vdr October 2006

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uk dvb-t offset frequency weirdness
by Torgeir Veimo 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I'm getting some strange dvb-t signal and am trying to figure out why. Summarized, the transponders I'm received are the following (one channel per transponder): ITV 1, previously on 481833, now on 482000 (ch 22, negative offset) BBC 1, previously on 505833, now on 506000 (ch 25, negative offset) BBC 4, previously 529833, now on 530000 (ch 28, negative offset) TMF, still on 537833 (unchanged) (ch 29, negative offset) Five, previously on 561833, now on 562000 (ch 32, negative offset) UKTV History, still on 578166 (unchanged) (ch 34, positive offset) So it appears of the six transponders, four of them are received without the offset they should be at. Can anyone explain in what circumstances this usually happens? My signal is from a wall socket in a big block, not from a free standing antenna. -- Torgeir Veimo torgeir(a)pobox.com

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requant problem
by Halim Sahin 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hello, I am getting the following problem from requant: sh: line 1: 3969 Floating point exception/usr/bin/requant 1.04 >/hd/dvd//vdrsyn c.mpv Any Ideas? I am using requant with vdrsync.

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-4
by Klaus Schmidinger 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-4 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-4.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.3-3 (which is the official version 1.4.3, patched with ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-1.diff, ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-2.diff and ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-3.diff). Small fixes to the officially released VDR versions will be first made available as "maintenance patches" in the Developer directory, so that they can be reviewed and tested before a new official release is published. So please apply the above patch and report whether it works (or if it causes any new problems). This version is binary compatible with version 1.4.3-3, so plugins need not be recompiled. The changes since version 1.4.3-3: - Fixed deleting EPG events that have a running status of "pausing" or higher. - Fixed handling NITs with more than one delivery system descriptor tag for the same transponder. Have fun! Klaus

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Zeroconf support for streamdev plugin
by Jaakko Kyro 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

I made a small patch that adds Zeroconf support to the streamdev plugin. It uses the Avahi mDNS implementation to advertise the HTTP streams. The patch can be found here: http://www.korjaussarja.net/vdr/ -- -jaakko

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IrcViewer v0.0.1
by Pizzak 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A new plugin from an anonymous Italian. It allows to read IRC chat and to visualize them on the OSD of VDR. Link: http://kikko77.altervista.org/ Ebuild for Gentoo: http://pizzak.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/e-arrivato-ircviewer-v001/ Sorry for my English :) By, Pizzak

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Swap PVR-150 NTSC for PAL anyone???
by Simon Baxter 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

I've got a PVR-150 card, model 1045, which I no longer need as I'm leaving the USA. Has anyone in USA/Canada got a 1046/1044/1063/1087 they don't need, and consider swapping??? http://www.diy-pvr-dvr-htpc.com/index.php/Difference_Between_Retail_and_MCE… Thanks Simon

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[Announce] epgsearch-0.9.19
by Christian Wieninger 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi, here's a new release of epgsearch (mainly a bug fix release): 2006-10-27: Version 0.9.19 new: - if search results of different searches intersect, now only the search that initially created a corresponding timer may modify it. - new variables: * '%search.query%' to be used in the recording directory of a search timer. Will be substituted to the query of a search timer. * '%videodir%' VDR video directory (e.g. /video) * '%plugconfdir%' VDR plugin config directory (e.g. /etc/vdr/plugins) * '%epgsearchdir%' epgsearchs config directory (e.g. /etc/vdr/plugins/epgsearch) - the syntax of the 'system' command within a user variable has changed to be more flexible. It's now: %uservar%=system(/path/to/script[, parameters]) where the optional 'parameters' can now be any expression using other variables except directly using conditional expressions or other system calls. - update for french translation, thanks to Patrice Staudt fixes: - VPS timers created by search timers are now always updated to their VPS time, even if the user has changed start/stop time. - after editing the setup any menu templates defined in epgsearchmenu.conf were reset to defaults, thanks to s.krueger@vdrportal for reporting. - existing VDR serial timers are not modified anymore to regular timers by the search timer update. Description and download: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/html/vdr-epg-search__english_.html wget: http://people.freenet.de/cwieninger/vdr-epgsearch-0.9.19.tgz BR, Christian

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Subject: Re: [vdr] mini-PCI card suggestion
by CR 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Hi, Simon Baxter wrote: > > I'm building a remote VDR device on a Dell GX260 SFF PC, which has 1x AGP > > low-rise slot and 1x PCI > > I'm having trouble finding a selection of video cards which will fit in > > the SFF case. > > Can someone recommend a card? It needs to have s-video out (doesn't need > > to have VGA - but must have s-video/Component/RGB) > > This probably isn't the group for this, as I'm running XV and VDR really > shines with FF DVB cards. > Looks like there's very few options for s-video TV-OUT XV support in Linux. > I've searched the Matrox, Savage and NVIDIA - nothing has particularly good > support for accelerated s-video. I am running another VDR machine with an > S3 Unichrome 2D/3D chipset and s-video - works really well! > This new VDR box is low-rise though, so I need a small card.... Are you looking for a "mini-PCI" card, a low-profile PCI or low-profile AGP? A mini-PCI card usually goes in a laptop or a very tiny appliance. I'm not sure where you're getting the "no on makes good accelerated s-video for Linux", any new ATI or nVidia card has TV-out support in Linux (by using the vendors proprietary driver). For an AGP/PCI card, something based on the nVidia MX-4000 or FX5200 should be cheap and low-profile. Here's a link to a low-profile AGP card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127128 And here's a link to a low-profile PCI card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814139174 You aren't very specific by "hardware acceleration" -- do you mean MPEG2 decoding, or something else? Regardless, any newish nVidia card (> Ti4xxx series), like the MX4000, supports XvMC which allows the video card's GPU to perform the MPEG-2 decoding. Xine/xinelibouput supports XvMC as an output method, so you could get fully hardware accelerated video decoding. I am using an nVidia 6200TC with VDR and softdevice and my TV-out (via s-video), without any XvMC my CPU utilization when playing StandardDef content is acceptable, <30% on a Pentium-M running at 800 MHz. I've done testing with XvMC on the 6200TC playing back a 1080i stream (via mplayer) and I get CPU utilization < 10%...that's pretty low to me. Regards, CR.

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Remote plugin with Hauppauge Nova-T usb2
by Laz 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Has anyone managed to get the built-in detector in a Hauppauge Nova-T usb2 working with vdr with the remote plugin? I'm just swapping a Nova-T PCI card for a dual-tuner Nova-T 500. So far, it looks like the DVB part is working (not tested properly yet but I have 3 DVB devices) but I'm now tring to get a working remote again. I had been using a "new type" Hauppauge remote on the old PCI card through LIRC (after patching the CX88 source for the keymap). I'm hoping that I can just use the /dev/input/eventX from the USB Nova device without fighting LIRC (the remote generates keypresses which makes using irrecord a nightmare!). The USB remote device appears as /dev/input/event1: I: Bus=0003 Vendor=2040 Product=9301 Version=0000 N: Name="IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:10.3-1/ir0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1 H: Handlers=kbd event1 B: EV=3 B: KEY=afc302 2002805 0 0 0 4 18000 180 40000801 9e1680 0 800200 ffc And should be accessible by the vdr user: crw-rw-r-- 1 root video 13, 65 Oct 24 22:16 event1 evtest seems to work correctly, i.e. lists the keys and all keys seem to give the correct named codes. When I run vdr with the remote plugin, I get the following relevant bits: Oct 25 01:45:00 vdr-tng vdr: [11605] device /dev/input/event1: IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver Oct 25 01:45:00 vdr-tng vdr: [11605] remote: using '/dev/input/event1' Oct 25 01:45:00 vdr-tng vdr: [11605] remote control softdevice-dfb - keys known Oct 25 01:45:00 vdr-tng vdr: [11605] remote control remote-event1 - learning key At this point, I see the OSD message about learning keys and it asks me to press the "Up" key. At this point, nothing happens! Pressing keys on the remote has no effect and it gets no further. As far as I can see, it all looks good until it gets to the actual remote plugin! Am I missing something simple here, or am I wasting my time and should go back to trying to get LIRC working with this device?! Cheers, Laz

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System reboots...
by Andrey Kuzmin 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I've compiled vanilla vdr 1.4.3 on fresh Ubuntu installation. When I run vdr, systems goes to reboot without any information. What is the easiest way to figure out what is the reason of reboot? kernel 2.6.15 Nexus WinTV FF card Thanks!

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