[vdr] How do I listen to a channel's soundtrack and it's audio description at the same time?

[John Robinson]

Hi everyone.  I've recently joined this list and am totally blind.  I've 
installed VDR and am using the vdr-softdevice plugin with SHM output 
under the Gnome desktop.  I would very much like to be able to hear a tv 
programme's soundtrack, together with the programme's audio description, 
when supported of course.  One member of this list very helpfully 
suggested that, to switch between the programme's main sound track and 
the audio description track, I can hit the 'Audio' key, then the right 
cursor key and then the 'Audio' key again.  This does, indeed switch 
from the main programme sound track to the audio description track, but 
it only lets me hear one or the other, not both.  I would very much like 
to hear the main programme's soundtrack and the audio description track 
at the same time, but at the moment, I can only hear one or the other - 
not both.  If anyone on this list could explain how to hear both the 
programme's soundtrack and the audio description track at the same time, 
I'd really appreciate it.


Many thanks for any help.

John


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Re: [vdr] CAM auto resetting - feature request??

[Simon Baxter]

I was afraid that might be the suggestion!

It seems pretty random when the CAM will crash.  It is possible it's
only on certain channels, and only one of the CAMs - it only happens
very rarely


So you have 2 identical CAMs (Alphacrypt) (with the same firmware?),
and exactly one of them sometimes fails, right?

Have you tried swapping the two CAMs?
This should tell us whether the problem is with the CAM or with
the CI adapter.

Klaus


I've discovered this happens to both CAMs, so it's either not a hardware 
issue, or both CAMs are affected.


Managed to capture the following logs prior to the CAM dropping from 
"AlphaCrypt" to "CAM Ready" (with no decrypting)


Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [27702] switching to channel 11
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [1150] transfer thread ended (pid=27702, 
tid=1150)

Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [27702] buffer stats: 110356 (5%) used
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [6564] transfer thread started (pid=27702, 
tid=6564)
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [1152] TS buffer on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=1152)

Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [1151] buffer stats: 75388 (3%) used
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [1151] receiver on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=1151)
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [6565] receiver on device 1 thread started 
(pid=27702, tid=6565)
Sep  2 08:17:21 freddy vdr: [6566] TS buffer on device 1 thread started 
(pid=27702, tid=6566)

Sep  2 08:17:23 freddy vdr: [6564] setting audio track to 1 (0)
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [27702] switching to channel 1
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6564] transfer thread ended (pid=27702, 
tid=6564)
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [27702] cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 2 TS continuity 
errors
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [27702] cTS2PES got 0 TS errors, 2 TS continuity 
errors

Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [27702] buffer stats: 63544 (3%) used
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6567] transfer thread started (pid=27702, 
tid=6567)
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6566] TS buffer on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=6566)

Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6565] buffer stats: 62980 (3%) used
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6565] receiver on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=6565)
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6568] receiver on device 1 thread started 
(pid=27702, tid=6568)
Sep  2 08:17:34 freddy vdr: [6569] TS buffer on device 1 thread started 
(pid=27702, tid=6569)
Sep  2 08:17:38 freddy vdr: [6567] transfer thread ended (pid=27702, 
tid=6567)
Sep  2 08:17:38 freddy vdr: [6569] TS buffer on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=6569)

Sep  2 08:17:38 freddy vdr: [6568] buffer stats: 193828 (9%) used
Sep  2 08:17:38 freddy vdr: [6568] receiver on device 1 thread ended 
(pid=27702, tid=6568)

Sep  2 08:17:39 freddy vdr: [27702] switching to channel 1
Sep  2 08:17:39 freddy vdr: [27702] buffer stats: 116748 (5%) used
Sep  2 08:17:39 freddy vdr: [27702] info: Channel not available!
Sep  2 08:17:41 freddy vdr: [27702] switching to channel 9
Sep  2 08:17:41 freddy vdr: [6570] transfer thread started (pid=27702, 
tid=6570)

Sep  2 08:17:41 freddy vdr: [6570] setting audio track to 1 (0)
Sep  2 08:17:54 freddy vdr: [27707] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on 
device 0: Input/output error
Sep  2 08:17:54 freddy vdr: [27707] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on 
device 0: Input/output error
Sep  2 08:17:55 freddy vdr: [27707] ERROR: can't write to CI adapter on 
device 0: Input/output error
Sep  2 08:17:55 freddy kernel: dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM detected and 
initialised successfully



I've done the usual "select and reset the CAM 3 times from VDR" and it's 
back in action.


Any ideas on how to further debug this?AND   any suggestions on how I 
should configure VDR to send an email alert when this problem occurs?  I 
could probably hack dvbci.c to send an email or something??



Thanks
Simon



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

[Goga777]

do you know why xbmc support only vdpau-temporal ? what about bob-vdpau ? 
temporal_spatial-vdpau ?

> I got xbmc-vdr working the other day - but can't seem to see any
> active deinterlacing when using VDPAU Temporal. Other methods such as
> bob and weave work okay, but not VDPAU. Does anyone else see this
> problem? Pretty useless without any reasonable deint going on.. :-(

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

[Morfsta]

I got xbmc-vdr working the other day - but can't seem to see any
active deinterlacing when using VDPAU Temporal. Other methods such as
bob and weave work okay, but not VDPAU. Does anyone else see this
problem? Pretty useless without any reasonable deint going on.. :-(

Thanks,

Morfsta

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