vdr December 2006

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VDR exit and reboot in missing channels in multi card configuration. why?
by Ali H.M. Hoseini 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi all, I've a VDR system with 3 dvb cards. everything works fine when the signal is ok, but if I've a timer on a channel that is not realy exist, or when the BER in one of my receiving channels is high and the channel is not receiving well, vdr thinks that there is a problem with dvb drivers and exits to reload the drivers (or even system reboot if I define it!) and spoils other concurrent recording timers. The point is, why vdr doesn't detects that other channels are recording well, and so there shouldn't be a problem with dvb drivers, and hence it should not exit? is there any way to prohibit vdr from exit, if there is well going recording on the other cards? With the best wishes. Ali.

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vdr-xine & xine volume level problems
by Mika Orajärvi 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Hi! I have a setup with server hosting vdr (and vdr-xine plugin) and a frontend machine using xine to stream through LAN. The setup has been working well for the past year or so, but now I have a little problem in my hands. I'm using my amplifier for volume control and xine&vdr volume is at 100% always. But for some reason now every time I lauch xine in the frontend, the xine volume level goes instantly to almost zero and I have to manually raise it back to 100%. I have noticed that this behavior starts to occur after VDR crash (which happens very seldom),.. so far it has happened once before and at that time restarting VDR again fixed the problem. But now the problem came to stay.. Any ideas? I'm using currently VDR 1.4.3 and xine-plugin 0.7.10. When this happened at the first time, I had some older versions of VDR and xine-plugin. regards, Mika

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VDR exit and reboot in missing channels in multi card configuration. why?
by Ali H.M. Hoseini 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

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How to detect if a timer was deleted?
by Christian Wieninger 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi, for a new feature of epgsearch, I'd like to do a continuous check (in a separate thread) if any timer was deleted via OSD or SVDRP since the last check. The only thing I found so far is to build a timer array and compare it at each check with the current timer list. But if timers where modified meanwhile, the check can get quite complex. Any other idea? @Klaus: Is there a chance for a patch that extends cStatus with e.g. MsgDelTimer to get part of VDR, if I supply one ;-) Background: epgsearch currently creates a timer again if it was found by any search timer, even if the user previously deleted it. If I could detect which timer was deleted, I could put it in a done list to prevent the new creation. I know, I could create the done list already when creating the timer for the first time, but this causes other problems. Besides that: only timers that have been deleted are of interest, so why save all others too? BR and Merry Christmas! Christian

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Streamdev remote streaming control missong
by Kartsa 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

I've just put up a vdr-to-vdr setup and got the live channels streaming to client but there is no "Streaming control" in the main menu which is supposed to be accordingto the README file. I think I read something about separeting the actual streaming functionality from the remote osd but does it mean there is no streaming control then and is it allready implemented in CVS version? \\Kartsa

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mac version of vdr-sxfe
by Rob Davis 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Is there a version for Mac OS? I have just got an iBook and don't know if I need to install linux on it to use it with my vdr-server. On the other laptop we use ubuntu with vdr-sxfe and a remote control sender to watch tv in another room. However, it's a slow pc and I want to know if this iBook is good enough (it's a G3 700mhz - so not an Intel thing..) -- Latest news on http://www.streetcredo.org.uk/rob Rob Davis

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RE: [vdr] xineliboutput settings help.
by jori.hamalainen＠teliasonera.com 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

> I have a LCD projector with a native res of 800x600 connected via RGB So on your projector you have 4/3 aspect ratio, on 16/9 content (HD) you get 800x450. > HD 720p content shows smaller, in the middle of the screen but looks > amazing HD 1080i as well only fills the center of the screen and has Because SD works full screen, I think this is something what downscaler does. Have you tried multiple xineliboutput settings? How about xinelib settings if any? > bad interlacing artifacts regardless of the deinterlacer settings I use. > My video card is a nvidia 5500 I think with XVMC you don't get deinterlacing, because you forward sort of mpeg data to video card, and if videocard cannot do proper deinterlacing. Starting from Nvidia 6600 there is purevideo hardware deinterlacers which work ok on Windows side. On possible direction would be investigating xv_deinterlace if that can be used. But probably not with XVMC. BR, Jori

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Best DVB-S card
by Glyn Edwards 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hi, I've been using VDR with a Hauppauge Nova-T and a DXR3 for a couple of years now and I have just moved into a house with a satellite dish installed. Can anyone recommend a DVB-S card to use? I've been looking at the Nexus-S because it is fully featured and I don't have any spare PCI slots left. With a FF card I could remove the DXR3. Are there any other FF DVB-S cards out there that would be good to buy? Thanks in advance, Glyn -- Glyn Edwards glynedwards(a)fastmail.fm

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diseqc & multiswitch with 4 dish.
by BRUNETON Béranger 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Hi, Does VDR works with a multiswitch, 4 dish and 4 dvb card? Each card must access to all dish. Regards Béranger

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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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