vdr February 2005

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.7.2 plugin
by Reinhard Nissl 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, I'm pleased to announce maintenance release 0.7.2: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-xine-0.7.2.tgz 2005-02-27: Version 0.7.2 - Fixed cXineDevice::StillPicture() to support three times larger still image data than before. This was necessary to properly support mp3 plugin's cover image feature (thanks to burki at vdr-portal for reporting this issue). - Removed cXineStatus as vdr-xine now uses a different method of detecting LiveTV. This one works better in combination with mp3 plugin (thanks to Klaus Schmidinger for suggesting the new solution). - Updated xine-lib patch for current CVS (thanks to Grégoire Favre for reporting this issue). For this release I suggest the following xine sources: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-lib-cvs-20050227131000.tar.bz2 http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-ui-cvs-20050227131000.tar.bz2 Enjoy. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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[PATCH] dxr3 for vdr-1.3.22
by Luca Olivetti 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

This patch is additional to the ones already collected at http://cachalot.mine.nu/src/dxr3/ Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --------------------------------------------------------------- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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Hauppauge LIRC remote, FC3, buttons
by Simon Baxter 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hi. I'm having some strange problems with my VDR keymaps on Xine (running FC3 with a DVB Nova-T). I use the xine keymap editor to 'grab' keystrokes for the VDR buttons, but none of the coloured buttons (green, red, blue) are recognised? Also, immediately after I've clicked 'done' on the keymap editor the keystrokes work but a few minutes later they don't. The 'remembered' actions are still in the keymap editor, but the buttons don't do anything. Simon

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cpu load with kernel 2.6.11-rc5
by Jose Alberto Reguero 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

I have heavy cpu load (60 % - 80 %) when playing recorded programs whith kernels 2.6.11 (kernel 2.6.11-rc5 for amd64) with vdr 2.3.21 and vdr-xine-0.7.1. Whith kernel 2.6.10 there is no problem. Thanks. Jose Alberto

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hardware recommendations?
by Craig Sanders 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

thanks to some off-list help from Darren Salt, i got vdr working on my desktop system and am starting to get a handle on how it all works. now i'm ready to start planning my dedicated VDR box. i've got a DVICO fusion lite card and am planning to get another DVB-T card (probably a Nova T). i've also got a few 80GB PATA drives (seagate barracuda V, 8MB cache) left over from when i upgraded my desktop to 200GB drives. so, what hardware would make an ideal vdr machine, given that i want: 1. smooth playback of recordings and of live TV 2. possibly simultaneous recording of two programs (or recording one while watching live TV or a recording). 3. occasionally i will want to burn stuff i want to keep to CD or DVD, without interfering with either recording or smooth playback. and without producing coasters because the system is overworked. of course, i could do this on my desktop, but would prefer to do everything on the vdr box. 4. working infrared remote control 5. decent sound quality 6. minimal hassle with kernel compiles - i.e. preferably GPL drivers included IN the standard kernel sources a nice (but not essential) extra would be the ability to occasionally run X on my TV (a panasonic TX-47P800H rear-projection, 1080i HD capable) to run firefox or some other browser...and useful applications like mozilla calendar, maybe even mutt in an xterm. i guess that 256 or 512MB would be more than adequate (the more ram, the better the disk buffering) - and since the price difference between 256 and 512 is minimal i may as well get 512M. the main things i'm not sure about are: - what CPU to get? i'm tempted by an athlon 64, but then i'd have to start mirroring the a64 distribution of debian as well as the i386, and i'm generally not keen to pay a price premium to be a guinea-pig for new hardware....a64 and a64 motherboard designs probably won't be mature for another year or so. other alternatives P4 or and Athlon, with the athlon being slightly cheaper. - what video card to get? i have a matrox G450 in my desktop - is that adequate? i'm thinking of upgrading my desktop video card anyway, which will leave the matrox spare. actually, i'm sure it's adequate - the real question is, "is it a *good* card for a dedicated VDR box?" any recommendations? craig ps: like my desktop, the vdr box will be running debian. -- craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au> (part time cyborg)

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.7.1 plugin
by Reinhard Nissl 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Hi, I'm pleased to announce bugfix release 0.7.1: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-xine-0.7.1.tgz 2005-02-13: Version 0.7.1 *** NO NEED TO RECOMPILE XINE THIS TIME *** - Updated finish translation (thanks to Rolf Ahrensberg for supplying the update). - Fixed a typo in checking for VDR versions before 1.3.18. This broke successful compilation for versions between 1.3.8 and 1.3.18 (thanks to Andreas Urban for reporting this issue). - Fixed processing of cDevice::SetDigitalAudio() as it skipped displaying of NO SIGNAL when switching channels. For this release I suggest the following xine sources: http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-lib-cvs-20050127201000.tar.bz2 http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/xine-ui-cvs-20050127201000.tar.bz2 Enjoy. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@gmx.de

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english VDR Wiki license change
by Thomas Wehrspann 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

I am going to change the license for text contributions to the wiki. Currently, text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). For some reasons (see discussion of http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-February/000072.html), i will change the license to GPL. All translated articles currently in the wiki will preserve the FDL licence and will get a hint, until they are rewritten from scratch. Only articles i have the (only) copyright on will be relicensed. Has anyone objections against this intention or the procedure? With regards, Thomas

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VDR developer version 1.3.22
by Klaus Schmidinger 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

VDR developer version 1.3.22 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.22.tar.bz2 *** NOTE THAT THE WARNINGS REGARDING THE USE OF VPS CONTROLLED *** TIMERS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE NOTES STILL APPLY! The changes since version 1.3.21: - Removed some unneeded code and fixed access to unallocated memory in cEvent::FixEpgBugs() (thanks to Wolfgang Rohdewald). - Avoiding unnecessary calls to SetPid() in cDvbDevice::SetAudioTrackDevice() (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - No longer calling EnsureAudioTrack() in cDevice::SetChannel() if a Transfer Mode is started, to avoid setting the audio PID on the primary device (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for pointing this out). - Replaced the call to system("sync") in SpinUpDisk() with fdatasync(f) to avoid problems on NPTL systems (thanks to Chris Warren for pointing this out). - Increased POLLTIMEOUTS_BEFORE_DEVICECLEAR in transfer.c to 6 to avoid problems with the larger buffer reserve (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - Fixed the call to SetVideoFormat() in cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice() (parameter is _bool_). - Added support for setting the video display mode (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - The new setup option "DVB/Video display format" can be used to define which display format to use for playing wide screen video on a 4:3 tv set. - Changed MAXDPIDS to 16 (8xAC3 + 8xDTS) (thanks to Werner Fink for pointing this out). - Completed dutch language texts (thanks to Hans Dingemans). - Added 'smi' to the Finnish language codes (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed ensuring there is a current audio track in case there is only one track (thanks to Werner Fink for reporting this one). - Improved automatic audio track selection. - Keeping the track language codes and descriptions in Transfer Mode (thanks to Luca Olivetti). - Fixed handling repeated kAudio keys. - Improved displaying the the current audio track in the ST:TNG channel display. The DVB driver I am currently using can be found at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/linux-dvb.2004-12-26.tar.bz2 which is the CVS 'HEAD' version from 2004-12-26, made available as a complete archive for your convenience. Of course, you can also use any newer driver version. Have fun! Klaus

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Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S SE Model 135
by peter_weber69 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

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Mplayer plugin no longer displays picture (or sound)
by John Grant 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Following some useful pointers last week I have now managed to get from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11rc5 and my panics seem to be a thing of the past, but now mplayer no longer works. I updated my scripts to use the now-renamed frontends and that all seems fine, but when I start playback with mplayer I get a brief black screen and then live video returns. However, I can see get_percent_pos messages scroll past and hear the cd drive spinning. Yes, I do have mpegpes compiled in and I did recompile mplayer just in case. Any suggestions? ====================== Disclaimer ======================= The information in this message is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by any other person is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. =========================================================

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