Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Richard F
Klaus, For those of us not 100% up to date with the code, could you list for us the main changes we are voting for here? Also, some indication of any known compatibility issues that might arise (e.g. with Vdradmin, Vomp, Epgsearch... Thanks ___

Re: [vdr] Tuning failures for transponder-locked tuners (VDR 1.4.7)

2008-10-29 Thread Richard F
Teemu, I had a similar problem with budget Freecom / WT-220U USB stick tuners. I usually had to swap multiplex/transponder to get them to re-tune reliably. I observed that if they lost tuning, vdr made them re-try (which I saw in the log) but eventually would bomb out if it couldn't tune, which

[vdr] Insufficient hardware PID filters on tuner

2010-05-16 Thread Richard F
Hi list, Having another go at a long-standing problem on Freecom USB tuners - a bit more testing: Using VDR 1.6.0.2, and the problem seems to be that the tuners run out of hardware PID's. The problem can be reliably repeated tuning to BBC1 BBC2 on freeview, when 1 channel is already

Re: [vdr] Insufficient hardware PID filters on tuner (Klaus Schmidinger)

2010-06-06 Thread Richard F
Klaus wrote: The question is can the total PID count be reduced when VDR is idle, or is there an assumption that a channel uses fewer than 4 PID's in calculating how many to leave spare for recordings (if that's how it works)? VDR doesn't do any calculations regarding the number of PID

Re: [vdr] UK FreeviewHD and VDR

2011-08-12 Thread Richard F
Me too - noticed that DVB-T2 stick a while back. I have the same issue with changing the front-end, I'm particularly loathed to part with my mediaMVP's using VOMP with my headless server. This forms a good multi-user, functional, low power, low cost, reliable solution... who could want

Re: [vdr] Kernels oops with PCTV nanostick 290e

2014-11-08 Thread Richard F
Mikko - thanks. I built kernel 3.4, then moved onto 3.12 and both work well with this receiver. FYI I had some trouble getting the right tuning parameters for DVB-T2 with w_scan which I've used for a long time, and went back to dvbscan. I was getting the wrong SID I think - no EPG data

[vdr] dvbdevice.h

2014-11-25 Thread Richard F
I need this patch to be able to compile VDR in current SLES11, even though I have all the dvb and dvb devel packages installed. #ifndef __DVBDEVICE_H #define __DVBDEVICE_H // FIXME: workaround for broken linux-dvb header files typedef unsigned char __u8; // RF and for kernel 3.12 typedef long

[vdr] Freesat patch

2014-12-26 Thread Richard F
The Freesat patch at http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Freesat-patch adds the following PID filters in eit.c - cEitFilter::cEitFilter Set(3842, 0x4E, 0xFE); // event info, actual(0x4E)/other(0x4F) TS, present/following Set(3842, 0x50, 0xF0); // event info, actual TS,

Re: [vdr] Freesat patch

2014-12-31 Thread Richard F
Klaus / Mario - thanks for the feedback / info about filters. I will probably stay with the filters in 2.0.6 for DVB-T and DVB-T2 as it gives me good functionality. The Freeview HD EPG is quick in this config - a few minutes to get the full EPG. A couple more questions... a) In later

[vdr] Transcode SD to mpeg4

2015-05-29 Thread Richard F
I'm wondering if anyone has created a plugin to automatically transcode SD recordings to H264 ? I'm now using Kodi on the Raspberry pi as frontend to vdr + VNSI plugin, it's pretty good aside from live HDTV which can still stutter (but version dependent, so I expect will be fixed soon). I have

[vdr] DVB Subtitle stream help please

2015-09-01 Thread Richard F
I've been testing my H264 conversion script, and come across a problem with the VDR 1.6 subtitles VDR 1.6 (.vdr) recordings The subtitle stream is reported by VLC as type "subtitle", "codec: DVD subtitles (spu)" ffmpeg reports "Stream #0:2[0x20]: Subtitle: dvd_subtitle" For reasons unknown,

Re: [vdr] How to convert e.g. mp4 to VDRs .ts file?

2015-12-09 Thread Richard F
Thomas, You mention converting subtitles from DVD to DVB - have you had any success converting from old VDR 1.6 format (.vdr files) with subtitles ? I'd like to convert my old VDR recordings to ts but extracting the subtitles is a problem, only ProjectX will do it as far as I can find, and the

Re: [vdr] Device power saving feature - power measurements

2016-06-08 Thread Richard F
I'm happy with just a modest power saving. Put in context, on my system, 3Wh ~ 25 mins SD content transcoding to H264/AAC = 30-40% disk space reduction with no noticeable loss of quality. So ~70Wh saving / day pays for ongoing SD recording compression and multi-TB historical library compression

[vdr] Device power saving feature - power measurements

2016-06-06 Thread Richard F
Sergey, I took down the server at the weekend to install a newly built kernel and insert the power monitor. 47W - All services running at idle, tuner power saving disabled 44W - All services running at idle, tuner power saving enabled As tuners are powered down most of the time, that's a handy

Re: [vdr] "TS packets to determine frame type"

2016-06-14 Thread Richard F
I will do. Now I'm testing it on a range of recordings, I'm seeing a few issues with ffmpeg/libraries, which I'm addressing with workarounds or reports to the ffmpeg devs. The aim is to convert all old VDR1.6, and current VDR2.x recordings, including radio, as well automatic transcoding after a

Re: [vdr] "TS packets to determine frame type"

2016-06-05 Thread Richard F
I meant to send this to the list On 4/06/2016 08:45, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 30 May 2016, at 22:45, Richard F <li...@keynet-technology.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Klaus, >> >> I'm 99% of the way to finishing my H264 ffmpeg transcoding script, I'm just

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Device power saving feature

2016-05-30 Thread Richard F
root. It would be great if you could measure the > power consumption of you tuners (at least the USB one). > > Best, > Sergey Chernyavskiy. > > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:59:06AM +0100, Richard F wrote: >> I'd like to give it a go on DVB & DVBT-2 tuners (1 PCI, 1 USB) >

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Device power saving feature

2016-05-31 Thread Richard F
OK Sergey, I've posted a log with your patch applied + log level 3 - about 3 hours worth There was a recording 16:15 to 16:45, other than that idle I can run it for longer if you need it, though it's creating a fair bit of log. I seem to get a lot of erroneous EPGsearch results at level 3, not

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Device power saving feature

2016-05-27 Thread Richard F
I'd like to give it a go on DVB & DVBT-2 tuners (1 PCI, 1 USB) Would you be kind enough to post a version for VDR2.20 or advise changes necessary? Thanks Richard On 26/05/2016 18:44, glenvt18 wrote: > For about a month now. Tested with 3 different DVB-S/S2 tuners with > VDR 2.3.1 and VDR 2.2.0

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Device power saving feature

2016-05-26 Thread Richard F
Interesting. How long have you been running it / testing it? Have you tested with VPS timers enabled ? Thanks Richard On 26/05/2016 16:36, glenvt18 wrote: > Hi folks. > > This patch introduces a feature which allows an idle device (a device > which is not currently recording or streaming) to

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Device power saving feature

2016-06-02 Thread Richard F
n for testing. > > Best, > Sergey Chernyavskiy. > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Richard F wrote: >> OK Sergey, I've posted a log with your patch applied + log level 3 - >> about 3 hours worth There was a recording 16:15 to 16:45, other than >> th

[vdr] "TS packets to determine frame type"

2016-05-30 Thread Richard F
Hi Klaus, I'm 99% of the way to finishing my H264 ffmpeg transcoding script, I'm just getting 2 of these warnings when reindexing transcoded files May 30 21:08:09 ha-server vdr: [31785] WARNING: required 5 video TS packets to determine frame type May 30 21:08:09 ha-server vdr: [31785] WARNING:

[vdr] Cutter - wrong directory?

2016-06-16 Thread Richard F
Hi Klaus, I was trying the cutter for the first time and noticed that it didn't seem to be obeying the --video flag It seemed to be trying default, causing this error: Jun 16 09:12:56 ha-server vdr: [29658] ERROR (tools.c,459): /var/spool/video//mnt: Permission denied I rebuilt with the

Re: [vdr] "TS packets to determine frame type"

2016-06-15 Thread Richard F
:20, VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: > Curious why you're bothering to do this now when 4tb harddrives are > always on sale in the $90 range. 6+ years ago it made more sense but > now it seems like too little too late. Just wondering > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:21 AM

Re: [vdr] Cutter - wrong directory?

2016-06-16 Thread Richard F
I'd wrongly assumed that it picked up the environment of the VDR already running, so hadn't supplied the switch in this case. Thanks for the clarification. On 16/06/2016 10:58, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 16.06.2016 11:44, Richard F wrote: >> Hi Klaus, >> >> I

[vdr] vdr --genindex fails on radio recording

2016-06-26 Thread Richard F
Hi Klaus, In my testing, (VDR 2.20) the command vdr --genindex fails on an audio-only recording from a radio station for example. The index file is generated during a recording, but if deleted, vdr itself cannot regenerate it, nor can the command line command. Kodi for example tries to

Re: [vdr] Device power saving feature - power measurements

2016-06-25 Thread Richard F
your 3W drop can be considered as > "normal". For your USB stick even 1W saving can be helpful. > > Thanks again for testing. > > Sergey. > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:21:24AM +0100, Richard F wrote: ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] SOLVED??? buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-02-07 Thread Richard F
Harald, I'm using a somewhat similar config to yours, though different receivers (PCTV Nanostick 290e for DVB-T2, and very old "WideView USB DVB-T"). I too have had problems with streaming live TV to Kodi for many, many versions. As you have noted, no issues recording, and no issues playing

[vdr] Tuners only handling some combinations of channel configs

2016-04-24 Thread Richard F
Hello all, As an FYI: My HD tuner (DVB-T2 290e) was only tuning some combinations of HD channels - I was trying to record 2 HD channels on the same multiplex and could only record one. No error was produced by VDR or in the kernel log, just that nothing happened, the original channel kept being

Re: [vdr] Tuners only handling some combinations of channel configs

2016-04-24 Thread Richard F
be helpful ? Thanks Richard On 24/04/2016 12:29, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 24.04.2016 12:53, Richard F wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> As an FYI: My HD tuner (DVB-T2 290e) was only tuning some >> combinations of HD channels - I was trying to record 2 HD channels >>

Re: [vdr] vdr --genindex fails on radio recording

2016-06-27 Thread Richard F
Thanks both - I'll give it a try - let you know how it goes against 2.2.0 Richard On 26/06/2016 16:31, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> On 26 Jun 2016, at 04:23, Richard F <li...@keynet-technology.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Klaus, >> >> In my testing, (VDR

Re: [vdr] Device power saving feature - power measurements

2016-06-30 Thread Richard F
On 28/06/2016 03:14, glenvt18 wrote: > Hi Richard, > > As there are no debug messages in your log I tried to reconstruct some > of them (power-related) - see my comments. Note that an extra second is > added to all timeouts due to the 'greater than' comparison. It was done > on purpose to add some

Re: [vdr] vdr --genindex fails on radio recording

2016-07-02 Thread Richard F
two weeks ago when I wanted to replay an edited radio recording. Please find my proposed fix attached, maybe Klaus will take it into the next VDR developer release. Regards, Thomas Quoting Richard F <li...@keynet-technology.com> : __

[vdr] vdr-convert released

2016-09-04 Thread Richard F
I'd like to announce the release of vdr-convert at https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert One of two people asked me to release it when ready, and after converting / testing most of my 4TB archive with it, I think it's about ready for the VDR community to use. What is it? A

Re: [vdr] "TS packets to determine frame type"

2016-09-11 Thread Richard F
eetings, > Stephan. > > Forwarded Message Subject:vdr-convert released Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:33:20 +0100 From: Richard F <li...@keynet-technology.com> Organisation: Keynet Technology To: VDR Mailing List <vdr@linuxtv.org> I'd like to annou

Re: [vdr] Upnp plugin

2016-10-02 Thread Richard F
Have you looked at Minidlna? I've been using it for a while now to provide upnp access to various media. It's lightweight and doesn't slow the server down noticeably, once it's scanned the directories. I normally access the VDR directory via SMB, but I added it to the minidlna config to test,

[vdr] vdr-convert updated, call for sample recordings

2017-01-01 Thread Richard F
Happy New Year VDR users. There have been a few updates to the vdr-convert script + tools over at https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert/wiki in the last few weeks: * Added support for AC3/DTS streams in VDR1.x recordings (updated Genindex). Needs more compatibility

[vdr] vdr-convert version 2 released

2017-04-09 Thread Richard F
I'm pleased to announce that version 2 of vdr-convert has been released over at https://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdr-convert. There are several significant new features: * Option to convert to H265/HEVC via new -v switch, with potential for file size 1/2 of H264, 1/4 of MPEG2 *

[vdr] vdr-convert version 2.2 released: Podcast mode added

2018-09-13 Thread Richard F
/vdr-convert is a tool to accurately transcode VDR1.x and VDR2.x TV recordings, including all valid streams - video, audio (including AC3/DTS 5.1), Audio Description (AD), and DVB subtitles - into more compressed and accessible formats, while maintaining perceived quality with good compatibility.

[vdr] vdr-convert version 2.3 released

2019-04-04 Thread Richard F
vdr-convert is a tool to accurately transcode VDR1.x and VDR2.x recordings, including all valid streams - video, audio (including AC3/DTS 5.1), Audio Description (AD), and DVB subtitles - into more compressed and accessible formats, while maintaining perceived quality with good compatibility. See

[vdr] VDR 2.20 skincurses build error GCC7

2019-06-03 Thread Richard F
Hi, I'm not sure how relevant the skincurses plugin is, but I can no longer build it under GCC7 (Opensuse 15.1) skincurses.c:133:52: error: invalid use of incomplete type ?WINDOW {aka struct _win_st}?   copywin(savedRegion, window, 0, 0, savedRegion->_begy, savedRegion->_begx,

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.20 skincurses build error GCC7

2019-06-03 Thread Richard F
t; To: > vdr@linuxtv.org > > > On 03.06.19 10:30, Richard F wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure how relevant the skincurses plugin is, but I can no longer >> build it under GCC7 (Opensuse 15.1) > > Please try this patch: > >   > http://ftp.tvd

Re: [vdr] vdr not working in Raspbian 10

2020-11-30 Thread Richard F
Thanks by the way for the heads-up on w_scan2 - the fork of w_scan I didn't know about.  As an external tool, that now tunes DVB-T2 HD  channels for me at last - the only thing outside VDR itself that works so far :-) Richard On 29/11/2020 2:16 pm, Timo Helkiö wrote: > Timo Helkiö kirjoitti

Re: [vdr] vdr not working in Raspbian 10

2020-12-01 Thread Richard F
ia > > El 30/11/20 a les 19:47, Richard F ha escrit: >> Thanks by the way for the heads-up on w_scan2 - the fork of w_scan I >> didn't know about.  As an external tool, that now tunes DVB-T2 HD  >> channels for me at last - the only thing outside VDR its

Re: [vdr] VDR do not show HD channels.

2020-11-19 Thread Richard F
I'm using DVB-T2 with a PC-TV 290E USB nanostick in UK. I'm also still on V2.20. My notes on tuning confirm that "... this (setting VDR to find new transponders) doesn't seem to be able to config HD channels - can check TS-ID, ON-ID Srv-ID with Sony TV" Basically I have to hand-edit the

Re: [vdr] Many "Tuning timeout" messages and signal disruptions

2020-11-17 Thread Richard F
I'd either use bare metal or maybe a container (LXC, not sure sure about docker) as that's as near as bare metal with few encumbrances. Why ? I've always used bare metal, and it seems VDR is working quite close to the hardware, adding layers adds complexity. But the other thing is that that

Re: [vdr] VDR do not show HD channels.

2020-11-22 Thread Richard F
On 21/11/2020 4:24 pm, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 21.11.20 17:11, Richard F wrote: Klaus  - thanks for your reply.   2 problems - the first is my own - I don't like all the rubbish shopping channels filling up my channel list and I sort it manually to keep the channels in a sensible order

Re: [vdr] VDR do not show HD channels.

2020-11-21 Thread Richard F
er 554 with id 8468-12291-770-0 Nov 20 13:55:34 vdr3 vdr: [26237] changing pids of channel 2096 (arte HD) from 0+0=0:0:0:0 to 4129+4129=36:4130=deu@17,4131=fra@17,4132=mis@17,4133=mul@17:0:4134 Where exactly is the problem? Klaus On 19.11.20 13:34, Richard F wrote: I'm using DVB-T2 with a

Re: [vdr] Making VDR run under Systemd

2021-10-11 Thread Richard F
Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 08:51:05PM +0200, Martin Wache wrote: So, back to the plan with the Raspberry Pi 2B. One problem that I wanted to solve is the power consumption of the DVB-T dongle when it is not in use. I found https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl which can switch off power on individual USB

Re: [vdr] VDR packages in Debian and e-tobi.net (Tobi)

2021-12-23 Thread Richard F
Heroic work - thanks, and Merry Xmas Richard On 22/12/2021 12:00, vdr-requ...@linuxtv.org wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Re: VDR packages in Debian and e-tobi.net (Tobi) ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] projects.vdr-developer.org might come to an end

2022-05-25 Thread Richard F
I find it regularly useful, and refer to the pages from some of the plugins I use. So sad to see these things that look thousands of hours to create and debug now falling by the wayside.  And once you get used to it, the Redmine markdown is actually quite a good workmanlike solution for

Re: [vdr] projects.vdr-developer.org might come to an end

2022-07-07 Thread Richard F
RIP as you say, but many thanks for keeping it going r/o. I'm actually still maintaining vdr-convert for my own use + using it quite a lot. I plan to recover the wiki pages which represented quite a lot of work.  Has code been copied to github ?  Who's owning / maintaining it there ? Thanks

Re: [vdr] projects.vdr-developer.org might come to an end

2022-07-10 Thread Richard F
Yes, please make me owner of the repo + import the wiki pages, as I actually have some updates to do. My login on github is "keynet". Let me know if you need any more info - Thanks On 10/07/2022 12:48, Manuel Reimer wrote: On 07.07.22 17:02, Richard F wrote: RIP as you say, but m

[vdr] EPG table 0

2022-07-16 Thread Richard F
I've just updated to VDR V2.61 after a long time on V2.2, using the same config and the epgtableid0 (2.4.0) plug-in. The issue I'm seeing is that when VDR is restarted, it doesn't seem to be reading/respecting the epg.data file. It's starting an EPG scan and seems to be overwriting table 0

Re: [vdr] EPG table 0

2022-07-17 Thread Richard F
On 16.07.22 14:07, Richard F wrote: >/I've just updated to VDR V2.61 after a long time on V2.2, using the same config and the epgtableid0 (2.4.0) plug-in. />//>/The issue I'm seeing is that when VDR is restarted, it doesn't seem to be reading/respecting the epg.

Re: [vdr] EPG table 0

2022-07-17 Thread Richard F
On 16.07.22 14:07, Richard F wrote: >/I've just updated to VDR V2.61 after a long time on V2.2, using the same config and the epgtableid0 (2.4.0) plug-in. />//>/The issue I'm seeing is that when VDR is restarted, it doesn't seem to be reading/respecting the epg.

Re: [vdr] Getting started with Pi TV HAT and gpio-ir

2022-10-23 Thread Richard F
Hi all, I regret that I did not buy the Pi TV HAT earlier. The USB stick is simply garbage compared to it. The Astrometa USB stick switches channels very slowly and the tuner very frequently produces errors in the bit stream, when using a good outdoor aerial that other devices have no

Re: [vdr] projects.vdr-developer.org might come to an end

2022-07-31 Thread Richard F
do minor fixes like adding code blocks, fix links, ... - Copy the resulting markdown over to whatever hosting platform you like Manuel On 10.07.22 22:20, Richard F wrote: Yes, please make me owner of the repo + import the wiki pages, as I actually have some updates to do. My login on github is &

Re: [vdr] EPG table 0

2022-11-23 Thread Richard F
the problem appeared? Klaus On 17.07.22 18:09, Richard F wrote: On 16.07.22 14:07, Richard F wrote: >/I've just updated to VDR V2.61 after a long time on V2.2, using the same config and the epgtableid0 (2.4.0) plug-in. />//>/The issue I'm seeing is that when VDR is restarted, it doe

Re: [vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-28 Thread Richard F
On 28/11/2022 18:17, Marko Mäkelä wrote: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:27:08PM +, Richard F wrote: FYI I'm using the powersaving patch on a system with an Astrometa USB stick + an old Winfast PCI receiver, and I see 2-3W reduction when the Astrometa frontend is shut down: I only tested

Re: [vdr] VDR keeps a tuner busy when a recording is paused

2022-11-28 Thread Richard F
I conducted this test without applying the patch https://github.com/glenvt18/vdr/commit/b368f67d00d0b466ae36028efb9336e81f77dba8 As far as I can tell, even with that patch the EPG parser could keep running, because the patch does not set the variable InhibitEpgScan.  That would explain