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--nokbd
by Tony Houghton 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Linux "helpfully" treats certain keypresses on my DVB remote (an input device) as keyboard keystrokes, eg the number keys, arrow keys and OK = Enter, so with VDR configured to respond to the input device it thinks I've pressed these keys twice. I've added --no-kbd to my vdr command line options and --nokbd to vdr-sxfe, but one or both of these is ignoring the option. I think it's vdr-sxfe because --nokbd has no effect on my remote client either. Well, it does say "Keyboard input disabled" but it still responds to the keyboard as normal. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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projects.vdr-developer.org launched
by Tobi 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hello! projects.vdr-developer.org is a place for community maintained VDR projects. The idea for this was born out of a survey conducted among VDR users, where it turned out, that even some VDR plug-ins that haven't been updated for years are still very popular. The main goal for this is, to be a community effort to continue the development of such orphaned VDR plug-ins and give them a new home. I started with releasing a the new version 0.6.0 of the OSDTeletext plug-in, which now supports the recent VDR version. But projects.vdr-developer.org is open to EVERYONE. It offers a Wiki, file downloads, a documents section, an issue tracker, a news tracker and a GIT repository for each project (via Redmine). Read more about this here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org http://projects.vdr-developer.org/wiki/project-management/Start Tobias

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XBMC + VDR 1.7.0
by Goga777 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cl70fq7sn8 here's you can have a look on xbmc and integrated in it vdr Goga

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1.7.1 + multiple audio streams on channel = buffer problem
by Alex Betis 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi, I'm with 1.7.1 and observe some buffer problems on channels with multiple audio streams. Bandwidth of audio steams probably make a different since I observe problems with channel that has 6 audio tracks or even 4 audio tracks, while there are other channels with 4 tracks that have no problem at all. I guess thats a result of moving to TS. Any hint what buffer should I increase? VDR log shows the following: Dec 12 19:37:09 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:09 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:13 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:14 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 80% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:14 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 90% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:15 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:18 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC1): skipped 348 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC5): skipped 588 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC4): skipped 1260 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC0): skipped 1260 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC3): skipped 1356 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:19 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC2): skipped 1660 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:22 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:23 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 80% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:23 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:27 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:27 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 80% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:27 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC4): skipped 636 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC0): skipped 636 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC3): skipped 732 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 2 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC2): skipped 57 bytes to sync on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC5): skipped 1756 bytes while syncing on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] 1 cRepacker messages suppressed Dec 12 19:37:32 htpc vdr: [21746] cAudioRepacker(0xC1): skipped 756 bytes to sync on next audio frame Dec 12 19:37:35 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:36 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 80% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:36 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:39 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 70% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:40 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 80% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:40 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 90% (tid=21747) Dec 12 19:37:40 htpc vdr: [21748] buffer usage: 60% (tid=21747) Thanks.

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vdr+streamdevice and streamdevice client - personal experience
by YUP 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hello everybody, Here I want to share my personal experience with vdr and streamdevice plugin. So, the main task was the following: to stream encoded vdr-stream from my vdr through internet (not in local net!) to the client machine (to my friend). For encoding you need to have a good machine, at least 3000Mgz. I used E2160 Dual Core Intel processor and Abit I-N73HD motherboard. To stream into internet you need to have also good upload speed, at least 500-700 kb/s. Below you can find vdr configuration files for streamdevice-plugin: file /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin.streamdev-server.conf has only one line: --remux=/var/lib/vdr/tools/externremux.sh and executable file /var/lib/vdr/tools/externremux.sh : #!/bin/bash IN=- OUT=/tmp/out rm -f $OUT.avi /tmp/$OUT.log killall -9 cat mkfifo $OUT.avi cat $OUT.avi & /usr/bin/mencoder "$IN" -ovc x264 -x264encopts bitrate=512:subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b:threads=auto -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=aac:abitrate=20 -o $OUT.avi &>$OUT.log rm -f $OUT.avi /tmp/$OUT.log killall -9 cat Now what about client? We experimented a lot, my friend even wrote a standalone program for that, but finally he found that xbmc version from svn, patched by external-player patch http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40136 and with vdr plugin http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36988 is all he needed to watch stream from my vdr. He also use wakeonlan to boot my vdr machine. Taking into account 6 hours difference in time between our countries he doesn't bother me. TODO It is a good idea to implement possibility to use external player (mplayer for example) in stream-device client. Then you can watch encoded stream on the vdr. For a present moment you can only watch mpeg2 stream and only in local network.

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e-tobi vdr binaries for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
by Hanno Zulla 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, thanks to Tobi's help, there are now updated binary packages for Ubuntu Intrepid available. Have fun: http://www.hanno.de/blog/category/vdr/ Regards, Hanno

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How to debug skips & async with vdr?
by Hanno Zulla 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi, since upgrading to the most recent Ubuntu release 8.10 (Intrepid), my FF card is having problems. It is async with audio, both for some live TV channels and some recordings. It is also skipping while watching live TV. (This is not a full diagnosis, but the skipping appears to be limited to encrypted channels.) [1] vdr didn't show this behaviour with the previous setup (based on Hardy with default Ubuntu kernel). However, the logs show nothing. Nothing at all. So how can I debug this if the system thinks that everything is fine? Thanks, Hanno Here's the setup: Athlon X2 CPU vdr 1.6.0-2 e-tobi binary for Ubuntu [2] (e-tobi version number: 1.6.0-8) Budget DVB-C card used as input, with CAM and Kabel Deutschland smartcard, using the driver that comes with Ubuntu's default 2.6.27 kernel FF DVB-C card without CAM, used as input and output, using the ttpci driver that comes with Ubuntu's default 2.6.27 kernel plus the modified firmware from [3] Links are German: [1] http://vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=82518 [2] http://www.hanno.de/blog/category/vdr/ [3] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=59746

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PremiereEPG plugin 0.2.0 released
by Stefan Huelswitt 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, today version 0.2.0 of the PremiereEPG plugin has been released. Available from my homepage or from HG: <http://www.muempf.de/down/vdr-premiereepg-0.2.0.tar.gz> <http://hg.muempf.de/premiereepg/> NEWS: 09.12.2008: Version 0.2.0 - Fixed buffer overrun in string compose (mainly with UTF8). - Added new fix for brocken EPG data. Thanks to Sascha Abraham. - Autogenerate i18n.c with po2i18n.pl for VDR < 1.5.7. - Added russian translations. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt(a)gmx.de | http://www.muempf.de/

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VDR with S2API (device API extension)
by Rolf Ahrenberg 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, the S2API implementation would be a perfect place to integrate my frontend facilities patch in a way or another. The patch simply extends the current cDevice API to include some common frontend related statistics (now available only in femon), so that skins and all the other plugins can easily use them. This would simplify the femon plugin and also would enable skin plugins to show for example signal strength, snr, bit error rate, etc., in channel info window. Also other input plugins (IPTV, pvrinput, analogtv, ..) could implement these new methods and therefore provide some feasible information for femon (or any other plugin) to show up. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/patches/vdr-1.6.0-frontend-facilitie… BR, -- rofa

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Live-TV picture goes away on composite out of ttpci
by Marco Schinkel 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, I experience some strange behavior with vdr and a plain full featured Technotrend Rev. 1.6 (no mods, no daughterboards, no usage of internal connectors): When running VDR (version 1.6.0-2/1.6.0) after a few days the live tv on the composite out goes away (only black picture visible). The menu however is perfectly workable (and I can see it on the composite out on top of a black picture). I use the newest available firmware and recent drivers from the v4l-dvb repository (using the v4l-dv-hg gentoo ebuild) on an 2.6.27.7 kernel. dmesg output occasionally has the following message: saa7146 (2) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer There are no other problems on the system, so I assume that it is either a dvb driver/firmware thing, or a vdr bug. Starting a recording in vdr leads to an empty 001.vdr file. Restarting vdr does not help. Reloading the drivers usually helps but sometimes not. In this cases i have to powercycle the system. The problem exists no matter what card I use and on which position on the pci bus the card sits (I tried different cards, all ttpci 1.6 on 4 different slots on 3 different pci busses). The problem even occured on my old mainboard occasionally. So it is definitely not a hardware defect. I assume the problem is not even related with the i2c timeout. Is this problem known? Is there a known workaround or even better a way to fix this? Best Regards, Marco Schinkel

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