vdr December 2008

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[OT] Connecting a TSOP 1838 IR receiver to a SIR (IrDA) motherboard connector (ML6000)
by Nicolas Huillard 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, I can't find anything useful on Google, except for this (I can't understand) : http://forum.moddingplanet.it/archive/index.php?t-23650-p-2.html (search for IRRX of IRTX, at the bottom of the page). Basically, the question is : can I connect a standard customer IR receiver chip (like a TSOP 1838, as LIRC documents http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html) to a SIR connector on the motherboard ? The Via EPIA ML motherboard SIR connector have : * +5v * key * IRRX * GND * IRTX The IR receiver chips have : * +5v * GND * output Is it possible to connect the output of the chip directly to the IRRX pin of the motherboard, configure the BIOS to use this connector, train LIRC using standard serial driver or SIR driver, and just have it working ? The idea is to avoid voltage regulator, resistor, diode, etc. That's only a few parts, but a single TSOP with direct wiring would be even more simpler. TIA -- NH

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VDR ERROR: can't set filter every 20 seconds
by Simon Baxter 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hi My cable provider recently made a number of changes to channel allocations, and since then I'm getting the following errors every 20 seconds or so: Dec 6 10:57:14 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=16, tid=40, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:35 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=0, tid=00, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:35 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=17, tid=42, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:35 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=16, tid=40, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:57 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=0, tid=00, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:57 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=17, tid=42, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:57:57 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=16, tid=40, mask=FF): Device or resource busy Dec 6 10:58:17 callin vdr: [20844] ERROR: can't set filter (pid=0, tid=00, mask=FF): Device or resource busy There seems to be the same repeating pid/tid numbers: pid=16, tid=40 pid=0, tid=00 pid=17, tid=42 pid=18, tid=60 pid=20, tid=70 pid=18, tid=4E pid=18, tid=50 I have FF-2300 and budget C1500 TTcards. It seems to be affecting both. Symptoms are intermittant no lock on channels? Any ideas what this is??

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Few more questions about xinelibout
by Alex Betis 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hi all, Few more questions about xinelibout. I've run the frontend now as a separate task and looks like it doesn't crash now except when I try to open a picture, I'll try to debug it later. The questions are probably very simple: - When I playback a file, how can I move back? When replaying a live stream my "<" and ">" keys act as backward and forward buttons. In file playback forward runs the movie forward indeed, but backward button slows the playback until its fully stopped. - How can I restart the playback? Last position in the movie is stored, which is good, but how can I reset it and start from the beginning? - Does deinterlacing settings from VDR menu apply also to movie playback? Sometimes I can see effects of picture is not sync with the screen, I mean that the picture is shown as its 2 halfs (top and bottom) that are moving in very little difference. Thats mostly seen when the whole picture is moved. I'm sure its something with the settings since playback of the movie in gxine or mplayer gives me good results. Will appreciate any help with that. Thanks.

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VDR Plugin Survey 2008
by Tobi 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hello dear VDR users and developers! I've started a small survey about VDR and the VDR plug-ins and kindly ask you to participate. http://e-tobi.net/survey/ The main reason for this survey is, that there are currently more than 300 plug-ins available for VDR (according to the English and German VDR Wiki). That's a lot! As a member of the Debian VDR packaging project (we currently just have about 120 plug-ins packaged), I would like to know, which are the plug-ins that are really used and which are the ones that aren't used at all. As a result of this survey, we would like to drop Debian packaging support for some of the rarely and not used plug-ins that are not maintained by their authors anymore and identify interesting plug-ins that might be good candidates for an official release in Lenny +1 . This survey is not just about the Debian VDR packages. It's main focus is on VDR and VDR plug-ins in general and I hope, it will be useful for other distribution maintainers and developers as well. I will make the results and all the collected data available to the public under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-SA), after the survey has been finished. The survey is completely anonymous! You have to register with an email address and a password, but they will only be stored as an SHA hash in the database and will be randomized once more, before the data is made available to the public. The survey will not send any emails or do other nasty stuff! If you have any problems with the survey or your are missing a plug-in, just write me a small note to: vdr-plugin-survey-2008(a)e-tobi.net Thanks for your participation! Tobias Grimm (e-tobi.net)

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why a StartDecrypting in cDevice::Detach(cReceiver *Receiver) ?
by jlacvdr 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi, In many versions of vdr we can found camSlot->StartDecrypting() in the function Device::Detach(cReceiver *Receiver). I'm surprised about this StartDecrypting, I think it should be StopDecryptiong. If someone (klaus ?) can explain this ? Thanks in advance for your reply. Regards, JLac

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Sync problem eHD extension
by Marek Hajduk 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi All, I'm using eHD (svn 9690) with vdr 1.7.0 and HVR 4000. All channels I can tune without problems, but some channels I can't watch. for example 1.planeta sport (FTA channel) here is the line from my channels.conf Planeta Sport;Globecast:12597:vC34O0S0:S13.0E:27500:80:81:0:0:8201:318:9400:0 Audio works, however picture is after 3 seconds frozen 2. Sky cinema HD SKY Cinema HD;SkyItalia:11996:vC23M5O35S1:S13.0E:27500:161:0;404=ita,405=eng:0:919,93B:11031:64511:6400:0 Audio is long time synced and some times restarting, and I'm getting picture after maybe 30 seconds. here is log: audio: synced early 5.1 Mode 48.0 KHz 384 kbps Complete Main Audio Service Using PCM device 'plug:iec958:{AES0 0x0 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x0 AES3 0x2}' virtual void Reel::HdOsd::SetActive(bool) On=0 audio: synced early 5.1 Mode 48.0 KHz 384 kbps Complete Main Audio Service Using PCM device 'plug:iec958:{AES0 0x0 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x0 AES3 0x2}' audio: synced early 5.1 Mode 48.0 KHz 384 kbps Complete Main Audio Service Using PCM device 'plug:iec958:{AES0 0x0 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x0 AES3 0x2}' pro 4 10:27:51 [core.auStats] EMM packet load average (1/4/10min) 346 367 394 pks/s 5.1 Mode 48.0 KHz 384 kbps Complete Main Audio Service Using PCM device 'plug:iec958:{AES0 0x0 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x0 AES3 0x2}' 3. SVT HD SVT HD;Telenor:11938:hC34M5O35S1:S1.0W:25000:512:640=sve;641=sve:0:B00:3801:70:14:0 Audio and video is always stumbling, and after 30 seconds all is frozen. Have somebody solution? Regards Marky

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teletext-subtitles and dvb-subtitles
by alex bustamante 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hello list, Would it be possible to "patch" the incoming dvb-stream with teletextsubtitles on the fly, so that VDR can decode it as DVB-subtitles?

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xineliboutput OSD and playback problems
by Alex Betis 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, Please advice how to configure xineliboutput in the best way... I have 1.7.1 + ext64 patches, xineliboutput 1.0.3, nVidia card with latest drivers. After many tests I have the following: Using --hud gives best OSD I ever seen, but it shows only the OSD when the output window is in focus and no playback. When I select another window (loose focus), I see the playback, but this way I can't control it... Using opengl video output gives me the best playback quality with lowest CPU usage, but it doesn't show any OSD at all, nor software nor hardware. Using xv video output with deinterlacing takes about 40-50% of CPU on my E6600 system. OSD is shown ok (don't remember already, but I think only software based OSD works well). Using xxmc video output with deinterlacing takes less than 40% CPU, hardware OSD works well, but with tvtime deinterlacing looks like frames are dropped. Non tvtime deinterlacing doesn't look that good. Using xvmc output doesn't work since there is a module that can't be found. Please advice how can it be configured to have both low CPU, good deinterlaced image and an OSD (preffered the --hud one). Thank you.

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vdr-1.7.1 video stream format
by Stefan Lucke 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hi, using vdr-1.7.1 patched for S2API with vdr-1.7.1-s2api-07102008-vanilla.patch and DVB drivers from yesterday (via: hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb). I've the following issues (tuned to ZDF): - playing with softdevice there is no video, but audio and subtile work. - dumping the data I got via PlayVideo() to a file neither ffplay nor mplayer can identify stream info from dumped data. - additional implemented methods PlayTs*() won't get called. class cSoftDevice : public cDevice { private: cMpeg2Decoder *decoder; cVideoOut *videoOut; cAudioOut *audioOut; [snip] public: cSoftDevice(int method, int audioMethod, char *pluginPath); ~cSoftDevice(); [snip] virtual int PlayVideo(const uchar *Data, int Length); #if VDRVERSNUM >= 10701 virtual int PlayTSVideo(const uchar *Data, int Length); virtual int PlayTSAudio(const uchar *Data, int Length); virtual int PlayTS(const uchar *Data, int Length, bool VideoOnly = false); #endif -- Stefan Lucke

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Re: [vdr] vdr + xbmc
by Niels Wagenaar 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

-----Original message----- From: Gerald Dachs <vdr(a)dachsweb.de> Sent: Tue 02-12-2008 13:21 To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org; Subject: Re: [vdr] vdr + xbmc > -- SNIP -- > I use one remote for both, I toggle with one button between 3 modes. > mode 1 > vdr-sxfe on Plasma TV and graphttft-fe on TFT in case > mode 2 > xbmc on Plasma TV and graphttft-fe on TFT in case > mode 3 > nothing on Plasma TV and xbmc on TFT in case I think you use a .lirc configuration in combination with irexec to switch? > I start vdr with --lirc=/dev/null so that it doesn't react on the remote. > Vdr-sxfe ist started with --lirc. Vdr-sxfe is never started the same time > that xmbc is running, so I can use the same remote for both. > This is indeed something I was looking for. Forgot that some options are extremely easy to resolve. But I was wondering, what remote do you use yourself and did you configure a .lircrc for vdr-sxfe? I want to use this configuration for my new HTPC (completely software based output) which will use Xine for VDR viewing (vdr-sxfe is somewhat unstable on my configuration). And the phrase " One Remote to rule them all" would be great :) > Gerald > Niels Wagenaar

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