vdr April 2020

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Trouble with DVB-T2 on frontend 1
by Marko Mäkelä 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Hi all, I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use with VDR. It comprises two frontends: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T) /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (DVB-T2 and DVB-C) I guess it is similar to this one; just a slightly different plastic case with some more ventilation holes: http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/09/naked-hardware-18-astrometa-amdvb-t2-v2.ht… The hardware appears to work fine, once I copied the /lib/firmware/dvb-demod-mn88473-01.fw from somewhere. The firmware upload has failed at least once on the Raspberry Pi 2 (using Linux 4.9.59), but never on another machine that runs a 4.13.0 kernel. I did not yet get the infrared remote control to produce anything in evtest. With dvbv5-zap (after running dvbv5-scan), I can tune into DVB-T2 channels like this: dvbv5-zap -a 0 -f 1 -c dvb_channel.conf 'Yle TV1 HD' -r After this, I can play the video and audio stream on the Raspberry Pi 2: omxplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 Unless I explicitly specify the options -a 0 -f 1, then dvbv5-zap will fail to find any DVB-T2 senders, because it apparently defaults to frontend0, which is DVB-T only. In VDR 2.3.8, I have only been able to view DVB-T from the first frontend. When I did a trick and renamed /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 to frontend0 before starting VDR, VDR no longer complained that the DVB-T2 channels (which I converted from the dvb_channel.conf to channels.conf with dvb-format-convert) not being available, but it did not seem to receive anything from these channels either. Also, after using dvbv5-scan or dvbv5-zap, I sometimes have to invoke w_scan to "reset" the hardware so that VDR can receive DVB-T channels. I would like to receive and record DVB-T and DVB-T2 on this setup. I am willing to try patches or do some programming myself, but I would appreciate some hints to get started. Marko

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VDR findet S13E nicht mehr nach Upgrade
by Harald Milz 01 May '20

01 May '20

Servus, ich brauche ausnahmsweise mal Hilfe ;-) Nach längerem habe ich mich endlich aufgerafft, meinen VDR von Ubuntu 14.04 / Kernel 4.4.0 / vdr-2.2.0 / dddvb-0.9.32 hochzuziehen auf Ubuntu 18.04 / Kernel 4.15.0 / yavdr-2.4.0 / dddvb-0.9.38 (latest aus git). An den Configs habe ich nichts geändert. Die Karte ist eine DDBridge V 6.5 mit 4 Tunern. 1 und 2 liegen auf Astra S19.2E, die beiden anderen auf Hotbird S13E. Die LNBs sind zwei Quad von Kathrein, von denen jeweils nur die ersten beiden Ausgänge belegt sind. Die disecq.conf ist die Standardeinstellung dafür wie aus dem Wiki, was immer prima funktioniert hat. Aber jetzt nicht mehr: Kanäle auf Astra werden ohne weiteres gefunden, aber der VDR versucht nun S13E-Kanäle mit Tuner 1 oder 2 zu finden, was natürlich scheitert: Apr 30 17:41:47 vdr vdr: [16550] switching to channel 1 S19.2E-1-1019-10301 (Das Erste HD) Apr 30 17:41:47 vdr vdr: [16851] device 1 receiver thread started (pid=16550, tid=16851, prio=high) Apr 30 17:41:47 vdr vdr: [16852] device 1 TS buffer thread started (pid=16550, tid=16852, prio=high) ... Apr 30 17:42:10 vdr vdr: [16550] switching to channel 61 S13.0E-318-12400-8511 (Rai 1) Apr 30 17:42:10 vdr vdr: [16852] device 1 TS buffer thread ended (pid=16550, tid=16852) ... Apr 30 17:42:10 vdr vdr: [16851] device 1 receiver thread ended (pid=16550, tid=16851) Apr 30 17:42:10 vdr vdr: [16854] device 1 receiver thread started (pid=16550, tid=16854, prio=high) Apr 30 17:42:10 vdr vdr: [16855] device 1 TS buffer thread started (pid=16550, tid=16855, prio=high) Apr 30 17:42:19 vdr vdr: [16554] frontend 0/0 timed out while tuning to channel 61 (Rai 1), tp 210992 Ich hätte erwartet, dass er dafür frontend 2/0 oder 3/0 verwendet. Auf denen wirft er aber ständig Timeouts zu Channels von S19.2E. In /dev/dvb stehen alle 4 Adapter, und der VDR erkennt sie auch (found 4 DVB devices). Möglicherweise habe ich verpasst, weil ich sehr lange nicht danach geschaut habe, dass sich an den diesbezüglichen Configs von vdr-2.2.0 nach -2.4.0 was geändert hat. Wo muss ich hinschauen? Danke! -- You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

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20 Years of VDR / Announcing "GeoTagger"
by Klaus Schmidinger 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Twenty years ago today, I released the first version of the VDR source. A pretty long time, in which much has happened. Back then a VDR was something special, while today it's just an ordinary device. But still it feels good to be able to tweak things yourself. Lately it's been rather quiet from my side, regarding the VDR development. For one this was because it just works fine in every day life. But I was also busy working on a totally different project. I wanted to add/adjust the GPS coordinates in the many photos that piled up over the years (partly scanned from negatives). Unfortunately there was no application available under Linux that really fit my needs (maybe I just missed that one great program ;-). So I decided to do some development of my own, and today, for the 20th "birthday" of VDR, I'd like to present the result: http://www.tvdr.de/geotagger This is the very first version to go "out in the wild", so chances are there will still be some quirks. So far I have tested it on Linux (openSUSE Leap 15.0) and Mac OS 10.13. I can't test on Windows, because I don't have such a system. Maybe it can be of some use to some of you out there, too. Please send problem reports directly to me, so we don't clog this mailing list. Klaus

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Filtering encrypted channels
by Daniel 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi List, i'm using vdr 2.2.0-r5 + vnsi + kodi and I wonder if there is a way to automatically filter encrypted tv channels from channels.conf. My Problem is, that new channels are constantly added but pay TV channels can't be encrypted. So I have to remove them manually once a week or so. Disabling auto-adding new channels would require me to manually scan once in a while. Disabling it is the best "solution" I came up with until now. If there would be a way to periodically filter them (e.g. at night), I would be very happy. Regards, Daniel

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Re: [vdr] Filtering encrypted channels
by Daniel 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Vom: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 07:15:16 +0200 > On 06.04.20 00:10, Daniel wrote: > > Hm, how do you read it's field 11 from man 5 vdr? > > I used it as lookup, and after that played with the field counter, until > it only showed, at least to my untrained eye, the correct channels. > According to https://github.com/yavdr/vdr/blob/master/channels.c#L571 it's definetly field #9. But there are channels with 0 at this position which I can't view with kodi. Would VDR change channels.conf if dvbscan wrote that field wrongly or just leave it that way? I wonder if that's a bug. Regards, Daniel

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