vdr October 2006

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[Announce] LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4.0-3
by Matthias Lötzke 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hello! A new release of the configurable LNB-sharing patch for VDR 1.4 is available at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/configurableLNBshare-VDR_… Changes: - added a missing "break" statement which froze vdr after pressing channel up/down buttons when the main menu was displayed. Thanks to Christian Jacobsen, "Horchi" and Anssi Hannula for reporting and analysing. - adapted to VDR 1.4.3 For general information about the LNB-sharing patch have a look at: http://xn--ltzke-jua.de/dvb/VDR_LNB_sharing_patch/Description.txt http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Lnbsharing-patch (german) Matthias.

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FF card A/V sync suggestion
by C.Y.M 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings, I was thinking about what could be done. As of now, I have been using xine with my FF card to fix the problem. But, if I use xine, then even live tv is played back over software. The problem was never with live tv, only playing back recordings. What if the mplayer plugin was modified to replace the default vdr playback for recordings. It currently works as is, but it has problems with split files (ie; 001.vdr, 002.vdr, etc.). Also, it would be nice if there was an option to replace the default playback in vdr for recordings (so we wouldnt have to select the mplayer plugin first every time). Just a suggestion, but using mplayer over mpegpes would definitely be a better solution for fixing the a/v desync instead of having to use xine for everything (since there never was a problem with live tv). Best Regards.

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DVD plugin - sound jerky??
by Simon Baxter 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I've had this problem for ages and never found any resolution to it as it's really only a problem with DVDs that have a lot of chapters. When it get towards the end of a chapter, the sound disappears. The video is still fine, but the sound stops. Are there any debugs I can run to get more info out of dvd-plugin?

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Re: [vdr] [vdr bug]Shutdown during an active timer is broken
by vdr＠helmutauer.de 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

> > Then the message appears: "Next recording in -xx minutes - Shutdown > > anyway ?" > > When I now press ok the shutdown routine will be called and the timer > > given to the shutdown script is in the past, so the machine will shut > > down but never wake up again. > > Any easy solutions for this ? > > There's no simple solution to this, I think. I remember that this has > been discussed before, however without results. Using nvram-wakeup, the > nvram script will complain next and shutdown will not work, you have to > disable all running timers and all close timers, or nvram-wakeup wont > shut down. > And with acpi it will shutdown but never wake up, depending on the shutdown script. > The current solution just uses the remaining time to the next timer, and > thats the running one of course. > Thats not a solution - thats a bug :) The shutdown script should get the starttime of the next timer in the future, not a time in the past. > A proper solution would have to skip over the offending timers to get > the next timer that is at least xx minutes in the future. Probably the > easiest and most radical solution is to really disable (or skip) all > offending timers after each confirmation. > I've made some tries into this direction, but none of these are working correct with repeatable timers. The only solution which works reliable is to disallow shutdown when a recording is active. Bye Helmut

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Recordings sorting
by Chris Jones 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi Inspired by the channel sorting thread, I'm wondering if there's any way to have vdr sort recordings by date rather than name? I would think that would be a more obvious default, but even if not, I would like to use it :) Cheers, -- Chris Jones cmsj(a)tenshu.net www.tenshu.net

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[ANNOUNCE] VDRAdmin-AM-3.5.0beta
by Andreas Mair 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hi, for all of you wanting to control the epgsearch plugin using a web browser a dream has come true ;) By using this release of VDRAdmin-AM you can manage your epgsearches! Have fun. Andreas *** HISTORY *** 2006-10-27: 3.5.0beta - Added: script to convert existing AutoTimers to epgsearch (autotimer2searchtimer.pl). - Added: Hack for MSIE to always show vertical scroller to prevent horizontal scroller (Submitted by Udo Richter). - Added: Support for epgsearch plugin; AutoTimer now considered deprecated and unsupported. - Minor bugfixes -- http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM VDR user #303

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next developper version
by tinconn＠virgilio.it 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi Klaus I read yesterday a part of your answer mail to a question of vdr user: > In VDR version 1.4 the CA_PMT records (that's the data a CAM needs in > order to know which PIDs it shall decrypt) are sent to all CAMs in > one CI device. I know that this can be a problem, and that's why I'm > going to address this first thing in the upcoming 1.5 developer > version. I like to know if you have create a to-do-list for new developper release... thanks for your work on vdr bye kikko77

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softdevice and epia tv-out problem with Xorg
by Leo Márquez 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi!, Recently I have connected my vdr box to my CRT 16:9 TV. I use the s-video(I want to use the rca tv-out for digital audio) connector of my epia M.10000. I have followed some instructions to configure xorg with s-video out from this page: http://www.kingcot.eclipse.co.uk/unichrome/unichromeTvOut.html I don't know if this url is up to date. I have got see my wmaker desktop in my tv but when I start vdr with softdevice I get: [softdevice] initializing Plugin [softdevice] Initializing Video Out [softdevice] ffmpeg build(3345920) [XvVideoOut]: osd_image shmid = 2686978 [XvVideoOut]: got osd_image: width 720 height 576, bytes per line 2880 [softdevice] Subplugin successfully opend [softdevice] Video Out seems to be OK [softdevice] Initializing Audio Out [softdevice] Audio out seems to be OK [softdevice] A/V devices initialized, now initializing MPEG2 Decoder X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 145 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_ShmPutImage) Value in failed request: 0x2ff Serial number of failed request: 337 Current serial number in output stream: 338 I hope anyone could help me to solve this problem. Another question... Do you know any url to learn about epia-m10000 s-video out and xorg? Thanks.

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SVDRP connection freezes
by Tony Houghton 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I'm writing an HTPC application called boxstar <http://boxstar.sourceforge.net>, and its latest functionality is to launch xine to watch VDR. The only way I could think of to be able to use both boxstar and VDR with the same remote control was to have boxstar always in charge of the remote and pass button presses on to VDR via the HITK svdrp command. The problem is that the svdrp connection has a tendency to freeze. I have to wait a few minutes for the socket to timeout at the system level. VDR's SVDRP timeout is set to 0, but I don't think that's making a difference. I think the reason other programs such as vdradmin work OK is that they open and close the connection for every command, but that approach is too sluggish for boxstar, which is supposed to be a transparent, primary interface to controlling VDR. For some reason the problem was much worse before I used Python's makefile() function, which is a sort of equivalent to C's fdopen() ie it buffers the socket and provides some more convenient, higher level ways to access it. Since using makefile() the problem has almost gone away, but it still happens very often when pressing the Red button to open the progress bar. FWIW I'm using df_xine with a Matrox G450's TV-out. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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Recomandations for system with 4 LNBs and 4 PCI cards ??
by Ilariu Raducan 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi All, I will like to build a system with 4LNBs and 4 PCI cards using toroidal dish. I want to be able to record from any LNB and watch live in the same time. Could you explain me what is the difference between QUAD and Quatro LNBs? Can I use 4 (4x1) Disecq switches? What about CI interface? Please share from your experiences. Thank You, Ilariu

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