On 16/02/2010, at 12:31 AM, Johan Persson wrote:
ANNOUNCEMENT - tvpvrd 1.2.5
=========================
This is to announce the release of the GPL 3.0 published multi-
threaded
recording/transcoding GNU-Linux daemon 'tvpvrd' - TV Personal Video
recorder
for ivtv.
Nice. I had been using cron jobs and shell scripts to operate the pvr
card on my computer, but have thought a deamon would be a nice way to
go, particularly after bad experiences trying to install that awful
mythtv ediface. So I installed tvpvrd last night to try it out. I
noted the following problems:
After compiling, then entering "make distclean", rerunning configure
and recompiling, one gets compilation errors. The "make distclean"
must be leaving something behind. It certainly is not returning the
directory to being "distribution clean".
The profiles directory is hardcoded to be /etc/tvpvrd/profiles so even
if all other files in /etc/tvpvrd are configured to be elsewhere (the
default configuration gives /usr/local/etc/tvpvrd) the profiles
directory is still /etc/tvpvrd/profiles.
It does not just read *.profile files from the profiles directory but
editor backup files as well.
If you modify the configuration files (eg etc/tvpvrd/tvpvrd.conf) and
then find you have to reinstall, the installation overwrites the
modified configuration files!!! If a configuration file is present it
absolutely should *NOT* overwrite it on install.
The exit command to quit the telnet session is not documented.
Entering recurring recordings with the 'ar' command does not work. It
always replies with "Error:1:Syntax Error". I even cut and pasted an
example from the documentation and that also generated the same error!!!
If one sets up the server with no transcoding it leaves the recorded
files in the vtmp directory and doesn't shift them to the mp2
directory. Actually shifting files is not a good idea. It means
looking in different places for the recording dependent on when one
starts playback. Why not just record directly to the mp2 directory
and if it is ordered that the original should be deleted after
transcoding then delete it from the mp2 directory when transcoding is
done?
I also have some feature requests:
Putting recordings in separate directories for each profile is
_really_ annoying if one only records with a single profile. It would
be nice to optionally get rid of the silly profile subdirectories in
the mp2 and mp4 directories.
When entering a recording that clashes with another recording it would
be nice if it printed out what the clash is instead of just printing
"Error:5:No free video resource at specified time."
It would be nice when listing scheduled recordings to list the day of
the week as well as the date. (I hazard a guess, though, that you want
to keep the format fairly rigid and controlled so that it is easy for
a higher level program to drive the daemon via the telnet port?)
It would be nice to be able to input times and see times displayed in
English format with AM and PM rather than the militaristic 24 hour
clock.
The lc command for listing the video controls looks like it just calls
the v4l2-ctl command and displays its output. Unfortunately the v4l2-
ctl presents the information in a verbose and ugly format. Surely you
could do better! Please. I grimace every time I have to use v4l2-ctl.
It would be _really_ _really_ _fantastic_ if this daemon could also
record from DVB devices! I have both an analogue PVR card and a
digital DVB-T card; using the same daemon to manage both of them would
be just wonderful!
Cheers
Michael.
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