vdr September 2011

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.21
by semsem85 sami 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, I tried this version of vdr with the aim of displaying subtitles on sky italia channels but there were no subtitles shown at all, while at the same time tvheadend shows the subtitles. Please tell me if I have to do something to help. Thanks and best regards, Sami

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[Announce] remoteosd-0.1.1
by Frank Schmirler 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi, I just published remoteosd-0.1.1 on http://vdr.schmirler.de. It fixes a crash when accessing menus without title (reported by Manfred Heindl) and updates the MainMenuHooks patch. With the remoteosd plugin you can access the menu of a remote VDR. You will need to install the following plugins: on local VDR: remoteosd and svdrpservice on remote VDR: svdrposd Have fun! Frank

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ERROR: video data stream broken
by Dominic Evans 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Searching for this error found numerous posts on the mailing list from old releases, but nothing recent so I wanted to query it again... I've recently started seeing quite a few instances of a vdr throwing this error (ERROR: video data stream broken) and then initiating an emergency exit. I'm not sure what exactly has caused this. I recently upgraded to the v3.0.3 stable kernel, and also to the latest vdr development snapshot 1.7.21, but I'm not sure if those could be related or whether it is more likely to be hardware-related (e.g. a failing tuner)? Rather than having VDR emergency exit on this error, is it possible to have it just continue? I have three tuners in my system and I assume this error has simply been thrown by one of them, so even if that tuner has now become unusable (without a reload of the kernel module) VDR should still be able to continue running with the remaining tuners?

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-pvrinput
by L. Hanisch 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Hi all, The plugin for integrating analog MPEG2 cards by Hauppauge (et al.) into the vdr has a new home. http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/show/plg-pvrinput It's adapted to the latest changes of vdr (>= 1.7.13). For older versions the plugin-param-patch is still needed. Take a look at the README to adjust your channels.conf to the matching syntax of your vdr. http://projects.vdr-developer.org/repositories/entry/plg-pvrinput/README http://projects.vdr-developer.org/repositories/entry/plg-pvrinput/HISTORY I think, it's stable enough to be tested by you. :-) Use the new home page for documenting bugs you encounter. A short changelog: - the generated TS now contains valid PAT, PMT and PCR packets so streaming with streamdev-server now works in TS mode. The used PIDs are the same as in the TS of cx18 cards, so the vdr will not alter them in mixed environments. vpid: 301+101=2 ; apid: 300 ; tpid: 305 - the Hauppauge HD PVR is now supported but uses different PIDs as the cx18/ivtv cards. vpid: 4113+4097=27 ; apid: 0;4352 - for radio channels no more video packets are sent. If you use a PVR350 as output device make sure you have a recent version of the pvr350-plugin which generates black video on its own. - if you use a PVRUSB2 make sure you have the latest driver otherwise you can see occasionally no picture after a channel switch. The corresponding patch of pvrusb2 will be integrated in kernel 2.6.34. - if you experience stuttering video on switching channels you can tweak some buffers with some parameters in the setup.conf (stop your vdr before editing, of course) pvrinput.ReadBufferSizeKB = 64 // size of buffer for reader in KB (default: 64 KB) pvrinput.TsBufferSizeMB = 3 // ring buffer size in MB (default: 3 MB) pvrinput.TsBufferPrefillRatio = 0 // wait with delivering packets to vdr till buffer is filled up to x% If the default values don't make you happy, please report working values for your setup. Please report also your used input and output devices. The latest versions of w_pvrscan and wirbelscan supports the new vdr 1.7.13 syntax if you don't want to change your channels.conf by hand. http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/w_pvrscan/index2.html http://wirbel.htpc-forum.de/wirbelscan/index2.html Here's the announcement in the vdr-portal: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=95389 Have fun! Lars.

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Re: [vdr] xine with new AAC LATM support
by Barak Nahari 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

This sounds great. What is needed to be done to get aac latm working with a xine frontend? Do i need only to compile the xine-lib1.2? Does the vdr-plugin-xine or the vdr-plugin-xineliboutput needed to be updated to support aac latm? What about the xine frontend or the vdr-sxfe frontend?

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Gentoo overlay vdr-devel + vdr-xineliboutput
by VDR 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi! (this may not be perfect forum for my question, but..) If I select to use Gentoo overlay vdr-devel to get vdr-1.7.19 I cannot use vdr-xineliboutput-1.0.5-r1 plugin because it's blocked for >=media-video/vdr-1.7 Why? Is there some reason? Because I have seen xineliboutput-plugin working at 1.7.18.. If mainstream gentoo distro wants to block vdr-1.7, should there be newer version of that plugin in vdr-devel overlay? -- JJussi

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Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2
by Henning Pingel 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi, I think it is a great feature that VDR will update channel parameters and add newly found channels automatically if UpdateChannels is set to value 5 in setup.conf. But my impression is currently that VDR might fail to find new channels on a satellite transponder in the special situation that the transponder has changed it's broadcasting "method" from DVB-S to DVB-S2. Of course, prior to changing the method, a transponder might be scraped from any channels so that there will be nothing on the transponder any more for a couple of days or weeks (this of course totally depends on the habits of the provider). And this tackles another small problem: I think that VDR doesn't delete any channels from the channels.conf in any case. So outdated channels have to be removed manually. Has there been an attempt to offer a functionality that VDR makes a note of those channels that get the line "frontend timed out while tuning to channel X" in the syslog and offers those channels for manual deletion via the OSD in a special OSD page called "Outdated channels"? My questions are based on the experience when two transponders switched from DVB-S to DVB-S2 in 2011: 1) On S28.2E the transponder containing the BBC HD channels did this. 2) On S19.2E the transponder now containing the Sonnenklar.HD TV did this. In both cases VDR wasn't able to add the new DVB-S2 channels to the channels.conf automatically as long as not all predecessor channels had been manually removed from the channels.conf. It would be nice if this could happen automatically and users could remove outdated channels from the channels.conf easily. Regards, Henning P.S.: My own special situation is that I use my VDR as a channel list provider for the Channelpedia project and I want to make it easier for me and other people to contribute their channel lists to this directory. (http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/)

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Re: [vdr] xine with new AAC LATM support
by Chris Rankin 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

> Have your patches been merged yet? When will they be merged into the > xine-lib-1.2 tree? I don't know anyone still using 1.1 since 1.2 is > where the vdpau dev happens. Yes, the patches have now all been merged into the xine-lib tree: http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib I suspect that the patches will also arrive in the 1.2 tree at some later point. However, xine-lib-1.2 doesn't build for me on Fedora 15 so I can't test it myself. Cheers, Chris

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xine with new AAC LATM support
by Chris Rankin 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi, Just in case anyone is interested: There has been a sudden spike in xine development (1.1.19 branch), and AAC LATM audio should now be working with MPEG-TS streams. You will also need to be using FFmpeg >= 0.7. Cheers, Chris

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perfect little vdr client hardware
by Torgeir Veimo 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

The netv from chumby seems to be perfect as a hardware client to VDR, if it can decode mpeg2/h.264. Does anyone here know any more about this product? It seems to be fairly open, and based on an embedded linux distro. http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php/NeTV_developer_info -- -Tor

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