Hi
I have installed femon 163 with my vdr 170. There's some remarks concerning of h264 channels
no any information in CoderateH (I can see only ---) in BITRATE field I can see only ---(6 Mbit/s) FRAME RATE - --- Audio stream #0 () Codec - H264 Codec - --- Channel Mode - --- Bitrate - --- Sampling Frequency - ---
If I try to switch channel up/down with OSD femon menu my vdr will hang up
Goga
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Goga777 wrote:
I have installed femon 163 with my vdr 170. There's some remarks concerning of h264 channels no any information in CoderateH (I can see only ---)
The plugin doesn't support multiproto/S2API and therefore channels using new coderates like "9/10" are shown as data invalid ("---").
in BITRATE field I can see only ---(6 Mbit/s) FRAME RATE - --- Codec - H264
I don't have any access to H.264 (or HE-AAC) streams so support for these are more like academic. The bitrate, framerate, and scan type aren't parsed at the moment as my blindly written code didn't worked right from the start. This particular piece of code was hidden behind #if pragmas in femonh264.c, so it would be nice, if someone could take a look at it and send be a patch.
Audio stream #0 () Codec - --- Channel Mode - --- Bitrate - --- Sampling Frequency - ---
This looks also ok. Non-existent audio pid provides no stream information. I guess your channel contained only ac3 audio or no audio at all.
If I try to switch channel up/down with OSD femon menu my vdr will hang up
I cannot reproduce this on my setup. Please, use vanilla (or _only_ liemikuutio patched) VDR for testing. There 2 active femon users (me and my friend), so the testing has been quite light - at least I haven't got any bug/success reports from other users. :)
BR, -- rofa
I have installed femon 163 with my vdr 170. There's some remarks concerning of h264 channels no any information in CoderateH (I can see only ---)
The plugin doesn't support multiproto/S2API and therefore channels using new coderates like "9/10" are shown as data invalid ("---").
ok, I will check with another fec
in BITRATE field I can see only ---(6 Mbit/s) FRAME RATE - --- Codec - H264
I don't have any access to H.264 (or HE-AAC) streams so support for these are more like academic. The bitrate, framerate, and scan type aren't parsed at the moment as my blindly written code didn't worked right from the start. This particular piece of code was hidden behind #if pragmas in femonh264.c, so it would be nice, if someone could take a look at it and send be a patch.
-------------------------------------------------------------- |## Channel Name ########################## [AR][VF][A/DD][D]| |[==== Signal Strength in % ==============|=================]| |[==== Signal-to-Noise Ratio in % ========|=================]| | STR: #0000 (0%) BER: #00000000 Video: 0 Mbit/s | | SNR: #0000 (0%) UNC: #00000000 Audio: 0 kbit/s | | [LOCK] [SIGNAL] [CARRIER] [VITERBI] [SYNC] | --------------------------------------------------------------
I can see without any problem video/audio bitrate on the top right of OSD (that's why the bitrate is parsed at the moment correctly) , but I don't see video/audio bitrate below in OSD
Audio stream #0 () Codec - --- Channel Mode - --- Bitrate - --- Sampling Frequency - ---
This looks also ok. Non-existent audio pid provides no stream information. I guess your channel contained only ac3 audio or no audio at all.
again - I can see without any problem video/audio bitrate on the top right of OSD (that's why the bitrate is parsed at the moment correctly) , but I don't see video/audio bitrate below in OSD of femon
If I try to switch channel up/down with OSD femon menu my vdr will hang up
I cannot reproduce this on my setup. Please, use vanilla (or _only_ liemikuutio patched) VDR for testing. There 2 active femon users (me and my friend), so the testing has been quite light - at least I haven't got any bug/success reports from other users. :)
the same problem was described on our Russian-vdr forum from other vdr user. It wasn't happened on previous femon versions. I will not be able to run vanilla vdr 170 because I have s2api drivers
Goga
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Goga777 wrote:
in BITRATE field I can see only ---(6 Mbit/s)
I can see without any problem video/audio bitrate on the top right of OSD (that's why the bitrate is parsed at the moment correctly) , but I don't see video/audio bitrate below in OSD
Sorry, I don't quite get your explanation, but femon shows two different bitrates: one in the status window is always a calculated bitrate and in the bigger detailed information window there are both the nominal bitrate parsed from the video stream ("---" above) and the calculated one in brackets ("6 MBit/s" above). The calculated bitrate is always available if enabled in setup as it simply calculates the data rate of a selected pid in defined time period. The nominal bitrate is kind of maximum bitrate value as a hint for the decoder.
the same problem was described on our Russian-vdr forum from other vdr user. It wasn't happened on previous femon versions. I will not be able to run vanilla vdr 170 because I have s2api drivers
As I already told you, the femon doesn't support >= vdr-1.7.0 (yet), so does this hang happen also in the latest vdr-1.6.0 series?
BR, -- rofa
in BITRATE field I can see only ---(6 Mbit/s)
I can see without any problem video/audio bitrate on the top right of OSD (that's why the bitrate is parsed at the moment correctly) , but I don't see video/audio bitrate below in OSD
Sorry, I don't quite get your explanation, but femon shows two different bitrates: one in the status window is always a calculated bitrate and in the bigger detailed information window there are both the nominal bitrate parsed from the video stream ("---" above) and the calculated one in brackets ("6 MBit/s" above). The calculated bitrate is always available if enabled in setup as it simply calculates the data rate of a selected pid in defined time period. The nominal bitrate is kind of maximum bitrate value as a hint for the decoder.
ok, I see.
btw - here's you can have a look on screenshots with femon 163 + vdr 170 + s2api patch + h264 patch
http://ag1455.nm.ru/VDR/176.png http://ag1455.nm.ru/VDR/175.png
the same problem was described on our Russian-vdr forum from other vdr user. It wasn't happened on previous femon versions. I will not be able to run vanilla vdr 170 because I have s2api drivers
As I already told you, the femon doesn't support >= vdr-1.7.0 (yet), so does this hang happen also in the latest vdr-1.6.0 series?
no, with early femon and vdr version I didn't note this vdr hung up
Goga
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Goga777 wrote:
btw - here's you can have a look on screenshots with femon 163 + vdr 170 + s2api patch + h264 patch
Nice. Looks exactly what to expect, althought there's a small gap under stream information title line that should be fixed in next version. You really should turn on the "Use single area (8bpp)" option in femon's setup page - it enables the usage of antialiased fonts and everything looks prettier.. I'll propably remove the whole option in the next plugin version.
no, with early femon and vdr version I didn't note this vdr hung up
Ok. Yet again a good place to bash the buggy S2API. Shame on it! :)
BR, -- rofa
Hi,
I confirm also that femon 163 + vdr 1.7.0 + H264 + multiproto hang when you change channel while femon is displaying info, happen often when going from H264 to Mpeg2 channels (like simul HD and Simul SD on Astra 19.2)
No problem at all if you close femon before switching channels
I'm happy to see that you have signal strength with S2API, with multiproto plus on S2-3200 nothing appears (Quality + level = 0) :o(
Best regards
Selon Goga777 goga777@bk.ru:
As I already told you, the femon doesn't support >= vdr-1.7.0 (yet), so does this hang happen also in the latest vdr-1.6.0 series?
no, with early femon and vdr version I didn't note this vdr hung up
I confirm also that femon 163 + vdr 1.7.0 + H264 + multiproto hang when you change channel while femon is displaying info, happen often when going from H264 to Mpeg2 channels (like simul HD and Simul SD on Astra 19.2)
No problem at all if you close femon before switching channels
I'm happy to see that you have signal strength with S2API, with multiproto plus on S2-3200 nothing appears (Quality + level = 0) :o(
with hvr4000 and multiproto I had signal strength and SNR with old femon version. do you have this figures (snr/sig) with szap-s2 or xmlscan ?
Goga
With older version of femon or this one, when I go trough multiproto + no signal or quality appear with my S2-3200 or with Nova - T -500 even of szap (stay at zero). I use an HD receiver to point out my dish, so no "theorical" need of it on femon, even if it should be nice.
By the way I have a question about HVR4000 and femon : do both tuner DVB-t and DVB-s working simultaneously when switching ?
Dom
Example : http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=femonastrahdhr6.jpg
Selon Goga777 goga777@bk.ru:
I confirm also that femon 163 + vdr 1.7.0 + H264 + multiproto hang when you change channel while femon is displaying info, happen often when going from
H264
to Mpeg2 channels (like simul HD and Simul SD on Astra 19.2)
No problem at all if you close femon before switching channels
I'm happy to see that you have signal strength with S2API, with multiproto
plus
on S2-3200 nothing appears (Quality + level = 0) :o(
with hvr4000 and multiproto I had signal strength and SNR with old femon version. do you have this figures (snr/sig) with szap-s2 or xmlscan ?
Goga
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, dplu@free.fr wrote:
With older version of femon or this one, when I go trough multiproto + no signal or quality appear with my S2-3200 or with Nova - T -500 even of szap (stay at zero). I use an HD receiver to point out my dish, so no "theorical" need of it on femon, even if it should be nice. By the way I have a question about HVR4000 and femon : do both tuner DVB-t and DVB-s working simultaneously when switching ?
All of these sounds like driver problems. Femon uses DVB API v3 to fetch the necessary information - it's up to the driver if multiple frontends can be used simultaneously in applications.
BR, -- rofa
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, dplu@free.fr wrote:
I confirm also that femon 163 + vdr 1.7.0 + H264 + multiproto hang when you change channel while femon is displaying info, happen often when going from H264 to Mpeg2 channels (like simul HD and Simul SD on Astra 19.2) No problem at all if you close femon before switching channels
How do you define the hang? A thread eats up all CPU cycles? Does the VDR crash? Can you provide me a GDB backtrace?
BR, -- rofa
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