We are testing VDR 1.3.34-1 as part of a Plutohome installation ( www.plutohome.com http://www.plutohome.com) in the UK and are having some problems getting sources.conf & channels.conf populated with the right DVB-T EPG data. As we are complete novices in respect of VDR (having previously battled with MythTV inside Pluto... not a pleasant experience!) we were wondering if someone on this list could give us some help or point us at the right online docs to get us up to speed.
Kind regards
Andrew
Hi Tony,
We're not hiring now... but will be in early 2006. We are still in "stealth mode" so to speak at the moment. Send me a private email if your interested to be kept updated.
Cheers
Andrew
On 11/1/05, tony tony@tgds.net wrote:
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We are testing VDR 1.3.34-1 as part of a Plutohome installation ( www.plutohome.com http://www.plutohome.com)
Ugh. Stupidly wide pages (in both Browse and Netsurf) - too wide for this 15" monitor. Yet it looks reasonable in Firefox, though there's an assumption about the window width...
in the UK and are having some problems getting sources.conf & channels.conf populated with the right DVB-T EPG data.
That's not possible without allowing some channels' PIDs to be updated and preventing others from being updated.
BBC Parliament and 303 (formerly 703) have VPID=0 according to the broadcast data, but share PID 202 for video (there are three sub-pictures); this _should_ be acquired via MHEG-5.
Probably. :-)
Andrew Herron wrote:
You shouldn't need to update sources.conf for pure DVB-T. I obtained my initial channel.conf file by using the scan tool from the dvb-apps package http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0.tar.bz2
It comes with initial tuning data for several UK transmitters, which can be used to generate a VDR channels.conf file automatically, e.g.
# scan -o vdr dvb-t/uk-CrystalPalace | tee mychannels.conf
This tool is great for vdr-1.2. In vdr-1.3 the program can auto-fill the channel.conf file, but still needs the details of one transmitter to be added manually to act as a seed for the other transmitters (very similar to the inital tuning file used by scan tool).
Jon
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