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VDSB with m920x-2bfda2098748 and TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI
by Harald Milz 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, I was trying to get my MSI Digivox Mini SL to run with m920x-2bfda2098748. Basically, the USB stick works fine but my TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI seems to refuse work with the budget_ci driver contained therein. The setup is: frontend 1 Fujitsu Siemens Activy Budget-S PCI (Astra) frontend 2 TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI (Astra; no CI attached) frontend 3 Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S (Hotbird) frontend 4 MSI Digivox Mini SL DVB-T (DE-Munich, just to play with) Sourcecaps patch etc. work fine. Softdevice-0.4.0 used as the MPEG decoder. Whenever a recording starts, VDR crashes after some seconds: Apr 23 00:36:39 linvdr vdr: [7983] record /video/Die_Killerhand/2007-04-23.00.35.50.99.rec Apr 23 00:36:39 linvdr vdr: [7983] creating directory /video/Die_Killerhand Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [7983] creating directory /video/Die_Killerhand/2007-04-23.00.35.50.99.rec Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [7983] recording to '/video/Die_Killerhand/2007-04-23.00.35.50.99.rec/001.vdr' Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [7983] max. latency time 7 seconds Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [16815] file writer thread started (pid=7983, tid=16815) Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [16816] recording thread started (pid=7983, tid=16816) Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [16817] receiver on device 2 thread started (pid=7983, tid=16817) Apr 23 00:36:45 linvdr vdr: [16818] TS buffer on device 2 thread started (pid=7983, tid=16818) Apr 23 00:36:48 linvdr vdr: [7990] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 9, tp 212480 Apr 23 00:37:09 linvdr vdr: [15727] [VideoOut] sync info: repF = 52493, drpF = 0, totF = 52500 Apr 23 00:37:16 linvdr vdr: [16815] ERROR: video data stream broken Apr 23 00:37:16 linvdr vdr: [16815] initiating emergency exit Apr 23 00:37:16 linvdr vdr: [7983] emergency exit requested - shutting down And then VDR restarts, the recording restarts, VDR crashes, restarts, etc. This does not happen with the DVB drivers supplied with OpenSUSE 10.1 (which doesn't support the DVB-T stick ...) Any help is welcome. It would also be nice if "make insmod" did not load *all* of the DVB drivers, just the ones that are actually needed. It's also interesting to see that even if a recording starts for a channel that is on the same bouquet as the one tuned in on receiver 1, the second receiver is used for the recording. Is that by chance or on purpose? -- Write-Protect Tab, n.: A small sticker created to cover the unsightly notch carelessly left by disk manufacturers. The use of the tab creates an error message once in a while, but its aesthetic value far outweighs the momentary inconvenience. -- Robb Russon

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Re: Freezes with Reiserfs
by Sven Schwyn 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Thanks for the hints, however, I can't try it anymore. The latest freeze has left my data partition with a corrupt metadata tree and -- rebuild-tree gave the filesystem it's rest. After some research on Reiser4 and the surprising twist in Hans Reiser's personal fate (he was arrested with murder charges last October), I'm having my doubts as far as further development/ bugfixing is concerned and therefore decided to switch back to ext3 before playing back the backup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_reiser Cheers, -sven

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Freezes with Reiserfs
by Sven Schwyn 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi I'm having strange issues with my VDR box lately. However, I'm not sure at all it has anything to do with VDR as other services are running on it, too. The Gentoo box freezed four times in the past month, twice of which the very minute a VDR timer stopped. (Maybe even all four times, but I haven't checked that relation the first two times it happened.) The log doesn't help a bit, the machine simply ceases to do anyting. I've checked RAM and other parts of the system with no indication at all. However, I've seen that some people had issues a few years ago with ReiserFS (which I'm using, too). Now, I'm wondering if anybody using ReiserFS had system freezes as well. media-plugins/vdr-dvd-0.3.7_pre20070117 media-plugins/vdr-femon-1.1.0 media-plugins/vdr-mplayer-0.9.15 media-plugins/vdr-muggle-0.1.11-r1 media-plugins/vdr-nordlichtsepg-0.8a media-plugins/vdr-osdteletext-0.5.1 media-plugins/vdr-radio-0.2.0 media-plugins/vdr-setup-0.3.1 media-plugins/vdr-softdevice-0.3.1.20070313 media-plugins/vdr-streamdev-server-0.3.3_pre20061206 media-plugins/vdr-yaepg-0.0.2.1 media-tv/gentoo-vdr-scripts-0.3.8 media-tv/vdrplugin-rebuild-0.2 media-video/vdr-1.4.5 Kernel: 2.6.19 Cheers, -sven

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[ANNOUNCE] vdrtvib - VDR TV in a Box 2.0
by Les Smithson 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

I'm pleased to announce Version 2.0 of vdrtvib - VDR TV In a Box - a Gnome panel applet that shows a TV picture in a tiny box. Get it from http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/vdrtvib.html Version 2.0 does away with the pymedia dependency, resulting in a much improved playback.

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xineliboutput - DVB-C - No sound
by JJussi 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi to everybody! I have strange sound problem... I have VDR machine with 3x Terratec Cinergy (mark 3) DVB-C cards, xineliboutput settings are "local=none, remote=37890". If I connect with "vdr-sxfe xvdr://htpc --audio=alsa" at some other computer (at network) everything works fine and I can hear audio of tv-broadcast.. BUT, if I do same "vdr-sxfe xvdr://htpc --audio=alsa" at my HTPC (that machine what have those DVB-C cards and it's connected to LCD-TV and 5.1 amp.) I get no sound what ever (no front, rear or surround) from tv-broadcast.. HOWEVER, if I select "Menu - Media Player - Play file" and select some AVI, MPEG, MP3, OGG or DVD... I get sound... Same problem exists if I try to play Recorded tv-show... So, have somebody some ideas why can't get (broadcast) sound at local machine, but sound works at remote machines... -- JJussi

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.2
by Klaus Schmidinger 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

VDR developer version 1.5.2 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.5.2.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous developer version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.5.1-1.5.2.diff I haven't had time to work on VDR in the past few weeks, so several bugfixes etc. that have been posted on the mailing list are still in my inbox and I have yet to look into them. I just wanted to get this version out now, because it implements a very first step into using UTF-8 character encoding. If you're using a language that has many non-7bit-ASCII characters, you may not want to use this version. However, if your language uses only a few such characters (like German), running this version on a UTF-8 system should at least get the file names of recordings right - even though the umlauts will not be displayed correctly on the OSD). WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment, I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The changes since version 1.5.1: - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed handling user activity for shutdown, which I had messed when adopting Udo's original patch (thanks to Udo Richter). - Added Turkish language texts (thanks to Oktay Yolgeçen). - Added missing rules for generating iso8859-13 font to Makefile. - 'libsi' now converts the incoming strings into the system's character set according to the DVB standard. The system's character set is determined from the LANG environment variable. If no recognizable setting can be found, no conversion will take place. Note that currently only the strings received from the SI data stream are converted, there have not been any changes regarding displaying UTF-8 characters on the OSD, yet - this will follow in one of the next steps. With this conversion, it should now be safe to run VDR on a UTF-8 file system, because all incoming characters are converted to UTF-8. This will most likely result in wrong characters being displayed on the OSD (because there UTF-8 is not known, yet), but the file names should be ok (haven't tested this myself, though, because I don't do UTF-8 - so please be very careful when testing!). There's one piece of bad news here: the German pay-tv broadcaster Premiere apparently encodes all EPG strings as ISO8859-1, but fails to correctly mark these strings as such. Therefore 'libsi' (following the DVB standard) considers the strings to be encoded in the default ISO6937 and converts them to whatever the system's character set is. This, of course, results in wrong umlauts. On its old transponder, the ProSieben/SAT.1 channels also had their EPG data wrongly encoded, but apparently on the new transponder they started broadcasting on this month, they got it right. Have fun! Klaus

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NIT handling change in 1.4.3-4
by Anssi Hannula 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

NIT handling was changed in 1.4.3-4 by adding an additional check if we're actually receiving this transponder. See the current code: > for (cChannel *Channel = Channels.First(); Channel; Channel = Channels.Next(Channel)) { > if (!Channel->GroupSep() && Channel->Source() == Source && Channel->Nid() == ts.getOriginalNetworkId() && Channel->Tid() == ts.getTransportStreamId()) { > if (Setup.UpdateChannels >= 5) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Transponder())) { // only modify channels if we're actually receiving this transponder The above check was added. However, the variable 'Frequency' may not always be the current transponder frequency. The current transponder could also be in the Frequencies[] array. This causes the channel update to be always disabled. Below we search the array if the transponder of the 'Channel' is there: > if (!ISTRANSPONDER(Frequency / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > for (int n = 0; n < NumFrequencies; n++) { > if (ISTRANSPONDER(Frequencies[n] / 1000, Channel->Transponder())) { > Frequency = Frequencies[n]; > break; > } > } > } Maybe the new check should be moved here, so that it uses the new correct 'Frequency' that was found from Frequencies[] in the loop above? > Channel->SetCableTransponderData(Source, Frequency, Modulation, SymbolRate, CodeRate); > } > } > found = true; > } > } -- Anssi Hannula

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OSD layout
by Simon Baxter 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Has anyone done any work (or written a plugin) to update the standard OSD? I've not done this yet, but see you can change font size and colours using themes, but I was thinking more than this. I've now replaced my TV with a big high-res flat screen that could fit way more text etc on the screen. Anyone feel the same?

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analog input with TT C-2300??
by Simon Baxter 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

I'm looking at getting a Technotrend C-2300 card. The card specs on dvbshop.net indicate: Bu 1 Audio-In 3,5mm Jack-plug Bu 2 Composite-Video-In Cinch-female connector Does this mean there's an MPEG2-encoder onboard as well? How do I use this? With v4l2/ivtv and pvrinput? Thanks

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EFF Europe petition against IPRED2
by Johannes Stezenbach 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Hi, IANAL so forgive me if it is irrelevant, but to me it seems important enough to pass the information on. Quoting http://www.copycrime.eu/ : "On April 24th, the European Parliament will vote on IPRED2, the Second Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive. ... If IPRED2 passes in its current form, "aiding, abetting, or inciting" copyright infringement on a "commercial scale" in the EU will become a crime." The two key problems here are: 1. undefined meaning of "commercial scale" and "incitement" 2. it becoming a crime (as opposed to a a subject of civil law) My understanding is that e.g. it could become a crime to write software which could be used to record pay-TV without the broadcaster's consent, even though using a valid subscription. (But, again, IANAL, so my understanding could be wrong -- you have to decide for yourself. I think currently there is no law against writing such software, only using it might be a (minor) infringement.) The goal of the petition is to ask the European Parliament to amend IPRED2 with clear definitions of the language, and to clearly limit the scope to real criminals (i.e. people making money selling fake designer watches or cloned DVDs etc.). Visit http://www.copycrime.eu/ for more info and to sign the petition if you want to support it. Thanks, Johannes

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