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Request: CAM warning message option
by Mikko Salo 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

Ups! :) My posting went to wrong place...sorry Hi! Sometimes when I switch channels I get error saying that I don't have access to that channel, even when I actually have. That warning message leaves to screen pretty annoying so that channel sees trough below so I have to close it manually pressing Menu or Back button. So what I really would like to have is an option to CICAM setup menu where user can choose like "CAM messages: Show, Ignore, Hide 5s, Hide 10s, Hide 20s" (that last like an option to choose delay seconds after warning message disappears automaticly) Is this possible? This is quite common error that I get and it got nothing to do with VDR's behavior since I get also same messages with another Pace Xsat DVB-C digibox. -Mikko ps: I forget to mention that my earlier DD2.0/DD5.1 problems are all gone with vdr-1.3.23. From vdr-1.3.18 to vdr-1.3.22 DD2.0 didn't work at all, now everytime! Nice work! :)

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vdr-1.3.23 + xine-0.7.3-network problems
by Rantanen Teemu 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

Hi, I upgraded from 1.3.22+0.7.2-network to 1.3.23+0.7.3-network. The new version seems to have more problems than the old one. The new problems that were introduces are: 1) live TV viewing has "tsirp"-sounds all the time (1-2 times / minute) 2) forward and backwards rewinds are completely broken. They rewind for few seconds (badly) and then the rewind gets stuck completely. Pressing play will take a very long time until the recording starts to play again. But, the most serious problem (0.7.2 and 0.7.3) is that sometimes something gets stuck with no apparent reason, then I get syslog full of ring buffer overflows, and this seems to block something inside VDR which prevents timers from starting. Not good... I guess I'll have to go (at least temporarily) back to the old version... Teemu

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no sound with DXR3
by larsene 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hi, I've just try to upgrade from vdr_1.3.19 to vdr_1.3.23. So I've download last cvs from em8300 (cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3 co em8300) cd em8300/modules make make install cd ../em8300setup gcc em8300setup.c -o em8300setup -I../include cp em8300setup /usr/local/bin cp ../modules/em8300.uc /usr/share/misc cd ../modules ./ldm em8300setup --> Microcode uploaded to /dev/em8300-0 Current settings are: Video Aspect Audio Spu PAL 4:3 ANALOG OFF) then same thing with dxr3 plugin from cvs (cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dxr3plugin co -r vdr-dxr3-0-2 dxr3 Modified the path in Makefile, cd /usr/local/src/VDR make plugins ) I saw no errors during the make. I started vdr, and the tv picture was ok, but i had no sound... Did I forget something, or is there a patch or something to turn on my sound? (It was done (cvs download) this evening (April 23)) Thanks, L_arsene ;)

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Autotimers in vdradmin causing vdr to skip during playback
by C.Y.M 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

I just noticed that if I have the autotimers enabled in vdradmin, exactly once every 2 hours, vdr will start skipping if I am playing back a recording with my FF card. Apparently, when vdradmin pulls in the epg over SVDRP once every two hours, to check for new autotimers, its causing VDR to lock up (but only if I am playing back a recording at that time). I have disabled the autotimers for now and the problem has gone away. Has anyone else noticed this? Best Regards, C.Y.M.

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OSD - Tree format
by Adrian P Challinor 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Has anyone considered enhancing the OSD recording view to show a tree of similar programs? I have goodness knows how many recordings of certain series, for example, Poirot. These all list as individual shows on the OSD recordings menu. It would be nice is there was a single entry on the OSD, which when selected produced a sublist of just the Poirot episodes. How do other people handle these recordings? Adrian

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.7.3 plugin
by Reinhard Nissl 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hi, I'm pleased to announce release 0.7.3: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-xine-0.7.3.tgz 2005-04-11: Version 0.7.3 - Started detection of AFD header in xine to automatically crop out the interesting part of the image later. - Adopted implementation of cXineDevice::SetDigitialAudioDevice() to different calling order in VDR 1.3.23. - Improved cXineDevice::SetDigitalAudioDevice() when replaying recordings. - Added setup option to automatically make vdr-xine the primary device while xine is connected to vdr-xine (requested by Der_Olli at vdr-portal). - Added setup option to consider all semi transparent colors as opaque to make the menu more readable. - Added commandline option '-s' to switch to skin 'curses' while xine is not connected to vdr-xine (requested by Rantanen Teemu). - Added commandline option '-q' to suppress debug messages (useful in combination with option '-s'). - Moved disconnect to cXineDevice::Stop() to get the new options to work. - Fixed all (?) deadlock situations in RPC command processing (e. g. stopping replay while switching a channel). - Fixed deadlocks in vdr-xine's xread(). A possible drawback is that now a disconnect might happen in such a case. - Fixed VDR's I-frame processing which caused disconnects e. g. while moving cut marks in HDTV recordings. vdr-1.2.23-dvbplayer3.patch is highly recommended for proper operation of vdr-xine. - Improved cXineDevice::StillImage() implementation to immediate display the frame (improves moving cut marks). - Fixed cXineDevice::StillImage() to work properly in combination with the plugin vdr-radio. BUG: xine's driver xxmc shows just a black screen on my EPIA MII-6000E. - Reintroduced usleeps() in input_vdr.c for flush, OSD flush and reset audio. sched_yield() simply caused to much CPU load while waiting about 40 ms to reach the expected state. Improves number of dropped frames when switching channels. - Optimized OSD display: VDR's channel display repeatedly sends a dirty OSD which doesn't differ from the previous one. Improves number of dropped frames while switching channel. BUG: it's still unclear whether this causes some OSD artefacts. - Fixed demux_mpeg_pes' discontinuity detection. Previously, when a PTS wrap happend, xine stopped replay for about 26.5 hours. - vdr-xine now nolonger set's xine's metronom directly but tells it's demuxer to do the job. Improves switching channels. - Optimized implementation of cXineDevice::Clear() in input_vdr.c. BUG: it may happen that xine's audio driver ALSA might get into a state of "silence" where it doesn't recover from until you stop replaying the recording. I still didn't find a way to reproduce this but it has to do with trickspeed, pause, play, and probably cut marks. - Fixed post_vdr.c to detect MRL changes for discovering streams sent from VDR, e. g. when xine is not started with the MRL specified on it's command line. BUG: It's possible that xine crashes due to this detection. xine doesn't allocate a different stream for a different MRL, but maybe other players do. I'm not sure whether I managed to increase the streams usage counter properly (by allocating an event queue) until I detect the new stream respectively MRL. BUG: post_vdr doesn't operate when xine's driver xxmc is used due to some limitation/incomplete implementation in xine's plugin interface. - Fixed xine's deinterlacer interface to take care of cropping. Previously the OSD was resizing like mad e. g. between 1920x1080 and 1920x1088. - Added support for VDR's new AUDIO key in xine (thanks to Darren Salt for reporting this issue). For this release I suggest the following xine sources: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-lib-cvs-20050411203000.tar.bz2 http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-ui-cvs-20050411203000.tar.bz2 Highly recommended is the following patch: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-1.3.23-dvbplayer3.patch http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-1.2.6-dvbplayer3.patch (soon) Enjoy. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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[update] DeepBlue 0.1.2
by vdr＠pfroen.de 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hello List, this is mainly a bugfix-release : from the HISTORY-file : ----------- 2005-04-22: Version 0.1.2 - Added some channel-logos found at www.vdrskins.org (thanks to Tomahawk) - Added a patch which fixes the menu flickering when moving from the first item in the menu (thanks to Mikko Mäkinen) - Added MenuIcons for : mldonkey, gngb2vdr, - Added symbols for "loop" and "shuffle" and removed obsolet "forward" and "reverse"-symbols - Added a workaround for finish usere which does not have PresentDescription in there EPG (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg) - Added some missing translations to reduce log-messages (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg) ------------------- you can find the download at http://vdr.pfroen.de have fun steffx

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vdr-xine-0.7.3 no OSD at all!
by Laurence Abbott 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi, I've just got around to upgrading xine-lib so that I could try out version 0.7.3 of the xine output plugin. So far, I have not managed to get any sort of OSD with this new version. :-( I have also got an LCD module attached and that reacts almost instantly to keypresses for the menu, etc. but I see no OSD on either my TV or monitor. With version 0.7.2, the OSD appears after maybe 2-4 s after a keypress (even thought the LCD module updates much quicker). I have been messing about with various xine options trying to improve my TV-out quality and I'm sure that the OSD was much more responsive when I first tried 0.7.2! Are there any major changes in drawing the OSD between the two versions that I may be affecting? I've seen mentions that the new version if more stable for some and that it is much more responsive to keypresses. On another point, is it possible to get xine to reconnect to vdr if it restarts? At the moment, I have a loop which runs xine continuously but I have to poke 'q' to restart xine if vdr restarts! Cheers, Laz

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-osdteletext-0.5
by Marcel Wiesweg 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi, today I may announce version 0.5 of the osdteletext plugin. Thanks to the extensive work of Udo Richter, this is a major step forward compared to the 0.4.2 release. The display code has been rewritten, teletext rendering adheres to the standard, support for different charsets has been integrated, drawing is much faster, message display more elegant. The new release can be found at http://www.wiesweg-online.de/linux/vdr/vdr-osdteletext-0.5.tgz The changelog: From 0.5 to 0.5-pre1: Udo Richter: - font subsystem now supports Teletext level 1. Fonts are provided for English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Finnish. The correct font is chosen automatically. - support for "boxed mode" (newstickers, subtitles): in 4Bpp mode the area not covered by the box will be completely transparent - OSD can now be aligned on screen: - in horizontal alignment mode, 0 means on the left, 50 in the center and 100 on the right - in vertical alignment mode, 0 means at the top, 50 in the center and 100 at the bottom - default is central alignment - changed palette system, no longer depending on order of indexing - fixed compilation failure with gcc 2.95 - changed OSD minimum size from 480x324 to 320x250 - some bugfixes and comments in txtrecv.c Marcel Wiesweg: - avoid crash and improve behavior when an invalid channel number is entered From 0.5-pre1 to 0.4.2: Udo Richter: - extensive rewrite of display code - removed display.*, txtbitmap.*, colormapping.h - added txtrender.*, displaybase.*, display.* - menu.c adapted to new display engine - speed improvements by incremental drawing - strict adherence to standard - rewrite of scaling and drawing code, better scaling algorithm, removed inefficient double painting. Increases speed by a factor of 4. Rolf Ahrenberg: - minor fixes for pagenumber, channel number and clock fields to minimize overdrawing - fix for graphical errors if normal characters are introduced after double high ones - fix in receiving code to make osdteletext work with some Swedish channels (thanks to Magnus Andersson) Marcel Wiesweg: - pseudo target in Makefile allows a simple "make". Previously, this would fail and you needed "make all" Have fun Marcel

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HDTV conversion
by Jens Groth 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hello, as far as I understand, playback of HDTV recordings is not possible with a FF card on a standard VDR. As I connect my video beamer to a XP machine (via DVI) I would like to convert the VDR recordings. PVA instrumento seems not to work. What other (windows) tool could I use? CU Jens

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