Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:15 +0200 Timo Laitinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: although not perfectly (rapid motion, such as news tickers, are jumpy with xxmc on openchrome when HW acceleration is on, not sure why) Sounds like an X problem to me, though it could just possibly be to do with xine-lib's xxmc support. Yes, could be an X (openchrome) problem, could be xxmc or the HW decoding, I'm a bit at loss with it at the moment. With Xv the quality is just fine (but CPU at around 60-70%, a bit too touchy for other activity). The xxmc is somewhat blurry and jumping a bit with the tickers, with CPU at 30%. Any similar experience/solutions anyone? The hardware is CN700 (EPIA EN-12000). All XvMC implementations that I know of have poor deinterlacing, which makes them pretty useless for decoding interlaced video. Your description suggests that openchrome just drops the other field, so you lose half of both the vertical resolution and temporal definition (50 fields/s - 25 frames/s). Continuous small skips (at regular or seemingly random intervals) could also be caused by a refresh-rate mismatch, but if Xv is ok, this is not the main problem in your case. Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.8.2 plugin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:19:42 + (UTC) Harald Milz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a small playback-only box using vdr-xine based on a Via Epia-15000 board with the onboard video adapter. I don't try to scale images -- the X server is set to 1024x576 (16:9 PAL). (The TV set has a nice rescaler to blow images up to 1366x768). Whatever I do, the image shows lots of artifacts, especially when there's a lot of movement in a scene, visibly more than softdevice with DirectFB on my old Matrox G450. I'm actually thinking about buying a PCI Matrox card (mind you, I don't even use the BES since I also set the FB to 1024x576 and let the TV set rescale), plug it into the Via board and use softdevice again. You still need to scale anamorphic 720x576 horizontally to 1024x576, and deinterlace before that. It would be best to use the native resolution of the panel so that the video is scaled only once. However, some panels don't let you use a 50 Hz display mode at native resolution, but only at 720p or through a specific input port (VGA, DVI or HDMI). Make sure you use a 50 Hz or 100 Hz refresh rate for PAL. This is more important than using the native resolution, especially when watching sports and other interlaced broadcasts (when deinterlaced at full rate). The motion artifacts that you are seeing are probably due to interlacing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace), either because you don't deinterlace at all, or because you use a poor deinterlacing filter. Xine does have some moderate filters ported from tvtime (or originally from DScaler). I'd recommend trying Greedy2Frame, with these parameters: xine --post tvtime:enable=1,method=Greedy2Frame,framerate_mode=full,cheap_mode=0 Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] vdr-sxfe don't start..
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:05:54 +0200 JJussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Something went wrong when I update/re-emerge vdr.. Now vdr-sxfe don't start and giving reason: xine: cannot find input plugin for MRL [xvdr://127.0.0.1#nocache;demux:mpeg_block] [snip] There seems to be no /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.10/xineplug_inp_xvdr.so in your Xine plugin list. Is there such a file on your system (maybe it's in the wrong place, in some other directory)? If that file is missing or misplaced, the xineliboutput ebuild that you are using is probably broken. Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Disabling Xineliboutput video mode switching
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:04:33 +0200 Samuli Seppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with Xineliboutput's OSD. In low resolution videos it look doesn't fit the screen. It seems as if Xineliboutput actually switches the resolution of the (VGA) monitor. So how do I force Xineliboutput to first scale the _video_ to screen (not vice versa) and then put OSD (unscaled) on top of that? Same problem here. I'd prefer it to scale the osd the same way vdr-xine does. (i'm using xine as a remote frontend) There is a setting in /etc/vdr/setup.conf (Xineliboutput.VideomodeSwitching = 1), but in Gentoo that file gets overwritten every time VDR starts. I have not yet found a way to modify that file except with the vdr-setup plugin, but it does not allow me to change all the variables that are in the file. Hi, Rolf Ahrenberg already answered this question yesterday at Linuxtv.fi forum, a short while after you posted it. Make sure VDR isn't running when you edit setup.conf with external tools--otherwise VDR will not read your changes and it will just overwrite them with its current in-memory settings when closed. Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Looking for DVB-T card (TVHD compatible) for vdr
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:57:44 +0100 karim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My vdrbox currently running with 2 Nexus cards. I plan to upgrade the box, for receiving several TVHD FTA channels (from SAT and TNT). At the end, I hope vdr could run with : - 1 x Technotrend S2-3200 HD - 1 x Nexus DVB-S (or 1 x Technotrend S2-3200 HD) - 1 x DVB-T double-tuner, TVHD compatible I am very interested by PCI-E double-tuner cards, like Cinergy 2400i DT, unfortunately there is no Linux driver yet, because PCI-E format. Then I've to choose one TVHD compatible double-tuner DVB-T in PCI format. I found the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T500 but I don't know if this card is TVHD compatible. Is it true that all budget DVB-T cards (ie without hardware MPEG2 or 4 embedded) are TVHD compatible (like S2-3200 HD for DVB-S) ? Well, I don't know about France, but here in Finland broadcasters are going to wait for DVB-T2 until adopting HDTV in a wider scale, which means that current DVB-T devices won't be able to receive future HD channels. There are no DVB-T2 cards available now--first models will probably arrive in 2009. If you already have terrestrial HDTV channels running now, they are sent as DVB-T, and any budget DVB-T card (Nova-T 500 included) can receive them. Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] mplayer does not work properly
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:32:02 +0200 Pasi Juppo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have couple of video clips that fail to work properly via VDR. First ones playback is very jerky (23.976fps) via VDR but no problem played back on PC. When playing back 24 fps video on an FF-card or any other PAL TV-output device, jerkiness is quite expected. You need to speed up the playback by a factor of 25/24~=1.0417, which can be done with the -speed option in MPlayer. Audio pitch will rise slightly, so if that bothers you, use an external LADSPA filter to compensate (see: http://mark.santaniello.net/archives/260). The NTSC/PAL speed setting should be handled automatically in the mplayer.sh script, but have you configured NTSC=false in mplayer.sh.conf? Second one does not play sound from the clip but the sound from the channel that was being viewed before playback. MPlayer probably has problems with the audio codec used in the clip. Updating to latest SVN could help. If not, try other players and identify the audio codec. If the codec should be supported, take a look at the mplayer -v output and perhaps upload a sample somewhere. I've tried mplayer.sh 0.8.6 and 0.8.7. mplayer itself is version 1.0rc1. Haven't tried trunk version because there did not seem to be fixes related to audio or jerkiness. Did you actually read through the SVN logs from the last 4 months? Quite an accomplishment. ;) Anyway, most of the codec-related stuff is in FFmpeg/libavcodec, which is in a separate repository. Anyone else with similar problems? Also, there seems to be DVD support in trunk version of the mplayer. Any idea whether mplayer plugin will support DVD in the near future? Have you tried the current support in mplayer.sh? Regards, Niko ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] mplayer does not work properly
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:58:57 +0200 Pasi Juppo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange that it works fine on the server and both have the same setup of codecs. Have to check further. It could also be that the clip has AC3 or DTS audio, and MPlayer is configured to handle them in a different way (passthrough). Can't think of any other reason for the problem. Also, there seems to be DVD support in trunk version of the mplayer. Any idea whether mplayer plugin will support DVD in the near future? Have you tried the current support in mplayer.sh? No, I was under impression that DVD menu navigation is not supported. Have to recheck this too then. Well, there's no navigation support, but personally I prefer the MPlayer way :) Don't know how it works with the MPlayer plugin though, that's why I asked. Niko ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:19:27 -0500 Russell Treleaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to make a small PVR appliance. I have digital cable and it is my understanding that I could get a DVB card that captures an MPEG stream but most of the content is encrypted and to my knowledge no one has figured out how to decrypt it. Since I want the premium content I need the cable companies settop box to decrypt it. So the digital television standard your cable company uses is really DVB-C, but content scrambling is not based on DVB-CA (Conditional Access)? Interesting, what company is it and which system are they using then? MythTV seems too big, requires a database and X Mplayer seems too big and requires X VLC seems to big and requires X Well, MPlayer and VLC are not necessarily that big and I think you can compile MPlayer without X support (or you can install X headers and libraries to compile MPlayer, if it can't be done otherwise). In any case, running these programs doesn't require running an X server. I wouldn't use MPlayer as the primary media frontend though, just as a video player. I have installed the following ivtv 0.8.0 vdr 1.4.4 vdr-pvr350 0.0.4_pre1 vdr-analogtv 1.0.00-r1 I can't figure out how to get VDR running localhost media-video # /etc/init.d/vdr start * Preparing start of vdr: * config files ... [ ok * Some plugins could not be loaded! * Waiting for prerequisits (devices nodes etc.) ... * could not start vdr: dvb device not found [ !! - localhost media-video # cat /var/vdr/vdr-start-log Startlog for VDR I: vdr-pvr350: plugin not found Seems that there were problems loading both the analogtv and the pvr350 plugin, since VDR complains about the DVB device. Perhaps analogtv is not configured properly. The pvr350 problem is probably packaging-related (as in a bug in the ebuild). Another thing I would like to be able to do is play avi files, wmf and other video file formats through the tv-out. Is VDR the correct tool? Not exactly, you need to use MPlayer through the vdr-mplayer plugin to play those files. Regards, Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:54:40 +0100 Tony Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S, DVB-T...) by far. Agreed. The best way to play the other media - avi etc - is xine. Have you checked the MMS project? Unlike MPlayer, My Media System and Xine don't support ivtv output without X, but I'd also say that MMS and Freevo are worth taking a look at if you are willing to run a lightweight X session (it's not that heavy anyway; ten years ago I used X happily on ~ 100 MHz Pentium machines and 64 MB RAM). Niko Mikkilä ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Best video card for 1080i/p with softdevice?
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:23:58 +0900 (EIT) Anthony Hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, just discovered that my trusty old G550 can only do 1280x1024 via the DVI output damn it !! Anyone have any recommendations for a card which will work with softdevice and directfb or vidix to do digital 1080p and 1080i resolution output via DVI? I will be connecting it via a DVI-HDMI converter cable to a Toshiba 62CM9UA rear projection TV. I am after the most stable card with the best playback quality I can get and don't mind spending a few hundred dollars to get the right one. Thanks for your help. Regards Anthony. Hi, cheap ATI and NVIDIA cards are good for HD video output (esp. NVIDIA because you can get MPEG-2 acceleration working with the binary drivers). The cheapest passively cooled cards work as well for video playback on Linux as the high-end models, so don't pay over 40 euros for one. However, these cards work best through the X.org drivers, so you're better off with vdr-xineliboutput than with softdevice. Anyway, Xine offers better deinterlacers, which are very important for playback quality with such displays as yours. Niko ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Error when i start vdr
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:11:28 +0200 Pedja Vasiljevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone when i tray to start vdr i see in my log next error ERROR: no OSD provider available - using dummy OSD! You probably don't have a FF DVB card, which is the only output device VDR supports out-of-the-box. Alternatively you can use a supported MPEG-2 decoder card that has a VDR plugin written for it (such as dxr3, em84xx or pvr350), or one of the software plugins (vdr-xineliboutput, vdr-xine, softdevice, ...), that allow output through the graphics card. Niko ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
