Hello all,
is anyone else having trouble with teletext subtitles?
I am using
- VDR 1.3.37 - ttxtsubs 0.0.5 - DVB subtitles 0.3.8 - a bunch of other plugins, including autosort, channelscan, dvd, femon, loadepg, mp3/mplayer, osdteletext, remote and text2skin. - DVB-S full-feature card (Hauppauge) with conax cam and Canal Digital smartcard.
I have used the patches from
http://users.tkk.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/vdr-1.3.37-subtitles-0.3.8-and-ttxtsubs-0.... http://users.tkk.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/vdr-ttxtsubs-0.0.5-soppatykki-edition.diff...
to get DVB subtitles and ttxtsubs together.
The symptons:
When replaying a recording from a satellite channel with ttxt subtitles, they work ok for the first 5 minutes or so. After that, the subtitles disappear for a while. Then, I begin to see subtitles from live sat tv, usually Animal Planet. I press STOP from my remote and re-enter the playback and subtitles reappear correctly and work for another 5 minutes or so. This is repeatable. I have tried to switch my vdr into a satellite channel on a different satellite (I have 5 sats visible), e.g. S19.2E (astra1). Anyhow, when playing back a recording with ttxt subtitles, I definitely will see ttxt subtitles from live broadcast from S1.0W (Thor) after 5 minutes or so. This is damn annoying.
When watching live view with ttxt subtitles, it is working ok, always. I have not seen subtitles from a wrong channel or anything similar.
When watching a recording with no subtitles that vdr is aware of (subtitles embedded into the picture, like mtv3 or Nelonen in Finland) I will see ttxt subtitles from live broadcast of S1.0W too. This happens too, even if I try to switch to another channel on another satellite before beginning the playback. This problem is easily cured, because I can just disable ttxt subtitles from the VDR main menu.
Have anyone else seen this? This is utterly annoying since the only way to view satellite broadcasts with subtitles is to make dvds of them first...
It should not be too difficult for ttxtsubs plugin to differentiate recorded and live view subtitles, should it? Sigh.
-sjm
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, "Sami J. Mäkinen" wrote:
When watching live view with ttxt subtitles, it is working ok, always. I have not seen subtitles from a wrong channel or anything similar.
I guess your DVB card is doing EPG scanning on background while you're watching recordings. Disable it to check if it cures the symptons. I haven't used ttxtsubs plugin since early 2004, so you won't get any "working" patches from the web page you mentioned unless someone sends me fixes for things like that.
BR, -- rofa
Hi,
I believe you provided a working patch for this already in August. You must have forgotten to apply it for the soppatykki edition. I didn't notice the problem because I had disabled EPG scan.
+ Kimmo
--- ttxtsubs.c.pe 2005-08-28 13:03:07.000000000 +0300 +++ ttxtsubs.c 2005-08-28 13:05:19.000000000 +0300 @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ #endif //dprint("cPluginTtxtsubs::ChannelSwitch(devicenr: %d, channelnr: %d) - mDispl: %x\n", Device->DeviceNumber(), ChannelNumber, mDispl); // XXX
- if(Device->IsPrimaryDevice()) { + if(Device->IsPrimaryDevice() && !Device->Replaying()) { if(ChannelNumber) { getchmutex.Lock(); switchChannel=ChannelNumber;
Rolf Ahrenberg wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, "Sami J. Mäkinen" wrote:
When watching live view with ttxt subtitles, it is working ok, always. I have not seen subtitles from a wrong channel or anything similar.
I guess your DVB card is doing EPG scanning on background while you're watching recordings. Disable it to check if it cures the symptons. I haven't used ttxtsubs plugin since early 2004, so you won't get any "working" patches from the web page you mentioned unless someone sends me fixes for things like that.
BR,
rofa
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Kimmo Taskinen wrote:
I believe you provided a working patch for this already in August. You must have forgotten to apply it for the soppatykki edition. I didn't notice the problem because I had disabled EPG scan.
Well, I got reports that the change broke subtitling on some setups so I did drop it from soppatykki. However, if someone confirms that it really has some positive effects (with EPG scan enabled!) I'll add it back.
BR, -- rofa
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"Sami J. Mäkinen" -
Kimmo Taskinen -
Rolf Ahrenberg