vdr September 2006

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Re: Best video card for 1080i/p with softdevice?
by CR 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi, I am using an nVidia 6200 TC so I can also offer some perspective for "best video" card question. I'm reasonably satisfied with the 6200, it does MPEG2 decode in hardware and it's passively cooled. I am not using DVI/HDMI, but it does have DVI+VGA+TV-out, so it should probably work fine for you. I prefer to use softdevice for display and until very recently, there was an issue with OSD corruption. This bug has been fixed (in softdevice CVS)! So, the card for sure works with softdevice. But softdevice does NOT support XvMC and there is no indication anyone is working on that. In other words, your CPU load will be high playing back HD content. I have also tried Xv output with xineliboutput and that seems to work fine too. Xine-lib using XvMC (or xineliboutput) seems to cause corrupted video for me, while mplayer deals with XvMC perfectly. I say if you have an AGP/PCI system, consider the nVidia MX4000. I haven't used it myself with VDR but it supports XvMC (MPEG2 decode) and it's passively cooled. How good is the hardware de-interlacer? That is unknown to me, maybe someone else can comment. Seppo wrote: > Perhaps not the cheapest one. I just upgraded FX 5200 to 6200, both > passive cooled low end cards. The HW deinterlacer for progressive output > (720p in my case) is much better in 6xxx and 7xxx nvidias imho. How do you enable the de-interlacer seppo? > I'm not yet 100% satisfied with HW xvmc + de-interlacing with the 6200. > The load in system is very low, only some % and the system is running > really cool but I get video flicker (some black lines for a fraction of > second) with DVB subtitles. Also the OSD has some very small vertical > judder probably due to deinterlacing. Any ideas to fix these with x.org > and xine settings? What version of xine-lib and X.Org do you use? As I mention above, I also have issues with xine-lib and XvMC on nV 6200 (whether it's xineliboutput or just playing an MPEG2 file with xine-ui). I was using xine-lib CVS June-2006, and X.Org 6.8.2. Thanks, CR.

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.2-3
by Klaus Schmidinger 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

VDR maintenance patch 1.4.2-3 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.2-3.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.2-2 (which is the official version 1.4.2, patched with ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.2-1.diff and ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.2-2.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). The changes since version 1.4.2-2: - Added --remove-destination to the 'cp' command for binaries in the Makefiles of the plugins (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - The 'skincurses' plugin now adjusts the size of the OSD to the size of the console window. - Fixed deleting expired VPS timers (under certain conditions a timer could have been deleted before it even started recording). - Updated the Hungarian language texts (thanks to Istvan Koenigsberger and Guido Josten). - Fixed handling video directory updates in case the timestamp of the .update file is in the future (thanks to Petri Hintukainen). Have fun! Klaus

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VDR with Matrox G550 - console on analog head - VDR on DVI - how?
by Anthony Hornby 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi All, I am running VDR on a debian system using backports.org for newer kernels. I have a Matrox G550 graphics card with one analog DSUB 15 output and one digital DVI output. I have VDR working nicely connected by the DVI output via a DVI-HDMI cable to my toshiba 62cm9ua rear projection TV. I am using directfb and softdevice. What I want however is the console to be on the analog output only and VDR to be on the DVI exclusively. At th moment if VDR exits then I get the console output on the analog output. Hope someone can help. Also if anyone has a directfb fb.modes entry for 1080i@60Hz I'd love a look at that as well :-) Thanks a lot. Regards Anthony.

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Best video card for 1080i/p with softdevice?
by Anthony Hornby 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi everyone, just discovered that my trusty old G550 can only do 1280x1024 via the DVI output .... damn it !! Anyone have any recommendations for a card which will work with softdevice and directfb or vidix to do digital 1080p and 1080i resolution output via DVI? I will be connecting it via a DVI-HDMI converter cable to a Toshiba 62CM9UA rear projection TV. I am after the most stable card with the best playback quality I can get and don't mind spending a few hundred dollars to get the right one. Thanks for your help. Regards Anthony.

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Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.
by Carsten Koch 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Most of my VDR movies are between 2 and 3 GB in size. I assume that there would be no noticeable loss of quality, if I would convert them to DivX movies of about half the size, maybe also removing any unwanted sound tracks. This could even be done automatically by a background process. However, that would be inconvenient, because now I would have to check both the Recordings menu and the Mplayer plugin to look for a recording. So, I wonder if it would be easy to make that transparent, so there is only one user interface that takes me to all recordings. Carsten.

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problem running softdevice
by Leo Márquez 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi!, I have followed the fantastic howto: http://www.mellander.org/per/projects/linux/?chapter=epia-hw-cle266 Every thing seems gone ok but I'm at this point with I try to start vdr. dori:/usr/src/VDR# ./vdr -P"softdevice -vo dfb:cle266" [softdevice] processing args [softdevice] argv [0] = softdevice [softdevice] argv [1] = -vo vo_argv: dfb:cle266 [softdevice] enabling CLE266 HW decoding [softdevice] initializing Plugin [softdevice] Initializing Video Out [softdevice] ffmpeg build(3345920) [dfb] init (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'. ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.26 --------------------- (c) 2000-2002 convergence integrated media GmbH (c) 2002-2004 convergence GmbH ----------------------------------------------------------- (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-09-11 17:14) (!) Direct/Modules: Module 'libdirectfb_fbdev.so' did not register itself after loading! Trying default module constructor... (!) Direct/Modules: ... even did not register after explicitly calling the module constructor! (!) DirectFB/core/system: No system found! [dfb] init EXITING:action=IDirectFB* DirectFB::Create(), result=No (suitable) implementation found! I hope someone understand whats my problem. I don't have the knowledgements to understant what is wrong. A lot of thanks. Leo. _______________________________________________ Softdevice-devel mailing list Softdevice-devel(a)lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/softdevice-devel

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[ANNOUNCE] Remote Control Plugin 0.3.8
by Oliver Endriss 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi, there is a minor update for the remote control plugin. History: -------- 2006-09-02: Version 0.3.8 - cRemoteDevInput: Ignore all event types except type 1 (key). - Added Italian language texts (thanks to Nicola Franchi). - Added Polish language texts (thanks to Jakub Wolnicki). - Fixed cTtyStatus::SetVolume() for API version 1.4.2. It can be downloaded from http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ See README for details. Short description: ------------------ This plugin extends the remote control capabilities of vdr. The following remote control devices are supported: (a) linux input device driver ('/dev/input/eventX', X=0,1,2,...) - built-in remote control port of the av711x-based DVB cards (aka full-featured cards), e.g. DVB-S Nexus [1] - remote control port of some budget cards, e.g. Nova-CI [2] - other input devices (not tested, please report success!) See file FAQ for a list of cards which have been reported to work. (b) keyboard (tty driver): /dev/console, /dev/ttyX (c) TCP connection (telnet) (d) LIRC Notes: [1] supported by DVB and dvb-kernel [2] supported by dvb-kernel only Summary of command line options: -------------------------------- -i dev, --input=dev select device which supports the /dev/input protocol -l dev, --lirc=dev select LIRC device -t dev, --tty=dev select terminal device -T dev, --TTY=dev select terminal device with 'OSD' -p tcp:n, --port=tcp:n select connection on tcp port <n> Examples: --------- vdr -Premote vdr -P"remote -i autodetect" Try to autodetect device '/dev/input/eventX' (X = 0,1,2,...). If no device can be identified, '-i /dev/input/event0' is used. vdr -P"remote -i /dev/input/event2" use specified input device '/dev/input/event2' vdr -P"remote -l /dev/lircd" select LIRC remote control vdr -P"remote -p tcp:3333" wait for a telnet connection on tcp port 3333 (use 'telnet vdr 3333' to access this port) vdr -P"remote -t /dev/tty10" use terminal device without 'OSD' vdr -P"remote -T /dev/tty10" use terminal device with 'OSD' vdr -P"remote -i autodetect -p tcp:3333 -t /dev/tty10" use multiple devices Have fun, Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ --------------------------------------------------------

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451 Grab image failed v4l problem?
by Leo Márquez 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

I have problems to activating grab images in vdr 1.4.2 and kernel 2.6.17.11. I have readed old recently posts about this problem: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-June/009741.html It talks about v4l driver problem and says installing mercurial driver solves the problem. The post is from june. I can't grab (451 Grab image failed) and have video for linux compiled into kernel (not as module). This means that the problem is not solved in kernel 2.6.17.11 and I have to install mercurial v4l as kernel module? Is there any problem if I have the v4l into the kernel or I have to compile kernel with v4l as module? Thanks.

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Buffer overflow when playing mp3 with muggle and xineliboutput
by Jens Auer 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Whenever I try playing an mp3 file with muggle (0.1.11), the music constantly stutters every few seconds. I am using xineliboutput as a fronted with audio output over alsa, which works fine when I watch TV. It also works when I play a file with xineliboutputs integrated audio player. /var/log/messages shows one of the following infos every ten seconds: [8895] [input_vdr] vdr_plugin_write: buffer overflow ! (2048 bytes) [8895] [input_vdr] vdr_plugin_write: buffer overflow ! (560 bytes)

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[ANNOUNCE] Cut-a-Lot 0.0.1
by marius＠heidenstecker.de 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Hi everybody, I'm pleased to announce my first plugin to the community. Fetch it here: http://vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=54603 >From README --- %< ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Cuts one recording into several recordings using named cutting marks. The Multi-cut process and recording menu are heavily based on the original parts of vdr itself, namely the cutting thread and the recording menu. Credits go thankfully to Klaus Schmidinger. Requirements ------------ - VDR 1.4.1 Usage ----- Multi-cut: ---------- Mulit-cut splits a recording into several new recordings using named cutting marks. So by now one has to manually edit the marks.vdr file located in a recording-directory. If one adds a comment to a cut-in mark, Cut-a-Lot will take this as the name for the new recording and will go on cutting to that recording until another named cut-in mark is met. For example: We have a recording named "MTV - Greatest Hits" and a marks.vdr with the following content: 0:00:00.01 Artist A - Song 1 0:03:46.12 0:03:46.24 Artist B - Song 3 0:07:12.03 0:12:06.01 0:15:56.12 0:37:32.01 Artist C~Song 5 0:41:02.13 A - 1 B - 3 C~5 |------||------| |------| |------| Cut-a-Lot now creates three recordings named "Artist A - Song 1" which gets the content between the first two cutting marks, "Artist B - Song 3" which gets the content of the second and the third interval and a recording named "Song 5" located in a sub-directory named "Artist C". That is because the tilde (~) is treated as a directory-indicator. If no marks are named, Cut-a-Lot pretty much does the same as the ordinary VDR- cutter would do. Gap finder: ----------- Gap finder scans a recording for PTS-gaps (Presentation Timestamp-gaps) in order to refind cut out commercial breaks or positions where VDR might have crashed during a recording. These two frames are marked with two cutting marks. The PTS-threshold as a parameter defines how large a gap has to be at least in order to be marked. One PTS-tick is 1 / 90000 second. If you take 25 frames per second as the frame-rate, one frame is 1 / 25 * 90000 = 3600 PTS-ticks long. Usually there is an I-frame every 12 frames so the difference between two I-frame PTSs should be always 12 * 3600 = 43200 ticks. But never the less the difference were sometimes 43199 or 43201 in a few analyzed recordings. So I introduced the PTS-threshold. The default of 3605 ticks means the PTS-timestamp might jump one frame without being recognized. --- >% ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd be happy about critics and proposals, and bug reports of course. Now have fun trying it. DMH

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