vdr June 2006

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.3.49
by Klaus Schmidinger 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

VDR developer version 1.3.49 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.49.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.3.48-49.diff Well, it's an unusual time for a new developer version of VDR, but since there have been a few last minute fixes, and I really want to make version 1.4.0 happen this sunday, I'm releasing this hopefully last release candidate today. Please take a thorough look at the changes - especially the ones to the actual program code files - to help avoid any stupid last minute bugs. If there are no more serious bugs, this will become the final version 1.4.0 this sunday :-) The changes since version 1.3.48: - Fixed initializing 'noapiv' in the Makefile (reported by Ronny Kornexl). - Fixed extracting APIVERSION to work with older versions of 'sed' (reported by Oliver Endriss; thanks also to Udo Richter for a shorter version of the 'sed' expression). - Fixed broken APIVERSION extraction line in 'newplugin' (thanks to Oliver Endriss). - Fixed entering '0' in a cMenuEditIntItem (reported by Mirko Dölle). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Nino Gerbino). - Added a note about adding 'INCLUDES += -I$(DVBDIR)/include' to an existing Make.config (problem reported by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Fixed handling the cPluginManager::Active() result when pressing the "Power" key (reported by Werner Färber). - Added a hint about commenting out the line '#define USE_FADVISE' in tools.c in case of problems with replaying in fast forward mode if the video directory is mounted via a Samba share (reported by Andy Grobb). - Changed the "Really restart?" prompt in the call to cPluginManager::Active() in menu.c to "restart anyway?" (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg). - Removed the obsolete "'1' for encrypted radio channels" part from the description of the VPID in vdr.5 (reported by Alexander Hans). - Fixed tuning to the channel of a VPS timer if the device is the actual device. Have fun! Klaus

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[ANNNOUNCE] LoadEPG 0.1.9
by lukkinosat 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hello Is available on www.kikko77.altervista.org a new version of LoadEPG. 2006-06-15: Version 0.1.9 - Add support for data epg of Digital+ (S19.2E Spain - new mhwepg2) - Increase the timeout to 30 seconds (by Dick Streefland) - Add Dutch translation (by Dick Streefland) - Add Spanish translation (by Fernando) - Rewrite function set data transponder - Rewrite function get time transponder Hi, Luca Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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softdevice & nvidia overlay issues
by CR 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, I'm using VDR 1.4.0-2, softdevice cvs 2006-5-30, nVidia 6200TC video card, nVidia binary driver 8762, Xorg 6.8.1, TV-out (NTSC) @ 800x600x24bpp, GCC 4.1.1 . For OSD, if I use "psuedo", in full-screen mode, the entire OSD "blinks" when there is video and the OSD is not usable. If I use "software" for OSD setting, then OSD looks OK but when overlayed over video, OSD colors are all wrong. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I've seen similar behavior on a TNT2 using the opensource "nv" driver, and other bizarre problems using ATI cards (both opensource and ATI proprietary drive), so I think something in softdevice OSD code is incorrect. Using mplayer,xine/xine-ui, videos/DVDs play fine and overlay always works correctly. Thanks, CR.

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svdrpsend.pl (more than one connection)
by IT 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi, I want to use a Frontend (xawtv,kvdr) for watching/controlling vdr Unfortunally both apps block other svdrpsend.pl attempts (i.e. tvmovie2vdr scripts) Is there a workaround? vdr 1.4.0 (debian 2.6.15-25-amd64-generic) /usr/local/bin/svdrpsend.pl version [unknown] calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.05 [paranoid]), running under Perl version 5.8.7. /uwe

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Re: [vdr] Re: softdevice & nvidia overlay issues (Niko Mikkila)
by CR 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Hi Niko, Niko Mikkila wrote: > > What's so dumb about that? The video blitter does about the same thing and more > through the same old XVideo extension. Actually the blitter has much better > scaling quality and is a lot faster than the overlay on my old Riva TNT 2. It > also seems that the open source driver uses the blitter as the default XVideo > adapter, and doesn't even offer overlay, at least on my card. AFAIK the only > Video textures through OpenGL seem to be the way to go since that allows > hardware alpha blending for OSD among other effects. Are you using one of these newer nVidia cards with VDR/softdevice? Would you share your settings and experiences with it? Using the psuedo setting for OSD I would get blinking video. Using the "software" setting I would get OSD but the colors were wrong during DVD playback. Yes video textures through OpenGL is a wonderful idea, but what in VDR land supports that? Softdevice (according to another list member) doesn't support XvMC so I assume it falls back on overlay support for OSD. Thanks, CR.

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Which HDTV channels available ?
by Bob L 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

> You refer to the one from me ? > If yes, which "PID" lines where printed by the enabled printf ? > > -- > Stefan Lucke I'm getting an emergency exit with the message: "vdr: [26502] ERROR: no useful data seen within 10713368 byte of video stream" The transmission is DVB-T HDTV in Sweden with h.264 as the codec. And I'm using the patch from you that prevents VDR from resetting the video pid. I'm getting a printout that read as follow: PID: 5060 1002 11 6 2 PID: 5060 1003 12 6 2 PID: 5060 1022 11 6 2 PID: 5060 1023 12 6 2 PID: 5170 1243 12 30 24 PID: 5170 1002 11 30 24 PID: 5170 1003 12 30 24 PID: 5170 1242 11 30 24 PID: 870 873 12 3 18 PID: 870 872 11 3 18 PID: 870 1003 12 3 18 PID: 870 1002 11 3 18 PID: 1010 1012 11 3 1 PID: 1010 1013 12 3 1 PID: 1010 1003 12 3 1 PID: 1010 1002 11 3 1 Regards Bob

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Terratec 1200 DVB-T cable to Conax CAM?
by Udo van den Heuvel 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hello, In looking for inf about the cable I need to connect a Conax CAM to my Terratec 1200 DVB-T card. The Terratec 1200 has a 80-pole connector like for an IDE-cable but with higher pitch. See: http://www.terratec.it/prodotti/schede_tv/cinergy1200dvb_s/Photo%20TerraTec… The Conax CAM should have an 68-pole PCMCIA connector. Like: http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=pinconbus_pcmcia ? What connections should be made? What cable do I need? Where could I get it? Please post if you know more. Thanks, Udo

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Re: softdevice & nvidia overlay issues (Stefan Lucke)
by CR 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Dear Stefan, Thanks for your response. > > I'm using VDR 1.4.0-2, softdevice cvs 2006-5-30, nVidia 6200TC video card, > > nVidia binary driver 8762, Xorg 6.8.1, TV-out (NTSC) @ 800x600x24bpp, GCC > > 4.1.1 . > > Newer nvidia cards do not support Overlay mode: > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/softdevice-devel/2006q1/001770.html Wow, I'm blown away by this. I had no idea nVidia would do something this dumb. The newer cards support XvMC, does this option help my situation out any: 'Option "XvmcUsesTextures" "boolean" Forces XvMC to use the 3D engine for XvMCPutSurface requests rather than the video overlay.' ? I guess it might if softdevice supports XvMC. I noticed tearing during DVD playback using xine and mplayer, I guess it is also because there is no video overlay support in my card. > > For OSD, if I use "psuedo", in full-screen mode, the entire OSD "blinks" > > when there is video and the OSD is not usable. If I use "software" for > > OSD setting, then OSD looks OK but when overlayed over video, OSD colors > > are all wrong. > > Wrong OSD color only ? > Or both video and OSD ? The OSD color was messed up only when there was video (I was using the "dvd" plug-in for VDR). Without any video, the OSD colors look fine (either psuedo or software). > Use softdevice setup OSD and try to change the HUE value to max (100). > If you can read german, have a look at this: > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=49914&hilight=nvidia+AND… No, I can't read German but I'll try this through a translation website. > > I've seen similar behavior on a TNT2 using the opensource "nv" driver, and > > other bizarre problems using ATI cards (both opensource and ATI > > proprietary drive), so I think something in softdevice OSD code is > > incorrect. > > Radeons (rv280:9200 and rv350:9550) work fine even with pseudo mode > using Xorg 7.0 here. The limitation in pseudo mode is, that it is not a real > alphablend mode. I found with ATI, if the screen resolution was less than 800x600, than the OSD very messed up. That isn't a huge problem actually, but I just moved to a PCI-Express system and all my ATI cards are AGP :( . Also, ATI does not seem to support XvMC. What is the status of XvMC support in softdevice? Best regards, CR.

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VDR help - Bad frame in Xine window
by Gulab Chandra Yadava 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi I play vdr in one window like $ vdr -Pxine And xine in second window $xine stdin://mpeg2 < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 I get xine user interface, but video is getting displayed with green strip lines and very slow moving video and "bad frame" appears in xine (second) window. I am unable to change channel through ui If click on vdr button. Video stops playing and "Xine Engine Error" appears on screen. My system has 1GB RAM , 2.8Ghz I am looking for somebody help. --Thanks and Regards Gulab Chandra Yadava ______________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: This electronic message, and any attachments to this electronic message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s)named herein and may contain legally privileged and confidential information. It is the property of Celstream Technologies Pvt. Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby strictly notified not to copy, forward, distribute or use this message or any attachments thereto. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies thereof from your system and notify the sender at Celstream Technologies or administrator(a)celstream.com immediately _______________________________________________________________

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vdr-xine and spdif out
by Mlists 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I'm using xine-network for VDR. I have spdif - out working. It sounds amazing except that the audio and video are ever so slightly out of sync. I'm using Xv, alsa and pass-through but are there any tweaks I can use to bring the two into sync? Straight analog audio is in sync with the video. The sound card is a Diamond Xtreme 7.1 card. Thanks Norm

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