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Is cStatus::OsdChannel called from cEITScanner::Process
by Andreas Brachold 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I have a small question to in version 1.3.28 introduced modification: - Modified cEITScanner::Process() so that it uses the primary device if it is replaying and is the only device that provides the given transponder, and that a forced EPG scan works even if EPG scan timeout is set to 0 I believe it have with the Graphlcd Plugin now the side effect during the replaying, the indicated replaying-Logo changed to Channellogo, at moment of cEITScanner::Process() start. Now my question, is it thinkable, that by cEITScanner::Process() the notification function cStatus::OsdChannel() is called? And if it like that is this a feature or a bug, that cStatus::OsdChannel() called from background process ? I did not debuged that yet, and wanted that inquire before. Cu, Andreas

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clarification request: vdr file format?
by jik jikman 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I searched internet many times to find vdr file format, but I found many different results. Some sites say it is pva format, some other say it is pes format and other say it is ts format without pat/pmt tables. What is vdr file format at last? and why we can't record directly in mpg ( mpeg ps ) format as we can do in windows? I know how I must convert it to other formats, but I cant understand why we can't directly record in mpg? Thanks.

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr 1.3 SUSE RPMs
by Ludwig Nussel 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, I've built RPM packages for 1.3.26. Video directory and epg file location is the same as in the 1.2.6 packages, config files are in /etc/vdr13 instead of /etc/vdr. So you can safely install 1.3 in parallel to the 1.2.6 packages. vdr contains minimal patches. the su patch, the patch to use a broadcast variable instead of sleep in cDvbPlayer and pagedown.diff from Udo Richter. I also removed the check for NPTL and vdr does run with NPTL if available. Post success stories here, this check has to go before 1.4 :-) The packages are at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/misc resp. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/misc and it's mirrors. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/

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Patch to avoid file system buffer trashing
by Ralf Müller 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

The day before I tried to find out if somebody ever had implemented something to prevent vdr to trash the file system buffers. I did this because I hate to wait 20 seconds for vdr to re-read my recordings list. So I read about the usage of O_DIRECT and the trouble with it. While googling about O_DIRECT I found the function posix_fadvise - which I had never heard about before - can help to do something similar without to have such an impact on the current programming scheme. Using this function I wrote a little patch for vdr 1.3.30 - if you are interested have a look here: http://vdr.unetz.com/download/patches/vdr-avoidTrashing-0.2.0-plain-1.3.30.… The same patch against enAIO-2.5-rm-a: http://vdr.unetz.com/download/patches/vdr-avoidTrashing-0.2.0.diff.gz For sure the whole thing only makes sense when all programs dealing with video streams on a vdr do the same. So I did some first steps patching noad. I'm not finished with it - there seems to be a read() I missed. Anyway - the preliminary patch for noad 0.6.0 can be found here: http://vdr.unetz.com/download/patches/noad-avoidTrashing-0.0.1.diff.gz Further candidates for posix_fadvise are mkisofs and the burn-plugin. Regards Ralf Müller -- Van Roy's Law: ------------------------------------------------------- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

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SVDRP MOVC
by Andreas Brachold 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, here a patch to implement MOVC on SVDRP... Andreas

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.6
by cwieninger＠gmx.de 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hi, here's a new release of the epgsearch plugin. You can find it here: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.6.tgz What's new? 2005-08-27: Version 0.9.6 new: - search criterion 'use channel' extended by 'channel groups'. Channel groups can be managed with their own menu and allow a much more flexible way to select channels for the search procedure. - epgsearch now exposes its extended timer edit menu and searching the epg as services to other plugins (s. MANUAL or contact me, if you are interested) - if a timer is programmed for an event (searchtimer or manual programming) then the summary is now also passed to the timer (allows displaying the summary pressing 'ok' in timer menu), thanks to TomG@vdrportal - after toggling the color buttons with '0' in the schedule menu the yellow/green button now move to the schedule of the previous/next channel - added a patch from Uwe/egal@vdrportal that replaces vdr's standard schedule menu with the epgsearch plugin. Also big thanks to Uwe for the changes in epgsearch. After patching VDR you have to activate the patch in epgsearch's setup. - after editing a new search, its entry now gets correctly sorted in the list of all searches, thanks to Mike Constabel - added Gerhard Steiner's timercmd patch for vdr >= 1.3.25 - a 'back' in the start menu now always closes the osd (should solve some trouble with the submenu patch) - events without title are now ignored, regardless of the search criteria, thanks to Mike Constabel - new EPG variable '%channel%', that can be used in directory entries and gets replaced with the channels name - recording margins in search timers can now be negative (allows intentional cutting the begin/end of recording), suggested by Mike Constabel - extended EPG categories are now compared case insensitive - updated finnish translation, thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg fixes: - '.epgsearchrc' now too is expected in the config path specified with -c (if given), thanks to Ronny Kornexl - fixed programming of timers with empty file and directory, thanks to Andreas Brugger - fixed search timer programming in case of midnight between start and stop time - fixed directory selection when listing of dirs is empty, thanks to harvey@vdrportal - (de)activating a searchtimer with '0' did not store, thanks to Mike Constabel - fixed menu navigation (green-yellow-yellow-green displayed the summary instead of 'whats on now'), thanks to Mike Constabel What is it about? EPG-Search can be used as a replacement for the default schedules menu entry. It looks like the standard schedules menu, but adds some additional functions: - Commands for EPG entries with 5 built-in commands like 'show repeats', 'create search'. One can add own commands for other needs, like adding a VDRAdmin auto-timer. - Add up to 4 user-defined times to 'now' and 'next' - Searching the EPG: Create reusable queries, which can also be used as 'search timers'. - Search timers: Search for broadcasts in the background and add a timer if one matches (similar to VDRAdmin's auto-timers) or simply make an annoucement about it via OSD - Progress bar in 'What's on now' and 'What's on next' - Shift the time displayed by keypress, e.g. 'What's on now' + 30 minutes - Start menu can be setup between 'Schedule' or 'What's on now' - background check for timer conflicts (requires a recent timeline plugin) - detailed epg menu (summary) allows jumping to the next/previous event - support for extended EPG info for search timers Works only for vdr-1.3.x (x>=7). Tested on 1.3.10 to 1.3.30. Parts of the sources are based on the repeating-EPG patch from Gerhard Steiner, who gave me the permission to use them (thanks for his work!). Best regards, Christian Wieninger

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Same key does different things: confusing
by Luca Olivetti 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

This is something that has nagged me for a while, but since I though it's not that important I never complained. When there's a submenu open the "Menu" key turns off the menu and the "Back" key goes back to the main menu. However if a plugin implements the osd as cOsdObject the same keys do the reverse: the "Menu" key goes back to the main menu and the "Back" key turns off the menu. Since conceptually (I mean, that's what the user sees on screen) the plugin osd is a submenu of the main menu (even if it isn't a cOsdMenu derivative) this difference in behaviour is confusing. At first I though I did something wrong in my plugins, but then I saw that other plugins do the same (unless their osd is derived from cOsdMenu) I looked at the menu code and it seems that's how things are supposed to work. Wouldn't it be possible to change that to make the same key do the same action regardless if the plugin uses cOsdObject or cOsdMenu? Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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Re: RE: ERROR: can't set filter (pid=110, tid=02, mask=FF): Device or resource busy
by Martin Dauskardt 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

> > Please try the attached patch. I guess it should fix this. > > Klaus >

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[ANNOUNCE] dxr3plugin-0.2.4
by Christian Gmeiner 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Hi all, we have released a new version of the wonderfull ;) dxr3plugin. The changelog is very short, because this is only a bug-fixing release. 2005-08-27: Version 0.2.4 - don't abort with lpcm frames containing an odd number of bytes, drop the frame instead (Ville Skyttä) - fix crash on audio sync buffer push timeouts (Jon Burgess) - make the device call cDevice's Mute() and Clear() (Ville Skyttä) You can find it here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dxr3plugin/vdr-dxr3-0.2.4.tgz?download There are also some changes in our cvs: * Head is now version 0.3.0-cvs as there are big changes in the plugin * 0-2 branch contains this release - maybe the last on on the 0-2 branch Greets, Christian -- Christian Gmeiner Developer for Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org) Maintainer of the DXR3-Plugin for VDR: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3plugin/ Maintainer of VDR-Ebuilds at Gentoo.de

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Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Getting rid of redundant resume.vdr files.
by Carsten Koch 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Carsten Koch wrote: ... > I noticed that updating the recordings menu is still very slow. > Caching the data of course did speed up things, but vdr still > has to scan when /video/.update was touched (after an external > change), when it starts up, etc. Also, this has been a workaround > at best against the two basic flaws: > > 1) when replaying or recording, VDR floods the linux file system > cache somewhat needlessly with data that do not need to be > cached since they typically do not get read again while they > reside in the cache, thus slowing down the intire system and > not leaving room in the cache for even the directory entries, This has been fixed nicely by Ralf Müller's new "vdr-avoidTrashing" patch, see http://vdr.unetz.com/download/patches > 2) vdr's recordings scan is slowed down further by the fact that > VDR opens all resume.vdr files to see if the recording is rewound. > This problem can be greatly reduced by two steps: > a) Remove the resume.vdr file if it points to (almost) the > beginning of the file. Attached is an updated version of my patch for VDR 1.3.30. > b) Never try to read it. If the directory entry is there, > with the above patch it can be assumed that the recording > is not rewound. This still needs to be done. Any volunteers? Carsten.

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