Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 26 May 2014 13:17:51 +0200 Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am 2014-05-26 05:09, schrieb VDR User: There's no reason to touch the audio/video streams at all unless you actually want to re-encode them for some reason. If all you want is an .mkv rather than a .ts, that can be

Re: [vdr] skipping 5/10 seconds

2014-04-07 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:20:37 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: Well, that's something we can talk about. You could make it so that during replay the Left and Right keys perform 5s skips, and the FastForward/-Rewind keys (if present on the user's remote control) still

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:53:24 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: The author of the EEPG plugin has always been very helpful. You should just contact him about adding Freeview HD support. Then you won't have to monkey around with patches and messing with the VDR core. I think concensus is

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:38:48 +0100 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: for most of the GB TV channels it is common to only have the current and the next event in the EPG list. I did a few tries to work around this problem using EPG parsed from internet services and imported to VDR

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
Mar 2014 16:52:44 +0100 Christopher Reimer v...@creimer.net wrote: I think you are looking for this patch http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ Unfortunately it's quite old. Christopher Am 09.03.2014 15:19, schrieb Tony Houghton: On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:38:48 +0100 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:20:31 +0100 Mario Schulz dr...@arcor.de wrote: Am 09.03.2014 14:38, schrieb Manuel Reimer: As this solution is a bit tricky and not very reliable, my question is, whether there is a better solution to get real EPG for those channels? Freesat uses a Huffman

Re: [vdr] Minimum CPU requirement for xineliboutput + vdr-sxfe for HDTV

2014-02-28 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:49:12 +0100 Michal Novotny mic...@lightcomp.cz wrote: On 02/27/2014 09:29 PM, Stephan Loescher wrote: I know from my own VDR-systems, that a Intel Core2 Duo @ 1.86GHz or a Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz has far enough power to run VDR and vdr-sxfe for displaying HDTV. My

Re: [vdr] Logs from building VDR 2.1.3 with Clang 3.4.1

2014-02-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:51:10 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: channels.c:45:119: warning: data argument not used by format string [-Wformat-extra-args] snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), rid ? %s-%d-%d-%d-%d : %s-%d-%d-%d,

Re: [vdr] Logs from building VDR 2.1.3 with Clang 3.4.1

2014-02-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:17:09 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 08.02.2014 14:34, Tony Houghton wrote: The warning is justified, because if rid is 0 it's still there as an argument, but just happens to have a value of 0. I think you can make snprintf consume

Re: [vdr] Analyse .ts files

2013-12-28 Thread Tony Houghton
On 28 Dec 2013 19:13:59 +0100 cedric.dew...@telfort.nl cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: I am planning to let VDR record shows in encrypted form. After the show has been captured, I would like to launch a low-priority task to decrypt the show. This means I will be fumbling a lot with .ts files.

[vdr] VDPAU deinterlacing

2013-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
Last night I tried to watch my recording of the final I.T. Crowd, but it was unwatchable because of the interlacing. However, other programmes look OK. Whatever I put for video.output.vdpau_hd_deinterlace_method and video.output.vdpau_sd_deinterlace_method in ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput it gets

Re: [vdr] VDR jumps to old position after ff/rew

2013-08-27 Thread Tony Houghton
This problem still exists with vdr-sxfe and HD recordings. On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:28:24 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: I believe that's a problem with the video decoder. I had the same problem using vdpau with vdr-xine long ago but it was quickly fixed. When I started testing

Re: [vdr] VDR needs some way to detect new tuners on runtime...

2013-08-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:12:25 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: I wouldn't like to add a dependency to libudev. Why not? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] VDPAU for AMD

2013-04-19 Thread Tony Houghton
Anybody seen this? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=amd_opensource_uvdnum=1 I think it's great news, at last there will be decent hardware acceleration for AMD graphics, on a fully open source stack, and without front-ends needing to use a new API. I know there was already Intel

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-14 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:05:54 +0200 Dimitar Petrovski dime...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:35:39 +0200 dplu (free) d...@free.fr wrote: You can use eepg plugin who do the same job, works perfectly with vdr 2.0.0 @+ Le samedi 13 avril 2013 20:52:52 Scott Waye a écrit : Hi, I used to use freesat diff patch to get the 10 day schedule from UK Freesat

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:06:58 +0200 dplu (free) d...@free.fr wrote: Le samedi 13 avril 2013 21:48:44 Tony Houghton a écrit : Has eepg been updated to support Freeview HD and fix the memory leak? Good question, eepg create it's own file on conf directory , not seen memory leak but did

[vdr] Audio problem on Channel 4 HD on Freeview

2013-03-21 Thread Tony Houghton
The last two times I looked at Channel 4 HD on Freeview (DVB-T2) there was a strange problem with the audio. All the ambient sounds and background music were there but voices were very muffled. One time was a film and the other was a US drama series (Revenge). The same channel on Freesat (DVB-S2)

[vdr] Ouya

2012-12-04 Thread Tony Houghton
Reading the Allwinner A10 thread made me think. Surely Ouya has great potential as a cheap, low power media client. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] in-kernel lirc and devinput

2012-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:10:53 +0300 Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. On 18.10.2012 00:05, Tony Houghton wrote: I prefer inputlirc to the original lirc. If you configure it to start at boot and grab the input device it should stop X or whatever from

Re: [vdr] in-kernel lirc and devinput

2012-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:21:41 +0300 Jouni Karvo jouni.ka...@iki.fi wrote: hi, earlier, I used to compile lirc separately, but nowadays there are lirc modules in the kernel source, using /dev/input and IR keymaps. After switching to these, it seems many of the buttons in the remote have

Re: [vdr] RFE: Make VDR more friendly when using combinations of DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C

2012-06-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:26:22 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: Why not just patch VDR so it cycles through channels that use the same channel number. No bothering with sql databases dependency, no altering the real channel numbers, no real pain that I can think of. For example, say

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:14:48 +0100 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/12 00:54, Tony Houghton wrote: I'd like eepg to be packaged, but only if the memory leak can be fixed and it's made to work on Freeview HD. The Huffman tables and marker bytes at the start of the strings

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:31:23 +0100 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/12 14:32, Tony Houghton wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:14:48 +0100 Dominic Evansoldma...@gmail.com wrote: [Problems with eepg] Tbh, it would probably be better if someone coded it from scratch

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 21:49:04 +0200 Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net wrote: On 09.05.2012 18:16, Tony Houghton wrote: That sounds like a good idea. Tobias, would you be willing to add this patch if enabling it is made optional? Not if this can be done with a plugin as well. Where can I

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 08 May 2012 20:29:13 +0200 Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net wrote: On 08.05.2012 18:34, Marx wrote I didn't know and that's why his repository isn't updated. In fact I use lately Debian's version (and I was quite suprised that so new version is available in Debian). Hovewer number of

[vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Freeview HD's EPG uses the same encoding as Freesat, but for some reason the EEPG plugin doesn't recognise it; it probably only uses the extended decoder when it's using Freesat's non-dtandard PIDs. EEPG's code is a bit tortuous, and it has a memory leak, so I decided to look again at the Freesat

Re: [vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:33:49 +0100 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 April 2012 16:23, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: Also, I noticed that (like the EEPG plugin) Dominic's patch only looks for Freesat EIT data on PID 3842 (BAT SDT data is on PID 3841). This is where

[vdr] Recording two programmes with identical details

2012-03-31 Thread Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and clash.

Re: [vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:06:25 +0100 Mario Schulz dr...@arcor.de wrote: Am 13.03.2012 17:52, schrieb Tony Houghton: memory leak I just met hepi, he also is a Doctor Who fan and is tuned to Astra2 as I am. He complained about the bad status of EEPG, restarting his server every three days

Re: [vdr] EEPG (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:55:06 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 12.03.2012 23:01, Tony Houghton wrote: ... I do have to restart VDR every few days anyway, because it has a memory leak. Disabling eepg didn't fix that IIRC, and the leak hides from valgrind. Which

[vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:44 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: Can you give me an estimate of the rate at which memory is consumed? Maybe you could have a shell running the command top -b -d 600 | grep -w vdr At the moment: 25956 vdr 20 0 520m 213m 5136 S

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:43:40 +0100 Mario Schulz dr...@arcor.de wrote: Am 12.03.2012 01:07, schrieb Tony Houghton: Are some DVB-S2 cards incapable of 8PSK? Mine's a TBS 6920. Tried yr 2nd variant: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M5O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307=NAR@4;2306=eng@106:2309:0

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:41:06 + Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or No signal. Any ideas? The plot thickens. I've done some more tests. I used hdvb to record

[vdr] EEPG (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:24:16 +0100 Lucian Muresan luci...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Please forgive me for going off-topic, are you actually successfully using the EEPG plugin without segfaults? If so, which version, what sources? I dropped using it because it crashed my VDR every now and

[vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-11 Thread Tony Houghton
I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or No signal. Any ideas? This is my channels.conf entry: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M2O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307=NAR@4;2306=eng@106:2309:0:21200:2:2068:0 Not much

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:41:06 + Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or No signal. Any ideas? This is my channels.conf entry: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:59:51 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: Running vdr-sxfe as a local frontend using a pipe _should_ be as fast (if not faster) than using XBMC over an http://localhost streamdev connection. However, I seem to find the opposite to be the case. vdr-sxfe still

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:15:06 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2012 13:42, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: video.output.vdpau_hd_deinterlace_method:bob I was amazed at how good it looks, although I've only tried it at 720p output so far, not at 1080p. I

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:29:00 +0100 Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de wrote: Am 2012-03-02 00:18, schrieb Tony Houghton: Going off on a tangent, there's been some discussion about Pause and rewind live TV. That could be implemented fairly easily in clients with a big RAM buffer, without

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:30:37 +0100 fnu v...@auktion.hostingkunde.de wrote: about Pause and rewind live TV. What is live TV there, as it is already recorded ... ? Only users which didn't got into VDR and epgsearch timers do call for this live buffer function. They hope for a kind of

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:12:19 +0100 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: I don't think a plugin is enough. For better client-server VDR needs to support multiple clients watching different channels with different OSDs simultaneously. It just has to deliver

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:48:33 +0100 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Yes, the next stable version will be 2.0. Version 1.0 was the SD version, and version 2.0 shall be the HD version ;-). I'll see to make client/server a priority after that. What

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and xine-ui not fitting together

2012-02-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:08:59 +0100 Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net wrote: On 03.02.2012 16:22, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: 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

Re: [vdr] playback problems with recordings with vdr-1.7.20 and newer

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:38:25 +0100 Oliver Endriss o.endr...@gmx.de wrote: On Friday 27 January 2012 15:30:18 Andreas Albert wrote: Then i got an other problem. When watching a recording, and i fastforward of rewind the program, i get to a situation that the timecounter get's stuck to

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:51:26 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 16.01.2012 01:45, Tony Houghton wrote: VDR can already do that. Before each numbered group add a line :@1 , :@10 , :@20 etc. Exclude the quotes, but ISTR there was some problem if I didn't include

Re: [vdr] Betr: Re: howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:40 +0100 cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: There is one bit of information that I would like to add to channels.conf, and that's the channel number. This information cannot be added the README, and other files, as this is information that only I use. My channel.conf

Re: [vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-12-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:43:42 +0100 gimli gi...@dark-green.com wrote: Two things to mention about vaapi : 1.) Use xf86-video-intel-2.15.0 Do you mean at least 2.15, or are there problems with later versions like 2.17? 2.) Forget sxfe in combination with vaapi. sxfe plays bad tricks with

Re: [vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Houghton
-issue if you can't sync your frame changes to the refresh! On 11/01/2011 07:01 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: When using NVidia graphics cards and the proprietary driver I find vdr-sxfe looks quite smooth even with a monitor that only supports 60Hz. I think it's been syncing to the vertical blank

[vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-11-01 Thread Tony Houghton
When using NVidia graphics cards and the proprietary driver I find vdr-sxfe looks quite smooth even with a monitor that only supports 60Hz. I think it's been syncing to the vertical blank automagically. But with other graphics cards I get a lot of tearing which is marring my viewing pleasure. This

Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG

2011-10-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:39:46 +0100 (BST) Dominic Morris d...@suborbital.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Dominic Evans wrote: On 25 October 2011 14:27, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:36 +0100 (BST) Dominic Morris d...@suborbital.org.uk wrote: Complete

[vdr] vdr-sxfe and compositing

2011-10-24 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm having some problems with vdr-sxfe under GNOME3/mutter. If I start it with --fullscreen it doesn't go fullscreen properly; I can still see the gnome shell panel at the top of the screen and there's no vsync so I get tearing. If I toggle fullscreen off and on again by double-clicking it does

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:28:17 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: Is this client only with no DVB cards? You could use an Acer Revo, provided you're confident that you can get VDPAU working, because the Atom CPU

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:28:17 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: Is this client only with no DVB cards? You could use an Acer Revo, provided you're confident that you can get VDPAU working, because the Atom CPU

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:02:42 +0300 JJussi v...@jjussi.com wrote: Any suggestions for small, powerful, quiet, FullHD VDR client? So, I search machine what would act as VDR-client, using xineliboutput with FullHD resolution and machine would have DVI or HDMI connection + optical audio. Is

Re: [vdr] DVB-T2 tuning

2011-10-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:31:14 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: I'm not aware of any DVB-T2 specific code in VDR 1.7.x. For DVB-S2 there had to be a special flag and additional tuning parameters. Don't know how this is handled with DVB-T2. This may help:

Re: [vdr] perfect vdr remote?

2011-07-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:17 +1000 Torgeir Veimo torg...@netenviron.com wrote: I find that the old grey hauppauge remote has the perfect arrow key / coloured key layout, but it doesn't have any programmable volume and channel keys.

Re: [vdr] perfect vdr remote?

2011-07-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:35 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: http://www.ixbt.com/monitor/images/hauppauge-mediamvp/du.jpg If anyone else noticed that support for that type of remote got broken sometime after

Re: [vdr] VPS fallback patch

2011-07-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:53:45 +0100 Dave v...@pickles.me.uk wrote: However I wonder if the time is now right to reconsider? In the UK an accurate Now Next EIT is provided on DVB-T as part of the Freeview Plus (aka TV- Anytime) service, with the data being directly derived from the

Re: [vdr] strcmp() segfaults if one (and only one) of the parameters is NULL ?

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:40:14 +0200 sundararaj reel sundararaj.r...@googlemail.com wrote: strcmp() returns 0 if both are parameters NULL, but segfaults if one of the parameters is NULL. I think that's officially undefined behaviour. The easiest workaround (in the absence of something like glib

[vdr] OT: s2api backwards compatible?

2011-07-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Is s2api backwards compatible ie can you use it on older, non DVB-S2, cards? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] OT: s2api backwards compatible?

2011-07-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:53:00 +0200 Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: Am 03.07.2011 19:55, schrieb Tony Houghton: Is s2api backwards compatible ie can you use it on older, non DVB-S2, cards? It is, in both ways: Any supported DVB card can always be accessed by s2api and by DVB v3 API

Re: [vdr] HD programme recording still broken

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:41:05 +0200 Luboš Doležel lu...@dolezel.info wrote: On 10.6.2011 21:11, VDR User wrote: I've just read a post from another user who had this problem. Apparently his channels.conf contained wrong info and enabling 'update names pids' (or whatever it's called) fixed

Re: [vdr] HD programme recording still broken

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:31:40 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 10.06.2011 23:27, Tony Houghton wrote: Or it should read the pids from the PAT and PMT every time it changes channel instead of using channels.conf for that information. This would also fix

Re: [vdr] Sky UK Channels.conf - Channel Numbering Categories

2011-05-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 5 May 2011 13:15:10 +0100 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: I had been interested in generating a channels.conf that contained the channels grouped by the Sky UK genre categories, whilst also using the same channel numbering. OOI, how do you get the channel numbering? I know how

Re: [vdr] Sky UK Channels.conf - Channel Numbering Categories

2011-05-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 5 May 2011 16:08:09 +0100 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how important this is to people? I'm just as happy with BBC1 London at 101 as I am with BBC1 South. If I _really_ want regional news I can always switch to it by choice. I do prefer BBC's South Today to

Re: [vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:38:42 +0200 Henning Pingel henn...@henningpingel.de wrote: I was wondering if it would make sense to offer a place for VDR users using the sky_uk/freesat/S28.2E/freeview platforms to communicate with each other. The intention is that people can discuss their special

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:33:58 +0300 (EEST) Rolf Ahrenberg rahre...@cc.hut.fi wrote: The RGYB color enumeration is defined in the video teletext standard and every TV/STB set implementing the teletext feature DOES use the mentioned color button order. I guess the teletext is used mainly in

[vdr] Two problems with vdr 1.7.16-1devel2

2011-03-01 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm currently experiencing two problems with vdr 1.7.16-1devel2. The first problem is that if I fast forward or rewind, when I return to normal playback the stream resumes from wherever I started the ff/rew instead of where I stopped it. That's with vdr-sxfe on remote clients, I'm not sure

[vdr] vdr-sxfe not working

2011-02-27 Thread Tony Houghton
vdr-sxfe isn't working for me at the moment. I'm using 1.0.6+cvs20110213.0131-1 from Tobias Grimm's repository. I've tried it on two different PCs, both running Debian unstable amd64; neither of them are the same PC VDR is running on. I can't check it on my VDR box at the moment, but it did work a

Re: [vdr] vdr-sxfe not working

2011-02-27 Thread Tony Houghton
or something it's linked with, so if that's known and fixed upstream an update for that would be useful too. On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 07:32:10PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: vdr-sxfe isn't working for me at the moment. I'm using 1.0.6+cvs20110213.0131-1 from Tobias Grimm's repository. I've tried

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-28 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:57:50 + (GMT) Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: Standard definition video is going to be harder than I thought. I used xrandr to set this mode via HDMI to my LCD TV: # 1440x576i @ 50Hz (EIA/CEA-861B) ModeLine 1440x576 27.000 1440 1464 1590 1728 576 581

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:36:19 + (GMT) Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: For progressive HD material I have to manually turn off deinterlacing, then turn it on again for interlaced material. That's annoying. I thought there was supposed to be a flag in MPEG meta data which

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:06:50 +0200 Niko Mikkilä n...@phnet.fi wrote: On 2011-01-15 22:36 +, Tony Houghton wrote: BTW, speaking of temporal and spatial deinterlacing: AFAICT one means combining fields to provide maximum resolution with half the frame rate of the interlaced fields

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:46:27 -0800 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: Maybe a better idea is to not assume anything at all, but rather actually look up real life data or just buy one and see for yourself (as I did

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On 16/01/11 01:16, VDR User wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Tony Houghtonh...@realh.co.uk wrote: I wonder whether it might be possible to use a more eonomical card which is only powerful enough to decode 1080i without deinterlacing it and take advantage of the abundant CPU power most

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:33:30 -0800 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: It's a bad assumption to say lesser expensive gt220 cards have cheap and noisy fans. It's simply not true. I've bought many graphics cards over the years and every time one came with a fan it's been noisy and I've replaced

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:53:00 +1300 Simon Baxter linu...@nzbaxters.com wrote: I've avoided the noise problem by putting the VDR under the stairs where it can make as much noise as it likes. There it plugs in to a X-VGA splitter/broadcaster which sends duplicate signals over CAT-5 to each TV,

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On 15/01/11 21:49, VDR User wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Goga777goga...@bk.ru wrote: In general, get a gt220, as it has built in audio hardware, so that you should get audio without clock drift relative to the hdmi output. It is also powerfull enough to do temporal spatial

Re: [vdr] Meridian

2011-01-14 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 18:24, Tony Houghton wrote: Since my upgrade from VDR 1.6.0 to 1.7.16 I can't view my local ITV1 region (ITV1 Mer South) on Freesat. The EPG appears normal, but there's no picture or sound. ITV1 is OK on Freeview, as is the London version on Freesat. I think it was a bad connection

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On 13/01/11 00:11, VDR User wrote: So instead of maintaining just a plugin (which depends on ffmpeg decoding rather then xinelibs decoding), you think maintaining a new player altogether in addition to a plugin that streams data into it? Not to mention forcing VDR into being a backend only. I

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On 13/01/11 16:50, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: And you are back to layer on layer on layer. If someone is going to write something, let it be the plugin that talks to vdr and ffmpeg. Forget xineliboutput, libxine, etc. The more middle ware we can dump the better. So maybe your needs would be best

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On 13/01/11 18:57, VDR User wrote: I agree, the less layer upon layer upon layer, the better. I also want to point out that there are a large number of users who have dedicated VDR boxes connected directly to tv's in an htpc environment, using only a remote control to navigate the menus and ssh

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-12 Thread Tony Houghton
xineliboutput's README: : (xine-lib is not required for server in network-only usage) network usage can include localhost. On 1/11/2011 1:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 11/01/11 20:20, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: I would prefer a ffmpeg (mplayer) based interface and dump xine because xine/vdpau combo doesn't

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 12:16, Eric Valette wrote: https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/stable-vdr cause its ubuntu and he uses debian ? ;) The yavdr packages works fine on debian (or at least as on ubuntu)... Except that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxine2 : Depends:

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 14:37, Gerald Dachs wrote: And yavdr doesn't include sxfe for some reason. That is complete nonsense: https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/stable-vdr/+files/xineliboutput-sxfe_1.0.6%2Bcvs20110110.1350-0yavdr0_i386.deb You could have just pointed out that launchpad's index only

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 15:51, Eric Valette wrote: On 01/11/2011 03:18 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 11/01/11 12:16, Eric Valette wrote: https://launchpad.net/~yavdr/+archive/stable-vdr cause its ubuntu and he uses debian ? ;) The yavdr packages works fine on debian (or at least as on ubuntu

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 18:23, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: xine-lib-1.2-vdpau is just a link to xine-lib-1.2. Use ether one and you get the same. You want: hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2 and if you are using vdr-xine plugin: hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-ui/ I prefer

[vdr] vdradmin timer summary (was vdradmin recording description)

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 20:17, VDR User wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tony Houghtonh...@realh.co.uk wrote: When setting a timer with vdradmin the popup includes a box which is supposed to contain the programme description. This used to work, but hasn't worked for me, literally for years. I've

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 20:20, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: I would prefer a ffmpeg (mplayer) based interface and dump xine because xine/vdpau combo doesn't properly handle problems with the atsc stream. What about something based on gstreamer? Someone who understands that could probably knock together a basic

Re: [vdr] Meridian

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 20:20, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 11/01/11 19:24, En/na Tony Houghton ha escrit: Since my upgrade from VDR 1.6.0 to 1.7.16 I can't view my local ITV1 region (ITV1 Mer South) on Freesat. The EPG appears normal, but there's no picture or sound. ITV1 is OK on Freeview, as is the London

Re: [vdr] Meridian

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 23:42, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 11/01/11 21:50, En/na Tony Houghton ha escrit: BTW, this is my entry for it ITV1 Meridian S;BSkyB:10891:HC56M2O0S0:S28.2E:22000:3336=2:3337=...@4:2344:0:10140:2:2053:0 Essentially the same as mine I think. Well, yours is missing some

[vdr] EPG corruption

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
I noticed a problem in VDR's EPG today, using vdradmin. The problem programme is Malcolm in the Middle at 18:00-18:25 on Friday 14/01/11 on UK DVB-T (Freeview) channel Fiver. When I click on the link for the programme description I get the details for the following programme, Zoo Days, instead of

[vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
I don't find VDR 1.6.0 very reliable and I'm wondering whether 1.7 is mature enough now to be worth setting up. At the moment I use Debian packages and although I have to recompile it to add the Freesat patch it's still a lot easier than gathering the bits and pieces and getting it to live nicely

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 10/01/11 19:28, Tobias Grimm wrote: Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 18:51 + schrieb Tony Houghton: I'd also be interested in the developer version of xine with VDPAU support. The trouble is there's a bewildering set of mercurial branches. There are some libxine2 packages in Debian

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 10/01/11 19:09, VDR User wrote: You appear to want xine-lib-1.2, although I have no clue why you would be confused about the trees. To my knowledge, there is only one available at: hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2 That's fine if you know what you're looking for, but

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 10/01/11 19:28, Tobias Grimm wrote: Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 18:51 + schrieb Tony Houghton: I'd also be interested in the developer version of xine with VDPAU support. The trouble is there's a bewildering set of mercurial branches. There are some libxine2 packages in Debian

Re: [vdr] EPG corruption

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 10/01/11 22:03, Theunis Potgieter wrote: On 10 January 2011 20:44, Tony Houghtonh...@realh.co.uk wrote: I noticed a problem in VDR's EPG today, using vdradmin. The problem programme is Malcolm in the Middle at 18:00-18:25 on Friday 14/01/11 on UK DVB-T (Freeview) channel Fiver. When I

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 11/01/11 00:55, VDR User wrote: There's no hassle involved by avoiding using debian sources. If you ever decide you would like to try it and see, I'll even help you with a script that does it all automagically. Thanks, but I think I'll use Tobias' packages. It isn't just little things like

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On 10/01/11 22:36, Tobias Grimm wrote: Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 20:56 + schrieb Tony Houghton: I see you have VDR 1.7 packages there too, I'd definitely be interested in those. Would you recommend multipatch over standard? Depends on your needs - decide for yourself - multipatch

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