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[PATCH] vcd-0.9 for VDR >= 1.7.3
by Thomas Günther 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi! Here is a patch for the vcd plug-in and VDR >= 1.7.3: http://toms-cafe.de/vdr/download/vcd-0.9-1.7.3.diff Tom

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xineliboutput UDP detach from stream
by Harald Overas 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I have have witness the same behavior with screen blinking with xineliboutput (vdr-sxfe as remote client while connecting with TCP transport to the vdr-server) when changing the channels. I often get screen blinking when I change the channels to fast with my MCE remote (using the MCE remote arrows up and down for browsing through the channels). Using xine-lib-vdpau-1.2 (latest) and xineliboutput (latest) (vdr-sxfe 1.0.90-cvs (build with xine-lib 1.1.90, using xine-lib 1.1.90) Using this command string to connect: vdr-sxfe -fullscreen --width=1920 --height=1080 --tcp --audio=alsa --aspect=16:9 --lirc --video=vdpau --post tvtime:method=use_vo_driver --reconnect xvdr://${HOST}:${PORT} Thanks in advance, Harald

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USB IR Receiver not loaded when vdr starts on boot
by Peter Odéus 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hi, The script 'runvdr' sets the following access permissions: chmod o+r /dev/input/event* But since the IR receiver on my USB NOVA-T Stick has not loaded to /dev/input/event5 when runvdr sets the permissions, vdr refuses to start properly when booting the machine. The error is stated as a "Permission denied" on the remote device By doing mv /etc/rc2.d/S20vdr /etc/rc2.d/S30vdr the problem goes away. I'm on Ubuntu Lucid btw. :D /Peter Odéus

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[PATCH] Add missing Dtypes for ATSC
by Alex Lasnier 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

The attached patch adds Dtypes for ATSC AC-3. Users of the NA EIT patch will also need to make this change.

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A/V out of sync for BSkyB channels Channel4, More4, E4, Film4
by Günter Merz 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi, I'm looking for help with my vdr 1.6 system. I think the problem only affects BSkyB channels Channel4, More4, E4 and Film4: those channels a/v are out of sync (sometimes more, sometimes less). Recordings from those channels are also affected. I think that at some point, I didn't have this a/v sync issue, but I could be wrong. My vdr uses vdr-xine with a new xine-lib 1.2 (for vdpau) as output device. Due to the unstable nature of some of the components, I've tried exchanging parts of my output chain to their stable counterparts: xine-lib 1.1.17, ffmpeg-0.5, xine-ui-0.99.5. Also, I've tried deactivating "Dynamic Ticks" in the kernel. None of those measures have helped. Can anyone here point me to where the a/v sync issue is most likely to originate from? Can it be vdr itself? Does vdr process video separate from audio? >From what I've read so far, xine-lib delegates MPEG TS processing to ffmpeg.

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.15
by Klaus Schmidinger 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

VDR developer version 1.7.15 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.15.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.14-1.7.15.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The changes since version 1.7.14: - Added Macedonian language texts (thanks to Dimitar Petrovski). - Updated the Estonian OSD texts (thanks to Arthur Konovalov). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Added handling of EnhancedAC3DescriptorTag (thanks to Eric Valette). - The default SVDRP port is now 6419 (registered with ICANN/IANA by Christian Tramnitz). Use '-p 2001' to switch back to the old port if necessary. - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - cDvbDevice::ProvidesTransponder() now checks the modulation capabilities of the device (as far as the driver allows this). - Fixed cFrameDetector::Analyze() in case part of the data has been processed and there is less than MIN_TS_PACKETS_FOR_FRAME_DETECTOR left (reported by Derek Kelly). - Added a note about not deleting cDeviceHook objects to device.h. - Added user defined key kUser0 (suggested by Ulf Kiener). - Include paths are now added instead of overwriting INCLUDES in the Makefile (thanks to Paul Menzel). - The various modulation types are now taken into account when selecting a device for a recording or live viewing, so that devices that provide more capabilities are spared. - Fixed generating PMT language descriptors for multi language PIDs (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Transponders that use "8psk turbo fec" (a non-standard mode used by North American providers) are now identified by assuming that all 8psk transponders on DVB-S use "turbo fec". In order to determine whether a certain device can handle "turbo fec", the new driver flag FE_CAN_TURBO_FEC is checked. If your device can handle "turbo fec", and your driver doesn't have that flag, yet, you can apply the patch from ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/v4l-dvb-add-FE_CAN_TURBO_FEC.diff. A temporary macro in dvbdevice.c defines the flag for all those who don't need this in the driver, so that they can continue using an unmodified driver. Thanks to Derek Kelly for testing this. - Updated the Ukrainian OSD texts (thanks to Yarema Aka Knedlyk). - Fixed handling "none" color entries in XPM files (thanks to Thomas Gu"nther). - Fixed a crash when creating a new channel if the channel list is empty (reported by Halim Sahin). - Updated the Czech OSD texts (thanks to Radek Stastny). - Fixed a possible out of buffer memory access in case of bad TS data (reported by Rolf Ahrenberg). - Implemented handling of HD resolution subtitles according to v1.3.1 of ETSI EN 300 743, chapter 7.2.1 (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - The EPG data now handles stream components 5 (H.264-video) and 6 (HEAAC-audio). - Fixed a problem with external Dolby Digital processing via the '-a' option in live mode and with TS recordings (reported by Christopher Reimer). - Added handling MPEG audio types "ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio with LATM transport syntax" and "ISO/IEC 13818-7 Audio with ADTS transport syntax" (suggested by Luis Fernandes). See man vdr(5) on how the APID section of channels has been extended to store this information. - Added detecting channels that use service type 0x16. - Added full handling of the stream types of Dolby Digital pids (thanks to Jose Alberto Reguero). - The new setup option "OSD/Number keys for characters" can be used to control whether the number keys can be used to enter characters in a text input field (suggested by Stefan Huskamp). Have fun! Klaus

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portability or VDR on FreeBSD
by Joerg Pulz 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list. As the subject already says, this is about VDR portability, or how to get VDR up and running on a FreeBSD system. In times where we have such really nice plugins like softdevice and streamdev, we no longer need real MPEG2 or DVB hardware in a VDR system. As i want to use my FreeBSD systems to watch TV or play VDR recordings i decided to give porting VDR to FreeBSD a try. Attached you can find the results. In short terms: It simply works! The only missing feature right now is, starting VDR as root and switching to another user (-u command line option). For now it is possible to watch any recording made by a VDR with real hardware if the video directory is directly accessible over the network (mountable by the client) or the use the streamdev plugin to stream VDR to VDR. All tests where done using a Linux system with two FF-DVB-S devices, streamdev-server plugin and NFS exported video directory plus a wired and a wireless FreeBSD-7.0 client running VDR with streamdev-client and softdevice plugin. As far as i could test the whole setup until now, everything works the same way on FreeBSD as it does under Linux and i now have real channel-hopping. The patches are made in a way that a patched VDR will still compile under Linux. Every modification, to the source or to the Makefiles is ifdef'd out. So unless you say you want to compile VDR for FreeBSD you have an unmodified version of source. In case the ML software strips the attachments, the files are also available for download at: ftp://ftp.frm2.tum.de/pub/jpulz/VDR/ Thoughts or comments from others are welcome. regards Joerg - -- The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFH0Dy8SPOsGF+KA+MRAmVBAJ9Tzfxg0zWNN/fEX8vfeMOW2muvSACgivha raTzC4R92jZ+Petp9Mqwr9E= =f08n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch
by Timothy D. Lenz 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

I have a sat card and an atsc card. Our locals do a very poor job of maintaining epg, so I also pick up guide data from a sat. The sat channels are scrambled, but the epg is clear. In my channels.conf I put the sat channel that matches local just above the atsc entry in the list. epgserch picks up a show from the sat list first because they send out 2 weeks where as the locals are sometimes doing good to get 12 hours. When it sets up a timer for a show, I edit it changing the channel from the sat to the atsc channel entry. The problem is, it doesn't properly change the entry. This is the summary for the timer as it first sets up: <epgsearch><channel>90 - KGUN</channel><searchtimer>Castle</searchtimer><start>1278561540</start><stop>1278565260</stop><s-id>85</s-id><eventid>18498</eventid></epgsearch> And just changing the channel, it does this: <epgsearch><eventid>18498</eventid><update>0</update><bstart>60</bstart><bstop>60</bstop></epgsearch> It no longer points to the channel to use. It still seems to get the right channel for recording, but If 2 of these over lap at all, then I start getting timer conflict notices on the screen even though there is no conflict. It should have just changed "<channel>90 - KGUN</channel>" to "<channel>91 - KGUN-DT</channel>" I'm guessing that channel info it removes is why it no longer does conflict checking correcly. The plugin timeline seems still correctly see no conflict. Another problem I've run into, vdradmin only allows you to set a flat total number of dvb cards. It doesn't allow for the fact that not all the cards are the same. I had a second dual atsc tuner which went bad and will be replaced. So right now I have 2 tuners, but only 1 of each time and will have 4, but again, only 1 is sat. Some of this maybe a problem with epgsearch plugin since that is where the search and auto timer setups is done.

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problem replaying radio recordings in xineliboutput and vdr-1.7.15
by Halim Sahin 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

hi, Can someone please help? Vdr-1.7.15, xineliboutput from git and xinelib-1.2 from hg. When I try to replay a radiorecording i get the folowing in the tty running sxfe: xv_set_property: property=1, value=4 [4260] [demux_vdr] PMT changed [4260] [input_vdr] wait_stream_sync: discard_index 3929200 != curpos 3927320 ! ( diff 1880) [4260] [demux_vdr] PMT changed [4260] [input_vdr] wait_stream_sync: discard_index 5654100 != curpos 5277912 ! ( diff 376188) [4260] [demux_vdr] PMT changed I get No audio. When I replay same recording through xineliboutput's own mediaplayer it plays fine. Any ideas? BR. halim

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Request for rotor integration to vdr
by Timothy D. Lenz 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

The rotor plugin doesn't seem to be maintained anymore and was always somewhat of a hack to vdr. Seems to me rotor control should really be a part of vdr diseqc control code. Just about every sat box out there includes rotor control function. I also looked at the Actuator plugin because I am interested in getting something going with c-band and thought maybe it included rotor commands. Don't it does, doesn't look like it's been updated since vdr-1.6.0, and requires a custom kernel module. I don't mind building custom electronics and was planing to anyway. But I don't want to have to hack code into the kernel. I think they have boxes that provide actuator control from rotor diseqc commands anyway which brings us back to including it. I would also like to see it be able to handle a rotor per card. Not much point in having several sat tuners if they all have to look at the same sat.

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