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Femon and new API.
by lucian orasanu 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Helo. I'am tring to port femon to new api and no succes. 1. Questions. Is all new api implemented iet in multiproto? New version of api is 3.3 pr 4.3? Is there any documentation ? 2. My tests and work. I put this code : enum dvbfe_status { DVBFE_HAS_SIGNAL = (1 << 0), /* something above noise floor */ DVBFE_HAS_CARRIER = (1 << 1), /* Signal found */ DVBFE_HAS_VITERBI = (1 << 2), /* FEC is stable */ DVBFE_HAS_SYNC = (1 << 3), /* SYNC found */ DVBFE_HAS_LOCK = (1 << 4), /* OK .. */ DVBFE_TIMEDOUT = (1 << 5), /* no lock in last ~2 s */ DVBFE_STATUS_DUMMY = (1 << 31) }; #define DVBFE_READ_STATUS _IOR('o', 87, enum dvbfe_status) enum dvbfe_statistics_avail { DVBFE_BER = (1 << 0), /*!< bit error rate */ DVBFE_SIGNAL_STRENGTH = (1 << 1), /*!< signal strength */ DVBFE_SNR = (1 << 2), /*!< signal to nois ratio */ DVBFE_UNCORRECTED_BLOCKS = (1 << 3) /*!< number of uncorrected blocks */ }; struct dvbfe_statistics { enum dvbfe_statistics_avail avail; /*!< describes the available information */ __u32 ber; /*!< bit error rate, if avaible */ __u16 signal_strength; /*!< signal strength, if available */ __u16 snr; /*!< signal to noise ratio, if avaible */ __u32 uncorrected_blocks; /*!< number of uncorrected blocks, if avaible */ }; #define DVBFE_READ_STATIISTICS _IOR('o', 88, struct dvbfe_statistics) in /linux/include/linux/dvb/frontend.h from multiproto. and then i modified femontools.c like this: return NULL; CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_GET_INFO, &value)); CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_STATUS, &status)); CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_STATIISTICS, &signal)); //CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_SNR, &snr)); //CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_BER, &ber)); //CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_UNCORRECTED_BLOCKS, &unc)); close(fe); info = cString::sprintf("CARD:%d\nTYPE:%d\nNAME:%s\nSTAT:%02X\nSGNL:%04X\nSNRA:%04X\nBERA:%08X\nUNCB:%08X", cardIndex, value.type, value.name, status, signal, snr, ber, unc); if (cFemonOsd::Instance()) info = cString::sprintf("%s\nVIBR:%.0f\nAUBR:%.0f\nDDBR:%.0f", *info, cFemonOsd::Instance()->GetVideoBitrate(), cFemonOsd::Instance()->GetAudioBitrate(), cFemonOsd::Instance()->GetDolbyBitrate()); if (channel) info = cString::sprintf("%s\nCHAN:%s", *info, *channel->ToText()); return info; } cString getFrontendName(int cardIndex) { struct dvbfe_info value; cString dev = cString::sprintf(FRONTEND_DEVICE, cardIndex, 0); int fe = open(dev, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); if (fe < 0) return NULL; CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_GET_INFO, &value)); close(fe); return (cString::sprintf("%s on device #%d", value.name, cardIndex)); } cString getFrontendStatus(int cardIndex) { dvbfe_status value; cString dev = cString::sprintf(FRONTEND_DEVICE, cardIndex, 0); int fe = open(dev, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); if (fe < 0) return NULL; CHECK(ioctl(fe, DVBFE_READ_STATUS, &value)); close(fe); return (cString::sprintf("Status %s:%s:%s:%s:%s on device #%d", (value & DVBFE_HAS_LOCK) ? "LOCKED" : "-", (value & DVBFE_HAS_SIGNAL) ? "SIGNAL" : "-", (value & DVBFE_HAS_CARRIER) ? "CARRIER" : "-", (value & DVBFE_HAS_VITERBI) ? "VITERBI" : "-", (value & DVBFE_HAS_SYNC) ? "SYNC" : "-", cardIndex)); } uint16_t getSignal(int cardIndex) { uint16_t value = 0; cString dev = cString::sprintf(FRONTEND_DEVICE, cardIndex, 0); int fe = open(dev, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); if (fe < 0) return (value); CHECK(ioctl(fe, FE_READ_SIGNAL, &value)); close(fe); return (value); } is this ok? a litle bit of help? ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

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Newbie: Pinnacle PCTV tuner kit rev 1.7 good for VDR ?
by vroemm 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi. I am new to this vdr mailinglist. I have been admiring the VDR project for a long time. And now am looking seriously into building one. I am having trouble finding a DVB-C PCI card in the city where i live. There is this one: Pinnacle PCTV TUNER KIT I could not find a type number. On the card is the text "REV 1.7" It is a PCI card. On the box are two pictures of DVB-T and DVB-C And it has a TV input and TV output, according to the picture on the box. Its price has been marked of from 60 - 70 euro to 57 euro. Guess the model is on its way out. Can not find any useful info on it on the internet. What are the capabilities of this card ? Does anyone know if this card can be used with VDR ? Thanks :-)

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Request: Pvrinput and cards without mpeg encoder - writing a user mode encoder/proxy
by Eddi De Pieri 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, I'd like to use pvrinput plugin with my saa7134 based card. This card lacks of mpeg encoder, so I think so... Why don't write a proxy that works like DV4Linux preloading a library before starting VDR. - In the library configuration should be written the stupid device driver name (environment). - The library should trap the open of v4l device. - It should be started a probe routine for looking for device driver match the environment variable. - On open(fd,file), if file match the device probed, then using libavcodec, start encoding mpeg stream into a buffer for mmap - on ioctl, rewrite driver name in v4l2_capability.driver [and so on] What about this approach? Any volunteer? Regards, Eddi

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-dxr3 0.2.8
by Ville Skyttä 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

vdr-dxr3 0.2.8 is out, the most noteworthy thing being compatibility with VDR 1.6.0. 2008-04-06: Version 0.2.8 - Fix build with ffmpeg >= ~2007-07 (Ville Skyttä) - Fix build with VDR >= 1.5.9 (Ville Skyttä) - Drop support for VDR < 1.4.0 (Ville Skyttä) - Implement OSD level for VDR >= 1.5.9 (Luca Olivetti) - Fix subtitles for VDR >= 1.5.11 (Luca Olivetti, Sami Sundell) - Include VDR 1.6+ subtitle hack patch in patches/ (Luca Olivetti) https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=112648

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VDR as a set top box
by Simon Baxter 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi group My VDR box currently starts up like a regular Fedora Core user, auto-logs-in and starts xine - much like I expect most of you do. I'm looking for a way to make all the X startup and log in invisible to the user. This is where my knowledge of X and gnome falls down. Ideally, once the initial kernel messages have completed I'd like a VDR splash screen (maybe even a progress bar) as things start up. How do I do this? I've been looking at modifying xinitrc and xinitrc-common to remove the desktop manager, but this seems a bit brutal. Any ideas or thoughts? Thanks Simon

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Plugins DVD and Dolby Digital
by NIVAL Michaël 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, With VDR-1.5.10 and cvs version plugins DVD, it is not possible to have audio. The syslog shows: [4223] switching to pre 1.3.19 Dolby Digital compatibility mode UseDolbyDigital is disabled. The solution I have for the moment is to apply the patch that I put in attachment. Thanks for your help.

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xinelibout with no OSD
by Manfred Schmidt-Voigt 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hello List, I am not sure what is the status of the vdr-xinelibout pluging regarding vdr-1.6.0. Is the CVS Version already adopted? I have tried to migrate my running vdr-1.4.5 with xineliboutput-1.0.0pre7 to the latest version of vdr-1.6.0 and the latest CVS Version of xineliboutput. Streaming of live-TV is OK but I get only a very unusable OSD (see attached picture) when I hit a button on my "JustAnother"-JAVA-remotecontrol. And it seems so that the SVDR-port is blocked after this first button-press. The "very transparent" OSD shadow than stays forever. TV streaming is still working very fluently without any dropouts. My configuration is a diskless VDR box with FF Card and xineliboutput without frontends. The client is the "out-of-the-box" xine-ui with the apropriate libs from the actual Debian SID on my desktop computer. Have I missed something in the setup or is it realy not finished to run with vdr-1.6.0? Kind regards Manfred -- ------- Manfred Schmidt-Voigt ------- ----- www.mannitec.de ----- ------- mailto:manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de -------

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Problem with ExtRecMenu with CIFS
by Timo Laitinen 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hi, I'm having a problem with ExtRecMenu 1.1 on vdr 1.5.15, using a CIFS-mounted disk. When trying to rename e recording, in this case "Uutisvuoto" to "utisvuoto" (just to test), I get error "ERROR: Rename/Move failed" Looking at the disk, the directory "/data/varasto/vdr/utisvuoto" is created (and not removed), but the .rec -directory is not. Here's what the log says (with --verbose=3): Apr 5 22:23:06 attic vdr: [17840] creating directory /data/varasto/vdr/utisvuoto Apr 5 22:23:06 attic vdr: [17840] creating directory /data/varasto/vdr/utisvuoto/2008-04-05.21.41.50.99.rec Apr 5 22:23:07 attic vdr: [17840] [extrecmenu] moving /data/varasto/vdr/Uutisvuoto/2008-04-05.21.41.50.99.rec to /data/varasto/vdr/utisvuoto/2008-04-05.21.41.50.99.rec Apr 5 22:23:07 attic vdr: [17840] ERROR: Rename/Move failed! Apr 5 22:23:09 attic vdr: [17840] [extrecmenu] MoveRename() - rename() - Resource temporarily unavailable The disk is mounted with /etc/fstab: //aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/share /data/varasto cifs (credential stuff removed) uid=109,gid=29,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775 0 0 (not that the file_mode or dir_mode actually do anything, I just haven't got around to remove them...) Playing around with it a bit, it seems that rename("dir1/subdir","dir2/subdir"); I found near around tools.c:110 doesn't work with CIFS, if the "dir2/subdir" exists (although my 2-liner test program gives "Permission denied", even when running as root, instead of the "Resource temporarily unavailable"). With ext3 the test program works fine. I'm not sure whose problem it is, maybe a bug for CIFS, or maybe the standard behaviour for "rename" isn't clear (I couldn't find a documentation for it, BTW), but, in any case, it doesn't work. My test program works if the destination directory doesn't have the last subdir created. Would it be possible to make extrecmenu work in that way? Or should I/we/someone else/their uncle complain to the CIFS people? The version of the smbfs packet from which the mount.cifs comes is 3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.3, and the distribution... er... ubuntu... (gutsy). -- Best Regards, Timo ------------ timo.laitinen(a)utu.fi FABRICATI DIEM, PVNK.

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LOCDIR/LOCALEDIR and plugins
by Ville Skyttä 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hello, I'm a bit confused about the locale dir stuff in VDR 1.6.0 especially wrt. plugins. newplugin hardcodes LOCALEDIR to $(VDRDIR)/locale without taking Make.config into account at all. The result is that plugins will try to place their *.mo into a wrong location if LOCDIR was customized in in VDR's Make.config and/or "make install" was used. I suppose the attached patch would fix that. However that does not address weirdness in main VDR's locale dir handling; the value set for LOCDIR in Make.config gets built into vdr as the compile time default locale dir, but but "make install-i18n" will install the *.mo somewhere else unless one sets identical value for LOCALEDIR in Makefile (setting it in Make.config does not have any effect). Are both LOCDIR and LOCALEDIR needed? I'd try to clean this up and post a patch that fixes it if I knew what the intention is :)

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-filebrowser-0.2.0
by Holger Brunn 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hello list, I'm glad to announce a new version of the filebrowser plugin, you can get it from http://vdr.nasenbaeren.net/filebrowser/vdr-filebrowser-0.2.0.tgz Meanwhile I finished my study, so the old URL and mailaddress will become invalid somewhen in the near future. Please update references if you have published them somewhere. Changelog: - Update URL and mail address - Use new versioning scheme - %i expands to a string entered by user - %p expands to a string entered by user and this input is masked meanwhile - Added examples for this - Changed recode script to use ffmpeg - Changed cdrip script to use ffmpeg - Use gettext for internationalization Note to packagers: With this, you can provide localized names for commands - just add the names from commands.conf as keys to po files - Fixed some compiler warnings - Switched to GPLv3 - Clarifed license in source files (thanks to Thomas Günther for the hint) Your comments, bug reports and patches would be appreciated, regards Holger

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