[vdr] Re: Using VDR with UK digital terrestrial (problems and observations)

[Simeon Walker <simeon@sbs.bangor.ac.uk>]

On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 4:09 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:04:26PM +0000, Simeon Walker wrote:
> >  ? Some channels share the same 'frequency'. For example, BBC 3 and
> > 4 become the childrens channels during the day. Is it possible to
> > enter them both into the channels.conf?
>
> I thought they just had different PIDs, but broadcast at different times
> - I didn't realise they shared the same PIDs....
>
Well, I haven't entered the childrens channels infor my channels.conf
so I don't know if they have different PIDs. I do know that I picked
them up this morning on the BBC3/4 channels that I had configured.

I shall have to check the PIDs against what me STB says.

> >  ? When starting recording a program for which there is no EPG info
> > the VDR interface blocks for a few seconds. If you're not looking
> > at the syslog you might wonder what is happening. It would be nice
> > for a message to pop-up whilst this is happening.
>
> There's a note about this in the Dxr3 plugin README I think - in the
> /video/setup.conf, change EPGTimeout to zero.
>
Ahh, I didn't realise what that mean.

> > is a 4:3 picture inside the active part of a letter-boxed area
> > which is itself inside the standard 4:3 frame. Does anyone else
> > see this?
>
> Yes, I get this too :)
>
> >  ? The volume and mute controls are having no effect. Is this
> > just the current state of the DXR3 plugin?
>
> The Dxr3 audio output has no mixer, so it is not possible to change the
> state of the audio output without actually processing the volume level
> of the audio in software.
>
That explains a lot! I just assumed it would have one, not much of
a problem now that I know about it.

> I doubt this is a high priority on the TODO list of the Dxr3-plugin
> coders list :)
>
> gdh

Regards,
Simeon

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