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osdtetetext plugin
by Lauri Tischler 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

that plugin is ancient. Is there somewhere a plugin which compiles under 1.4.6 or so.

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VDR for my grandfather
by Paul Menzel 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Dear list, First, I hope this list is also for hardware questions. If not, could you please recommend me a mailing list for such a topic. Second, do you know if most people from vdr-portal.de are also reading this list? Here is my problem. My grandfather likes to have videos of special events like birthdays, etc. Some years ago he did this by himself with a VHS-Camcorder and VHS-Recorder and used both for cutting. The VHS-Recorder broke and now he has a Hard-Disk-and-DVD-Recorder from Pioneer DVR-520H. I used my Mini-DV-Camcorder from Panasonic NV-GS500 at the last event and recorded the footage. But I do not have the time to go through everything and cut it and edit the scene transitions, etc. My grandfather said, he would do it by himself. So I need hardware and software, that he can easily cut footage, enter titles and add music and commentary. 1. Do you know, if there exist easy to use software for this kind of task even an over 80-year-old could handle. Here are my ideas with pros and cons. 2. He has already the hard-disk-DVD device with firewire. As far as I know one can do basic editing with the remote control. But controlling everything with the remote is too troublesome in my opinion. 3. Buy a HTPC and replace the hard-disk-DVD device. Do you know, if it is possible to do editing tasks with the CRT TV as a monitor and maybe one could add a keyboard and a mouse. What requirements should such a HTPC have for recording TV-shows (since its replacing the hard-disk-DVD-recorder) and editing videos? (A link to a thread should be sufficient, since such questions are probably already answered somewhere.) 4. To solve the problem with the CRT TV as screen, probably one should by a laptop. To record TV-shows it is hooked up in the living room. And to edit he takes it to his desk and plugs in a keyboard and mice, since I think, he would not be able to handle a touchpad and the laptop keyboard. In solution 3. and 4. I can also support him, logging into the machine from mine over the Internet. What do you guys thinks. Thanks a lot in advance. Paul

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Lot of distortions in replay
by Kartsa 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Lately I have had problems with recordings as if there is bits and pieces missing from the recording. Sometimes there seems to be missing 30sec or more. And these dropouts comes sometimes frequently like every minute or so. Femon shows good signal and snr and ber is quite low also. I remember sometime been reading about dvb card sensitivity to power supply. Does anyone have similar experiences? I'm using vdr-1.4.6 with a couple of technotrend/hauppauge dvb-c cards (Nexus-CA and Nova-C). I'm also using dxr3 as video out. \\Kartsa

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vdr-1.5.9 and ttxtsubs patch/plugin
by Luca Olivetti 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Hello, I downloaded the patch for both vdr and the ttxtsubs plugin from Rolf's page, but the subtitles aren't showing. With a quick look (and I remark "quick" so I may be wrong) it seems that the patches now don't change anymore the osd but use the new osd level in vdr-1.5.9. I'd like to know if the new patch is supposed to be working, or the cause the subtitles aren't showing is my hurriedly patched dxr3 and xine plugins. If the latter, do you have any hint on how to correctly implement osd level in said plugins? Bye -- Luca

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Mid range CPU choice
by covert covert 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

About to step into the deep end and build my first VDR box. In fact 2 of them at the same time both with the exact same specs. All parts are going to be new. New CPU's are a lot more confusing than the simple days of single cores at fixed clockspeeds. My question is what CPU should I chose for good noise reducing , heat reducing solutions. For processing power and cost I am looking at AMD AM2 4000 and Intel Duel Core E2140 and Intel core2 Duo E4400. I am open to other suggestions as long as they can currently be purchased in store. Since the system will be spending 95% of it's time idle I want a CPU that can drop down to the slowest possible clock speed with the least power consumption. I will also be using temperature controlled fans to keep it real quiet and any other ways I can find to drop down power and noise. Advice on the best CPU choice would be much appreciated.

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a simple locale question
by jhall＠maoz.com 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hello, In writing a plugin that displays a date, it occurred to me that date in a locale-friendly way might be a good idea. What is the current 'blessed' way to make vdr display a date? I suppose it could be a setup option, but that just seems kindda drab. _J

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DVD plugin stutters
by Kartsa 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

It has again been a while since I wrote to the list. Now I have managed to create an "out of the box system" by using repositories. My audio replay is kinda stuttering when replaying DVD's with dvd plugin. It's like the volume would be waving up and down with a rate of about 5Hz. I have a DXR3 and I have tried all possible things I could think of. Anybody had similar problems? I thought I'd try using mplayer plugin for DVDplayback but for some reason my mplayer plugin does not want to play DVD's (don't know why all settings should be correct in mplayer.sh.conf, even set debug to true). On settop player the disk plays fine. I have vdr-1.4.6 and dvd-0.3.6-b03. all installed through yum on a fedora core 7 system. I have actually three systems and it happens on all of them. They all have dxr3 but thats about the similarities they have. \\Kartsa

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.7.11 plugin
by Reinhard Nissl 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi, it's been a long time being busy at work and home, so I'm very pleased to announce maintenance release 0.7.11 today, which you can find on my homepage: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl This version doesn't contain all the features I had originally planned, because recent changes in VDR-1.5.9 demanded an earlier release. The cOsd changes in VDR-1.5.9 have only been addressed in a way that make the plugin compile. vdr-xine-0.7.11 still doesn't allow multiple cXineOsd instances. Hopefully, the cXineOsd part gets updated until VDR makes use of this feature. Enjoy. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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dvb-s dvb-t all in one card
by covert covert 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi guys. Finlay getting to the pointy end to build my VDR box's up. I have been looking around for a all in one card and since I cannot get hold of the FlyDVB one I wanted in Australia I am looking into getting some WinTV-HVR-3000. My motherboard is going to be either a M2NPV-VM or a AN - M2HD as recommend by someone on this list. Has anyone had good success with this card in VDR. Particularity getting both DVB-T and DVB-S working at the same time. I would love to read about anyones oppinion about this WinTV-HVR-3000 card. Here is a link to the specs page for the others who don't know what it is. Manufactures website http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_hvr3000.html Wiki entry on LinuxTV http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-3000

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diseqs command's logging
by Igor Nikanov 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hello is it possible to logging the sending of diseqs command, like this Dec 4 16:03:38 vdr[14005]: Rotor-command E0 31 6E D0 73 sent Dec 4 16:03:38 vdr[14005]: Diseqc E0 31 6B 1 sent. Dec 4 16:03:38 vdr[14005]: Diseqc E1 31 6B 1 sent. Dec 4 16:03:38 vdr[14005]: Diseqc E1 31 6B 1 sent. Dec 4 16:03:38 vdr[14005]: Rotor-command E1 31 6E D0 73 sent Igor

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