Re: [vdr] HD clients for vdr

2009-08-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 19/08/2009, Magnus Hörlin mag...@alefors.se wrote:
  Hi Goga. No, it's not available in xbmc. For some reason xineliboutput has
 never worked as well for HD as xbmc does.
  /Magnus


So how do you set timers or lookup EPG etc in XBMC is there a plugin
on XBMC to make it appear like VDR frontend?

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Re: [vdr] HD clients for vdr

2009-08-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 19/08/2009, Magnus Hörlin mag...@alefors.se wrote:
  Well, my ION board with 9400m does temporal deinterlacing of 1080i HDTV
 just fine in xbmc. The question was about the best silent solution and a
 computer with just an Atom and a 9400 requires a lot less cooling than
 something with a discrete graphics card.
  /Magnus H

On http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU it indicates that the 9400M has
limitations:
Advanced (2x, Hw) used for = 720, Temporal 2x HW or Advanced 1X HW for  720

Where as Nvidia ion - GeForce 9400. Zotac IONITX-C reports: Works
great even w/ single core atom. No fans. 20W power draw.

Can you confirm that you don't experience the same problems as with
the GeForce 9400GT/M ?

Thanks,
Theunis

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Re: [vdr] HD clients for vdr

2009-08-20 Thread Magnus Hörlin


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 On 19/08/2009, Magnus Hörlin mag...@alefors.se wrote:
   Well, my ION board with 9400m does temporal deinterlacing of 1080i HDTV
  just fine in xbmc. The question was about the best silent solution and a
  computer with just an Atom and a 9400 requires a lot less cooling than
  something with a discrete graphics card.
   /Magnus H
 
 On http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU it indicates that the 9400M has
 limitations:
 Advanced (2x, Hw) used for = 720, Temporal 2x HW or Advanced 1X HW for 
 720
 
 Where as Nvidia ion - GeForce 9400. Zotac IONITX-C reports: Works
 great even w/ single core atom. No fans. 20W power draw.
 
 Can you confirm that you don't experience the same problems as with
 the GeForce 9400GT/M ?
 
 Thanks,
 Theunis
 
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Yes, it has limitations but given the low power consumption it's still
impressive. The ION runs fine with advanced deinterlacer for 576i and
temporal for 1080i. A 9500GT can do advanced on 1080i but for me it's not
worth the extra heat and space. I have the computer on the back of my TV.
http://www.minhembio.com/magho
/Magnus



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Re: [vdr] HD clients for vdr

2009-08-20 Thread Magnus Hörlin


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 On 19/08/2009, Magnus Hörlin mag...@alefors.se wrote:
   Hi Goga. No, it's not available in xbmc. For some reason xineliboutput
 has
  never worked as well for HD as xbmc does.
   /Magnus
 
 
 So how do you set timers or lookup EPG etc in XBMC is there a plugin
 on XBMC to make it appear like VDR frontend?
 

I do all that in vdr-sxfe but there's a lot of work being done to use xbmc
as a vdr frontend here: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45314
/Magnus



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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Magnus Hörlin

Goga777 wrote:

  So how do you set timers or lookup EPG etc in XBMC is there a plugin
  

on XBMC to make it appear like VDR frontend?

  

I do all that in vdr-sxfe but there's a lot of work being done to use xbmc
as a vdr frontend here: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45314
/Magnus



but xbmc-pvr has a lot of limitation as vdr-frontend - it can't  control of vdr
plugins and vdr settings, go to osd vdr menu, to use vdr plugins (femon, channellist,...) 


have a look please
http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=376056postcount=344

Goga


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Of course it has limitations, it's a very young project. But it's 
progressing very fast and I think, given some time, that I will 
eventually abandon xinelib. At the moment I just press a button on my 
remote to switch between xbmc and vdr-sxfe so I can have the best of 
both worlds.

/Magnus


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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo

Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Of course it has limitations, it's a very young project. But it's 
progressing very fast and I think, given some time, that I will 
eventually abandon xinelib. At the moment I just press a button on my 
remote to switch between xbmc and vdr-sxfe so I can have the best of 
both worlds.

Can a single vdr server have multiple independent xbmc clients?

BR,
Seppo


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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Goga777
 Of course it has limitations, it's a very young project. But it's 
 progressing very fast 

sure

and I think, given some time, that I will 
 eventually abandon xinelib.

and vdr too ?:-)

Goga

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Magnus Hörlin

Goga777 wrote:
Of course it has limitations, it's a very young project. But it's 
progressing very fast 



sure

  
and I think, given some time, that I will 
eventually abandon xinelib.



and vdr too ?:-)

Goga

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Oh no, I will NEVER abandon VDR. I have tried myth twice and I wasn't 
impressed.

/Magnus

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Magnus Hörlin

Seppo Ingalsuo wrote:

Magnus Hörlin wrote:
Of course it has limitations, it's a very young project. But it's 
progressing very fast and I think, given some time, that I will 
eventually abandon xinelib. At the moment I just press a button on my 
remote to switch between xbmc and vdr-sxfe so I can have the best of 
both worlds.

Can a single vdr server have multiple independent xbmc clients?

BR,
Seppo


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Yes, that's the nice part since it uses streamdev. For me that's the 
main reason I'm interested in it.

/Magnus

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:44 +0200, Magnus Hörlin wrote:
 Goga777 wrote:


 Oh no, I will NEVER abandon VDR. I have tried myth twice and I wasn't 
 impressed.

Ah, I have to butt in here with my Myth rant. I too tried Myth, but for
me it has a critical flaw - channel zapping... it takes several seconds
to change channel.

The myth 'community', aware that it takes many seconds, told me that I
am doing it wrong - the user is supposed to choose something from the
programme guide and then switch to it. 

That alone kills Myth as a TV interface :/ Myth might be pretty to look
at, but VDR is super-functional :)

gdh



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[vdr] Weird problem with lirc and vdr-sxfe

2009-08-20 Thread Kartsa
I have ubuntu installed and all vdr stuff comes from repo. It has worked 
well but suddenly the remote started to act weird. Most of the time all 
works well but sometimes it seems like vdr-sxfe or lirc starts to buffer 
keypresses so that first nothing happens when I push a button on the 
remote but on the next button push vdr reacts on the first push. So it 
is like one push behind.


I can fix this by restarting lirc. Most of the times it will not come 
back on the same night but it may.


I do not recall any installation at the time the problems started. I 
even tried to do all updates what ubuntu suggested but it had no impact.


Has anyone had similar problems ever? What should I check first? Could 
not find anything on the logs.


Could I use lirc with vdr (no lirc=/dev/null) instead of vdr-sxfe 
(without --lirc). I have tried but seems like I can not get vdr to 
respond to remote. Can it be done this way?


BR
\\Kartsa

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Re: [vdr] HD clients for vdr

2009-08-20 Thread VDR User
2009/8/20 Magnus Hörlin mag...@alefors.se:
 Yes, it has limitations but given the low power consumption it's still
 impressive. The ION runs fine with advanced deinterlacer for 576i and
 temporal for 1080i. A 9500GT can do advanced on 1080i but for me it's not
 worth the extra heat and space. I have the computer on the back of my TV.
 http://www.minhembio.com/magho

You have the setup I'm looking to get soon.  I want to be able to
transmit video + 7.1 sound over HDMI, do you know if your ION can do
this?  From the screenshots I've seen, the difference between temporal
and spatial-temporal deinterlacing isn't enough to warrant using a
regular size pc (which I have now sitting behind my tv) over the much
much smaller  power not-hungry ION.  Temporal should suit my wants
just fine.

-Derek

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread VDR User
I too have tried mythtv and found it to be a big bloated slow piece of
crap.  It seems to be a bunch of odds  ends slapped together rather
then a solid dvb app built from the ground up.  Not impressed with it
at all.

I should note that even though I did give it a try, I never intended
to replace VDR with it regardless of the test results.  I am a VDR
loyalist. :)

Cheers,
Derek

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Morfsta
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM, VDR Useruser@gmail.com wrote:
 I should note that even though I did give it a try, I never intended
 to replace VDR with it regardless of the test results.  I am a VDR
 loyalist. :)

I too have tried Myth on a number of occasions and have found it
unwieldy and slow, not sure why its so popular, perhaps because of the
flashier interface.

I currently have an ehd but have also just invested in a nvidia 9400,
to begin fiddling with VDR + XBMC but as usual I never get really
great results from using X11 based output, even with VDPAU and
temporal-spatial de-interlacing. It never seems to be up to the same
quality as a dedicated output card like the eHD, or FF TT card before
it.

That said, I haven't done the XBMC + VDR bit yet, just tried using
vdr-xine and xinelibout which just don't cut it. :-(

Right now I have ehd on one HDMI input for the TV with LIRC remote
control and X11 desktop with XBMC on the other output with mouse
control. Would be nice to eventually have all of it on one output with
just LIRC control for it all, but right now it serves me well with
good quality output and stability.

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread VDR User
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Morfstamorf...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM, VDR Useruser@gmail.com wrote:
 I should note that even though I did give it a try, I never intended
 to replace VDR with it regardless of the test results.  I am a VDR
 loyalist. :)

 I too have tried Myth on a number of occasions and have found it
 unwieldy and slow, not sure why its so popular, perhaps because of the
 flashier interface.

That's definitely is a part of it.  I know former VDR users who
switched to myth for that very reason.  Now that VDR has support for
hdtv, it's finally getting an osd overhaul as well (maybe coming in
1.7.9?), which will be 24bit iirc.  We'll finally be able to have a
high color/high resolution osd as well, which I'm hoping will spawn
peoples interest in making some really great skins and so on.  Most tv
stations it seems offer their logos in high color/high res as well.  I
know Klaus prefers to focus more on stability then things like candy
enhancements but I think he realized this is something users really
wanted to see implemented now that hdtv support is present.  And with
so many users investing in things like inexpensive vdpau-supported
video cards over overly expensive 'full featured' dedicated cards,
it's a logical enhancement to make to bring VDR up-to-speed visually.

One thing I would like to see in the future is a solid server/client
solution for VDR.  That is the other and probably biggest reason users
have abandoned VDR in favor of myth.  Yes there are things like
streamdev or xbmc+vdr, etc..  But those options are either too limited
or too much hassle.  It would be great if we could just set one
software (VDR) up and keep things lean.  I don't think this is
something we'll see any time soon, if at all.  But then a lot of
people said the same thing about support for hdtv and an awesome osd.
:)

Cheers,
Derek

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Re: [vdr] xbmc-pvr (was - HD clients for vdr)

2009-08-20 Thread Chris Silva
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Goga777goga...@bk.ru wrote:
  eventually abandon xinelib. At the moment I just press a button on my
  remote to switch between xbmc and vdr-sxfe so I can have the best of
  both worlds.

 would you like to describe more details your installation - xbmc and vdr 
 please

 Goga


Hi.

I'm trying to do just that. A separate install for vdr and xbmc. No
integration for me now, since the plugins functionality is lost.

A few methods are described here -
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=47560.

Perhaps Magnus can say for sure what method he uses.

Cheers
Cris

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