vdr August 2007

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dvb driver failure detection?
by Ali H.M. Hoseini 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Hi all, I'm using a VDR system with 4 skystar2 cards. I'm disabled vdr watchdog and code line who jumps out vdr when the signal is noisy, because when this enabled, and I have noise in one frequency, vdr jumps out and ruins all other input recordings. But there are some times that all recordings fail. I suspect to DVB driver, because VDR records, but file size of recordings are 0, and when I restart system, every things go well again. The question is, how I can detect dvb driver failure, rather than signal failure, to restart system just in driver failure times? Thanks.

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WSS signaling with DXR3 cards
by Kartsa 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

There has been some time now I last wrote to the list. I've been busy trying to cooc up a new box for my self. Some time ago I had different kind of problems and someone suggested using ready made packages from. i.e. cachalot. I have now succesfully built a box for my self with fedora core 7 with cachalot and livna repositories. At first I had problems with getting DXR card to work with fedora core 7 but now everything is otherwise fine but wss signaling does not seem to work. Do I need to patch the kernel or em8300 or something to make it work? Or do I still have to compile the CVS version of dxr3? Any pointers would be preciated. I have vdr-1.4.6-1 with dxr3-0.2.7. They are both installed via yum. I have also installed kmod-em8300 using yum (as everything else in the box). Kernel version is 2.6.22.1-41.fc7. BR Kartsa

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How to set German OSD in VDR 1.5.8
by Matthias Fechner 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi, I updated now to version 1.5.8 and it seems to run fine. Only the OSD is english and I cannot change it to german. I checked the logfile and found: Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] ERROR: /usr/local/share/vdr/locale: No such file or directory Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'deu,ger' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'slv,slo' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'ita' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'dut,nla,nld' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'por' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'fra,fre' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'nor' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'fin,smi' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'pol' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'esl,spa' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'ell,gre' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'sve,swe' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'rom,rum' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'hun' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'cat,cln' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'rus' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'hrv' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'est' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'dan' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'cze,ces' Aug 20 12:51:41 localhost vdr: [28820] no locale for language code 'tur' I hope it is not necessary to install vdr, because I held my versions under /usr/local/video and make their symlinks, so I can easily change my versions. I tried the following line WRAPPER="LC_COLLATE=de_DE" with runvdr from Udo Richter but no success. How can I set OSD to german again? Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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VDR-core's texts in plugin's .pot files
by Matthias Becker 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi, plugins can re-use VDR-core translations. With the old "i18n.c" method plugin authors just did not provide a plugin specific translation for these texts. With the new translation method identifying these text got harder for plugin translators. xgettext puts all texts into the .pot file - also the texts for which the VDR-core translation should be used. A translator now cannot see which texts he has to translate and which not. Can this be improved? One way of doing this would be to introduce a new macro similar to trNOOP( ). A plugin author would then tag the vdr-core texts with this new macro and xgettext would ignore these texts. What do you think? Regards, Matthias

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Rotor/livebuffer links down
by Timothy D. Lenz 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Seems all the links at http://home.vrweb.de/~bergwinkl.thomas/ for the rotor plugin and livebuffer are down. Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404 pphl.opencounter.de Thu Aug 23 21:35:14 2007 Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-22

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How to identify timers
by Bernd Juraschek 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hello list, I want to do some kind of offline modifying vdr timers, but I don't know how to identify timers. If I use the timer id to change or delete VDR timers, then this will go wrong if VDR has deleted some timers since the remote site has retrieved the timer list. Using timer properties is not a solution because the user can change timers also locally using OSD. Is there another way to distinguish timers (or channels, recordings, ...)? I think it would be useful to assign some UUID to VDR objects. This ID must not be changed while modifying the object. Is there any chance to insert somewhat like this in future VDR versions - specially without breaking current plugins and applications using the SVDRP interface? Greetings, Bernd -- !!! Reality corrupted !!! Reboot Universe? [Y/n]

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[PATCH] jumpplay patch for vdr-1.5.7
by Thomas Günther 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hi! The jumpplay patch for vdr-1.5.7 is available: http://toms-cafe.de/vdr/download/vdr-jumpplay-0.9-1.5.7.diff (also applicable to vdr-1.5.8) Translators! There are currently only English and German texts in the patch. Further language texts are welcome. This patch changes the replay behaviour for recordings that contain editing marks. It allows to immediately continue the replay after jumping forward to the next mark, and to automatically jump over the commercial break to the next "start" mark, if an "end" mark is reached. The features of this patch can be turned on or off in the replay setup. See README.jumpplay included in the patch for details, history and contributors. Tom

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[Announce] pilotskin-0.0.3
by nouche 1er 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

<http://vdrwiki.free.fr/vdr/pilotskin/files/vdr-pilotskin-0.0.3.tgz>Hello everyone, A new version of pilotskin plugin is available at : http://vdrwiki.free.fr/vdr/pilotskin/ 2007-08-21: Version 0.0.3 - Added support for gettext (VDR >= 1.5.8) - Clean the code, correct minors bugs Regards, Nouche.

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File play problem..
by JJussi 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi! I have strange problem, it rise when system updated vdr to 1.5.5-r5. If I start "Media Player" to play video file, I loose control of vdr.. [30583] [input_vdr] PLAYFILE (Loop: 0, Offset: 0s, File: oscope /data/video/408.ws.dsr-dimension.avi) [30585] [input_vdr] BLANK in middle of stream! bufs queue 0 , video_fifo 0 [30583] [input_vdr] Control stream disconnected [30584] [input_vdr] Data stream disconnected [30585] [input_vdr] read_block: no data source, returning NULL [30577] [input_vdr] write_control aborted [30577] [input_vdr] write_control aborted [30569] [input_vdr] write_control aborted those "write_control aborted" lines comes when I try to press some button from remote. I know.. I can fix this just going to older version.. But, FYI to those who make development... -- JJussi

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Anybody working on AVC (Automatic Volume Control)?
by Harald Milz 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hi, some commercial products (LCD TV sets, mostly) now start to offer a feature named AVC that is meant to prevent ad blocks from being significantly louder than the rest of the programme. While it's clear that this requires on-line detecting advertising (as opposed to off-line processing with noad), is anybody working on such a feature? The bad news is that there's no easy way of turning ad volume down when using AC3 or PCM over SPDIF by some way... softdevice could do something about it because it needs to demux the MPEG stream anyway. Any idea? (German readers: Sharp just announced a TV set with AVC for the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin - http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,498663,00.html) -- Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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