Hi,
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 01:41:07PM +0100, Artem Makhutov wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:31:19PM +0200, Alex Betis wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Artem Makhutov artem@makhutov.org wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Mika Laitio wrote:
No, and I am little confused where is the version I could try with vdr.1.7.x. I found out 3 candidates while googling, should I try one
of
these with vdr-1.7.3 or some other one?
This page mentions the patch
only for vdr-1.5
- VDR-Extensions-Patch-65/vdr-1.7.2_extensions.diff seems to include
livebuffer patch (but has unfortunately also many other patches within same patch and wont propably apply with 1.7.3)
- VDR-Extensions-Patch-65/plugin-patches/setup-0.3.1-livebuffer.diff
You should be able to use the VDR Extensions Patch 65 (with VDR 1.7.2). I have not tried it soo far, as I am still running VDR 1.7.1.
You can enable single pathes in the "patch pack", so you don't have to
apply them all.
What's this "patch pack"? Do you mean the patch selection by commenting/uncommenting individual patches from Make.config.template that the vdr-1.7.2_extensions.diff modifies?
Yes, I think so. I have not tried to apply the patches manually. I am using a Gentoo ebuild which applies them for me.
Anyway, for vdr-1.7.3, the vdr-1.7.2_extensions.diff failed to apply in many places. For vdr-1.7.2 the patch applied as expected, but I have not yet tried the LiveBuffer/vdr-xineliboutput in there.
I have just setup S2API drivers with VDR 1.7.2 and the livebuffer patch from VDR Extensions Patch 65.
Everything works pretty well. I can watch even watch HDTV using xineliboutput and vdr-xine.
What are your channel switching times?
I have a switching time of ~2 seconds.
I've used 1.7.1 + extension patches 64 to have the livebuffer + xinelibout and was unhappy with switching time, even on the same transponder. I've went back to 1.7.0 + the same xinelibout and see big improvements in switching time. I can see "sync early" messages in VDR logs, so I assume it makes the difference. Livebuffer probably breaks the ability to sync early.
Ok, I just find out that switching to some channes does not work for me any more. Now I need to find out why. Maybe the Diseqc is not working using S2API on some DVB-S-cards anymore...
Ok, I setup VDR just to use individual devices. All of them worked fine. Then I switched back an setup VDR to use all of them together again, and I can tune to all channels without any problems. So I don't know where the problem was, but it has gone without doing real changes...
Regards, Artem