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xine plugin crash if no vdr is running
by Gregoire Favre 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, sometimes, VDR has to be restarted... and if I have xine connected to it and I forget to tell it to reconnect. In this case hitting any of the xine'vdr keys result in a xine crash. Would it be possible to avoid that situation ? Thanak you very much, -- Grégoire FAVRE

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xmltv2vdr-1.0.6
by Andreas Brachold 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hi, I played a little with xmltv2vdr¹, and found a mistake. Feel someone responsible for maintenance? I never found a homepage of that tool. Here I attached a patch to fix a wrong translation of xml entries, and have a little enhance, to disable erase all epg data as default. Cu, Andreas ¹) ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools/xmltv2vdr-1.0.6.tar.gz

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[ANNOUNCE] vdrwiki and vdr forums in Spanish
by Luis Palacios 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hi, Although still in early 'Alpha' stage, and mainly for that reason, I would like to announce that I've activate a vdr-wiki and vdr-forums site in SPANISH here: http://www.vdrwiki.com http://www.vdrwiki.com/foros Talking with Leo and Jesus, spanish folks in this list, we thought it's a good idea and we need obviously 'hands' to work on it. - Any spanish speaker in the list please visit the 'foros' and register so you can help us define the overall structure of the forums and the wiki. - Could the GERMAN/ENGLISH vdr-wiki's site admins respond to this email so I can talk in private about some questions (reuse the logo, permission to translate, mediawiki templates, etc..) Thanks, Luis

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.7.7 plugin
by Reinhard Nissl 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hi, I'm pleased to announce Valentine's release 0.7.7: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-xine-0.7.7.tgz 2006-02-14: Version 0.7.7 - Updated MANUAL (thanks to Ville Skyttä for supplying the patch). - Added Dutch translation (thanks to Maarten Wisse for supplying the patch). - Fixed auto primary device functionality concerning ActualDevice (thanks to Luca Olivetti for reporting this issue). - Shutting down cOsdProvider when vdr-xine is nolonger primary device to fix an issue where the new primary device doesn't register it's own cOsdProvider instance. - Fixed cXineDevice::SetDigitalAudioDevice() for radio channels with multiple audio tracks (e. g. RADIO INT2). These tracks are not related to each other and therefore syncing these tracks by PTS is impossible and causes huge delays otherwise. - Adopted cXineDevice::GrabImage() to VDR-1.3.38 (based on a patch of Darren Salt). - Fixed some issues with FIFO_DIR containing spaces (thanks to Darren Salt for supplying the patch). - Fixed some warnings about strict-aliasing issues when compiling with gcc-4.1 (thanks to Ville Skyttä for reporting this issue). - Added two new command line arguments (-X / -Y) to change the default image size for GrabImage(). Internally, they are predefined as -X 720 and -Y 576. - Dropped the Audio-Mode setup option for VDR >= 1.3.18 as VDR's audio menu and PlayPes() took over sending just a single audio stream to the output device. - Fixed implementation of cXineDevice::Clear(), which speeds up jumping back and forth in recordings. A stresstest showed that from time to time a deadlock happened in libasound (ALSA) when xine is opening the audio device. You may experience a problem too if you stay on the GREEN button at the beginning of a recording. On my system it caused segfaults, asserts and deadlocks while xine is opening the ALSA audio device. I'd be glad if someone could fix this issue. Anyway, I hope that this change partitially fixes the delay on some systems which happened when switching to trickspeed modes while replaying a recording. - Added support for VDR's new info key. - Tried to get xine's ffmpeg decoder to work with vdr-xine, but failed. - Had xine CVS take over a couple of my xine patches. - Tuned xine-lib's startcode scanner in libmpeg2. - Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.4.41 changed detection of transfer mode. - Adapted vdr-xine to VDR-1.4.42 changed cDevice::PlayAudio(). - Replaced noSignal*.pes with noSignal*.mpg. vdr-xine will complain about a missing noSignal.mpg. Just copy the new files from the source directory to the mentioned location as mentioned in INSTALL. - Changed buffering completely. When VDR switches to a channel, xine starts replaying at 12.5 % of normal speed. Then vdr-xine monitors the stream's PTS values and compares them to the value which xine reports. The difference between VDR's and xine's value makes up the currently gained buffer. When the buffer reaches the configured size then xine switches to 100 % speed. ATTENTION: this change requires you to reduce the configured prebuffer in vdr-xine's setup page to about 8 frames! - Updated MANUAL and INSTALL accordingly. For this release I suggest the following xine sources: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-lib-cvs-20060212215500.tar.bz2 http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-ui-cvs-20060212215500.tar.bz2 Highly recommended is the following patch: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-1.3.42-dvbplayer6.patch http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-1.2.6-dvbplayer5.patch For details about the patch see: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-patches-README.txt Enjoy. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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VDR server(/client) options
by Luis Palacios 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hi, I would like to share the options I know about building a vdr box as unattended server + clients (Analog TV/LCD Display) versus having the vdr box close to the TV/Monitor (I guess most of you have), so It can help others. I appreciate if you add your comments. VDR unattended server with clients (Analog TV or LCD Display) ============================================================= IN dvb-* | | Normal +--------+ Antenna | vdr | _/// +-| box | |\\\ | +--------+ | | | | O IR | | | /RF net tvout/audio / | +-+-------+ / | |modulator|_/ | +-+-------+ | | | | +------+ | antenna | TV | remote+ | cabling--| | + IR/RF | +------+ | +------+ +-|vdr | |client|+-------+ +--+---+|Monitor| +----+or TV | +-------+ I have this setup because I want my vdr box in a separate central site (i.e. in the garage) and want to see the selected channel in any of the house's TV's. Remote control is done using IR to RF converters (1 base station at server site). Option (A) is the most simple/cheap I've found, it's based on reusing the antenna cabling of your house. Connect the tvout+audio into a modulator and add the signal into a selected vhf or uhf channel, then select that channel into any of the TV's. Obviously quality is the bad thing here, but it's simple and all of the vdr capabilities/features work (osd, menus)... For Option (B) there are several options and all based on using the ethernet or wireless network of the House. B.1: Where the "VDR client" is a Hauppauge MVP. http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Mediamvp-plugin (note, I'm not doing any advertising here, just sharing info, any other suggestion regarding a cheap vdr client network based, wireless enabled, and eventually with a DVI or VGA output instead of a scart connector, is welcome) You need an extra box (small) close to your TV, connected to the network and to the tv via SCART. It's a bit challenge to install but I'm pretty happy with this solution. It's almost like having the original VDR close to your TV. It has it's own menus and you can access video +audio, mp3, videos, pictures in the vdr box. The advantage versus (A) is the quality, which is almost perfect (SCART). The disadvantage I've found is that It can't use the original menus from vdr. B.2: Where the 'VDR client' is a Win/Mac/Linux and MPlayer or similar. The you need the vdr-streamdev plugin (http://www.magoa.net/linux I recommend the CVS version). In this case you simply connect your MPlayer(or similar) to http://yourserver:3000/channel and output on your your laptop/pc/... monitor or you use the VGA/DVI out to a LCD. This option is the one with the best quality, however I've found it a bit unusable due to: 1) you need a PC close to your TV 2) for non- experience users (i.e. kids) as you don't have the OSD Menus and channel change is slow, then it's difficult to use. B.3: Where the 'VDR client' is again Win/Mac/linux and you use alternative streaming technologies 1.- vlc (http://www.videolan.org/). In this case you have two options: - Run VLC server in the VDR server together with streamdev - Have 'FF Card' and Run VLC server in the VDR server without streamdev The problem is that with streamdev you loose again the OSD menus and without it you need a FF Card. In both cases similar disadvantages as in B.2 ---and info received recently by Stephan, that I haven't study yet--- 2. ffserver+ffmpeg: http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php? threadid=17160&sid=&hilight=ffserver+vdradmin I have tried this but with no success :-( If you get this working: Please tell me! 3. xawtv: It can display the decoded picture of your FF-card. That works, but without sound. 4. kvdr: http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala/ It can display the decoded picture of your FF-card, too. That works only on the same machine where the FF-card is located and additionally can control VDR. Very smart solution! luis

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Vdr core dump when tuning to FR3
by Dominique Dumont 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hello Until 2 days ago, tuning to 'FRANCE 3' (french channed available on hot-bird) worked perfectly. But now, vdr core dumps any time I try to tune to 'FRANCE 3'. I've tried with vdr 1.3.42 (vanilla), 1.3.39 (debian) or 1.3.42 (Darren Salt's) Here's the stacktrace done with vanilla 1.4.42: (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7d556d1 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7d56f9b in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb7f48e51 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #4 0xb7f46765 in __gxx_personality_v0 () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0xb7f467a2 in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #6 0xb7f4690a in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #7 0xb7f46d51 in operator new () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #8 0xb7f46e1d in operator new[] () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #9 0x0810f283 in SI::CharArray::DataOwnData::assign (this=0x83f2910, d=0x0, s=4294967295) at util.c:123 #10 0x0810f7cc in SI::CharArray::assign (this=0x83f29b8, data=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, size=6, doCopy=true) at util.c:61 #11 0x081162b3 in SI::CaDescriptor::Parse (this=0x83f29b8) at descriptor.c:332 #12 0x0810f52d in SI::Parsable::CheckParse (this=0x6) at util.c:181 #13 0x0811104a in SI::DescriptorLoop::createDescriptor (this=0xb7b662b0, i=@0xb7b66354, returnUnimplemetedDescriptor=true) at si.c:162 #14 0x081112af in SI::DescriptorLoop::getNext (this=0xb7b662b0, it=@0xb7b66354) at si.c:110 #15 0x080d2d82 in cPatFilter::Process (this=0x83be480, Pid=100, Tid=2 '\002', Data=0xb7b66414 "\002°\202\004MÕ", Length=133) at pat.c:380 #16 0x080e67fe in cSectionHandler::Action (this=0x83ac438) at sections.c:212 #17 0x08100200 in cThread::StartThread (Thread=0x83ac438) at thread.c:243 #18 0xb7f80e60 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #19 0xb7dfd8ce in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 line #12 is suspect with this=0x6 Line #15 is also interesting. Can someone help in debuggin this ? I think you'll get the core when you tune to 'FRANCE 3' even without a subcription: FRANCE 3:10834:vC34:S13.0E:27500:520:530:0:1:1105:176:11600:0 Cheers

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vdr crashes on HDTV Test Channel
by Andreas Share 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hi, since yesterday around 16:00 there is an new HDTV testchannel on hotbird 13.0E, 10834 vertical, (TPS HD Test) and everytime vdr passes this transponder vdr restart on my system without any comments. This happend with my Nova Budget used for epg scan, and also with my full featured cards.... Could anybody confirm this? Andreas

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Re: [vdr] vdradminbug?
by Kartsa 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

From: "Andreas Mair" <mail(a)andreas.vdr-developer.org> > Hi, > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 22:27, Kartsa wrote: >> Just updated my vdradmin to version vdradmin-0.97-am3.4.2. After the >> update there has been appearing recordings wich have been created by >> autotimers but they either have wrong name or wrong recording time. > > You mean, that the recording's name does not match the autotimer's > pattern? This is excactly what I mean. > Can you please provide an example and what options you have set (search in > title, subtitle and/or description)? This is what I have in autotimers - Search string "big brother" from title - every weekday - channel subtv - no starting or ending times - priority 50 - lifetime 99 => 1:big brother:1:::0:50:99:C-0-2-97::0:1111111 and another one - Search string "idols" from title - every weekday - channel subtv - no starting or ending times - priority 50 - lifetime 99 => 1:idols:1:::0:50:99:C-0-2-97::0:1111111 I have set 1 min before and 10 mins after boundaries >From 9 pm to 9:30 pm was Idols extra and 9:30pm to 10pm was Big brother I ended up with two recordings 1. Idols extra beginning from 8:59pm 2. Idols extra beginning from 9:29pm This is from the log Dec 18 20:59:01 kartzan vdr[6564]: timer 29 (5 2059-2140 'Idols Extra') start Dec 18 20:59:01 kartzan vdr[6564]: Title: 'Idols Extra' Subtitle: 'Suorassa Idols Extrassa vierailevat illan viimeiset finalistit.' Dec 18 20:59:01 kartzan vdr[6564]: record /video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.20:59.50.99.rec Dec 18 20:59:01 kartzan vdr[6564]: creating directory /video/Idols_Extra Dec 18 20:59:01 kartzan vdr[6564]: creating directory /video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.20:59.50.99.rec Dec 18 20:59:05 kartzan vdr[6564]: recording to '/video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.20:59.50.99.rec/001.vdr' and Dec 18 21:29:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: timer 17 (5 2129-2210 'Idols Extra') start Dec 18 21:29:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: Title: 'Big Brother: Missä he ovat nyt?' Subtitle: 'Ohjelmassa kuullaan Suomen BB-kilpailijoiden tuoreimmat kuulumiset: Mitä kukakin tahollaan tekee ja miten Big Brotheriin osallistuminen on vaikuttanut kilpailijoiden arkeen?' Dec 18 21:29:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: record /video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.21:29.50.99.rec Dec 18 21:29:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: creating directory /video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.21:29.50.99.rec Dec 18 21:29:04 kartzan vdr[6564]: recording to '/video/Idols_Extra/2005-12-18.21:29.50.99.rec/001.vdr' As you can see the titles of the programs are quite right but the timer names are wrong and the recording is done to false directory. > The recording's start/stop time is outside the start/stop time you set in > the autotimer? Can you give an example? This recording has no autotimer entry unless you take the big brother entry as the autotimer for this one since it is named after it. Dec 18 21:59:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: timer 18 (5 2159-2240 'Big Brother: Missä he ovat nyt?') start Dec 18 21:59:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: Title: 'Yö Rakelin kanssa' Subtitle: 'Helsinkiläistä runoilijaa, kirjailijaa ja opettajaa Arno Kotroa on ti tuleerattu mm. "suomirunon uudeksi poptähdeksi". Sanovat sitä rakkaudeksi -esikoisteos sai jatkoa Musta morsian -kirjasta, ja mies on tuttu nä ky niin lehtien pal' Dec 18 21:59:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: record /video/Big_Brother:_Missä_he_ovat_nyt?/2005-12-18.21:59.50.99.rec Dec 18 21:59:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: creating directory /video/Big_Brother:_Missä_he_ovat_nyt? Dec 18 21:59:00 kartzan vdr[6564]: creating directory /video/Big_Brother:_Missä_he_ovat_nyt?/2005-12-18.21:59.50.99.rec Dec 18 21:59:04 kartzan vdr[6564]: recording to '/video/Big_Brother:_Missä_he_ovat_nyt?/2005-12-18.21:59.50.99.rec/001.vdr' >> I have not yet had missing recordings but these recordings with wrong >> names are hard to find :) And those unattended recordings takes up disk >> space for nothing :( > > You're talking about recordings triggered by autotimer you don't expect? > Maybe you have the wrong patterns? As you see the patterns can no meens be found from the titles :) The funny thing is that there was no problems with the earlier version I was using (vdradmin-0.97-am3.1). > Regards, > Andreas > -- BR, Kartsa -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/206 - Release Date: 16.12.2005

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[ANNNOUNCE] Nordlicht's EPG-Plugin 0.6
by Martin Prochnow 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hi folks, i'm pleased to announce version 0.6 of my epg-plugin >From the history: - added the possibility to enter a time to jump to instantly; see README - added option to hide radio channels - if the time you defined in the setup to jump to by pressing 'red' is before the current time, it now jumps to this time at the following day - if a timer for an event overlaps with other because of the margins, timer markers are also shown for this events - fixed; the markers are now shown only if there is a timer for the time browsed to - timer markers are now shown instantly if a timer was set - small icons for timer- and recording-marker adjusted Screenshots and download: http://martins-kabuff.de/nordlichtsepg_en.html Bye ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de

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mixing cards - 1 DVB-S & 1 DVB-T
by whoMAN 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hello, I have a HAUPPAUGE NOVA-S budget card, as well as a DVICO FUSION GOLD 3 ATSC card. I have just finished installing VDR, and now I need to make my channels.conffile. How can I tell VDR which DVB card to use for which channel? DVB-S = DVB 0 DVB-T = DVB 1 I know this is something simple I'm forgetting, so please forgive my ignorance on this subject. $ dmesg|grep DVB DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI). DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)... DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]). DVB: registering frontend 1 (LG Electronics LGDT3302 VSB/QAM Frontend)...

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