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/?p=vdr-patches.git;a=summary git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-patches.git Special thanks go to Rolf Ahrenberg for sending me a lot of patches! This is now intended to be a community maintained project! Don't expect me to fix your problems, I'm merely maintaining the project! Please report any bugs, ideas or feature requests to the project site (no registration required for this!). If you want to contribute patches, new features or whatever, post an issue or patch to the projects issue tracker or request to join the project. I would happily add everyone as a project member, who would like to contribute to the project! If you want to contribute but don't know what to do - start with some code refactoring! Recent Changes: - Applied patch from Rolf Ahrenberg which introduces the following changes: - Rolf Ahrenberg - Updated the core patch and Makefile against VDR's current API - Added font, color, and DVB source selection - Added UTF8 support - Added layered OSD support - Fixed EPG scan hiccups - Fixed several race conditions in destructors - Silenced compilation warnings - Vyacheslav Diconov - Russian translation - Ville SkyttÃa - fixed crash in plugin shutdown - cleaned up logging to use syslog - Thomas GÃŒnther - German translation - MichaÃ«l Nival - Added missing const declarations - French translation - Luca Olivetti - Fixed displaying subtitles setting - Added a thread based subtitles scanner - Added delay settings - Tobias Grimm - Added manual page selection mode - Switched completely to VDR 1.6's I18N system and removed the old crap no more support for older VDR versions! - Removed VDR*.patch and Checkpatch.sh and added up-to-date VDR patches into into "patches" subdirectory (thx to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Removed location lines from *.po (thx to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Fixed wrong GPL license text (wrong FSF address) - Clarified license (it's GPL-2 or any later) and added a licence header to every source file

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-image-0.3.0
by Andreas Brachold 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hello, here my lastest release of vdr-image plugin... There none further improvements planed. Changes: ======== - Updated italian translation - Add turkish translation - Clear device buffer, before start playback (need by PVR350) - Reimplement "Playback mode via 'DeviceStillPicture'" active if 'Send encoded frame several times' set to 'no' - Check for codec only at startup - Add setup option to hide main menu entry - Use now gettext for i18n texts, introduced with vdr-1.5.8 (Required) - for build now 'pkg-config' needed - Use swscale to converting image What is it : ============ This is a plugin for vdr and allows the display of digital images, like jpeg, tiff, png, bmp and some more, on the TV screen, using the DVB out device from vdr. Depends: ======== see included README for more details netpbm, or as alternative imagemagick ffmpeg libexif Link : ====== Homepage : http://vdr-image.berlios.de/ Download : http://download.berlios.de/vdr-image/vdr-image-0.3.0.tar.gz Cu, Andreas

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Autosort-plugin
by Rene Hertell 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi all! I'm using Hannos vdr-extensions repository for my Ubuntu intrepid ibex. I have for some time now tried to set up the Autosort-plugin without any success. According to the logs, the plugin starts, creates a bunch of groups (I'm using the example-config). But when it reaches the last group, vdr restarts: Here is my log: . .. ... Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18668] OSD: AutoSort: Creating Group 'WrongCa' Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18668] OSD: AutoSort: Creating Group 'Old Channels' Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18668] OSD: AutoSort: Creating Group 'Unsorted' Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18668] saved setup to /var/lib/vdr/setup.conf Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] text2skin: loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/Motz/Motz.colors Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] parsing /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/Motz/Motz.skin Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] text2skin: loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/enElchi/enElchi.colors Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] parsing /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/enElchi/enElchi.skin Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] text2skin: loading /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/Enigma/Enigma.colors Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr vdr: [18654] parsing /var/lib/vdr/plugins/text2skin/Enigma/Enigma.skin Dec 14 14:32:15 vdr runvdr: restarting VDR I tested also by uninstalling all vdr-modules, and running vdr just with the Autosort-plugin. Same result. I would appreciate any ideas, help etc that could help me getting Autosort to work on my vdr-box. Best Regards, René -=-=- ... No amount of planning will ever replace dumb luck.

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vdr 1.7.0 and lifeview pci trio(saa7134)
by Jordi Moles 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

hi, i had tried many times to install vdr with no luck, but i found a tutorial on how to install vdr 1.7.0 on ubuntu-like systems, from source code. It was pretty straight forward, i didn't have any problem on compiling and installing everything. I've got a lifeview trio pci card, saa7134, and ubuntu detected the card and loaded itself the modules saa7134, saa7134_alsa and saa7134_dvb. It works great with kaffeine, "out of the box" However, i need your help trying to make vdr get to the card. This tutorial says that i must install multiproto drivers. So, i downloaded them and compiled vdr on that. I didn't run "make install" on the multiproto path. Should i use the multiproto drivers instead of the ones that come with the kernel? As far as i understand the tutorial said it was necessary for compiling, but not for running vdr. Correct me if i'm wrong. So... everything is compiled without any problem and i run vdr like this: ********* /usr/bin/vdr -c /etc/vdr -E /var/vdr -l 3 -P'xineliboutput -l none -r 37890 -p' -u root ********* on the other hand.... if i run "scan", i can find all the possible channels i get from the satellite. I did this to get the "channels.conf" for vdr: ********* scan -o vdr /home/servidor/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E >> channels.conf ********* which gave some results and then i put this file into the /etc/vdr path. If then i look into the logs, i see this: ************* Dec 14 01:08:49 jordimoles vdr: [1006] cTimeMs: using monotonic clock (resolution is 1 ns) Dec 14 01:08:49 jordimoles vdr: [1006] VDR version 1.7.0 started Dec 14 01:08:49 jordimoles vdr: [1006] switched to user 'root' Dec 14 01:08:49 jordimoles vdr: [1006] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] found 23 locales in /usr/share/locale Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-xineliboutput.so.1.7.0 Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/setup.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/sources.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/diseqc.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/channels.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/keymacros.conf Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1007] video directory scanner thread started (pid=1006, tid=1007) Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1008] video directory scanner thread started (pid=1006, tid=1008) Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] reading EPG data from /var/vdr Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1006] probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1007] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=1006, tid=1007) Dec 14 01:08:51 jordimoles vdr: [1008] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=1006, tid=1008) Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] ERROR (dvbdevice.c,471): Operation not supported Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1010] section handler thread started (pid=1006, tid=1010) Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] found 1 video device Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] initializing plugin: xineliboutput (1.0.90-cvs): X11/xine-lib output plugin Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] [xine..put] cTimePts: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC): clock resolution 0 us Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] [xine..put] cTimePts: using monotonic clock Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] [xine..put] RTP SSRC: 0x24a224e1 Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] setting primary device to 2 Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] assuming manual start of VDR Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] SVDRP listening on port 2001 Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] setting current skin to "sttng" Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] loading /etc/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] starting plugin: xineliboutput Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1012] Remote decoder/display server (cXinelibServer) thread started (pid=1006, tid=1012) Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1012] [xine..put] cXinelibServer priority set successful SCHED_RR 2 [1,99] Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1012] [xine..put] Listening on port 37890 Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1012] [xine..put] Listening for UDP broadcasts on port 37890 Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1012] [discovery] BROADCAST: VDR xineliboutput DISCOVERY 1.0^M Server port: 37890^M Server version: xineliboutput-1.0.90-cvs^M ^M Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] [xine..put] cXinelibDevice::StartDevice(): Device started Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1013] KBD remote control thread started (pid=1006, tid=1013) Dec 14 01:08:52 jordimoles vdr: [1006] remote control KBD - learning keys Dec 14 01:09:02 jordimoles vdr: [1006] switching to channel 1 Dec 14 01:09:02 jordimoles vdr: [1006] info: Canal no disponible! Dec 14 01:09:04 jordimoles vdr: [1006] switching to channel 1 Dec 14 01:09:04 jordimoles vdr: [1006] info: Canal no disponible! ************* so... to me this means that can't get to the card. is this right? I can't tune "channel 1". Actually it can't open any channel. I'm trying only with FTA channels, so... there shouldn't be any problem with that. if i run: ******** vdr-sxfe --video=xv --aspect=16:9 --fullscreen --width=1280 --height=720 --nokbd --post=tvtime:method=Linear,cheap_mode=1,pulldown=0, use_progressive_frame_flag=1 ******** vdr-sxfe starts without any error reported, but then it says, again, "no signal" what am i doing wrong? I would appreciate any light you could through on this. Should i go back to 1.6? I haven't tried any other version, actually. When i came to linux, kaffeine was already installed and working without effort. The first attempt with other software has been this vdr 1.7.0. Thanks.

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Duplicate channels list
by Alex Betis 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi Klaus, What is the motivation behind the logic of not allowing duplicate channels in channels.conf file? I've tried to mimic channels settings of my Topfield receiver where I have favorite channels divided in different groups, while I can still access any channel on any satellite. I've intended to have it that way: :News :Sport :Kids :Radio :@10000 All :Sat1 :Sat2 :Sat3 Where SatX group has all the channels of that satellite and News,Sport,Kids,Radio groups will act as favorite channels groups having the same channels as in SatX groups. I had to change some functions in channels.c to update all duplicate channels when an update should be done. If anyone is interested I'll post it here.

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Switching time
by Alex Betis 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi all, Another question to bother you... How long does it takes to switch a FTA channel on your system? In my case DVB-S. I wonder if this timing sounds ok to you (I think its kind of slow): 1.7.1 + ext64-livebuffer + xinelibout 2 channels on the same transponder - about 2 seconds - video and sound playing right after the switch. 2 channels on different transponders - about 4 seconds - sound is playing right after the switch, image is shown, but start moving about 1 more second later. Please let me know what is your status on that (including version you're using). Thanks.

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