vdr October 2006

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burn plugins crash while analyzing recording
by Leo Márquez 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi, I'm working with burn plugin version 0.1.0-pre21 When I choose a recording to burn I see an 'analyzing recording message' and vdr seems to crash. the remote don't work and I have to restart vdr. I think that the analyzing process use a tool that I don't have but I don't know what is it. Anyone can tell me what system do during 'analyzing recording'? In syslog I only see 'no translation found for analyzing recording in (my language)'. Any help would be apreciated. Thank you.

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ProjectX - won't start
by Simon Baxter 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi group. I can't get vdrsync.pl to work on some of my vdr records because of some audio cutting problem, or something. So I'm trying to get ProjectX to start. But I get this error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Graphics2D not implemented. Cairo was not found or disabled at configure time at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphics2D.<clinit>(lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7) at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.7) at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GdkGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics(lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7) at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.createGraphics(libgcj.so.7) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.subtitle.Subpicture.<init>(Unknown Source) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.common.Common.init(Unknown Source) at net.sourceforge.dvb.projectx.common.Start.main(Unknown Source) I've yum-installed java-cairo, cairomm and cairomm-devel, but still get this error. Can anyone tell me how to fix it?

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VDRadmin-AM-3.4.7 and softdevice
by Harald Milz 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I'm using softdevice and would like to see the VDR screen in VDRadmin-AM-3.4.7. I have no FF card, just 2 dumb ones. All I get in VDRadmin is a random noise screen. It there a way to get the live screen, e.g. via the streamdev-server? TIA! -- Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone.

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vdrsync - no audio file?
by Simon Baxter 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

When I run vdrsync on a file captured under my analog card, I get no audio file - only the video file "vdrsync.mpv" I get these errors: [vdruser@media %%The_Frighteners]$ vdrsync.pl 2006-07-23.14.25.99.99.rec/001.vdr Parameter validation not complete yet Initialising and analysing the streams.... 10 Mbytes of 105 readWARNING: Stopped Audio flush for stream c0 because the last Audio PTS is bigger than the last Video PTS, but the Audio length is shorter than the Video length: Video length 162000 Audio length 144720 Diff: 17280 CORRECTION: Inserted 8 additional frames cause at 920539568 there was not enough audio kill_score is now: 9 WARNING: Stopped Audio flush for stream c0 because the last Audio PTS is bigger than the last Video PTS, but the Audio length is shorter than the Video length: Video length 324000 Audio length 298080 Diff: 25920 CORRECTION: Inserted 12 additional frames cause at 920674703 there was not enough audio kill_score is now: 18 WARNING: Stopped Audio flush for stream c0 because the last Audio PTS is bigger than the last Video PTS, but the Audio length is shorter than the Video length: Video length 486000 Audio length 457920 Diff: 28080 CORRECTION: Inserted 13 additional frames cause at 920809838 there was not enough audio (etc) any ideas?

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[Announce] vdr-skipeditmode patch
by Olaf Titz 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello all, it's not perfect (yet) but might interest some people :-) With this modification you can play recordings with cut marks as if they were already cut. I.e. when reaching a cut-out position, replay automatically jumps to the next cut-in position as with the "9" key. So you can watch auto-cut recordings without wasting space for a fully cut version, or just test your cut marks. This skip-edit-mode is turned off by default. You have to activate it for each replay by pressing the "1" key. Jumping with the "green" or "yellow" key deactivates skip-edit-mode temporarily, jumping with the "7" or "9" keys re-activates it. (This originally was due to an implementation detail, but it makes sense: perhaps you want to jump to positions just before the cut-in or after the cut-out and resume normally at the cut position, just to see what's around the cut.) The "3" key turns skip-edit mode off. Bugs/ToDos: - It looks like the jumps happen too early, a few frames before the actual cut point. I suspect this is caused by an unfortunate interaction with some buffering; it's worse with the xine plugin which itself has buffers. There should be a way to do a cDvbPlayer::Goto() without throwing away buffers... - Display what's going on on the OSD. - Make skip edit mode configurable as default via a menu. - The "8" key doesn't work well here: it jumps just before the next cut-in position, rather than before the more desirable cut-out. (It's just this way in the original VDR, probably easy to change.) To be found at http://sites.inka.de/bigred/sw/vdr.html Olaf

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SVDRP feature idea: LSTEZ
by CR 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi, My feature request/idea for SVDRP is for a new command: LSTEZ . The command would send the EPG data zLib compressed. The EPG data can be large (6+ MBytes) and of course zip, zLib, etc can compress the data quite nicely. The general idea is if some PC based program is used to schedule and setup VDR timers, then it would need full access to VDR's EPG. I'd like to try and get TV Browser (tvbrowser.org) to grab it's EPG data directly from VDR. This way there is no redundant EPG info in that program. My idea is to either write a plug-in for TV Browser, or a small C program that grabs the EPG data from VDR and parses it into a format TV Browser can understand. There is a plug-in for TV Browser called "Lazy Bones" which can apparently set/read timer information from VDR already, so most of the hard work is already done. For those curious why I'm even bothering, given there is something like vdradmin-am...I have setup vdradmin-am recently, and while it has a very polished UI and has *excellent* features, I find it runs very slowly on my desktop PC (Firefox, 2.2 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM) when I access "Timeline" or "Playing Today?" It also uses ~200MB+ RAM on the VDR box. Featurewise, I wish vdradmin-am had was a "conflict resolution" where if two or more timers are set and they conflict, vdradmin-am searches for alternates of the conflicting program(s) and tries to schedule the program(s) automatically to be recorded at different non-conflicting times, and informs the user, etc. I figure to implement my feature suggestion and operate more quickly, a PC based program is needed. The TV Browser site details their EPG format, but unfortunately the program is written in Java and I currently only know C. If there are any Java programmers lurking about and interested in working on this, please contact me. Thanks for listening. CR.

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Returning due to modification...
by CR 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi Klaus, On the returning due to modification issue: At one point I accessed the setup file as root, but I run VDR as a different user. I changed the OSD options as the user, but the settings were not saved to the file due to permissions issue. So VDR was set to update all info for the channel. > Well, it's the simplest way to make sure everything gets adjusted > to the changed channel data, no matter what it is. Due to, for > instance, a change in the CA parameter of a channel it might not > even be available any more because it changed from FTA to encrypted. I'm not sure I fully understand the CA system, but usually after a channel is tuned, doesn't the CA field get populated with the correct info? Isn't the channel updating only needed one time IF the status does not change from encrypted to FTA? I guess I'm trying to understand what in an encrypted channel actually does require the "returning due to modification". I only vaguely understand those fields (CA) since I wrote a channel parsing program to translate a channel listing in CSV into VDR's channel.conf format. The other idea is if VDR has an issue tuning a channel (i.e. if there is a failure to lock), perhaps *then* the channel entry should get "adjusted" ? Thanks, CR.

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-epgsearch-0.9.18
by Mike Constabel 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hello, Christian has released vdr-epgsearch-0.9.18. You can download the latest release at http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html *** HISTORY *** 2006-10-01: Version 0.9.18 new: - IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ THIS!: epgsearch expects it's conf files now in a separate configuration directory 'epgsearch' and not in the general plugin configuration directory as with previous versions! Please create this directory in your plugins configuration directory and move all epgsearch-files to it before running this version. Like this: mkdir /etc/vdr/plugins/epgsearch mv /etc/vdr/plugins/epgsearch*.* /etc/vdr/plugins/epgsearch mv /etc/vdr/plugins/.epgsearch* /etc/vdr/plugins/epgsearch This is only important if you don't already use epgsearchs '--config' or '-c' parameter. - new 'Favorites menu' besides 'Now' and 'Next': This menu can show a list of all your favorite broadcasts for the next 24h. To enable it activate 'Show favorites menu' in the setup. To let epgsearch know what your favorites are create/edit some searches and enable 'Use in favorites menu'. - new setup option for timer conflict check: 'After each timer programming'. This performs a conflict check after each manual timer programming and - if the new/modified timer is involved in a conflict - pops up an OSD message about it. - new email notifications about search timer updates or timer conflicts with a customizable mail content. Please refer to the MANUAL section 'Email notification' for further details. - epgsearch has now a set of man pages. A very BIG thanks to Mike Constabel (vejoun@vdrportal) who did the complete job of rewriting/correcting and formatting the current docs. The man pages cover the README's, MANUAL and a documentation of all conf's that epgsearch uses. Available for german and english. Install them with 'make install-doc' in epgsearch's src-directory. - you can now define your own variables to be used in the default recordings directory, search timer recording directory or your own menu templates. Since this is quite complex please refer to the MANUAL section 'User defined variables'. Just an example to see what is possible: # Weekday, Date, Time %DateStr%=%time_w% %date% %time% # Themes or Subtitle or Date %ThemesSubtitleDate1%=%Subtitle% ? %Subtitle% : %DateStr% %ThemesSubtitleDate%=%Themes% ? %Themes% : %ThemesSubtitleDate1% # Calls this script to get a recording path %DocuScript%=system(doku.pl,%Title%,%Subtitle%,%Episode%,%Themes%,%Category%,%Genre%) %Docu%=%DocuScript% - key 'Ok' can now also be configured to switch to a channel instead of displaying the summary, suggested by malachay@vdrportal. - if a timer was created by a search timer then epgsearch's own timer edit menu now displays the name of the search timer in a non selectable item at the bottom of the menu. - when an event is announced via search timers you can now create a timer for it, when you press the red key while the announce is visible, suggested by Andreas Mair - if search timers are disabled by setup then creating/editing a search timer now automatically activates them in setup, suggested by Andreas Mair. - you can now use more than one menu template for search results, please refer to the MANUAL section "Customizing the EPG menus". - the check for a complete recording now also accepts short breaks (< 2s, e.g. a channel pid change) - new SVDRP commands: * LSTC [channel group name] list all channel groups or if given the one with name 'group name' * NEWC <channel group settings> create a new channel group, format as in epgsearchchangrps.conf * EDIC <channel group settings> modify an existing channel group, format as in epgsearchchangrps.conf * DELC <channel group name> delete an existing channel group * RENC <old channelgroup name|new channel group name> rename an existing channel group * 'LSTB [ID]' to list all blacklists, or the one with the passed ID (format is the same as epgsearchblacklists.conf, see MANUAL) * 'NEWB <settings>' to add a new blacklist REMARK: the value of element ID is ignored. epgsearch will always assign the next free ID * 'DELB <ID>' to delete the blacklist with ID * 'EDIB <settings>' to modify an existing blacklist * 'QRYS < ID(s) >' to get the results for a search with the given ID. Multiple IDs can also be passed and have to be separated with '|'. * 'QRYS <settings>' to get the results for a search with the given search settings. * 'QRYF [hours]' to get the results for the favorites menu. The optional parameter specifies the number of hours to evaluate and defaults to 24h. * 'LSTE [ID] to get the extended EPG categories defined in epgsearchcats.conf or the one with the given ID. * 'MODS ID ON|OFF' turns on/off the option 'Use as search timer'. * 'SETP option' returns the current value of the setup option (see MANUAL). - epgsearch has now a bug tracking system (german) and a mailing list (english) http://www.vdr-developer.org/mantisbt http://www.vdr-developer.org/mailman/listinfo/epgsearch thanks to the providers of developer.org - new service interface "Epgsearch-switchtimer-v1.0" to access and manage switch timers, thanks to Dirk Leber for his extension. - update for french translation (including setup help!), thanks to Patrice Staudt - thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg for finnish translation update - thanks to Mike Constabel for providing a HTML update mail template (conf/epgsearchupdmail-html.templ) fixes: - the first day of a repeating timer is now taken into consideration in the timer conflict check, thanks to zimuland@vdrportal for reporting - fixed search timer update for VPS timers, thanks to Chello and oholler@vdrportal for reporting. - fixed handling of the sign '|' when changing the search type of a search timer, thanks to Chello@vdrportal for reporting - changed some default search mode values in the epgsearchcats.conf samples for multiple selection - removed extra line feeds in SVDRP response of LSTS, thanks to Andreas Mair for reporting - channel criterion 'no pay tv' in search timers was ignored, thanks to Andreas Mair for reporting - fixed initial min/max values for search criterion 'duration', thanks to Mike Constabel for reporting - fixed a bug when selecting the conflict check 'after each search timer update' in setup, thanks to Ronny Kornexl for reporting - some changes for thread safeness - added '--remove-destination' to the Makefile as introduced in vdr-1.4.2-3 Have fun.

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vdr-xineliboutput-1.0.0pre5 issues
by syrius.ml＠no-log.org 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, Am I the only one to have those issues ? - no audio / big audio lags when changing channels (also the case with pre4) - osd does not fit screen. (right part is outside the screen) i'm using xine-ui with remote tcp stream and debian/unstable: libxine is 1.1.2-6 xine-ui is 0.99.4+cvs20060813-1 vdr-1.4.3 it also happens with vdr-sxfe. but the osd is too small. it doesn't use all the screen... --

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Returning due to modification...
by CR 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

Hi, I notice when I change channels, video/audio will start and then it will pause and resume, in the syslog I often see "returning due to modification of channel " when it happens. In the setup options, I have turned off updating of any channels, so why does this occur? Is there anyway to avoid it/disable it? Thanks, CR.

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