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Softdevice-logs getting flodded
by Dave 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

My logs are getting flodded with this: Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) Nov 13 19:13:05 vdr vdr[6916]: [VideoOut]: aspect changed (0 -> 0 ; 1.333333 -> 1.333333) several times a second, non-stop Any ideas?

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RE: [vdr] which tv-out card?
by Vladimir Shved 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces(a)linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] On Behalf > Of Niko Mikkila > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:14 AM > To: VDR Mailing List > Subject: Re: [vdr] which tv-out card? > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:48:04 +0100 > Leo Márquez <leo(a)calidae.net> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I want help a friend to set a budget cards based (dvb-t and dvb-s) vdr > > box in a standard computer (not micro-atx) > > I don't have the hardware info (only cpu athlon 1800) but the connector > > to be used is s-video to scart-tv. We have planned to set softdevice and > > use the tv-out of a vga card to connect it to the tv. > > Do you recommend any vga card or any kind work with softdevice?. > > I need directfb or only softdevice? > > > > I have no experience with softdevice. I actually have an epia system but > > with a ff nexus card. > > > > Thanks. > > > Hi, > > I would not recommend using the tv-out of a graphics card. It will > break interlacing, so you'll get a lot worse motion quality than > with a FF-card or Dxr3/Hollywood+. It won't matter if you only > watch movies, but for sports, news and other live video it will be bad. > > If you still wish to go for softdevice or vdr-xine (I'd recommend > the latter for its deinterlacing modes), setting things up will > be easiest eith a cheap nVidia card and X.org instead of DirectFB. > Anything newer than GeForce 4 MX440 is easy to setup for TwinView, > so don't waste money on a new board if you have one of these lying > around. You may not even need a window manager for X, or only a very > light one (twm, fvwm) so the startup time is almost the same with that > combination as with DirectFB. > > Dualhead Matrox cards (G400-G550) would be better for tv-output, > but they are harder to setup. With them it is better to use DirectFB > and it would even be possible to preserve interlacing, but I'm > not sure if softdevice supports that. > I've tried G400 and G450, both cards work great with directfb, the output almost identical to FF card except minor issues with some skins and no VDRs OSD when using mplayer. G400 tiny bit harder to setup than G450. Also first head becomes unusable, screen is blank and all you can do is use keyboard to control VDR. I did not try X on these. Right now running G400DH/16Mb and it seems to work great, runs for days without problems. I actually like this setup better than FF card, less audio sync problems, cheaper and no firmware ARM crashes. And I've tried ATI 7000 series, 9800 pro and GF2 mx440, OSD is real bad on those, also seems to work only with X. When using directfb, I could not get OSD to come up at all. CPU usage was lower, about 10% average comparing to 30% with Matrox, thats on athlon-xp 2200+. I think FX5200 might be good choice, anyone tried it? Also tried Dxr3/Hollywood+, TV-out is nice, OSD is much improved but still very unstable. Driver is crashing, needs to be reloaded, sometimes I had to restart whole system to get it back to normal. --Vlad

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is anybody working on a EM86xx driver/plugin?
by Harald Milz 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, there used to be a thread in the German-speaking vdrportal about developing a driver for the http://www.allwell.tv/ EM8621L PCI card but the discussion seems to be dead as far as development. How about the Odyssey development or evaluation kits from Sigma Designs themselves? http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/odyssey_features_specifications.htm has the specs. Sounds very promising for HDTV. Anybody??? And while we're at it - the em8300 Hollywood cards appear to be able to decode a 720p MPEG2 stream. Does that mean if I convert a HDTV stream to a MPEG2 stream (and possibly rescale it from 1920x1080 to 1280x720), and throw the resulting stream at the card it will provide a proper picture? What CPU would be needed for this? Just curious. A full hardware decoder like the 8620 family is definitively the better solution, especially with a DVI out. How about the EM8400 plugin? Any success? -- Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

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vdr-burn 0.0.6 errors
by Nicolas Huillard 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello, I have two annoing errors with the burn plugins 1) freeze when removing finished job * some times, the OSD freezes, and no watchdog restarts VDR, when I manually erase a finished job from the VDR menu * only a restart can solve the freeze, but then the temporary files remain on-disk without possibility to delete them unless using SSH * (as a side-note, I think the limit between user interface and background jobs is not exactly at the right place : one should be able to run all tasks in one script run, and maybe get back the OSD counterpart of a dead job, after restart) 2) shell character escape missing * the DVD title "C'est pas sorcier" (note the ') gives a shell error * from the dvd.log file : ++ started: sh -c '/usr/share/vdr-plugin-burn/vdrburn.sh BURN '/home/video/.vdr-burn.R6MZM8' '/dev/dvd' 'C'est pas sorcier'' sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file -- NH

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Aspect ratio changes causes a/v sync problems
by Tero Siironen 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I've problems with playback of recording where two aspect ratio changes occurs in a short time. This causes audio and video to lose their sync. Usually this happens when last ad in commercial break is in 16:9 format, "returning to program"-clip is 4:3 and the program is again in 16:9 format. After this sequence video playback starts to drop frames and audio gets played late compared to video. Rewinding or forwarding the playback a bit corrects the problem until the next commercial break ends. I uploaded a short example clip (12,1MB) to: http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/001.vdr Tested with vanilla vdr, versions 1.3.27, 1.3.33 and 1.3.36 and ttpci firmware versions 261a, 261d and 261f. Nothing is printed to syslog when this happens. Any ideas what might cause this? P2 350MHz Technotrend FF card 128MB RAM -- Tero Siironen

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MP3 plugin and ALSA
by Harald Milz 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi I recently suggested adding proper ALSA output to the MP3 plugin. Reason: I switched over to softdevice and have no FF card in my system any more (the CPU is not the box heater, as opposed to the rev 1.3 card before ;-) and hence can't use the J2 SPDIF out any more. I noticed last night that softdevice AC3 SPDIF does work for the MP3 plugin as the DVB output channel if MP3 is configured for DVB. D'oh. *rolling eyes* So - for now I'm not going to dig into it - lacking time. -- The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away.

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[Fwd: Softdevice and AC3 Passthrough]
by Dave 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

softdevice cvs vdr 1.3.34 kernel 2.6.14-rc3 using kernel ALSA drivers I have got softdevice working with sound via SPDIF for PCM, but cant get AC3 to pass through to the decoder, mplayer and ac3dec both pass AC3 no problem, but with softdevice I get error: ac3play: Unable to update the IEC958 control: No such file or directory -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,0#" -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,1#" -P"softdevice -vo dfb: -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=plug:iec958#" it doesnt matter which of the above commandlines I use, same error all the time. ALSA lib is 1.0.10-rc3, Driver is 1.0.10-rc1. Any ideas?

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vdr + dvd plugin
by João Mamede 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

hi vdr +dvd doesn't work on me...dvd plugin starts reading the dvd but when it comes to play...it crashes vdr when there's something about audio :/ does the plugin uses the same audio device as vdr? Best Regards João Mamede

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Remote plugin breakage with 2.6.15-rc1+ kernel
by C.Y.M 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

As of 2.6.15-rc1 (actually the change was originally made in 2.6.14-git8), there is no more /dev/input/event0 node. The nodes now start at event1 and up. This breaks the autodetect feature in the remote plugin for VDR. I was able to kludge a fix by hacking the default to the event I am currently using, but a real fix should be made instead. This is *hacked* fix for a remote that is using event3. This only a kludge. --SNIP-- --- remote-0.3.3/remote.c.orig 2005-11-13 01:59:30.000000000 -0800 +++ remote-0.3.3/remote.c 2005-11-13 02:19:18.000000000 -0800 @@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ // use default device if nothing could be identified if (devtyp[i] == 'i' && strcmp(devnam[i], "autodetect") == 0) - devnam[i] = "/dev/input/event0"; + devnam[i] = "/dev/input/event3"; } // for i for (int i = 0; i < devcnt; i++)

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-autosort-0.0.4 - a channel autosorter
by CopyPoint 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi all, this is the first release of AutoSort-Plugin. Description: AutoSort Plugin adds the capability to define rules for automatically sorting your channels.conf with every housekeeping thread. You have to define some rules in autosort.conf, like this: FreeTV:HasNoCa:Sort Premiere:HasProvider=premiere:Sort whitch results in channels.conf like: your old channels :Auto Sort :FreeTV ARD... BR-alpha... ... :Premiere Premiere 1... ... :Unsorted other channels -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep in mind that this is early beta state, so don't forget to backup your channels.conf before trying -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments and bug reports are welcome. Thorsten Scheck =============================================================== Project's homepage: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/autosort.htm Latest version: http://www.copypointburscheid.de/linux/vdr-autosort-0.0.4.tgz ===============================================================

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