Hi all,
I would like to run my headless VDR without a primary DVB (or suspended output) but keep xineliboutput running. I can't figure out how.
My VDR has 4 receivers (2x Astra, 2x Hotbird) without MPEG decoder. It runs vnsiserver (for my Kodi client), streamdev-server (for some browser / VLC clients) and xineliboutput (because it's sometimes useful to have access to the VDR console via remote). Alas, xineliboutput will always be the primary DVB device and block a receiver, which is nasty when VDR is recording on one bouquet, xineliboutput blocks another bouquet and I want to watch live TV on just another bouquet, all on the same satellite.
Can I use the suspendoutput plugin while keeping xineliboutput active so that I can access it with vdr-sxfe when needed?
TIA!
(I could "park" xineliboutput on an arbitrary hotbird channel though but I'd like to have it automated ...)
Hi!
I never tried it myself, but isn't vdr-dummydevice used for that?
http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/vdr-dummydevice/
Regards, Stephan.
Am 12/20/2016 um 05:05 PM schrieb Harald Milz:
I would like to run my headless VDR without a primary DVB (or suspended output) but keep xineliboutput running. I can't figure out how.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:09:46PM +0100, Stephan Loescher wrote:
Hi!
I never tried it myself, but isn't vdr-dummydevice used for that?
Hmmm, it seems xineliboutput doesn't like not being the primary:
Dec 21 14:39:38 vdr vdr: [3419] [xine..put] Dropping client: xineliboutput is not the primary device !
I think I'll park the primary at a hotbird channel via SVDRP / cron for now.
Hi,
I use these config parameters for xineliboutput plugin
--local=none --primary --remote=0.0.0.0:37890
in MLD 5.1.
I have no local OSD because of using VDR as server, and I can use it on my Ubuntus as a remote display/client using vdr-sxfe...
-Wanninger
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Am 21.12.2016 um 14:42 schrieb Harald Milz:
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Niedermeier Günter wrote:
Yup, me too. In this case xineliboutput will be the primary display, and there will always be a channel running on it. Which is the root cause of my problem. If you omit --primary, xineliboutput will claim primary on its own if there is no other output device, which is the case when you have a receiver-only sat card.
That's right.
I use two ways to solve that issue:
1. for example, tune VDR to a non existant iptv channel or another one, which does not use DVB ressources. 2. use of vdr-plugin-suspendoutput - works also fine for me
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Am 21.12.2016 um 16:36 schrieb Harald Milz:
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Hi Harald!
Yes, xineliboutput always wants to be the primary. But you can change that online via SVDRP:
plug xineliboutput prim NUMBER
With that you can switch the primary device to another one.
Regards, Stephan.
Am 12/21/2016 um 02:42 PM schrieb Harald Milz:
ti, 2016-12-20 kello 17:05 +0100, Harald Milz kirjoitti:
There was a bug in xineliboutput automatic primary device switching. It should be fixed in sourceforge git.
Yes, that was one of the reasons why it was written.
Recent xineliboutput can trigger suspendoutput automatically when vdr- sxfe is disconnected (this could use some testing ...). See --auto- suspend option.
Is it enough to replace the xineliboutput plugin with the latest git-version and start the plugin it with "-s" parameter, or must I do further things?
Only updating the xineliboutput plugin does not trigger autosuspend yet. (At least in my environment)
-Wanninger
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ti, 2017-01-17 kello 17:37 +0100, Niedermeier Günter kirjoitti:
You need also recent vdr-suspedoutput plugin loaded: https://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/vdr-suspendoutput/vdr-suspendoutput-2.1.0 .tgz
Was there anything in the log when vdr-sxfe was started / stopped ?
It should trigger suspendoutput when there are no clients, and disable it when a client connects. But, as said, this is not much tested feature :)
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