Hi!
I was recently using Yavdr with no real problems, but now I decided to build my own VDR system on top of Linux Mint. Main reason was that Yavdr stable still doesn't have vdr 2.2.0..
I've got everything working nicely, but I have weird "duped frames" problem with softhhddevice. Video and audio are fine and nicely in sync, and usually you can't see anything wrong. But fast moving objects sometimes have "tearing" and jerky movement.
Also if I open Softhddevice stats from the VDR main menu, I see that "duped" field increases steadily maybe 9-10 per second! "dropped" and "missed" stays at zero usually.
There is nothing special on the log. Sometimes I get logs like this:
Oct 26 01:09:42 puucee vdr: video: slow down video, duping frame Oct 26 01:09:42 puucee vdr: video: 22:17:22.060 +55 311 0/\ms 23+7 v-buf Oct 26 01:10:29 puucee vdr: video: slow down video, duping frame Oct 26 01:10:29 puucee vdr: video: 22:18:09.380 +53 285 0/\ms 26+7 v-buf
But as you can see, these are almost a minute apart, and the actual "duped" count increased by several hundreds already during that time. So this logged "duping" is normal a/v sync, what I see is something different.
This is VDR 2.2.0, and quite recent softhddevice from yavdr ppa: 1:0.6.1rc1.git20150924.1231-0yavdr0~trusty
And the very same hardware worked just nicely with full yavdr install, with vdr 2.0.x and some old version of softhddevice. Oh, and I have nvidia GT210.
Hello,
softhddevice does not work terribly well if you use it with a compositor (like compiz) for your desktop environment. In yaVDR a slim window manager (openbox) is used and compositing is disabled by default in the x-server configuration:
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" Disabled EndSection
If you want to use vdr 2.2.0 with yaVDR 0.5, all you have to do is to use the packages from yaVDR's testing PPAs (we won't copy them to stable because the support for multiple video directories has been dropped): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-vdr sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-xbmc sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-yavdr
Create a file for apt to prefer installation of packages from these PPAs: --- cut --- # /etc/apt/preferences.d/yavdr-testing
Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-vdr Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-xbmc Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-yavdr Pin-Priority: 1001
--- cut ---
And finally run the upgrade: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradeAm 26.10.2015 um 00:19 schrieb Teemu Suikki:
Any hope for yavdr 0.6 soon? I presume not supporting multiple recording directories out of the box would warrant a new version number.
On 26 October 2015 at 17:36, Alexander Grothe alexander.grothe@googlemail.com wrote:
Thanks for the tip! It was caused by window manager compositing. I'm using Linux Mint Mate, with Marco window manager.. It is very light and stable, and earlier versions had compositing disabled by default, but this one had it enabled for some reason. :) I just disabled it from the desktop settings GUI, and softhddevice works fine now.
I am actually already using yavdr testing ppa's to get most of my vdr stuff, I don't like to compile everything myself. :)
2015-10-26 9:36 GMT+02:00 Alexander Grothe alexander.grothe@googlemail.com:
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