Re: [vdr] auto shutdown (-s) question
On Saturday 07 February 2009, Udo Richter wrote: On 06.02.2009 13:49, Alex Betis wrote: I'm playing now with autoshutdown script (the one that is specified with -s switch) and have a question. When power button is pressed, VDR calls the script, but lets say the script decided not to shutdown the PC (other background work is done). I see that VDR shows a countdown of 5 minutes saying that it will shutdown soon. VDR does not know whether the shutdown script initiated the shutdown or decided to ignore it, I suppose it would be quite easy to implement that and maybe some other scenarios as well using shutdown script exit statuses. For example exit status 0 = shutdown successfully initiated (already in current VDR), 10 = shutdown ignored, 11 = something else, 12 = something else, anything else = an unexpected error occurred. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] auto shutdown (-s) question
On Saturday 07 February 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote: On Saturday 07 February 2009, Udo Richter wrote: On 06.02.2009 13:49, Alex Betis wrote: I'm playing now with autoshutdown script (the one that is specified with -s switch) and have a question. When power button is pressed, VDR calls the script, but lets say the script decided not to shutdown the PC (other background work is done). I see that VDR shows a countdown of 5 minutes saying that it will shutdown soon. VDR does not know whether the shutdown script initiated the shutdown or decided to ignore it, I suppose it would be quite easy to implement that and maybe some other scenarios as well using shutdown script exit statuses. For example exit status 0 = shutdown successfully initiated (already in current VDR), 10 = shutdown ignored, 11 = something else, 12 = something else, anything else = an unexpected error occurred. ...and based on some criteria, stdout and/or stderr from the script could be displayed on the OSD. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] auto shutdown (-s) question
On 07.02.2009 11:26, Ville Skyttä wrote: VDR does not know whether the shutdown script initiated the shutdown or decided to ignore it, I suppose it would be quite easy to implement that and maybe some other scenarios as well using shutdown script exit statuses. For example exit status 0 = shutdown successfully initiated (already in current VDR), 10 = shutdown ignored, 11 = something else, 12 = something else, anything else = an unexpected error occurred. Unfortunately it's not that easy. Currently, VDR backgrounds the call to the shutdown script, and detaches the shutdown script from the VDR process. Only because of that, the script can 'survive' the kill of VDR, and only because of that the script can display messages via SVDRP. However, this means that the error level return of the script is unknown to VDR, and is (and was) always ignored. Some shutdown scripts do set error levels, but there's no common definition about the meaning of error levels. Defining error levels for the shutdown script would thereby be potentially incompatible to existing scripts. Another solution to this would be an external activity handler that is controlled via SVDRP commands, and that provides activity control comparable to plugins for one external instance - the shutdown script. This could either be done by a plugin or a VDR patch. Cheers, Udo ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] auto shutdown (-s) question
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: On 06.02.2009 13:49, Alex Betis wrote: I'm playing now with autoshutdown script (the one that is specified with -s switch) and have a question. When power button is pressed, VDR calls the script, but lets say the script decided not to shutdown the PC (other background work is done). I see that VDR shows a countdown of 5 minutes saying that it will shutdown soon. VDR does not know whether the shutdown script initiated the shutdown or decided to ignore it, so it simply sets the SHUTDOWNRETRY time (6 minutes) until next shutdown attempt. The 5-minute countdown will automatically start after the first minute. What are the common ways to cancel that? I thought about sending a back button using SVDRP. Is there any other methods? There is no official way to announce background activity from outside of VDR. Sending a keystroke would work, but probably shifts shutdown several hours into the future. Sending a poweroff when done is also a bad idea, as an user might be using VDR by now. The easiest way is to just assume that no one sees the countdowns, and keep trying shutdown until it succeeds. Any user activity will make the countdown disappear anyway. Ok, got the idea. I thought VDR will shutdown itself after that counter, something that is not really wanted. After trying it, I see that it just counts down and call the script again. I saw somewhere in the manual also that it leaves the control to the script (to kill it) and do not exit by itself. Thanks. Plugins have more control over shutdown, they can report their activity and can even announce future activity, leaving VDR the decision to shut down until then or not. Cheers, Udo ___ 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] xine for vdr-0.7.4 doesn't patch
Hi, Simon Baxter schrieb: My point exactly - from INSTALL: snip keybindings to xine-ui for supporting my plugin's remote functionality. I use the following commands for patching: patch -d. -p0 /soft/src/VDR/PLUGINS/src/xine/patches/xine-lib.patch snip I'm sorry Simon, this one slipped through. I had created the patch differently (and much easier) this time and it therefore contains a different toplevel directory. I've changed INSTALL meanwhile to: patch -dxine-lib -p1 /soft/src/VDR/PLUGINS/src/xine/patches/xine-lib.patch Hope this works, too. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rni...@gmx.de ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] Use FF Card only as output device
Hi, my DVB-S FF card broke down those days. I think it's the tuner of the card, because it can't lock to a frequency: - Output of femon - using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' FE: Philips TDA8083 DVB-S (SAT) status 01 | signal 6363 | snr 1919 | ber 080484c0 | unc bfc2d9f8 | - End of output - Additional I've a DVB-S budget card in the system. So is it possible to use the Tuner of the buget card and use the broken FF card only as display device and tell the system not to use the broken tuner? Thanks and greets Patrick ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
