vdr December 2008

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PremiereEPG plugin 0.2.0 released
by Stefan Huelswitt 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, today version 0.2.0 of the PremiereEPG plugin has been released. Available from my homepage or from HG: <http://www.muempf.de/down/vdr-premiereepg-0.2.0.tar.gz> <http://hg.muempf.de/premiereepg/> NEWS: 09.12.2008: Version 0.2.0 - Fixed buffer overrun in string compose (mainly with UTF8). - Added new fix for brocken EPG data. Thanks to Sascha Abraham. - Autogenerate i18n.c with po2i18n.pl for VDR < 1.5.7. - Added russian translations. -- Stefan Huelswitt s.huelswitt(a)gmx.de | http://www.muempf.de/

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VDR with S2API (device API extension)
by Rolf Ahrenberg 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, the S2API implementation would be a perfect place to integrate my frontend facilities patch in a way or another. The patch simply extends the current cDevice API to include some common frontend related statistics (now available only in femon), so that skins and all the other plugins can easily use them. This would simplify the femon plugin and also would enable skin plugins to show for example signal strength, snr, bit error rate, etc., in channel info window. Also other input plugins (IPTV, pvrinput, analogtv, ..) could implement these new methods and therefore provide some feasible information for femon (or any other plugin) to show up. http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/patches/vdr-1.6.0-frontend-facilitie… BR, -- rofa

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Live-TV picture goes away on composite out of ttpci
by Marco Schinkel 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, I experience some strange behavior with vdr and a plain full featured Technotrend Rev. 1.6 (no mods, no daughterboards, no usage of internal connectors): When running VDR (version 1.6.0-2/1.6.0) after a few days the live tv on the composite out goes away (only black picture visible). The menu however is perfectly workable (and I can see it on the composite out on top of a black picture). I use the newest available firmware and recent drivers from the v4l-dvb repository (using the v4l-dv-hg gentoo ebuild) on an 2.6.27.7 kernel. dmesg output occasionally has the following message: saa7146 (2) saa7146_i2c_writeout [irq]: timed out waiting for end of xfer There are no other problems on the system, so I assume that it is either a dvb driver/firmware thing, or a vdr bug. Starting a recording in vdr leads to an empty 001.vdr file. Restarting vdr does not help. Reloading the drivers usually helps but sometimes not. In this cases i have to powercycle the system. The problem exists no matter what card I use and on which position on the pci bus the card sits (I tried different cards, all ttpci 1.6 on 4 different slots on 3 different pci busses). The problem even occured on my old mainboard occasionally. So it is definitely not a hardware defect. I assume the problem is not even related with the i2c timeout. Is this problem known? Is there a known workaround or even better a way to fix this? Best Regards, Marco Schinkel

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VDR with S2API
by lucian orasanu 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hy Klaus, Is ther a problem with vdr-1.7.0-h264-syncearly-framespersec-audioindexer-fielddetection-speedup patch fom Reinhard Nilsl ? Could this patch be included in vdr-1.7.2 like S2API patch?

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Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)
by Niels Wagenaar 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

-----Original message----- From: Holger Rusch <holger(a)rusch.name> Sent: Mon 08-12-2008 11:22 To: VDR Mailing List <vdr(a)linuxtv.org>; Subject: Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update) > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >> FF will die in a years or two (months?) i guess and vdr has no well > >> integrated outputs. > > Is there anything in the VDR plugin API that would prevent a plugin > > from implementing a suitable output device? > > I guess not, but there are (from my view as user with knowladge how to > compile and to fix compile-dependancies) it is (as i told) a real pain > to get the things going. > Wether I use xineliboutput, xine or the reel eHD plugin, compilation/installation is rather straight forward or well documented on several Wiki's. At least, at the point of viewing my DVB-T, DVB-S or DVB-S2 broadcasts. > And yes this is not a problem of vdr. > > The level to get everything going is high. ac3directout, softdevice, > ffmpeg, xv-xserver, ... On the other side you pick an evil-windows > system, and the output of the media data simple and easy. > I wish it was easy and simple. With Windows we have the DLL hell. And you don't want to know what I went through to get H264 decoding working on the GPU level in combination with Mediaportal. I tried several codecs, codec packs, bought codecs which should support, etc and still I had problems with H264 broadcasts (and no, I'm not talking MKV's or MP4's here) when watching NGC-HD. I'm not talking days here. I'm talking weeks of struggeling to get it working. And now I've got it finally working, it seems that DISEQC support for my Hauppauge NOVA-HD-S2 is broken. Since August this year to be precise... Which other options do we have on Windows? The only ones I can think of are SageTV (expensive), MCE (expensive and doesn't support H264 broadcasts) and a bunch of other DVB viewing software which are unstable, or expensive, or un-usuable because they lack DISEQC support for my DVB-card or they are not user-friendly (read: limited WAF). Since Januari this year I've tested several DVB software which would allow me to view H264 broadcasts. And up till today, only VDR allows this for me and is stable as hell. I can't remember when I last rebooted my HTPC or restarted VDR. That I needed to buy a eHD to get hardware acceleration, I don't care. For 605 Euro's I now have a HTPC which allows me to view DVB-S, DVB-S2 and DVB-T broadcasts and I can watch everything on the multimedia aspect (using XBMC). > It is a linux/system and not vdr problem, which does the recording > really nice and good! > And to be honost, there aren't other options which are just as good or stable as VDR. I know this, I've spend almost 6 months to get my HTPC working with a high WAF. And this is *very* important if I wanted to change my software ;-) Regards, Niels Wagenaar

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Falsche PTS im PES-Stream beim Spulen in Videoaufnahmen
by Matthias Bauer 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hallo zusammen Das ist mein erstes Mail an diese Liste. Ich habe meine Frage vor ein paar Tagen ins vdr-portal gestellt, aber leider keine Antwort erhalten (http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=82350) Wahrscheinlich wurde sie von den richtigen Leuten, die das auch beantworten könnten, nicht gesehen. Darum probiere ich mein Glück jetzt mal hier: Ich habe das Plugin für den VLC-Player als Streaming-Client vom ffnetdef-Plugin geschrieben. Leider hat der VLC-Player ein Problem mit dem Stream von VDR- Aufnahmen, sobald man anfängt zu spulen. Im Log steht dann, dass der Stream falsche PTS (Presentation Time Stamps) hat. Ich habe in den Sourcecode von VDR und vom ffnetdev-Plugin reingeschaut, und wenn ich alles richtig verstanden habe, werden die PTS unverändert aus der Aufnahme an das ffnetdev-Plugin übergeben und dort unverändert ins Netz gestreamt. Sobald man nun anfängt zu spulen, stimmen die PTS dann nicht mehr, weil sie beim Vorwärtsspulen viel zu schnell ansteigen und beim Rückwärtsspulen sogar rückwärts laufen. Beim Abspielen von Videoaufnahmen müssten die PTS eigentlich schön fortlaufend kommen, egal, ob normal wiedergegeben oder gespult wird. Da das ffnetdev-Plugin dem Stream nicht ansieht, ob es Live-TV oder eine Aufnahme ist, müsste das Patchen der PTS eigentlich der VDR machen. Was meint Ihr dazu? Vielen Dank im voraus für Antworten Matthias Bauer

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OT: Alice homeTV and vdr
by Paul Menzel 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Dear list, can you please share your experiences of using Alice homeTV [3] with vdr. Some more information [4] and [5]. 1. How is the quality [1]? 2. Does it work with the iptv plugin [2]? If not, what are you using? Thanks a lot, Paul [1] http://gutenburger.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=569:hans… (German) [2] http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/ [3] http://www.alice-dsl.de/kundencenter/export/de/residential/alice_hometv/ueb… (German) [4] http://www.ip-phone-forum.de/showthread.php?t=168118 (German) [5] http://www.ard-digital.de/14028_1 (German)

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[ANNOUNCE] small ac3 fix for replex
by Halim Sahin 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

hi, Here is a patch for replex which improoves ac3 detection. This patch was written by Reinhard Nissl and tested against latest replex from metzlerbros.de. Thanks Reinhard!!!!! Regards halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de

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VDR with S2API
by lucian orasanu 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Thank You for patches and work for this. Cheers Lucian.

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[ANNOUNCE] vdr-webvideo 0.0.6
by Antti Ajanki 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

New version of the Webvideo plugin is available at http://users.tkk.fi/~aajanki/vdr/webvideo/vdr-webvideo-0.0.6.tgz The Webvideo plugin allows downloading video files from video sharing websites YouTube, Google Video, and YLE Areena to your hard disk using the VDR menu interface. This plugin only downloads videos. A separate plugin, such as xineliboutput or mplayer plugin, is required to play them. Changes since the last version: - French translation (Thanks to Bruno Roussel) - Fixed Youtube parsing to accommodate to recent changes -- Antti Ajanki

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