[vdr] Advice
Hi all, I need an advice. Actually I'm looking for usb H.264 or mpeg4 encoder which can work with VDR, I need it for watching hdtv and stream video in mpeg4 or h.264 on my dell GX1 (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/ , pentium 3 with 256 RAM, 600 Mhz). Encoding with mencoder gives bad results, processor is too slow for it. I found the following usb encoder http://www.fastvdo.com/SmartCapture/ So, can I use it with VDR? If positive, then how? Can it replace my Hollywood Plus? Or can it work together? Yarema ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] VDR-1.5.10 and VDR-1.5.11 recording channel with subtitle
Ville Aakko wrote: OTOH I don't see anyone mentioning anything about emergency exits in the vdr-1.5.11 subtitling problems. Maybe what I encountered was a different problem, after all? I had similar problem, but after upgrade to 1.5.12 it's fine now. AK ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Advice
YUP kirjoitti: Hi all, I need an advice. Actually I'm looking for usb H.264 or mpeg4 encoder which can work with VDR, I need it for watching hdtv and stream video in mpeg4 or h.264 on my dell GX1 (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/ , pentium 3 with 256 RAM, 600 Mhz). Encoding with mencoder gives bad results, processor is too slow for it. I found the following usb encoder http://www.fastvdo.com/SmartCapture/ So, can I use it with VDR? If positive, then how? Can it replace my Hollywood Plus? Or can it work together? I don't see how it could replace your Hollywood card since the card is decoder and the usb device is encoder. \\Kartsa ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B
On Thursday, 22. Novemberta 2007 22:21:36 VDR User wrote: Just curious... Why did you buy a dvb card? Antennas work just fine and are less expensive. Here at Finland.. We don't have any analog transmitions anymore.. We are full digital.. ;-) -- JJussi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] VDR-1.5.10 and VDR-1.5.11 recording channel with subtitle
2007/11/21, Reinhard Nissl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ville Aakko schrieb: On 18.11. I upgraded to 1.5.11 from 1.5.10, and afterwards, ALL recordings with subtitles have had these restarts. I get no such problems if I'm recording a channel without subtitles or just watch a program with subtitles (or without). Release 1.5.11 fixed one subtitling issue and caused the issue you are seeing. In 1.5.12, the offending change has been reverted and the subtitling issue has been fixed by a different approach. I'm going to downgrade to 1.5.10 since it used to work for me (1.5.12 isn't in the Gentoo vdr-1.5 overlay I'm using currently, so upgrading is not an option). Though, I did some investigations into this on my own. AFAICT, the subtitle changes that were also discussed here were added to the ebuild 1.5.11-r1 on the overlay on 11.11. (vdr-1.5.11-ringbuffer-remux.diff). Are other patches besides vdr-1.5.11-ringbuffer-remux.diff needed? I tried adding vdr-1.5.11-subtitle_fixes.diff but it didn't fix this, I still get the emergency exits (or, if I uncomment that feature, then all recordings end prematurely, and I believe that the picture jerks in live views but there hasn't been anything interesting enough to capture my attention for the required 5-10 minutes during testing to verify that). OTOH I don't see anyone mentioning anything about emergency exits in the vdr-1.5.11 subtitling problems. Maybe what I encountered was a different problem, after all? - Ville -- Ville Aakko - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Advice
Well, I made mistake. You are right. Anyway, can I use it with VDR? Y. Kartsa wrote: YUP kirjoitti: Hi all, I need an advice. Actually I'm looking for usb H.264 or mpeg4 encoder which can work with VDR, I need it for watching hdtv and stream video in mpeg4 or h.264 on my dell GX1 (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/ , pentium 3 with 256 RAM, 600 Mhz). Encoding with mencoder gives bad results, processor is too slow for it. I found the following usb encoder http://www.fastvdo.com/SmartCapture/ So, can I use it with VDR? If positive, then how? Can it replace my Hollywood Plus? Or can it work together? I don't see how it could replace your Hollywood card since the card is decoder and the usb device is encoder. \\Kartsa ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] multiple frontends - [was: HDTV - 2B or not 2B]
Alasdair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beside all that, I do believe VDR needs to integrate H264 HD recording, along with support built-in for multiple frontends. Hopefully I can lend a hand with the coding (in about 6 years). I'd be happy to do some clean C++ programming (I've haven't done C/C++ for YEARS). But I don't know where to start. Do you think it would be achievable without breaking everything, or would it need to nearly start from scratch ? (so it would be modular enough to smartly handle every needs) For a start, I would be happy to know if it is something feasible for vdr 1.5. (and how the difficulty would be) -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] dxr3 and 1.5.11 antialiasing
(please don't top post) 2007/11/23, Theunis Potgieter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this related to `xine -V xxmc` too? The skin skinsoppalusikka's colours appears wrong when I use the video driver xxmc in vdr-xine. It also appears to do a clearscreen everytime the OSD updates, which is annoying if you have the playback bar updating every second. I haven't used xine, so I really don't know. Maybe I should test it with dxr3... But, I also notice that skinsoppalusikka displays wrong colors in the display logos, if you constantly change channels - if you wait until the OSD clears (i.e. the channel info is not displayed anymore), then the logo is displayed correctly when you change a channel. It seems as if the palette isn't updated if you don't let the OSD clear itself. Is this what you meant? Otherwise the OSD's colors are correct. Occasionally the OSD freezes (i.e. it is unresponsive for a while), or, more commonly, becomes garbled, i.e. as if the OSD was out of sync for a second or a few more. These are the dxr3-specific problems I was referring. DXR3 users get them with ANY OTHER SKIN than text2skin (and enElchi), even the default ones (console and st_tng) - they are NOT soppalusikka specific. I haven't noticed any problems with the refreshing OSD on dxr3 (i.e. everything is displayed correctly), but if that really is happening, it could explain why skinsoppalusikka occasionally hangs and becomes garbled on dxr3. - Ville p.s. I also noticed that text2skin being unusable in 1.5.11 is caused by some skins (not enElchi) that used to work before, crashing the whole thing when the files are loaded by text2skin. By removing them I got the text2skin working again. Maybe I should post a message here about 1.5.1x and dxr3 at some point, with all the patches I've gathered... -- Ville Aakko - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
