Re: [vdr] Problem with two cards

2007-02-01 Thread Andre . Weidemann
Teemu Suikki wrote: Perhaps there is some problem having tda10045 and tda10046 in same system? After all, both are handled by the same tda1004x module.. The dmesg output does not look suspicious at all. It seems as if both cards have been registered successfully. The only thing you can do,

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: Hi! The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync problems for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? Oh, well. Turns out that I had somehow failed to install the new firmware properly.

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Kartsa kirjoitti: I have been running vdr now for a couple days with #define PLAYERBUFSIZE MEGABYTE(64) in dvbplayer.c and for now it seems like better as in no stuttering. But I am still testing it. Okey, I've had this setting in action for a week or so now and it is definitely better.

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Carsten Koch
Kartsa wrote: Kartsa kirjoitti: I have been running vdr now for a couple days with #define PLAYERBUFSIZE MEGABYTE(64) in dvbplayer.c and for now it seems like better as in no stuttering. But I am still testing it. Okey, I've had this setting in action for a week or so now and it is

[vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr 1.4.4 after fourth recording

Re: [vdr] Problem with two cards

2007-02-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Teemu Suikki may or may not have written... Hi, I have been using VDR for about two years now, without any big problems. :) Now I built a new system with two cards. One is my old hauppaude nova-t, other is technotrend nova-t with CI.. [snip] What has this to do with the

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Heikki Manninen
On to, 2007-02-01 at 19:29 +0200, Kartsa wrote: I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it.

Re: [vdr] Blocking the playback of recordings in plugins

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Marko Mäkelä wrote: I believe that the easy fix would be to have these methods return 0 only when playing a recording. Can the plugin detect this somehow? For live TV, VDR runs a transfer thread and the replaying device may use cDevice::Transferring() to detect this (works at least for

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Heikki Manninen wrote: I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Boguslaw Juza
I have noticed smilar trouble: When VDR playbacks a recording, and I pause playback and put play again, video starts playing, then stops for less than second after about 5 seconds, then plays, after two seconds stops again for one second, and then plays smoothly. I have noticed replay

Re: [vdr] Blocking the playback of recordings in plugins

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:57:20PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Hi, Marko Mäkelä wrote: I believe that the easy fix would be to have these methods return 0 only when playing a recording. Can the plugin detect this somehow? For live TV, VDR runs a transfer thread and the replaying

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:49:55PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same time. Bye. I do not

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: Hi, Heikki Manninen wrote: I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote: Maybe not switching off display while doing playback? It doesn't make much sense anyway to run playback invisible. It does. The typical use case is that you pause live video or start a recording with a timer, then start

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware.

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: Hi! The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync problems for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? I was just watching an Idols Extra recorded today and there were multiple out of

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:49:55PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware. Also generic video cards are

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: I do not think that it is the reason. I checked that the cpu load was less than 10% on my 3000+ AMD and even with my 550MHz PIII less than 20% when there were 5 simultaneuous recordings. You should

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Would it really matter in this case when cpu load was that small? I was just trying to say that even though there were almost no cpu load vdr was working sluggish. Without trying it, it is hard to say.

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: If you can reproduce this behaviour, would you please activate the following line in remux.c: dsyslog(TS continuity error (%d), ccCounter); I will try with the recording if the problem reappears and then activate that line. The cRepacker messages might be a

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, here VDR's log with your patch : nice -n -19 ./vdr -u root -c /etc/vdr -l 3 -w 90 -s /usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown -P'xine -r -q' t: 1170367257.885, c: 0, r: 0, a: -- t: 1170367257.885, c: 0, r: 0, a: ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_DISEQC_SEND_BURST,

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Houghton
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Mackin wrote: Also generic video cards are increasingly coming with video decoding features, and HDTVs can be connected straight to a PC without the need for a horrible scaler or special screen mode. Although not all the decoding features are available to Linux,

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, just after a dvb modules reload : nice -n -19 ./vdr -u root -c /etc/vdr -l 3 -w 90 -s /usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown -P'xine -r -q' t: 1170368152.594, c: 0, r: 0, a: -- t: 1170368152.598, c: 1, r: 0, a:

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Reinhard Nissl wrote: I'll now add the same output to szap. See attachment. While comparing the output of VDR and szap I've discovered a bug in szap. It didn't set FE_DISEQC_SEND_BURST correctly. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] szap.tar.gz

[vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread abbe normal
hello all wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program but not have vdr record it... not sure but just thinking it would be nice to have a option in the menu to not record but still go

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I too would like this feature, but if you are using yaepg as many are, it seems like that is a feature the plugin should provide, not vdr. wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program

AW: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread martin
You should have a look at the BigPatch. It has some switch timer included. Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von abbe normal Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007 23:42 An: vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: [vdr] to record or not hello

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread VDR User
On 2/1/07, abbe normal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello all wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program but not have vdr record it... not sure but just thinking it would be nice to have