http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46179 <pre>Hello, I have a headless vdr server - witch is just used for streamdev and xbmc. I would like to update my channels.conf as it is pretty outdated right now.... I have set the following in setup.conf and vdr is now searching and is detecting new channels. UpdateChannels = 5 How ever - when I restart VDR the changes are not getting saved to channels.conf. What can I do to make it save channels.conf? I think that last time I had to do this I had to connect via VNC and the vdr-ffnetdev plugin to get the OSD and to "press" the power button to make it shutdown and save the changes... Is there an easier was to do this? Thanks, Artem _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Artem Makhutov 2012-05-26T18:56:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46176 <pre>Hi All, I am trying to build vdr-plugin-dvd, but it failes with the following message: g++ -g -O3 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses -fpermissive -fPIC -O3 -c -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -DUSE_GRAPHTFT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"dvd"' -I/usr/include/vdr dvd.c In file included from player-dvd.h:14:0, from dvd.h:20, from dvd.c:15: /usr/include/dvdnav/dvdnav.h:284:47: error: expected ?,? or ?...? before ?this? make: *** [dvd.o] Error 1 I have searched google on this, and this link suggest to install libdvdnav and libdvdread: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393199 I have installed libdvdread-4.2.0-1 and libdvdnav-4.2.0-2, but the error remaines. I am running arch linux. What did I miss? Best regards, Cedric _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> cedric.dewijs< at >telfort.nl 2012-05-25T19:25:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46168 <pre>Let's say I will install DVB-S and DVB-S2 tuner (so the first can't play most HD channels), or I install 2 identical tuners but connect them to two different sattelites. How to tell VDR which channel is available on which hardware? Marx _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Marx 2012-05-22T13:11:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46149 <pre>Hello I use VDR a few years, but lately I changed my system into ITX (AMD Brazos) and so changed PCI DVB-S2 card into USB. Additionaly I has bought DVB-T tuner. While buying hardware I was sure I buy hardware which is supported in-kernel, so no need to hunt for driver. Unfortunatelly every from three card I have doesn't work properly. The first: Terratec Cinergy S2 USB HD. Kernel has drivers, but only for the first revision. Second revision which I have need a patch. Patch is even on linux-media http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/10294/ , but isn't finished so no hope to have it in kernel soon. Anyway I have applied it's modified version from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653026 to kernel 3.2 and it's almost work. Almost, because sometimes recording becames unplayable. Recording recors eveything, but I can play only some part of file from beginning. The rest is unplayable. Looking for something widely used I choosed Pinnacle PCTV SAT HDTV 452E PRO USB. Problems with it i've de</pre> Marx 2012-05-20T21:48:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46145 <pre>Is it expected behavior for vdr to do an emergency exit with two recordings in progress? If so, perhaps there could be an option to disable this. I was recording a program on one tuner, while recording and delayed viewing a sports feed on the second tuner. When the carrier was dropped at the end of the event, this triggered an emergency exit, thus disrupting the recording in progress on the first tuner. vdr 1.7.27 and TT S2-6400. Regards, Richard _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Richard Scobie 2012-05-20T19:39:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46140 <pre>Hi Attached is a patch which allows to toggle the sort order of recordings in the recording menu with vdr-1.7.27 between - name - date - recording length by pressing 0 key. At least I have found this to be very useful feature when trying to find a just made recording from which you do not know/remember the exact name to search from the long list of recordings. The thing I do not like in the patch is that the user must know this "0" key as all 4 colors are already reserved in VDR for other functions in recordings menu. (play, go to beginning, delete and info). But I do not know any better way to handle this at the moment. Patch got inspiration from http://www.u32.de/vdr-1.3.37-simple_record_sort-0.1.diff originally submitted by Walter Koch some years ago. Mika _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Mika Laitio 2012-05-20T17:14:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46131 <pre>Hi I made a patch to allow special case for instant recordings to only record the present event. This is done by defining Instant rec. time to 0. There is still the question what should be done if event is non-existent or otherwise not obtained? Should the VDR default Instant rec. time be used or not? </pre> Matti Lehtimäki 2012-05-20T09:30:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46126 <pre>Hi! (I guess the forums are not the best place to post this, hence reposted here...) By accident I stumbled across the special case for TT-budget S2-3200 (DVB-S/DVB-S2) in vdr's dvbdevice.c, and since both my tuners using the pctv452e driver have the same issue (which are STB0899 too, issue is the red/yellow/green bars in femon/osd didn't appear) I added an OPTION to the FreeBSD port (STB0899_SIGNAL in the port's make config menu) to enable the patch below. Optional since I don't know if there are STB0899-based tuners that don't have the problem, does anyone here know? (see log, if vdr logs like vdr: [29376960] frontend 0/0 provides DVB-S,DVB-S2,DSS with QPSK ("STB0899 Multistandard") and the bars appear without the patch please let us know, noting pci ids for the cards especially if different from 0x13c2:0x1019 or if it's usb, thanx!) Cheers, Juergen And here comes the patch, also at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/multimedia/vdr/files/stb0899-signalstrength.patch?rev=1.2;content-</pre> Juergen Lock 2012-05-19T20:32:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46118 <pre>I have successfully ported VDR to Windows :) The port is a *native* Windows port using MinGW-w64 (does NOT use cygwin). (I will post the patch when every thing is ready). The only unsolved problem is that section filtering functions in cDevice cannot be implemented on Windows since hardware drivers do not use file descriptors to deliver data, another problem is that some drivers like the SkyStar2 driver do not provide section filtering at all, so if you want that data you have to extract it from TS packets directly. To solve that problem we need to modify these functions and avoid using file descriptors: int cDevice::OpenFilter(u_short Pid, u_char Tid, u_char Mask); void cDevice::CloseFilter(int Handle); Does any body have suggestions about the best way to implement this. We might also consider implementing builtin section filtering in VDR so we can extract section filtering data from TS packets directly if the driver does not provide them. The libdvbpsi library might be handy for that purpose. I have</pre> WinVDR 2012-05-18T21:30:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46110 <pre>Do anyone else have IPTV problems with vdr 1.7.27? I am trying to update to vdr 1.7.27 on Ubuntu Precise. I have tried both a 'pure' VDR and the yavdr teams PPA. In both cases, if I record one channel supplied by IPTV I can not view another supplied by IPTV. I have the plugin started with '--devices=4'. The viewed channel gets all garbled, it seems very little data arrives. If I use an earlier IPTV version, the recorded channel gets no data and the dreaded 'Video Data stream broken' arrives. I broadcast all my FTA channels from the server by mumudvb and this works nicely under Ubuntu 10.04, vdr 1.7.16 and iptv 0.4.2. /Johan _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Johan Andersson 2012-05-16T13:15:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46100 <pre>New features in 0.2.0: - Support for ignoring EPG data for selected channels. - Support for copying EPG data from one channel to another. Bug fixes: - Fix character set conversion for selected channels. - Fix and improve Makefile (thanks to Ville Skyttä and Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fix compiling with g++-4.7. - Improve example configuration files. Homepage for the plugin: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-epgfixer </pre> Matti Lehtimäki 2012-05-13T09:12:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46098 <pre>Hi, some shows though being sent in native 16:9 still have black borders at top and bottom of the pics. To some extent this can be reduced but not completely removed by setting Overscan to 10% (don't confuse with Overscan Compensation) in xineliboutputs video menu. After some investigation i found a very simple patch that allows one to set Overscan to values &gt; 10 % (i limited to 20% in the patch). Furthermore i changed the sequence of the settings in xineliboutputs Video menu to make Overscan the topmost setting, so one now could configure some User keys in keymacros.conf. Feel free to play around with it. ************************************SNIP***************************** diff -Naur vdr-plugin-xineliboutput//setup_menu.c /usr/src/vdr/PLUGINS/src/vdr-plugin-xineliboutput/setup_menu.c --- vdr-plugin-xineliboutput//setup_menu.c 2012-05-08 01:34:30.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/src/vdr/PLUGINS/src/vdr-plugin-xineliboutput/setup_menu.c 2012-05-08 23:58:03.000000000 +0200 &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; -580,6 +580,11 &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;</pre> Midas 2012-05-12T21:15:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46095 <pre>Hi, today I published streamdev 0.5.2 at http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-streamdev/files which can be used with VDR 1.6 and 1.7. I also pushed some changes to git. The current git version now requires at least VDR 1.7.25 (better 1.7.27) and is completely priority driven. A negative priority gives precedence to live TV on the server, a priority of zero or more gives precedence to the client. For HTTP and IGMP multicast the priority is configured in the streamdev-server setup. The live TV priority of a streamdev-client is configured in the streamdev-client setup. For legacy clients (streamdev-client 0.5.1 or older) the priority is configured in streamdev-server as well. If you want to give the git version a try, I'd be particularly interested if the following things work like before: - clients with lower precedence like local live TV - encrypted channels - streamdev-server running streamdev-client (e.g. for mutually sharing DVB cards between two VDRs) Changelog of streamdev-0.5.2: - Use file</pre> Frank Schmirler 2012-05-12T14:35:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46092 <pre>Hi All, I have a PC running vdr. On this PC i cannot watch TV using vdr-sxfe. I also have a laptop, on this laptop I can connect to the PC using vdr-sxfe. On my laptop I can watch TV without any problems. All was working properly, until I ran 12 concurrent instances of vdr-sxfe on my PC. Next I did a "killall vdr-sxfe" and then cut the power from my PC. I guess I've lost or corrupted a file somewhere on my PC, but i can't figure out which one. Can anybody help me? Best regards, Cedric Messages from vdr-sxfe running locally on the PC: ************ [cedric&lt; at &gt;myhost ~]$ vdr-sxfe -V xv -f localhost vdr-sxfe 1.0.90-cvs (build with xine-lib 1.2.0, using xine-lib 1.2.0) Video driver: xv Fullscreen mode VDR Server: localhost WARNING: MRL does not start with 'xvdr:' (localhost) [920] [input_vdr] Connecting (control) to tcp://localhost:37890 ... [920] [input_vdr] Server greeting: VDR-1.7.22 xineliboutput-1.0.90-cvs READY [920] [input_vdr] Connected (control) to tcp://localhost:37890 [920] [input_vdr] Connecting (</pre> cedric.dewijs< at >telfort.nl 2012-05-12T13:23:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46091 <pre>Hi, to pick out one of the problems i am currently experiencing with lnb sharing i am starting a new thread. With device bonding or same cable usage (vdr 1.7.27 / 21 resp.) set, vdr absolutely fails to tune to any satellite channel after a restart. The only chance to regain tuning is to set up the devices individually, then switch to some channel, then switch between devices via femon and then set up back to lnb sharing /device bonding. This is not reliable and it may be necessary to repeat the steps until vdr finally works as expected. Afterwards there seem to be at least no serious problems with the setup and vdr keeps tuning as expected (yet maybe from time to time it looses live pic when switching polarization on timer start). Adapters (with indices set by module params): MSI TV&lt; at &gt;nywhere Satellite II PCI (Mantis / stb0899) adapter_nr=0 Technisat Skystar HD PCI (TT S3200 clone / stb0899) adapter_nr=1 Hauppauge WinTV Nova T-Stick (mt2060) adapter_nr=2 Notes: -This is a Diseqc setup. -The MSI card replace</pre> Midas 2012-05-12T12:26:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46055 <pre>Hello I use Debian for years and to keep it clean I'm trying to use all software from packages. It generally works, hovewer I have problem with VDR, XBMC and drivers. Usually to have the newest driver I need to use some unstable version of VDR with the newest possible kernel. VDR in Debian is an option, hovewer it's usually behind the newest VDR, and number of plugins in repository is low. This lead to alternative repositories. I know two valuable: e-tobi and yavdr. I was using e-tobi but it lately isn't updated to the newest VDR. Yavdr is built on top of Ubuntu, and while it generally works on Debian, it's not recommended (some things doesn't work). So there is an option to build packages myself - really no option, because I have to make package manually for every plugin and for every new version of VDR. Any idea? Marx _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Marx 2012-05-08T12:16:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46041 <pre>Hi! After i upgraded my vdr to 1.7.27 and fetched latest sources for plugins, i got serious subtitle timing issues. When viewing live tv the delay needed was about 2500ms and with recordings delay was almost 9000ms. I have no idea what causes that difference. Previously subtitles have been pretty well synced in both live and recordings. Attached patch removes PES and TS delay settings and uses PTS to sync subtitles. It works pretty well with my system using xinelibouput + vdpau. Patch has two side effects: 1. when replay of recording is started it sometimes takes 5 to 10 seconds until first subtitles appear. This is caused by wrong (live) PTS values got from xineliboutput since actual replaying hasn't started yet when first subtitles are parsed from stream. 2. when stopping replaying vdr is sometimes unresponsive for a few seconds if the needed delays are large like in my system. I think the delay sleep in cTtxtSubsDisplay::TtxtData() needs some tweaking to get rid of this side effect. Regards</pre> Matti Horila 2012-05-06T17:28:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46027 <pre>New features in 0.1.0: - Support for character set conversion for selected channels. - Support for stripping HTML entities. - Supply user with extra information for each setup menu option using Info key. Homepage for the plugin: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-epgfixer </pre> Matti Lehtimäki 2012-05-05T18:15:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46022 <pre>Hello It's probably common use but I didn't find good info how to do that: I record movie. It needs to be cutted (advertisment etc) and than compressed from mpeg2 to divx (because this format is smaller and playable on almost everything). Then movie is moved to library which scans IMDB or similair services to download meta information. The goal is how to do that as most automatically as possible. For now it's rather long way: I convert .ts stream into mpeg2 (I forgot the name but it's software which allows cut file altogether, hovewer it's not user friendly becauses of small preview window), then convert it with some software (VirtualDub, Handbrake or ffmpeg), then rename and load into XBMC library. I know it's rather lously connected with VDR, hovewer I have idea of using VDR as main tool in this toolchain. First it knows from EPG metadata the name of movie, so it can find it in IMDB (in fact both web interfaces can do that now). Next it allows to cut recordings (hovewer I prefer doing it with </pre> Marx 2012-05-04T13:28:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46016 <pre>Hallo Klaus, included a small patch to fix compile problems with fontconfig-2.9.0 Error Message: vdr: fcmatch.c:850: IA__FcFontSort: Assertion `result != ((void *)0)' failed. Aborted &lt;snipp&gt; diff --git a/font.c b/font.c index 706a017..72c5ec3 100644 --- a/font.c +++ b/font.c &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; -482,7 +482,8 &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; cString cFont::GetFontFileName(const char *FontName) FcPatternAddBool(pat, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue); FcConfigSubstitute(NULL, pat, FcMatchPattern); FcDefaultSubstitute(pat); - FcFontSet *fontset = FcFontSort(NULL, pat, FcFalse, NULL, NULL); + FcResult fresult; + FcFontSet *fontset = FcFontSort(NULL, pat, FcFalse, NULL, &amp;fresult); if (fontset) { for (int i = 0; i &lt; fontset-&gt;nfont; i++) { FcBool scalable; &lt;/snapp&gt; this diff resolve the compile problem, backwards compatible to fontconfig-2.8.0 Credits? iam noticed the patch first time on IRC #gentoo-vdr submitted by negril don't know, if he has written the patch or if he found the patch somewhere in the wildernes</pre> Joerg Bornkessel 2012-05-02T20:08:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.vdr/46003 <pre>Somebody used to run a site back in 2009 at http://dtt.me.uk/ that generated a very handy table showing resolution and average bitrate information for all the DVB-T channels in the UK. It is still available, just frozen in time. Anyone any idea who it was and/or how one might go about generating a similar table? _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr&lt; at &gt;linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr </pre> Dominic Evans 2012-05-02T13:04:27 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.vdr