vdr February 2012

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25 discussions

DVB subtitke colors vary
by Kartsa 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hi Lately I have been noticing that the fg color of the DVB subtitles changes irregularly between white, grey and black. If there is more than one line the lines may have different colors but the whole line is the same color. This is seen in Finnish YLE channels. Is there some setting for this? I was in the impression that color mapping should come with the subtitles but it would seem strange if they would change the color irregularly. Is this a broadcast issue or a VDR issue? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. I've installed all from yavdr-stable repository and these are the installed components vdr (1.7.20/1.7.20) vompserver (0.3.1-3) femon (1.7.10) osdteletext (0.9.1) epgsearch (1.0.0) burn (0.2.0-beta7) pvrinput (2011-08-18) wirbelscan (0.0.7-pre01) vdrrip (0.3.0) conflictcheckonly (0.0.1) quickepgsearch (0.0.1) undelete (0.0.6) streamdev-server (0.5.1-git) webvideo (0.4.4) xineliboutput (1.0.90-cvs) dvd (0.3.6-b03) epgsearchonly (0.0.1) skinsoppalusikka (1.7.2) ttxtsubs (0.2.3) Player is vdr-sxfe 1.0.90-cvs also from yavdr repo. \\Karsta

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[Bug] VPS Recording not starting as long as another recording (with lower priority) is running
by Markus Ehrnsperger 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi, I created two timers: 5:S19.2E-1-1101-28106:2011-02-26:1330:1500:50:99:Das Traumhotel - Afrika: 9:S19.2E-1-1079-28006:2011-02-26:1300:1500:10:99:Wintersport: The second timer was recorded for the complete time. The first Timer was ignored, in spite of the higher priority. This is related to VPS: A VPS timer seems to be ignored as long as other recorings block the devices. In this logic, the priority of the recoring is ignored. Note: For this test, I started VDR with --device=0 so only one device is used. I used no patch (plain 1.7.16) and only one plugin (dvbsddevice). Regards, Markus

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Intelligent management of simulcast DVB-S2 / DVB-T channels
by Dominic Evans 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

I remember seeing patches for marking channels as identical in terms of EPG (so e.g., a DVB-S version of the channel can automatically share the EPG entries from the DVB-T version), but has anyone worked on a patch for identifying simulcasting channels, or even had some preliminary design thoughts for how one could be implemented? I can imagine at least the following two use cases: 1) When watching live TV, channel '1' automatically selects the 'best' available version of 'BBC One London' depending on available tuners - e.g., rotating through BBC One HD (DVB-S2), BBC One (DVB-T2), BBC One (DVB-S) and BBC One London (DVB-T). This is much more intuitive than having to manually find an available broadcast of the channel. 2) For recordings, if a timer needs to start a recording on 'BBC One London', depending on its priority and a 'required quality' attribute it will similarly locate a tuner to make the recording with. Assuming it needs the DVB-S2 tuner for HD, if someone with lower priority is currently watching live TV on BBC One HD via DVB-S2 (and only one HD tuner is available) then they will be transparently switched down to the next available tuner quality.

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Prefer non-CI equipped adapters for FTA channel recording
by Heikki Manninen 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hello, here's my current setup: 1 x Satelco DVB-C Budget with CI + CAM (Conax CIv1) 1 x Satelco DVB-C Bidget wuthout CI When recording FTA channels VDR seems to sometimes select the one adapter with CI. It would make sense to always try to use non-CI equipped adapter for these recordings leaving the one with CI free for live viewing/recording encrypted channels. Any way to achieve this through configuration? -- Heikki Manninen

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SoftHDDevice
by Torgeir Veimo 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Does anyone have any experience with this plugin, and can offer some opinion on how it differs from the xineliboutput and xine plugin? -- -Tor

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IS there a working UPnP-AV/DLNA support for VDR?
by Dr. Werner Fink 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hi, ... yep, I'm aware of http://upnp.vdr-developer.org/ but this one seems to be very dead. Nevertheless I'd like to use a VDR as recording system only using the second coax line maybe extended by uncable to use two transponders over one coax line. For this it would be perfect to be able to manage, control, and navigate the VDR and its menues over the DLNA support of this new TV. Werner -- AC3 loop through sound card http://bitstreamout.sourceforge.net/ Howto http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=1958 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.6.0-3
by Klaus Schmidinger 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

VDR maintenance patch 1.6.0-3 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.6.0-3.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.6.0-2 (which is the official version 1.6.0, patched with ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.6.0-1.diff and ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.6.0-2.diff). The sole purpose of this patch is to make version 1.6 work with V4L2 and newer compilers. This version is binary compatible to the previous one, so plugins don't need to be recompiled. The changes since version 1.6.0-2: - Changed cDvbDevice::GrabImage() to use V4L2 (backport from version 1.7.3, thanks to Ralf Schueler). - Added some missing 'const' keywords to avoid compilation errors with gcc 4.4 (backport from version 1.7.8, thanks to Ralf Schueler). - Modified cSVDRP::CmdGRAB() to avoid writing into const data (backport from version 1.7.8, thanks to Ralf Schueler). - Fixed cRecordings::DelByName() to avoid compilation errors with gcc 4.4 (backport from version 1.7.9, thanks to Ralf Schueler). Have fun! Klaus

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Missing consts in cDevice
by Joachim Wilke 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I suggest to add the following consts: ----------------------------------- device.h ----------------------------------- index e2ff812..cba70e5 100644 @@ -495,11 +495,11 @@ public: ///< is more than one audio track. int NumSubtitleTracks(void) const; ///< Returns the number of subtitle tracks that are currently available. - eTrackType GetCurrentAudioTrack(void) { return currentAudioTrack; } + eTrackType GetCurrentAudioTrack(void) const { return currentAudioTrack; } bool SetCurrentAudioTrack(eTrackType Type); ///< Sets the current audio track to the given Type. ///< \return Returns true if Type is a valid audio track, false otherwise. - eTrackType GetCurrentSubtitleTrack(void) { return currentSubtitleTrack; } + eTrackType GetCurrentSubtitleTrack(void) const { return currentSubtitleTrack; } bool SetCurrentSubtitleTrack(eTrackType Type, bool Manual = false); ///< Sets the current subtitle track to the given Type. ///< IF Manual is true, no automatic preferred subtitle language selection This simplifies usage of these getters in cStatus::ChannelSwitch and similar methods. -- Best Regards, Joachim.

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xineliboutput and xine-ui not fitting together
by Manfred Schmidt-Voigt 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hello xineliboutput specialist, after an update of my debian-sid Desktop last weekend I have no longer a working xineplugin (xineplug_inp_xvdr.so) for the xine-ui. xine-ui now ist based on libxine2 but the libxine1-xvdr plugin is based on libxine1 (as the name allready states). Are there any plans to create a debian package of the plugin which fits also to libxine2? Kind regards Manfred -- ------- Manfred Schmidt-Voigt ------- ----- www.mannitec.de ----- ------- mailto:manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de -------

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vdr 1.7.23: patch for handling symlinks in recordings directory as earlier
by sundararaj reel 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi, I am attaching a patch for vdr 1.7.23 for the problem described here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/p1047199-announce-vdr-… There appears to be a problem in listing recordings due to a bug fix in vdr 1.7.23. "Fixed handling symbolic links in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()" The attached patch just disables the translation of symbolic links to "real" paths. So that all recordings appear to be under the same (recordings) directory tree, as it was earlier. Please reply with your results. -- Thanks, Sundararaj

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