Re: [vdr] 1.7.12 w/ FF card on old Linux + S2API wrapper

2010-02-04 Thread Gavin Hamill 
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 15:29 -0800, VDR User wrote:

 If you're using a v4l tree that works with both your kernel and the
 S2API wrapper, then you may want to try a VDR version prior to the FF
 specific stuff being moved into a plugin and see if you have any
 better luck.  I could be wrong but I think the FF change may not be
 100% yet.

Hm, 1.7.10 showed greater success (i.e. last version before
dvbsddevice) ... the DVB-C FF worked fine - video and OSD rendered OK,
but the DVB-T card than refused to tune to anything at all.

Ah well, 1.4.7 works OK for me so I'll just hang on until I can justify
updating the entire setup for HDMI.

gdh





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[vdr] 1.7.12 w/ FF card on old Linux + S2API wrapper

2010-01-31 Thread Gavin Hamill 
I've been using the same 1.4.7 setup for over 2 years and thought I'd
dip my toe in the 1.7.x world. I'm using Ubuntu dapper (mid 2006) so my
DVB kernel/header setup is still at API level 3, hence I've been using
Udo Richter's S2API wrapper.

Compile was ok, but even trying the simplest setup of ./vdr
-Pdvbsddevice I'm unable to get a picture or OSD through the FF card.
Is this supposed to work with the S2API patches, or are those purely for
input only?

Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] VDR version 1.7.12 started
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] found 25 locales in ./locale
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading
plugin: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-dvbsddevice.so.1.7.12
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/setup.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/sources.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/channels.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/timers.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/svdrphosts.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/remote.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] loading /video/keymacros.conf
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] ERROR: unknown plugin 'screenshot'
Jan 31 16:59:01 telly vdr: [10843] ERROR: empty key macro
Jan 31 16:59:02 telly vdr: [10843] reading EPG data from /video/epg.data
Jan 31 16:59:02 telly vdr: [10844] video directory scanner thread
started (pid=10843, tid=10844)
Jan 31 16:59:02 telly vdr: [10845] video directory scanner thread
started (pid=10843, tid=10845)
Jan 31 16:59:02 telly vdr: [10844] video directory scanner thread ended
(pid=10843, tid=10844)
Jan 31 16:59:02 telly vdr: [10845] video directory scanner thread ended
(pid=10843, tid=10845)
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] creating cDvbDevice
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] new device number 1
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] frontend 0/0 provides DVB-T
(Conexant CX22702 DVB-T)
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] probing /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] creating cDvbDevice
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] new device number 2
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10847] tuner on frontend 0/0 thread started
(pid=10843, tid=10847)
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10848] section handler thread started
(pid=10843, tid=10848)
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] frontend 1/0 provides DVB-C (VLSI
VES1820 DVB-C)
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] found 2 DVB devices
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] initializing plugin: dvbsddevice
(0.0.3): SD Full Featured DVB device
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] setting primary device to 2
Jan 31 16:59:03 telly vdr: [10843] device 2 has no MPEG decoder

Of course, device 2 VLSI VES1820 DVB-C definitely does have an MPEG
decoder? Do I really need to upgrade the OS to use newer VDR?

I tried both the existing dvb-ttpci-01.fw and the new TS-enabled one,
with the same results.

Cheers,
Gavin.


[1] http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#dvb-api-wrapper




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Re: [vdr] 1.7.12 w/ FF card on old Linux + S2API wrapper

2010-01-31 Thread VDR User 
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Gavin Hamill g...@acentral.co.uk wrote:
 I've been using the same 1.4.7 setup for over 2 years and thought I'd
 dip my toe in the 1.7.x world. I'm using Ubuntu dapper (mid 2006) so my
 DVB kernel/header setup is still at API level 3, hence I've been using
 Udo Richter's S2API wrapper.

While your system may work for years without updating it, eventually
you will fall too far behind and either need to update everything or
butcher the hell out of your source with patches that may or may not
work properly.  Lots of guys grumble about everything they need to
update when they finally decide to get out of the dark ages, and I can
never understand why they expect it to be any different.  At some
point, all the time  effort wasted on backwards compatibility winds
up only serving a very small handful of guys that seems to get joy
from telling people how long it's been since they've updated their
system.  My motto is stay at least remotely current or get left in the
dust.  ;)

If you're using a v4l tree that works with both your kernel and the
S2API wrapper, then you may want to try a VDR version prior to the FF
specific stuff being moved into a plugin and see if you have any
better luck.  I could be wrong but I think the FF change may not be
100% yet.

Good luck!

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