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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-softdevice-0.3.0
by Stefan Lucke 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hello, the softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr's softdevice plugin. General info: Softdevice plugin enables vdr to run on your desktop with so called budget cards. You'll get vdr output via framebuffer or X11-Xv or DirectFB or vidix to your screen. Decoding is done via ffmpeg. Supported vdr versions: (1.2.x,) 1.3.x and 1.4.x Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Special hint: For cle266 hardware decoding support via DirectFB, you'll need a fresh version from todays DirectFB's cvs. Further you'll need libcle266mpegdec which is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cle266mpegdec/ Changelog since last release: 2006-10-09: softdevice-0.3.0 2006-10-03: - fix hang after long pause. 2006-10-01: - enable cropping for video-shm. - Remove some unneeded code and fix ctl->width/height setting. 2006-09-29: - video-shm: silence warnings. - video-xv: removed osdMutex. - video-dfb: removed osdMutex. clear non video area when OSD is active to avoid fade effects. 2006-09-22: - protect locking for old picture by a separate mutex. - fix possible lost picture update and dropped areaMutex. 2006-09-21: - introduce a mutex to protect calls to videoOut from SoftOsd - initialize parameters for the vout->GetOSDMode() call 2006-09-19: - fix "Error! Trying to unlock a nil picture... Ignoring" error message. - use current_OsdMode instead of setupStore.OsdMode 2006-09-18: - fix RefreshAll for NoVScaleCopyToBitmap() - add a very simple cpu type and host system detection to configure - fix changing from pseudo to software osd blending for video-xv - remove no longer needed test for broken gcc compiler from configure - combine shared memory checks into CheckShmIDs() - improve error messages in video-shm.c 2006-09-17: - replace "pshufw" with MMX commands to make scaling optimazations available to processors without MMX2 - cleanup PicBuffer.c, release PicBuffers in destructor,... - add linux framebuffer detection to configure - disable libcle266mpegdec if no DirectFB is found - add altivec optimizations to some AlphaBlend() and yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx2_line() - make utils.c compile on non MMX machines, cleanup some #ifdefs - fix compile issue with g++-4.1.1 - add NoVScaleCopyToBitmap() for RGB modes 2006-09-16: - added -vo shm: to help option - added support new fields from libcle266mpegdec-0.4 - video-dfb: removed check and support for DSBLIT_INTERLACED as DirectFB has buildin support for this now. - disable cle266 support if DirectFB is not patched for this - cle266: fix one aspect ratio info and configure (by Rolf Ahrenberg) 2006-09-12: - don't continue on argument errors 2006-09-11: - catch unrecognized options for dfb-out (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg) 2006-09-10: - fix "NVidia software alpha blending OSD" issue, which turned out to be a compiler problem with g++-4.1.1. (Many thanks to Prakash Punnoor, Matthias Schwarzott, Chris Elsworth and all the others who helped to fix this) 2006-09-09: - video-xv.c: silence some warnings - video-vidix: offer equalizer settings via OSD (brightness, hue, saturation and contrast) offer HW-deinetrlace via OSD when available (by Roland Praml) 2006-09-08: - limit destination video offsets to even values - fix typo in asignment - fix xv-out with subplugins disabled 2006-09-04: - fix wrong colors when using ShmClient (reported by Matthias Schwarzott and derWolf@vdrportal) - disable debuging printouts - cleanup - set sPicBuffer completly to zero 2006-08-27: - adjust ffmpeg library order in configure - enable different pixel formats in video-xv - properly init ctl->key (reported by Matthias Schwarzott) 2006-08-05: - video-dfb: disable reported failed flags in SetParams() 2006-07-25: - no longer exit when a audio mode is not available, audio is only disabled. - clean up audio-alsa - init tmpOsdSurface and delete dirtyLines properly - try to use the XVideo default brightness, hue etc. values on first start - new option: "-vo xv:use-defaults", can be used to reset the values of brightness, hue etc. to the default values. (Based on a patch by Matthias Schwarzott) 2006-07-16: - only link against libXi if necessary ( do we need libXi at all?) - check explicitly for pkg-config in configure - configure: "--with-ffmpeg-path" overrides pkg-config - unconditionally set _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN Atom when going fullscreen (recent Metacity WM need it) 2006-07-12: - fix segfault in OSD refresher. 2006-07-11: - remove no longer defined FFMPEG_VERSION string 2006-07-10: - move alsa related stuff into a separate file, enable build without alsa support - remove uneeded include of "sys/mman.h" and "sys/ioctl.h" from video.c - set max_width and max_height for temporary PicBuffer - remove uneeded include of "linux/fb.h" from softdevice.c - fix possible endianness problems in SoftOsd.c - add support for yuy2 pixel format to alpha blend and copy pic buf code - change return value of AllocPicBuffer() - change the parameters of yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx() so that it can also be used for not interlaced pictures 2006-06-25: - video pixelformat and stretchblit mode can be locked by output driver, so that changeing them is not offered via OSD. - video-dfb: - Adapted radeon real alphablend handling to current DirectFB-cvs. It is now handled similary to via mode (with underlay). - In mgatv-out mode, video surface is now allways allocated with attribute DSCAPS_INTERLACED to support interlaced stretchblit of DirectFB-cvs. - Removed test #if directives introduced in first via hw-dec support. - Lock pixelformat and stretchblit mode in case via hw-decode and mgatv mode. 2006-06-21: - video-dfb: changed pixel format for HW-decoding to I420. So accelerated and unaccelerated modes use the same pixel format. 2006-06-18: - ignore config.log on commit checks - removed hardcoded FBDEV name in Makefile and configure 2006-06-17: - cle266, video-dfb: added HW-decoder support - configure: check for libcle266mpegdec instead of cle266mpegdec - get frame buffer name at runtime: 1. via enviroment variable FRAMEBUFFER 2. try /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0 2006-06-16: - video-dfb: fix via aspect ratio handling 2006-06-15: - make configure a bit more verbose. A complete log is now saved in config.log. - fix delete <-> delete[] mismatch reported by Prakash Punnoor. 2006-06-09: - activate mmx version of yv12_to_yuy2_il_ () for dfb, xv and vidix. - name change libsubvdr-softdevice-METHOD.so.?? -> libsoftdevice-METHOD.so.?? . - removed option -L . is obsolete since we can get the path we are loaded from, at runtime (thanks to Petri Hintukainen). 2006-06-06: - mmx version of yv12_to_yuy2_il_c(): yv12_to_yuy2_il_mmx2(). not yet called. 2006-05-30: - set pic->format in AllocPicBuffer() - more debug messages 2006-05-29: - fix PICDEB - fix a few stupid errors in VideoFilter.c, initialise more variables in PicFilter.c 2006-05-27: - move postproc stuff into VideoFilter.[ch] - apply patch to use direct rendering - add tests for older ffmpeg versions to configure - add "--disable-mmx" and "--disable-mmx2" to configure - fix possible segfaults in SoftOsd when using a zoom faktor 2006-05-23: - fix VIA OSD transparency for newer DirectFB cvs versions - merged some defines which belong together - added 15:9 screen aspect - fix postprocessing not offered via OSD even detected by configure - reenable software alpha blending for video-shm - move AlphaBlend into utils.c, clean up MMX defines 2006-05-07: - video-dfb: preparation for DSBLIT_INTERLACED which results in better displaying of downscaled 16:9 on 4:3 TVs with matrox. - video-dfb: make YUY2 color info reordering dependant of interlaced vs. progressive video. 2006-05-01: - some fixes for DirectFB compile, configure & 64bit arch . -- Stefan Lucke

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vdr-xine & xine-lib 1.1.2 (patch update)
by Darren Salt 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

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vdr-1.4.3 + softdevice no video out!
by Paul ZHU 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

hello, I have a Twinhan1025 card and after I loaded related bttv module, use the following two command, I can watch the specific channel via xine. ------------------- [root@pc1 ~]$./szap -l 11300 -c /home/zhuhx/channels.conf "JCTV" -r [root@pc1 ~]$xine stdin://mpeg2</dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 [zhuhx@pc1 ~]$ cat /home/zhuhx/channels.conf JCTV:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:165:100:0:0:16:0:0:0 TBN:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:166:104:0:0:17:0:0:0 [zhuhx@pc1 ~]$ ------------------- but, when I try to use vdr-1.4.3 and softdevice-0.2.3,the vdr comes out with OSD, but no TV program comes out. Is it because I use the wrong command or the /video/channels.conf format is wrong? (I use "szap -o vdr" , see following info.)? or I didn't press the right key to let vdr lock and output video? what I do is the following: 1.use "scan" to generate channels.conf and cp it to /video, which has two entries for 2 TV channel. -------------------------------------------------------------- [root@pc1 dvb-s]# pwd /home/zhuhx/linux-dvb/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0/util/scan/dvb-s [root@pc1 dvb-s]# ls Agials146E Hispasat-30.0W PAS-43.0W Telecom2-8.0W Thor-1.0W Astra-19.2E Hotbird-13.0E Sirius-5.0E Telstar12-15.0W Turksat-42.0E [root@pc1 dvb-s]# cat Agials146E S 12301000 H 25600000 5/6 S 12541000 H 25600000 5/6 S 12581000 H 25600000 5/6 S 12661000 H 25600000 5/6 [root@pc1 dvb-s]# ---------------------------------------------------- [root@pc1 scan]# ./scan -l 11300 -x 0 -o vdr -p dvb-s/Agials146E >/root/channels2.conf scanning dvb-s/Agials146E using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' initial transponder 12301000 H 25600000 5 initial transponder 12541000 H 25600000 5 initial transponder 12581000 H 25600000 5 initial transponder 12661000 H 25600000 5 ................ 0x0000 0x01bb: pmt_pid 0x0000 443 -- Pinball (running, scrambled) Network Name 'PMSI Network (NagraVision)' WARNING: filter timeout pid 0x0548 dumping lists (128 services) Done. [root@pc1 scan]# cat /root/channels2.conf 16 - JCTV:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:165:100:0:0:16:0:0:0 17 - TBN:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:166:104:0:0:17:0:0:0 [root@pc1 scan]# diff /root/channels2.conf /video/channels.conf 1,2c1,2 < 16 - JCTV:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:165:100:0:0:16:0:0:0 < 17 - TBN:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:166:104:0:0:17:0:0:0 --- > JCTV:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:165:100:0:0:16:0:0:0 > TTBN:12581:h:S146.0E:25600:166:104:0:0:17:0:0:0 ---------------------------------- then I use the following command to watch TV via vdr, no error messages, but also no video output.(I use up/down arrow key of the pc keyboard to move between channel 1(JCTV) and channel 2(TTBN), and press enter to choose the channel.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@pc1 vdr-1.4.3]# ./vdr -P "softdevice -vo xv:" [softdevice] processing args [softdevice] argv [0] = softdevice [softdevice] argv [1] = -vo vo_argv: xv: [softdevice] initializing Plugin [softdevice] Initializing Video Out [softdevice] ffmpeg version(CVS) build(3344128) [XvVideoOut]: osd_image shmid = 9863182 [XvVideoOut]: got osd_image: width 1280 height 1024, bytes per line 5120 [XvVideoOut]: max area size 2046 x 2046 [XvVideoOut]: using area size 736 x 576 [softdevice] Subplugin successfully opend [softdevice] Video Out seems to be OK [softdevice] Initializing Audio Out [softdevice] Audio out seems to be OK [softdevice] A/V devices initialized, now initializing MPEG2 Decoder ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please tell me what may went wrong? Your assistance on this will be greatly appreciated! best regards, Paul ZHU

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vdr to 8psk
by V Live 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Goodmorning, I would like to include this updated patch to vdr-1.4.3 sources. This patch along with an v4l-dvb hg tree souce patch will allow one to receive both qpsk and 8psk broadcasts where permitting. The vdr source patch assumes that you are using the "genpix-usb-module", the v4l-dvb current hg tree drivers with the enclosed patch and that you made a dir @ /usr/src/v4l/v4l-dvb (edited in the "Make.config" file) Photo of the genpix-usb-module: http://www.geocities.com/vlivecd/genpix-usb-module.JPG Here is a sample channels.conf for sat110w http://www.geocities.com/vlivecd/vdr-channels-8psk.txt vdr-1.4.3-8psk-source patch: http://www.geocities.com/vlivecd/vdr-1.4.3-8psk.diff.zip v4l-dvb hg tree patch: http://www.geocities.com/vlivecd/gp8psk-dvbs2-100406.obj.zip --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-1
by Klaus Schmidinger 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-1 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-1.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.3. Small fixes to the officially released VDR versions will be first made available as "maintenance patches" in the Developer directory, so that they can be reviewed and tested before a new official release is published. So please apply the above patch and report whether it works (or if it causes any new problems). The changes since version 1.4.3: - The function cThread::Cancel() now only sets 'running' to false and does not actually kill the thread if the special value -1 is given (suggested by Udo Richter) - Changed the I18nNormalizeLanguageCode() check to also allow blanks (and all other printable characters) in the language codes (thanks to Boguslaw Juza for reporting that there are stations that use blanks in these codes). Blanks are replaced with underlines, so that all parts of VDR that rely on language codes to be one word (without blanks) work as expected. - Now clearing an event's Title, ShortText and Description if there is no ShortEventDescriptor or ExtendedEventDescriptor, respectively (thanks to Boguslaw Juza for reporting that events without an ExtendedEventDescriptor may get duplicate information in their ShortText through the EPG bugfixes in case they are received again). - Fixed handling video directory updates in case an other process has touched the .update file after the last NeedsUpdate() check (thanks to Petri Hintukainen). - Fixed handling language codes and descriptions of recorded audio tracks on channels with multiple tracks where not all of them appear in the event data (reported by Boguslaw Juza). Have fun! Klaus

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[PATCH] xineliboutput: keyboard read fix
by Olaf Titz 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

This trivial patch (for xineliboutput-1.0.0p5) fixes the situation with a remote frontend where stdin is not connected to a keyboard. The keyboard thread would not recognize an EOF condition (e.g. /dev/null) and spin at 100% CPU. (Same with pressing Ctrl-D I guess.) Perhaps the whole thing should just use -1 for EOF but that would need a fix in several places. Olaf --- xine_frontend_main.c~ 2006-10-08 13:02:46.000000000 +0200 +++ xine_frontend_main.c 2006-10-08 13:02:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ return -2; } } - return -1; + return 0xffff; } static uint64_t read_key_seq(void) === end of patch ===

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Disable Nexus-T card
by Lauri Tischler 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Need to make another VDR-box, just for DVB-T I have one NEXUS-T FF board where the tuner is very bad. I want to use that as outputcard and then two NOVA-T's as tuners. How do I disable the use of NEXUS as tuner ?

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Bug in audio track replaing
by Boguslaw Juza 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

Hi! I have found small bug: When I have record channel witch multiple audio track - f.e. tracks witch language codes: A1, A2, A3, A4, and then I replay it, when I'm choosing audio track, I have to choose: POL, A1, A2, A3. POL plays A1 track, A1 plays A2 track etc... PL (polish) is my preffered language in EPG menu, but there was no PL-track in this channel. Boguslaw Juza

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auto ratio change dont work with 1.4.2
by Lauri Tischler 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

upgraded from 1.3.36 to 1.4.2, everything works, except automatic setting of tv between 4:3 and 16:9 modes. Works just fine with 1.3.36. Is 1.4.x eating the WSS or what. Connection to tv is via composite video, no messing with voltages or pin 8 or whatever. Drivers are same in both cases.

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skinclassic suggestions
by Boguslaw Juza 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi! I have a little suggestion about skinclassic - attached patch. It looks much better :) Boguslaw Juza

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