vdr November 2009

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Re: [vdr] Moving to a stream mpeg or h264 with vdr-1.7.9
by Senufo 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi, I just found an error when I use the keys 4 or 7 for me to move in the mpeg2 stream (vdr-17.9 with vdr-xine 0.9.3). Clear(1785)! StillPicture: 0x191da2a0, 0 FIXME: xineDevice.c:1321 FIXME: xineDevice.c:2075 Clear(1786)! StillPicture: 0x19179110, 0 FIXME: xineDevice.c:1321 FIXME: xineDevice.c:2075 Thanks Senufo

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VDR and DTT PayTV decryption
by Francesco Andrisani 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi all, this is my first post on the mailing list....then hello all. Well now i explain my problem. I'm italian and i use vdr about from 2-3 month....and it work very fine for me. Excellent software. On my HTPC i've installed vdr 1.7.9 with 2 tuners: a TT 3650 CI (DVB-S/S2) and a TerraTec Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity (2xDVB-T). From about 15 days ago i'm triing to use the TecnoTrend Common Interface for decypt italian Pay TV over DTT, but all my test are failed. First question: Is possible for VDR use CI of this tuner for decrypt the encrypted channel of a DTT tuner? I've read much mailing lists, but i've found only a bit of posts that are 2-3 years old. Can someone help me please? Best Regards

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restricting root of xineliboutput mediaplayer?
by Halim Sahin 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, Does xineliboutput support this? The Problem: the Kids shouldn't be able to view or modify anything in the system. E. G. /media should contain all content and it shouldn't be possible to change to /. Any ideas how to do this? Regards Halim

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Re: [vdr] Moving to a stream mpeg or h264 with vdr-1.7.9
by Senufo 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

On 12/11/2009, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > what is your output device? Hi, I use vdr-xine-0.9.3. on a nvidia card. I have the same problem with and without vdpau with 180.51 and 190.42 nvidia modules. Regards Senufo

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Re: [vdr] vdr Digest, Vol 58, Issue 16
by martinez 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Just insert the 3 lines with a + and remove the 2 with a - works fine then > > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:56:28 +0300 > From: Goga777 <goga777(a)bk.ru> > Subject: Re: [vdr] rotor plugin puzzling question > To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org > Message-ID: <20091112175628.2ad3b36f(a)bk.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > I couldn't apply a patch > > > /usr/src/vdr/PLUGINS/src/rotor-0.1.5# cat patch1 | patch -p0 --dry-run > patching file rotor.c > patch: **** malformed patch at line 6: (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'v')) || > > > any clue ? > >> Is it just me or the newly released rotor plugin for vdr 1.7.9 needs the >> following patch to the plugin itself in order to run (although it compiles >> fine without it) >> If the author reads these lines I would love to know why... >> >> --- rotor.c.old 2006-06-14 23:44:27.000000000 +0200 >> +++ rotor.c 2006-06-14 23:46:43.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ >> continue; >> if ((diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'h')) || >> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'v')) || >> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'l')) || >> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'r'))) >> { >> - char *c=strdup(diseqc->Commands()); >> + char *commandstring=strdup(diseqc->Commands()); >> + char *c=commandstring; >> while (c = strchr(c, '[')) >> { >> char *e = strchr(++c, ']'); >> @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ >> break; >> } >> } >> - free(c); >> + free(commandstring); >> } >> cRotorPos *p = RotorPositions.GetfromSource(source->Code()); >> if (p==RotorPositions.First()) > >

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rotor plugin puzzling question
by martinez＠embl.de 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Is it just me or the newly released rotor plugin for vdr 1.7.9 needs the following patch to the plugin itself in order to run (although it compiles fine without it) If the author reads these lines I would love to know why... --- rotor.c.old 2006-06-14 23:44:27.000000000 +0200 +++ rotor.c 2006-06-14 23:46:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ continue; if ((diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'h')) || (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'v')) || (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'l')) || (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'r'))) { - char *c=strdup(diseqc->Commands()); + char *commandstring=strdup(diseqc->Commands()); + char *c=commandstring; while (c = strchr(c, '[')) { char *e = strchr(++c, ']'); @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ break; } } - free(c); + free(commandstring); } cRotorPos *p = RotorPositions.GetfromSource(source->Code()); if (p==RotorPositions.First())

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Re: [vdr] rotor plugin puzzling question
by Mike Booth 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

I think the rotor plugin is a bit of a mess now and the latest version (1.5) is a step backwards with no transponder scan facility. A clever friend of mine has doctored the previous version to work with vdr-1.7.9, to still scan transponders and better still to scan C-band transponders. Rotor switches diseqc off it appears and VDR defaults to Ku settings so all c-band appears to be "out of range"....anyone else have this problem? Mike

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mdadm software raid5 arrays?
by Simon Baxter 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi I've been running logical volume management (LVMs) on my production VDR box for years, but recently had a drive failure. To be honest, in the ~20 years I've had PCs in the house, this is the first time a drive failed! Anyway, I've bought 3x 1.5 TB SATA disks which I'd like to put into a software (mdadm) raid 5 array. I've found a few sites which talk about performance tuning, such as increasing the read-ahead from 128k: echo 1024 > /sys/block/sda/queue/read_ahead_kb And adjusting queue and scheduler depths: #default 128 echo 256 > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests #default 256 echo 128 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth And running cfq as the scheduler: echo cfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler But does anyone have any production VDR experience with mdadm - good or bad? I regularly record 3 and sometimes 4 channels simultaneously, while watching a recording. Under regular LVM, this sometimes seemed to cause some "slow downs". My machine is a x86 64 bit dual core AM2, running on a Gigabyte motherboard. Thanks Simon

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strange issue with DVB-S2 and VDPAU
by Füley István 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello list, After 4 yeras of SD-VDR I tried to move to HD with my VDR box. Current hardware: Asus M3N78-VM with GF9400 Athlon BE2350 TT3200 DVB-S2 Software: Ubuntu 9.04 x86 S2API drivers from linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb hg xine-vdpau xine-ui cvs plain vdr-1.7.9 I'm mainly focused on S9.0E source, because I have a Conax subscription for Hello HD package (http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/hello.html) After the first install and some finetunings, FTA HD channels (M2HD, Luxe HD) worked well, but I had broken image on Hello HD channels (on SD and HD as well, all of them are in DVB-S2 Mpeg4), and log was full with TS continuity error. My channels list was generated with w_scan. After a while I realized that if I let vdr to update my channel.conf, all the channels are working fine. And then came the disaster. Ubuntu said that 9.10 is available, and I choosed to upgrade. After the upgrade I had no sound at all on my system. As I saw, many others had this problem with Ubuntu 9.10. After a day and a half I managed to fix the sound (compiling alsa, etc), but the "TS continuity error" came back on vdr. Since then I tried everything, I reinstalled the dvb drivers, xine-lib, xine-ui, I tried vdr-xine plugin and xineliboutput also, but no luck: i have broken image on Hello HD package. I also tried to make some records from those channels without any output plugin, and I end up with 0 sized recordings (on other channels recordings are fine), so IMHO this has nothing to do with xine. I'm suspecting two things: 1. DVB drivers. 2. Incorrect channels.conf Reinstalling dvb drivers from liplianin did not help, nor various channels.conf's One more detail: I have a Kathrein UFS-910 linux receiver. I have two systems on that: the original firmware and Enigma2. If I try my Conax card in the Kathy, everything works well under E2, but in the original firmware I had the same broken image issue as with VDR. As I am stuck with this for more than a day, any help or any ideas are welcomed. thanks, István -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Moving to a stream mpeg or h264 with vdr-1.7.9
by Senufo 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi, When I make a mark with the 0 key if I want to move it by pressing 4 or 6 it works when the stream is the H264 but when it's mpeg2 the mark moves but the image remains static. Regards Senufo

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