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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-softdevice-0.1.3
by Stefan Lucke 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hello, softdevice team (Torgeir Veimo, Martin Wache and me, Stefan Lucke) is pleased to announce a new release of vdr softdevice plugin. 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. For compile options, please read the Makefile carefully and decide which of the available output methods fit to your system. Plugin's homepage is located at: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Changelog since last release: 2005-09-04: softdevice-0.1.3 - dfb-out: applied dfb-key-repeat handling patch (by Marko Mäkelä) 2005-08-19: - change #ifdefs to contain closing brackets (stops my editor from complaining...) - fix possible segfault in ToYUV() 2005-08-17: - audio-out: changed retrieval of audio delay with newer alsa versions on "default" device. should fix bug #2971 too. 2005-08-08: - dfb-out: enclose all dfb calls by try{}catch{} by Marko Mäkelä 2005-07-31: - remove Deactivate(), instead deactive at start of Stop() - stop playback in Clear() while clearing the packet buffer - introduce SOFTDEB, more checks agains NULL dereferences - call decoder->Clear in Clear - return NULL in getPPValue when compiled without postproc lib (suggested by Antonio) 2005-07-29: - some small changes on finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg - fix for segfaults in setup-softdevice.c by previous change 2005-07-27: - compile fix for newer ffmpeg versions (> 2005-07-17 22:24:35) by Antonio - fix for video-dfb.c change from 2005-07-16 by Rolf Ahrenberg - more OSD entries translateable by Rolf Ahrenberg - more finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg - limit cropping amount to 50 each 2005-07-24: - finnish translations by Rolf Ahrenberg 2005-07-23: - vidix-out: - some cosmetic cleanups - force OSD mode pseudo when YUY2 pixelformat is choosen 2005-07-22: - changed pause OSD handling in software drawing mode - work around for some *.avi files where frametime is zero - fix previously introduced compile fail without -DUSE_SUBPLUGINS - include patch from Claas Hilbrecht for "-vo dummy:" - some code reorg for subpluging loader 2005-07-20: - fix for live view at trick speed - stretchBlit mode for dfb-out is selectable via OSD - cropLeft/Right for xv-out and dfb-out - exclude cropTop/Bottom OSD from fb-out - adjusted vidix-out call of yv12_to_yuy2() to dfb-out 2005-07-17: - crop Top/Bottom for xv-out - introduce colour space conversion (by Malcom Caldwell) - make filters work with YUV422 color space 2005-07-16: - fix for cropBottom in dfb with YUY2 pixelformat - some preparations for configure in video-dfb.c - some preparations for configure in utils.c 2005-07-15: - by Vadim Catana: - fixed a couple of compiler warnings for gcc4 on x86-64 - the video-vidix.c and video-dfb.c both contain code that converts pictures from YV12 format to YUY2. I moved this common code to a function in utils.c . - Some channels display white dots at the top and bottom of the screen due to WSS data encoded in the picture. This problem has been mentioned on vdr, linux-dvb and dxr3 mailinglists a few times. I added two new items in the softdevice menu that allow to cut off a number of lines from top and bottom of the picture. It is implemented now only for -vo vidix and dfb with i420/YV12 format and hardware alpha blending. - by Malcolm Caldwell: fix for vdr segfaulting 2005-07-03: - fix fullscreen mode for 64-bit architectures - improve response time for 60-sec skips 2005-06-30: - changed delay clamping low limit and printout "+" if we drop frames - dfb: report current frame duration - dfb: activated device specific delay handling 2005-06-28: - fix for loosing window dimensions upon switching from fullscreen mode to windowed mode 2005-06-26: - fix compile issue with recent gcc versions (patch by alexw) 2005-06-18: - provide error message on stderr when Xv plugin cannot connect to X server. 2005-06-12: - no new audio frame has been decoded when audio_size <= 0 (reported by Antonio O.) - introduce fast_memcpy (gives 20-30% speed increase on copying) - switch xv-out to fast_memcpy - enable fast and default deblock postprocessing - make buffersizes choosable 2005-06-06: - fixed latest ffmpeg cvs compile issue - applied fix for noisy audio on some soundcards (by Antonio O.) - applied GetDeviceDescription() patch for video-dfb.c (by Lucian Muresan) 2005-06-05: - compile by default with "-g" - fix vidix segfault 2005-05-29: - changed screen aspect ratio selection (based on suggestion by Nicolas Huillard) - fix some segfaults on bad signal - fix possible segfault when called without arguments (thanks to Marko Mäkelä) - buffering is now complety signal triggered - made buffersizes variable -- Stefan Lucke

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burn-0.0.6f plugin problem.
by Peace Monk 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi, I am using the burn plugin version 0.0.6f. It creates good mpeg, and iso files, however, then I play the dvd in any player, the menu displays only for a split second and disappears. It then shows a black screen. When I press remote buttons, I can view title description again, just for a split second. Any ideas what is happening? Any more information I can provide to help isolate the problem? I use vdr 1.3.30. dvdauthor version is 0.6.10., growisofs version is 5.21. Also, another problem, which is minor is when I add multiple vdr files to burn, the burn plugin does not show the total size for dvd compiling. Thanks, Monk

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Compressing videos more than mpeg2
by Mark Watson 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

My VDR box is starting to fill up again - got about 450GB of edited video now... Rather than buying another HDD (or two!) I'm thinking of re-compressing some stuff as xvid or mpeg4. I have a large TV so want to avoid adding new compression artifacts as much as possible. I also want to keep the interlaced format, framerate and different aspect ratios (may be more than one per recording). Ideally I also want to make it integrate with VDR properly, i.e. play back via the Recordings menu, has summary info etc. I'm thinking that I'll need to do something like this: i) Add a script to the reccmds.conf to recompress. I was hoping to use transcode or mencoder libraries. However neither of these seem to support keeping original aspects and my video knowledge is poor. I can remember I,P and B frames, DCTs etc from Uni, but nothing beyond mpeg1 basics... ii) For playback I think I'll need to write a plugin that detects recompressed .vdr files and does on-the-fly transcode to mpeg1/2, so it can be fed back into the DVB card. Maybe my best bet is modifying the mplayer plugin so it fits in with the recording menu better? Trouble is mplayer doesn't seem very intelligent about keeping aspects and stuff - I can't even get it working with the plugin, never mind something like this! Has anyone looked into this kind of thing? Does something already exist that tackles this? Thanks, Mark

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Aspect Ratio problems
by Mike Parker 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

The majority of transmissions by my cable provider are 16:9 and I have this set in the DVB option, however we do get 4:3 transmissions and although the details are in the stream (as shown by femon) the picture remains as set in DVB option. My TV can detect different formats however the FF card always outputs 16:9 (as setup). Can vdr be made to switch the output based upon the stream rather than as setup in DVB option or does this have major implications? Thanks for all your hard work it really is appreciated. Mike -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.15/80 - Release Date: 23/08/05

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mplayer slave mute won't toggle
by Simon Baxter 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi y'all. I'm using the mplayer plugin with my Nova-t card, using gl2 output rather than mpegpes since the card doesn't have a video out. Everything works just fine with the mplayer slave, I can FF, REW, Pause, Stop, play and MUTE - but can't toggle the MUTE off. MUTE seems to mute the system sound and the only way I can un-mute is to open Volume Control on X and un-mute the PCM control. Mute works fine under VDR, it's just the mplayer slave that's not toggling off. Any ideas?

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mp3 plugin - other image locations
by Simon Baxter 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi. I'd like to use the MP3 plugin to convert and play a random slideshow of my personal photos when switching tracks, rather than the usual cover/artist/background images. How can I do this? For the radio plugin I cron a bash script which randomly chooses a file to convert. This is also a bit hit and miss - but still better than NO SIGNAL, Black, or the same image over and over. Since the MP3 plugin caches images, I'd need to disable this. I could then randomly choose an image file and link it into the playlist root periodically. Any ideas?

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Re: [vdr] mp3 plugin and file sources
by s.huelswitt＠gmx.de 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

On 18 Aug 2005 "Peter Juszack" <vdr(a)unterbrecher.de> wrote: > I have a problem with the mp3 plugin. I do not use playlists and = > therefor switched the default view to directory browsing. Since an = > update (I don't know when) there is no way to choose a file source from = > mp3sources.conf. > When changing default view to playlists in the plugin's setup everything = > works fine and I can select file sources via the green button. I think the described behaviour has not changed from the begining. From which version to you have updated? ATM I don't see a clean way to provide the functionality. The suggested "back" key seems the best for now. Personaly I don't use many playlists too, but I startup in playlist mode always so that I have the source button reachable. Regards. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt(a)gmx.de | http://www.muempf.de/

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softdevice (directfb) and mplayer plugins
by Per Mellander 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

I have a EPIA M10000 that's running vdr-1.3.30, softdevice and streamdev. I wanted it to be able to play other than vdr recordings so I installed the mplayer plugin. The problem is that I'm having a hard time getting it to work. I can play movies by using the fbdev as output ( that's VO=fbdev in mplayer.sh.conf ). This gives a somewhat uncorrect aspect ratio ;) What I really wan't to ask is if it's possible to use the directfb output for mplayer aswell? Choosing directfb gives me a black picture and replaying stops after a few seconds. mplayer alone plays correct with -vo directfb

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not bored yet...
by Lucian Muresan 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

... of a thread containing 43 replies on actually various problems, all belonging to the thread "[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.31"? Come on guys, it shouldn't be too difficult for people dealing with VDR to start a copmpletely new thread when one has an issue with a new version (replying and only changing the subject makes things only worse) instead of replying over and over again to a message which was intended as the subject says, an ANNOUNCEMENT. It's simply a pain to follow such a thread when the topic changes all over. Such a pity that it's not possible for the author of a message to check some flag preventing replies, I'm almost sure Klaus would have turned on such a switch on these anouncements. @Klaus: want to try including a notice in every such original announcement, asking people to start new threads with specific problems related to the new release? Regards, Lucian

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.31
by Klaus Schmidinger 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

VDR developer version 1.3.31 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.31.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.30-31.diff The changes since version 1.3.30: - Added missing German OSD texts for 'Audio language'. - The Setup/CICAM menu now only contains the devices that actually have a CI and dynamically detects the number of slots a CI provides. - Implemented cAudioRepacker for better handling of audio PES packets (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Modified handling of audio packets for radio channels in remux.c (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Updated the Danish OSD texts (thanks to Mogens Elneff). - Fixed the EPG scan, so that it doesn't use the primary device if that is currently in Transfer-Mode from itself (thanks to Marcus Hilbrich for a bug report that lead to this). - Removed the TUNER_LOCK_TIMEOUT in cDevice::AttachReceiver() since it caused more trouble than it fixed. - Fixed detecting short channel names for "Kabel Deutschland", who uses a comma as delimiter (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - Moved cMenuEditTimer and cMenuEvent to menu.h so that plugins can use it (suggested by Thomas Günther). - The new static function cString::sprintf() can be used to easily create a formatted string. - Plugins can now implement their own SVDRP commands (based on a patch from Hardy Flor). See PLUGINS.html, section "SVDRP commands" for details. The SVDRP commands of a plugin are accessed through the new SVDRP command PLUG. See PLUGINS/src/svdrpdemo for an example of how to use this feature. - The new SVDRP command PLAY can be used to start replaying a recording (thanks to Hardy Flor). - The new SVDRP command EDIT can be used to start the editing process of a recording (based on the CUTR patch by Harald Milz). I'm gradually trying to tie up lose ends and make a stable version 1.4 now. Now before somebody asks: yes, I'm planning to implement the ability to call the main menu function of a plugin through a key macro, even if that plugin doesn't define a main menu entry; and it will also be possible to do so from an SVDRP connection. The maintainers of the various OSD language texts should please check VDR/i18n.c and send me any changes they find necessary. Have fun! Klaus

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