Markku Tavasti wrote:

I have debian sarge box, but I can't install packages found from e-tobi.net. Am I doing something wrong, or should I report bug?

root@vdr:~/vdr3# grep . /etc/apt/sources.list #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/multipatch/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary addons/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary backports/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary base/

root@vdr:~/vdr3# apt-get install vdrdevel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: vdrdevel: Depends: vdr (>= 1.2.6-27) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages

How about adding the main debian repository:

deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free

which provides the mentioned missing vdr package.

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Thomas Günther tom1@toms-cafe.de writes:

vdrdevel currently requires vdr from e-tobi.net. Try this:

deb ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/projekte/vdr/sarge/testing/binary base/ #deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/multipatch/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/bigpatch/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary addons/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr/sarge/experimental/binary base/ #deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/standard/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary vdr/multipatch/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary addons/ deb http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/sarge/experimental/binary base/ deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat testing main

And in addition I needed (for noad):

deb ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/projekte/vdr/sarge/testing/binary addons/

However, few critical components missing:

- subtitles plugin missing - No vdradmin suitable for vdr > 1.3.23 (or is there, at least I can't identify where and which package name?)

And no dxr3, but I was not even expecting it. However, those others are critical and commonly used.

Other issue is latencies with your packages. At least inmy setup vdr is really slow. For axample pressing 'back' during playback it shows several seconds black screen. I don't know if it is related to 1.3.23, plugins, patches or what, but there is really difference to my previous 1.3.22 (hand-compiled). Here are my plugins:

root@vdr:~/vdr3# ls -l /usr/lib/vdrdevel/plugins total 1912 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 288051 2005-04-02 11:07 libvdr-dxr3.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140256 2005-04-01 02:33 libvdr-femon.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326880 2005-03-28 15:34 libvdr-mp3.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 711744 2005-03-29 03:44 libvdr-muggle.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92000 2005-03-21 02:50 libvdr-osdteletext.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41056 2005-03-21 02:50 libvdr-pilot.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40604 2005-03-21 02:52 libvdr-remote.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156192 2005-03-31 03:08 libvdr-skinelchi.so.1.3.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114496 2005-03-21 02:57 libvdr-ttxtsubs.so.1.3.23

I demand that Thomas Günther may or may not have written...

Markku Tavasti schrieb:

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However, few critical components missing:

• subtitles plugin missing

Cause there are no german channels with dvb subtitles I can not test the subtitles plugin. If you send me an tested package I'll put into the repository. A good start for creating a new plugin package is debianize-vdrplugin from vdr-dev or debianize-vdrdevelplugin from vdrdevel-dev.

It should be enough to lightly tweak my vdr-plugin-subtitles package and to apply its patch or the combined subtitles patch (which is what I use in case some who use my packages want/need ttxtsubs, which I can't test) to vdr.

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I demand that Thomas Günther may or may not have written...

Darren Salt schrieb:

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It should be enough to lightly tweak my vdr-plugin-subtitles package and to apply its patch or the combined subtitles patch (which is what I use in case some who use my packages want/need ttxtsubs, which I can't test) to vdr.

Thank you! I adapted your source package to vdrdevel. The combined subtitles-ttxtsubs patch is already active in multipatch. So it should work.

This is good :-)

Why do you set CXXFLAGS in debian/rules? Is there a problem with optimization -O2?

I've noticed problems with that and gdb: variables' contents have been misreported. (Whether this is still the case, I've not checked.)

This kind of thing should be more fine-grained in $PLUGIN/Makefile, IMO.

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Thomas Günther tom1@toms-cafe.de writes:

@Markku Tavasti

I uploaded the vdrdevel-plugin-subtitles package to sarge/experimental/multipatch. Would you please test it?

Sorry for delay, my vdr does not have console, and my office does not have TV -> testing is hard :-(

Yes, plugin works. Thanks!

And now for rest of missing things:

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A) For dxr3 plugin, it seems to be moving target. Stable is too old, and development of 0.2.3 branch is active. Therefore I'm not providing you any package (since I don't have experience on building them), but I provide all the help I can. This is how you could build it:

1) apt-get install stow 2) Get http://www.tavastisolutions.com/~tavasti/em8300_debian_sarge.tgz (package contains needed includes & libs for dxr3 driver) 3) run: cd /usr/local/stow tar zxf /path/to/em8300_debian_sarge.tgz stow -v em8300-0.15.0-cvs20050326-patched-20050326' 4) apt-get install libavcodeccvs-dev libjpeg-mmx-dev 5) Get vdr-dxr3 from http://cachalot.mine.nu/src/dxr3/ 6) Build dxr3 package. Here my changes to Makefile:

VDRDIR = /usr/include/vdrdevel LIBDIR = /usr/lib/vdrdevel/plugins FFMDIR = /usr/include/ffmpeg EM8300 = /usr/local/include

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B) Streamdev would be nice. Here is version which should work with 1.3.23:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/peterweber69/

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Maybe with working streamdev and dxr3 I can get 'test vdr' running in my office, and can test faster. Or I don't know if my primary vdr (P350) is too slow for streamdev-server?

Thanks for great work!