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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.27
by Klaus Schmidinger 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

VDR developer version 1.7.27 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.27.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.26-1.7.27.diff MD5 checksums: bfeaa79a9e55144bca2b69139c45f1bb vdr-1.7.27.tar.bz2 b23344be51d3e2c2d96cc2dd4e8e564e vdr-1.7.26-1.7.27.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The changes since version 1.7.26: - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Changed the Green button in the "Edit timer" menu from "Once" to "Single" (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed some typos in HISTORY and CONTRIBUTORS (thanks to Ville Skyttä). - The channel name column in the "What's on now/next" menu now adjusts its width to display the full short name of each channel (suggested by Dominic Evans). - Dropped the meanwhile obsolete script 'i18n-to-gettext'. - Removed the obsolete function cPlugin::RegisterI18n(). - Removed the obsolete typedef tI18nPhrase. - Adapted menu column widths of 'skincurses' to the wider HD OSD sizes. - Deactivated definition of __RECORDING_H_DEPRECATED_DIRECT_MEMBER_ACCESS (recording.h) and LEGACY_CRECEIVER (receiver.h) to trigger an error for any plugin that still uses the respective code. You can reactivate these to quickly make your plugin compile again, but beware that these code parts will be removed in one of the next versions. - Made the "overloaded-virtual" warning an error to detect hidden overloaded virtual functions (thanks to Anssi Hannula for pointing out -Werror=...). Plugin authors may want to change -Woverloaded-virtual to -Werror=overloaded-virtual in their Makefiles. - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Improved fast forwarding to the end of a timeshift recording. - The new function cDevice::DeviceName() returns a string identifying the name of the given device. - When toggling a timer between "Single" and "Repeating", the previous setting is now retained in case the user toggles back to the original value. - When estimating the remaining disk space (in hours), the average data rate of all existing recordings is now taken into account. If this value can't be determined, the previous value of 25.75 MB/min is taken. - No longer using GetFont() (which is not thread safe) in the 'osddemo' plugin. - No longer using GetFont() (which is not thread safe) in cSubtitleRegion::UpdateTextData(). - Fixed a memory leak in cSubtitleRegion::UpdateTextData(). - Moved setting LC_NUMERIC further up to make sure any floating point numbers use a decimal point (suggested by Tobias Grimm). - Added missing channel locking to cEIT. - Fixed reduced bpp support for DVB subtitles (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Reverted some improvements to Make.config.template (thanks to Christian Ruppert). - Fixed handling IDLEPRIORITY in cDvbDevice::ProvidesChannel() (thanks to Frank Schmirler). Have fun! Klaus

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Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3
by Mika Iisakkila 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Quick data points with Finnish YLE DVB subtitles, using a dxr3: 1.7.22: everything works (never tried versions between here, because I was stuck with a 2.6 kernel back then) 1.7.25: subtitles are almost black and thus illegible 1.7.26: same thing 1.7.27: colours OK, but during live programming, maybe one of every 20 subtitles shows at all, and are about half the correct size. Same thing when viewing recordings made with this version - when I replay old recordings, all subtitles seem to get displayed. vdr-dxr3-plugin version 0.2.13 from here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-dxr3/files em8300 drivers from here (cloned on March 17th, I think): hg clone http://dxr3.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/dxr3/em8300 dxr3 System Ubuntu Oneiric, kernel 3.0.0-17 from Ubuntu sources (but recompiled by myself, because those nice folks at Ubuntu had to turn OSS support off in the kernel, preventing the em8300 drivers from working) --mika

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Repeating Timers
by Richard Scobie 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

If one sets a daily or weekly timer, does EPG schedule time on the day override any difference between the two? I am thinking of the situation where a weekly timer is set and for whatever reason, the broadcaster reschedules one weeks episode, with the EPG showing the correct time, will vdr check the EPG and adjust accordingly? Regards, Richard

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Xine plugin and vdr 1.7.27
by Jouni Karvo 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

hi, it seems xine-plugin 0.9.4 does not compile with vdr 1.7.27. yours, Jouni

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Re: [vdr] Updating actuator plugin
by YUP 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Luca, It is just to remind you that vdr is updated (1.7.27 is now), and that impossible to compile actuator plugin against new vdr. I do like your plugin, it very useful for channel's scanning. It is better than other scanner pluging I tried. Pls, find some time! ;-) Regards, Yarema 17 січня 2012 р. 13:28 Luca Olivetti <luca(a)ventoso.org> написав: > Al 17/01/12 00:39, En/na YUP ha escrit: > > Hi Luca, > > > > Maybe it is a right time to update your actuator plugin. There are some > changes in vdr-1.7.23, it is enough to change SystemValues to > SystemValuesSat to compile vdr-actuator against the last vdr-1.7.23, or > simply: > > sed -i -e "s/SystemValues/SystemValuesSat/" actuator.c > > I'm still using 1.7.21, not much time to upgrade vdr right now. > > Bye > -- > Luca >

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externalplayer plugin for vdr: update
by YUP 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi, Felix, Can you please update your plugin? VDR code has significant changes and some plugins need updating. Basically the problem is only in i18n. I made a patch, for those interested I attached it. Regards, Yarema

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Sound and picture problems with ITV3
by brian 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi, Running VDR 1.6 on a FF and Budget cards I have problems with recordings made from the channel ITV3. The video itself starts OK, but gets very jerky after a while. Restarting playback makes it better for a while. Sound gets more out of sync with the picture, its also better after restarting playback. I tried replaying on VDR 1.7 and the problem was the same. I tried demuxing the recording with ProjectX, this was the output: <<< session infos >>> Monday, March 26, 2012 4:32:41 PM CEST ProjectX 0.90.4.00 (30.03.2006) -> working with collection 0 -> save normal log file -> write all video data -> write all other data -> patch c.d.flagged infos of pictures -> add sequence end code -> set resolution in SDE -> PVA: strictly specs. for audio streams -> VOB: determine diff. Cell timelines -> TS: ignore scrambled packets -> TS: enhanced search for open packets -> TS: join file segments (of Dreambox®) -> TS: generate PMT stream dependent -> get only enclosed PES/TS packets -> concatenate different recordings -> ensure 1st PES-packet start with video -> generate PCR/SCR from PTS -> write output files to: '/home/brian/VDR-debug' -> Input File 0: '/media/public/video/VDR/2012-03-24.23.56.50.50.rec/001.vdr' (1,953,444 bytes) -> Filetype is PES (incl. MPEG Video) -> demux -> found PES-ID 0xE0 (MPEG Video) @ 0 -> found PES-ID 0xC1 (MPEG Audio) @ 2048 -> found PES-ID 0xC0 (MPEG Audio) @ 6537 -> video basics: 704*576 @ 25fps @ 0.7031 (16:9) @ 15000000bps, vbvBuffer 112 -> starting export of video data @ GOP# 0 !> dropping useless B-Frames @ GOP# 0 / new Timecode 00:00:00.000 -> actual written vframes: 145 switch to file: /media/public/video/VDR/2012-03-24.23.56.50.50.rec/002.vdr (2,097,184,848 bytes) @ 1953444 !> dropping GOP# 9 @ orig.PTS 08:50:48.464 (2866361773), errorcode: 24 !> Pics exp/cnt 3/1, inGOP PTS diff. 0ms, new Timecode 00:00:05.800 !> ID 0xC0 (sub 0x0) packet# 252, big PTS difference: this 2866437692, prev. 2866321052 !> ID 0xC1 (sub 0x0) packet# 253, big PTS difference: this 2866450652, prev. 2866321052 !> PTS difference of 108000 (00:00:01.200) to last exported GOP detected (broken_link corrected) !> dropping useless B-Frames @ GOP# 10 / new Timecode 00:00:05.800 -> found PES-ID 0xBD (private stream 1) (SubID 0x20) @ 2554745 -> found PES-ID 0xBD (private stream 1) @ 4396859 GOP# 9947, new format in next leading sequenceheader detected: (01:45:12.760) -> video basics: 704*576 @ 25fps @ 0.6735 (4:3) @ 15000000bps, vbvBuffer 112 -> Video: fr/ ct/ 1p/ cg/ og/ dg -> 174194/ 2/ 1/ 10896/ 0/ 1 -> Video length: 174194 frames @ 01:56:07.760 -> GOP summary: min. 6, max. 40 fields; contains interlaced frames -> avg. nom. bitrate 2067611bps (min/max: 261600/8854800) -> set first sequenceheader bitrate to 8854800bps ---> new File: /home/brian/VDR-debug/001.m2v --> MPEG Audio (0xC1) -> check CRC of AC-3 / MPEG-Audio L1,2 -> delete CRC in MPEG-Audio Layer1,2 -> add frames Audio PTS: first packet 08:50:42.107, last packet 10:46:51.851 Video PTS: start 1.GOP 08:50:42.664, end last GOP 10:46:51.704 -> adjusting audio at video-timeline -> src_audio: MPEG-1, Layer2, 48000Hz, stereo, 128kbps, noCRC @ 00:00:00.000 !> 14 frame(s) (336ms) inserted @ 00:00:05.472 audio frames: wri/pre/skip/ins/add 290323/0/0/14/0 @ 01:56:07.752 done... ---> new File: '/home/brian/VDR-debug/001.mp2' --> MPEG Audio (0xC0) -> check CRC of AC-3 / MPEG-Audio L1,2 -> delete CRC in MPEG-Audio Layer1,2 -> add frames Audio PTS: first packet 08:50:42.107, last packet 10:46:51.851 Video PTS: start 1.GOP 08:50:42.664, end last GOP 10:46:51.704 -> adjusting audio at video-timeline -> src_audio: MPEG-1, Layer2, 48000Hz, stereo, 192kbps, noCRC @ 00:00:00.000 !> 16 frame(s) (384ms) inserted @ 00:00:05.424 audio frames: wri/pre/skip/ins/add 290323/0/0/16/0 @ 01:56:07.752 done... ---> new File: '/home/brian/VDR-debug/001[1].mp2' --> Subpicture (SubID 0x20) -> selected DVB subpicture color model: (0) 4 colors ; fixed to page id: -> export format: sup -> temp. file: 001.sp (995605 bytes) Subpicture PTS: first packet 08:50:52.525, last packet 10:46:52.627 Video PTS: start 1.GOP 08:50:42.664, end last GOP 10:46:51.704 -> adjusting subpicture at video-timeline !> suppic unknown cmd: 144 The last line is repeated 500 times, then I get: stopped... !> an error has occured.. (please inform the authors at 'forum.dvbtechnics.info') java.lang.NullPointerException Is there any way I can analyse this further? I dont see any errrors with femon on ITV3. Cheers Brian

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Channel 4 HD on Freesat
by Tony Houghton 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or "No signal". Any ideas? This is my channels.conf entry: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M2O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307=NAR@4;2306=eng@106:2309:0:21200:2:2068:0 Not much going on in syslog: Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [2449] switching to channel 126 Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [2449] setstatus 0 Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [3031] TS buffer on device 2 thread ended (pid=2449, tid=3031) Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [3030] buffer stats: 63732 (3%) used Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [3030] receiver on device 2 thread ended (pid=2449, tid=3030) Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [2537] setstatus 0 Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [2537] setstatus 1 Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:0,Tid:0 added. Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [3535] receiver on device 2 thread started (pid=2449, tid=3535) Mar 11 23:33:37 htpc vdr: [3536] TS buffer on device 2 thread started (pid=2449, tid=3536) Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] PMT scan idle Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] EEPG: FreeView Extended EPG detected on pid f02. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Loading table 1 Filename </var/lib/vdr/plugins/eepg/freesat.t1> Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Loading table 2 Filename </var/lib/vdr/plugins/eepg/freesat.t2> Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:f02,Tid:4e,Mask:fe added. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:f02,Tid:50,Mask:f0 added. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:f02,Tid:60,Mask:f0 added. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:39,Tid:50,Mask:f0 added. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:39,Tid:60,Mask:f0 added. Mar 11 23:33:38 htpc vdr: [2537] Filter Pid:f02,Tid:b0 added.

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ANNOUNCE vdr-osdteletext 0.9.2
by Tobi 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Catching up with the recent changes in the Git, I've released a new version 0.9.2. Please note that this version does not yet work with the TT6400 high level OSD. This is beeing worked on. See: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/issues/899 The changes: * Some code refactorings (Thx to Ville Skyttä) * FF card transfer mode on channel switch with VDR >= 1.7.25 (Closes: #9) (Thx to Udo Richter) * VDR 1.7.26 compatibility (Thx to Ville Skyttä) * Better live view channel switch detection As always: Any help is welcome! Development site: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-osdteletext Downloads: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-osdteletext/files Git-Web: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/git/vdr-plugin-osdteletext.git/ Anonymous Git-access : git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-osdteletext.git This is intended to be a community maintained project! Don't expect me to fix your problems, I'm merely maintaining the project! Please report any bugs, ideas or feature requests to the project site (no registration required for this!). If you want to contribute patches, new features or whatever, post an issue or patch to the projects issue tracker or request to join the project. I would happily add everyone as a project member, who would like to contribute to the project! Tobias

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cheap dvb-s usb2.0 card
by Arturo Martinez 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hi, Can somebody point out at a resonably priced DVB-S (or DVB-S2) USB2.0 card to use with VDR? I found this one: http://www.buydvb.net/tbs5922-usb-dvbs2-tv-box_p41.html but it seems a bit expensive...

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