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background vdr thread eating cpu
by Torgeir Veimo 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Every two and a half minute, my syslog gets an entry like: Jan 3 06:04:40 htpc kernel: cx88[1]/2: cx8802_timeout Jan 3 06:04:49 htpc vdr: [2369] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 9, tp 578 About 30 seconds before i get this entry, thee's a vdr thread that eats about 25% system cpu time. I'm wondering what it's doing with all that processor power? As I'm using budget cards with softdevice, this has an effect on tv playback.. It only happens when I'm using two cards at the same time. top - 06:10:04 up 21 min, 2 users, load average: 2.18, 2.63, 2.10 Tasks: 96 total, 7 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 24.3% sy, 0.3% ni, 24.6% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si, 0.0% st Mem: 515672k total, 160352k used, 355320k free, 22520k buffers Swap: 1815304k total, 0k used, 1815304k free, 61232k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2388 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 R 46.9 5.8 13:28.16 vdr 2369 root 15 0 242m 29m 4140 S 17.6 5.8 1:04.57 vdr 2368 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 3.0 0.0 0:13.46 kdvb-fe-1 -- Torgeir Veimo torgeir(a)pobox.com

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VDRAdmin and character mapping
by Pasi Juppo 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I have a small annoying problem that most likely is quite trivial but can find the cause. All characters above ASCII 127 are converted to something else. E.g. 'ä' gets converted to ','. Funny thing is that on my server (FC4) the conversion is done like that but on windows computer they are converted to '?' chars. On the machine where VDRAdmin is running characters are shown correctly. It seems to be related to language setting but can't figure out how to fix this. Could someone with more knowledge help me? Br, Pasi

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[ANNOUNCE] Maintenance update - image-0.2.7
by Andreas Brachold 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi folks, There are a simple maintenance release available for vdr-image-plugin. Thanks to all supporters! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- image-0.2.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This plugin allows the display of digital images, like jpeg, tiff, png, bmp and some more, on the TV screen, using the DVB out device from vdr. Changes: - Add checks for sanity of memory buffers - Create LIBDIR if'nt exist - Updated some i18n text - Updated french translations. (Thanks to NIVAL Michaël) - Updated finnish translations. (Thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Warn if wrong APIVERSION used Details: http://vdr-image.berlios.de/ Download: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4286 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy new year, Andreas

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Removing newline characters from EPG entries.
by Carsten Koch 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, I found the following code in epg.c lines 633-636: // VDR can't usefully handle newline characters in the title and shortText of EPG // data, so let's always convert them to blanks (independent of the setting of EPGBugfixLevel): strreplace(title, '\n', ' '); strreplace(shortText, '\n', ' '); AFAIK, VDR _can_ handle newlines in the title and shortText, as long as they are represented as '|'. So I wonder if it would not be an improvement to change the above code into // Change newline characters into '|', which will be displayed as newline. strreplace(title, '\n', '|'); strreplace(shortText, '\n', '|'); Carsten.

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Mplayer plugin does not always play files
by Kartsa 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I just stumbled in a problem while watching an mpg file using mplayer plugin. There was something causing vdr ro restart. vdr: [3846] record /srv/vdr/Amyn_lailla/2006-12-31.18.59.50.99.rec vdr: [5462] ERROR: /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0: Device or resource busy vdr: [3846] timer 55 (5 1859-1955 'Smallville') start vdr: [3846] record /srv/vdr/Smallville/2006-12-31.18.59.50.99.rec vdr: [5465] ERROR: /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0: Device or resource busy vdr: [5460] ERROR: video data stream broken vdr: [5460] initiating emergency exit Firstly, does using mplayer plugin cause device or resource busy error? Secondly, why cant I resume playing the mpg file I was watching? The mpg file is just a cut and repack of a vdr recording (ProjectX). And I had just watched a couple similar recordings. When restarting all drivers is reloaded. Last line in log after trying to restart play is: logger: *** DEBUG: Variable CMDLINE has value "/usr/bin/mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -framedrop -cache 4096 -slave -nolirc -quiet" Which is exactly same as when the replay works. I have noticed that sometimes I have to restart VDR to make it play the files on a mounted usb drive after mounting it. I have vdr-1.4.4 and vdr-mplayer-0.9.15. I've got two dvb-c cards (one ff and one budget). VDR seems to work otherwise normally. I could not find anything related wrom the mail archive. Anybody know any solution? \\Kartsa

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Problems compiling mailbox plugin 0.4.0
by Jere Malila 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi! I'm having problems with mailbox plugin. When I try to compile it I get: Plugin mailbox: make[1]: Entering directory `/vdr-system/vdr/PLUGINS/src/mailbox-0.4.0' g++ -fPIC -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -fno-operator-names -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_VDR=1 -c -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"mailbox"' -I./AxLib/include -I/usr/include/imap -I../../../include -o AxLib/src/Mail/CallBackDispatcher.o AxLib/src/Mail/CallBackDispatcher.cpp In file included from AxLib/src/Mail/CallBackProcessor.h:37, from AxLib/src/Mail/CallBackDispatcher.h:40, from AxLib/src/Mail/CallBackDispatcher.cpp:42: AxLib/src/Mail/c-client-header.h:30:22: c-client.h: No such file or directory Am I doing something wrong? Running Debian Sarge and vdr 1.4.2 -J-

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Utf8-patch experiences, anyone?
by Petri Helin 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi, I have been experimenting with increasing the resolution of the OSD with xineliboutput with at least some kind of success (see http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdosdrx4.png and try to not get bothered about the other "images" you are forced to see, this was the first image sharing site I came across). Now there are some problems that have come up with the HD OSD. Font rendering and the way fonts and OSD are used by plugins are the main distractions. I bumped in to this Utf8-patch (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch) which looks promising, but failed to find any more information than what is provided in the german wiki. And the latest adaptation is for VDR 1.4.0. Is the someone out there using this patch and could share his experiences? Maybe someone has adapted it to the current version of VDR... -Petri

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Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x
by marius＠heidenstecker.de 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi Udo, thanks for your great work. > Possible changes: > - Make the 'inactive' mode (waiting for background activity to end, then > shut down) more visible to the user: > - Suggestion was to put up a message 'VDR will shut down when idle. > Press power button again to force shutdown' before starting the > confirms. > - Alternative may be a message 'VDR will shut down later when idle' if > shutdown was not confirmed > - Alternative may be to permanently put up a message 'VDR is waiting > for background tasks to complete'. How about taking epgsearch's behavior and put up a message 'VDR is waiting for background tasks to complete. Press "ok" for details'. Pressing "ok" would bring up an osd list containing all plugins, which didn't return null in their Active()-method, with their todo-Text. So a user could then see, what's going on. Sure, those key-presses should not be taken into account as regular key-presses in order to not cancel the shutdown. > - A 'bug' in the old code allows to automatically shut down VDR at the > end of a playback, though this was probably never intended. It could > however be re-added as 'feature'. Really? I never knew that. But I consider it as a nice feature a la "I just want to watch that movie and sleep afterwards". As most of us know, sometimes tiredness is stronger and end of the movie was never seen while vdr stays on until UserMinActivity strikes. Hope it will be implemented and this time on purpose. ;oD Marius a.k.a. DMH

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EPG from external source
by Boguslaw Juza 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi! >From manual: "<table id> is a hex number that indicates the table this event is contained in (if this is left empty or 0 this event will not be overwritten or modified by data that comes from the DVB stream)" I want VDR to overwrite events which I have imported from external source. What should I set as table id for external events? What will happen if I set recording for event, which will be replaced by data from DVB stream? Boguslaw Juza

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OT: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria - Connie's Story
by Robbo 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Good morning, Do apologise for been off-topic but did anyone record How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria - Connie's Story last night on BBC1, only need the last 20 minutes. If anyone has a copy I can download will be much appreciated.. Thanks in advance.. Richard...

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