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HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card
by Ondrej Wisniewski 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

With VDR getting ready for HD-TV it seems that today the MPEG4 decoding can only be done on a high end processor or an external decoder card. Many people are still waiting for a FF DVB-S2 card but it doesn't look very promising at the moment. So I was wondering if it would be possible to use the on board video decoder chips of the VIA EPIA boards like the VIA EPIA EX15000G http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_i… This board mounts a CX700M2 chipset which features MPEG2/4 hardware decoding. It has DVI and Y/Pb/Pr video output as well as analog and SPDIF audio (coaxial and optical). So that's everything we need, isn't it. I know, currently the OpenChrome video driver doesn't support MPEG2/4 video decoding for the CX700M2 and there are probably other things missing from the software support side. But from what I see, this or a similar motherboard in combination with a budget DVB-S2 card have all the hardware features that are needed to have HD-TV. So we actually have the proper hardware platform *today* for a quite a low budget. So if all the efforts go into driver and application development for such a platform, there is no need to wait for FF DVB-S2 cards. Or am I missing something here? -- Ondrej

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Re: [vdr] vdr-rotor support patches for VDR-1.5.14
by lucian orasanu 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hy. use this patch too. --- device.c 2008-01-28 10:33:00.000000000 +0000 +++ device.c.new 2008-01-28 10:32:47.000000000 +0000 @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ bool cDevice::SwitchChannel(int Directio return result; } -eSetChannelResult cDevice::SetChannel(const cChannel *Channel, bool LiveView) +eSetChannelResult cDevice::SetChannel(const cChannel *Channel, bool LiveView, cDevice *SpecificSourceDevice) { if (LiveView) { StopReplay(); ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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vdr-rotor support patches for VDR-1.5.14
by lucian orasanu 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hy I say that i will be tester, so rotor patcheches aply fine and compile only in this order. 1. Rotor patch vdr-1.5.14-h264-other-rotor.diff to vdr-rotor-0.1.4-vdr-1.5 2. Rotor patch vdr-1.5.14-h264-other-rotor.diff to vdr. and compile ok but I could not testit because i meseed up my xine-lib tryng with core-avc that for me image is worst diferent then ffmpeg. I will post soon news, how i can see from patches now supports dvbs-2 or not? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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xine problems with vdr
by Jouni Karvo 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

hi, I tried to upgrade to xine-lib 1.2 from mercurial. Now I have a weird problem (that does not go away even if I downgrade back to 1.1-xine-lib) - When I start xine from the startup scripts, it segfaults: This is the command: XINEPRG="/usr/local/bin/xine" XINECMD="$XINEPRG -L -A alsa -a spdif --no-splash -g -f -V xv --stdctl vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes --post vdr_video --post vdr_audio --verbose=2" su vdr <<EOF cp /home/vdr/.xine/config-backup /home/vdr/.xine/config (sleep 1; while (test ! -f /home/vdr/xup) ; do sleep 1; done; while (test ! -p $VDRSTREAM) ; do sleep 1; done; sleep 5; DISPLAY=:0.0 $XINECMD ) & (xup is created when X server is up and running, $VDRSTREAM is the socket, so it should be there, sleep 5 is just in case. This is an excerpt: xine_stream_new video_out: thread created audio_out: thread created xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set xine_stream_new xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set xine_stream_new xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set video_out_xv: VO_PROP_ASPECT_RATIO(0) init class succeeded bash: line 6: 3350 Muistialueen ylitys (core dumped) DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/local/bin/xine -L -A alsa -a spdif --no-splash -g -f -V xv --stdctl vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes --post vdr_video -- post vdr_audio --verbose=2 frame: (0, 0)-(-1, -1), zoom: (1,00, 1,00) (Muistialueen ylitys = segmentation fault) gdb backtrace: Core was generated by `/usr/local/bin/xine -L -A alsa -a spdif --no-splash -g -f -V xv --stdctl vdr://'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x080f888c in destroy_oxine (oxine=0x0) at oxine.c:710 710 if (oxine->otk) otk_free(oxine->otk); (gdb) bt #0 0x080f888c in destroy_oxine (oxine=0x0) at oxine.c:710 #1 0x080f8906 in oxine_exit () at oxine.c:731 #2 0x08050a1c in gui_exit (w=0x0, data=0x0) at actions.c:607 #3 0x080592d8 in gui_execute_action_id (action=ACTID_QUIT) at event.c:564 #4 0x0809a6e8 in xine_stdctl_loop (dummy=0x0) at stdctl.c:152 #5 0xb7c2a240 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #6 0xb7d0249e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) BUT: If I start the same command on the command line, the result is: video_out: thread created audio_out: thread created xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set xine_stream_new xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set xine_stream_new xine_interface: unknown or deprecated stream param 10 set video_out_xv: VO_PROP_ASPECT_RATIO(0) init class succeeded gui_xine_open_and_play(): mrl: 'vdr://tmp/vdr-xine/stream#demux:mpeg_pes', sub 'NONE', start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0. xine: found input plugin : VDR display device plugin xine: found demuxer plugin: mpeg pes demux plugin video discontinuity #1, type is 0, disc_off 0 waiting for audio discontinuity #1 audio discontinuity #1, type is 0, disc_off 0 waiting for in_discontinuity update #1 vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 22483 av_offset=0 pts spu_offset=0 pts xine_play and so on - Flawless! I have already checked PATH - not a problem. su -l in the script does not help either. It is not about some setup script not finished yet, either, as if I kill vdr, so that the loop will try to restart xine, the same effect happens. Any ideas? yours, Jouni

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Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?
by Travel Factory S.r.l. 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

> > Isn't that the fun part of it? I don't watch much TV, but I > like > > fiddling and tuning the VDR! > > What you said here is absolutely right, i totally agree :) I also agree... for my part... but my wife doesn't !! She wants to turn on the pc and switch to euronews... or record a film...

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Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card
by lucian orasanu 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

>>for hdtv - no. >>I don't see the h.264 hardware decoding. mpeg4 is not >>h.264. >> >>Igor What is H.264? H.264 is the next-generation video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. H.264 can match the best possible MPEG-2 quality at up to half the data rate. H.264 also delivers excellent video quality across the entire bandwidth spectrum from 3G to HD and everything in between (from 40 Kbps to upwards of 10 Mbps). Lucian ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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need CAM on every DVB device?
by Simon Baxter 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Simple question, do you need a separate CAM for every DVB device you add? I'm receiving a cable service from a single provider and want to decode up to 2 boquets at once. Do both DVB cards need to have their own CI/CAM? Thanks Simon

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MainMenuHooks in vdr-1.6.0?
by Christian Wieninger 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Klaus, is there a chance to have this patch http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/32212 in 1.6.0? Several plugins already support this patch and most VDR distributions have this too, imho. Would be great to have it in core VDR. BR, Christian

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Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?
by Travel Factory S.r.l. 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

1.6 now I want to add that about every 12 months I rebuild my vdr pc.... and everytime I spend days trying to have it working ! Plugins, patches, patches of patches, combo-patches that install all the patches needed by plugins but not the plugins.... would it be possible to have something like a cpan/pear repository where you can download all the needed stuff ? I'd likt that Klaus strongly asks all plugins/patches developers to setup their web sites to have a specific "1.6" page for their work and ANOTHER web page for 1.7 development ! And clear informations about version compatibility. Also Klaus should update his plugin page..... Francesco

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Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?
by Klaus Schmidinger 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

There has been some controversy about my recent decision to move forward and require the "multiproto" driver for VDR in the developer version. It is also currently rather unclear whether the current PES recording format can be kept to handle HDTV, or whether it would make sense (or even be feasible) to switch to TS (as suggested by the people from RMM). In order to take the edge of this, I was wondering if it would make sense to revoke the switch to the "multiproto" driver and go straight towards a stable version 1.6.0 with what is now in version 1.5.14. This should satisfy all those who are eagerly awaiting a new stable version, without forcing them to make the driver switch now. If we decide to go that way, I would release a version 1.5.15 with what could become the new stable, wait until like the end of the month to see whether it still needs some minor fixes, and call it 1.6.0 then. I know there are still some patches out there that some would expect to go into the next stable version, but I actually want to prepare VDR for HDTV before looking into these patches. So, here's the straw poll: Should there be a stable version 1.6.0 now, based on what's in version 1.5.14, but without DVB-S2 or even H.264 support? Yes or No? Klaus

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