Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi! Is anyone using this patch with Sky Italia? It doesn't work for me. Also with Sky UK, I have full epg for many channels, but missing for some. For example ITV1 has 7 days epg, but ITV2-4 have none. This patch looked so promising at first, but now I'm thinking of changing back to LoadEPG plugin.. 14.4.2013 11.35 André Weidemann andre.weidem...@web.de kirjoitti: On 14.04.2013 00:38, Lucian Muresan wrote: The current git version of eepg tends to crash on me at least one if not twice a day with vdr-2.0.0, after it used to work well for several weeks. I do not know what changed the behaviour, since I cannot find any useful crash dump... Same problem here. I dumped the plugin in favor to the patch, which worked flawlessly ever since. BTW, where is the most current freeview patch? Ever since vdr-1.7.35 I've used this patch (see attachment). It should apply cleanly to the most recent vdr version. I think I originally downloaded it from here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/**board16-video-disk-recorder/** board55-vdr-plugins/p1082416-**eepg-und-vdr-1-7-28/#**skipPoint1082422http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/p1082416-eepg-und-vdr-1-7-28/#skipPoint1082422 André ___ 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] Which epg for Sky UK
Cant help with Italia, but ITV2-4 have full schedules here using that patch (vdr.eepg-patch-1.7.35) On 23/04/2013 19:48, Teemu Suikki wrote: Hi! Is anyone using this patch with Sky Italia? It doesn't work for me. Also with Sky UK, I have full epg for many channels, but missing for some. For example ITV1 has 7 days epg, but ITV2-4 have none. This patch looked so promising at first, but now I'm thinking of changing back to LoadEPG plugin.. 14.4.2013 11.35 André Weidemann andre.weidem...@web.de mailto:andre.weidem...@web.de kirjoitti: On 14.04.2013 00:38, Lucian Muresan wrote: The current git version of eepg tends to crash on me at least one if not twice a day with vdr-2.0.0, after it used to work well for several weeks. I do not know what changed the behaviour, since I cannot find any useful crash dump... Same problem here. I dumped the plugin in favor to the patch, which worked flawlessly ever since. BTW, where is the most current freeview patch? Ever since vdr-1.7.35 I've used this patch (see attachment). It should apply cleanly to the most recent vdr version. I think I originally downloaded it from here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/p1082416-eepg-und-vdr-1-7-28/#skipPoint1082422 André ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org mailto: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 ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi I made a small perl script to copy epg from one channel to another, just modifying some other script i had found around. It's attached if you want to try it, you simply use it like this (e.g. from a cron job): cpepg.pl S13.0E-318-12400-8511 T-318-1-3401 regards davide 2013/4/18 Teemu Suikki tsui...@zuik.org Hi! Your patch is slightly broken, perhaps when emailing? There are a few missing lines in the huffman tables. I compared these two patches, your version seems to be better otherwise, but I took the tables from the other patch.. Works fine now. However, I have another issue. I need to clone EPG for a few channels. EEPG and LoadEpg plugins have the .equiv files for this, but this patch obviously doesn't I tried copying with epgfixer plugin, which should do the trick. However, VDR seems to crash always when it's receiving EPG data for these channels.. So there is some weird incompatibility with epgfixer! I have been using epgfixer successfully earlier. Perhaps epgfixer gets unencoded raw data before the huffman decoding? The crash is inside libc, which would suggest to some string manipulating functions perhaps.. -- Teemu 2013/4/14 Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:38:08 +0200 Lucian Muresan luci...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: BTW, where is the most current freeview patch? This is the version I use. I don't know whether its newer/better than the one Andre posted this morning, but I'm pretty sure the tables in this one are complete, and they have been embedded into the C code instead of having to be loaded as separate files. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Teemu Suikki http://www.z-power.fi/ ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr cpepg.pl Description: Binary data ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi! Thanks a bunch, I guess this is exactly what I need. :) 19.4.2013 9.19 Davide Chiarini davide.chiar...@gmail.com kirjoitti: Hi I made a small perl script to copy epg from one channel to another, just modifying some other script i had found around. It's attached if you want to try it, you simply use it like this (e.g. from a cron job): cpepg.pl S13.0E-318-12400-8511 T-318-1-3401 regards davide 2013/4/18 Teemu Suikki tsui...@zuik.org Hi! Your patch is slightly broken, perhaps when emailing? There are a few missing lines in the huffman tables. I compared these two patches, your version seems to be better otherwise, but I took the tables from the other patch.. Works fine now. However, I have another issue. I need to clone EPG for a few channels. EEPG and LoadEpg plugins have the .equiv files for this, but this patch obviously doesn't I tried copying with epgfixer plugin, which should do the trick. However, VDR seems to crash always when it's receiving EPG data for these channels.. So there is some weird incompatibility with epgfixer! I have been using epgfixer successfully earlier. Perhaps epgfixer gets unencoded raw data before the huffman decoding? The crash is inside libc, which would suggest to some string manipulating functions perhaps.. -- Teemu 2013/4/14 Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:38:08 +0200 Lucian Muresan luci...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: BTW, where is the most current freeview patch? This is the version I use. I don't know whether its newer/better than the one Andre posted this morning, but I'm pretty sure the tables in this one are complete, and they have been embedded into the C code instead of having to be loaded as separate files. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Teemu Suikki http://www.z-power.fi/ ___ 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 ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi Teemu Have you received my email for testing of LoadEPG? http://lukkinosat.altervista.org/vdr-loadepg-0.2.6.tgz - Add comand STOP to SVDRP interface - Apply patch for correct timezone Hi, Luca___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi, I tried it and it seems to work, thanks. :) But I'm not using it right now, because this VDR patch seems to do the same thing a bit easier.. -- Teemu 2013/4/19 lukkinosat lukkino...@yahoo.it: Hi Teemu Have you received my email for testing of LoadEPG? http://lukkinosat.altervista.org/vdr-loadepg-0.2.6.tgz - Add comand STOP to SVDRP interface - Apply patch for correct timezone Hi, Luca ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Teemu Suikki http://www.z-power.fi/ ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
The other reason for me to use the patch is for Freeview HD's EIT. The encoding is exactly the same as Freesat's but I think the difference is that it still uses standard PIDs instead of non-standard ones. So EEPG would have to detect the encoding by using the flag bytes at the start of the string instead of by the PID they're from. I would like to second what Tony states here. When I used the EEPG plugin (quite a long time ago), it failed to decode Freeview HD EPG because it did not support the encoded EPG delivered on the standard PID. So this is why I use the patch instead of the EEPG plugin. I spent some time trying to figure out how to modify the plugin to suit my needs but it was beyond my understanding and I gave up. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Here's another thought for anyone using eepg current git (which you _should_ try before declaring there are bugs and so on)... Are you patching VDR with a bunch of other crap, possibly something that is the true cause of your problems? If eepg git works perfect for some users, but not for others then there's likely some difference(s) between these setups involved. A problem with eepg can easily be a symptom of some other issue. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Do you refer to: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/issues/903 I was waiting for the author to test it. I have local git branch where it is implemented On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Mario Schulz dr...@arcor.de wrote: Am 14.04.2013 17:32, schrieb Dimitar Petrovski: Log level can be set to 0. I will review the loginig info and silence it as much as possible. And set the default logging to 0 in git. Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the plugin is filling the log with various messages, even if I set loglevel to a low value (1). BTW: You have recieved the patch for eepg to move the tables from external to internal and have even reworked the patch. How about spreading it, it minimizes the risk of a memory leak. - Mario ___ 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] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any problem. For the memory leak, I have not I have not reproduced it in my usage of vdr, so if someone can provide me with the steps to reproduce it, which channel it happens on and so on I will try to fix it. Regards ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
On 14.04.2013 00:38, Lucian Muresan wrote: The current git version of eepg tends to crash on me at least one if not twice a day with vdr-2.0.0, after it used to work well for several weeks. I do not know what changed the behaviour, since I cannot find any useful crash dump... Same problem here. I dumped the plugin in favor to the patch, which worked flawlessly ever since. BTW, where is the most current freeview patch? Ever since vdr-1.7.35 I've used this patch (see attachment). It should apply cleanly to the most recent vdr version. I think I originally downloaded it from here: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/p1082416-eepg-und-vdr-1-7-28/#skipPoint1082422 André vdr.eepg-patch-1.7.35.bz2 Description: Binary data ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:05:54 +0200 Dimitar Petrovski dime...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any problem. For the memory leak, I have not I have not reproduced it in my usage of vdr, so if someone can provide me with the steps to reproduce it, which channel it happens on and so on I will try to fix it. I haven't associated the leak with any channel. I don't use VDR for live viewing very much, mainly for recording and playback. The memory seems to leak even when I'm not actively using VDR at all. I thought it must be caused by harvesting the EIT in the background. I think I tried using valgrind once, but it completely failed to notice the leak for some reason (perhaps valgrind doesn't apply to plugins?). VDR also used to spam my syslog with messages including the names of programmes, but it doesn't seem to be doing that any more. I think it was caused by something slightly amiss with Freeview's EPG that VDR thought it should warn about. This could be related to the leak, but I haven't used EEPG for a while. The other reason for me to use the patch is for Freeview HD's EIT. The encoding is exactly the same as Freesat's but I think the difference is that it still uses standard PIDs instead of non-standard ones. So EEPG would have to detect the encoding by using the flag bytes at the start of the string instead of by the PID they're from. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the plugin is filling the log with various messages, even if I set loglevel to a low value (1). Regards, István On 2013.04.14. 11:05, Dimitar Petrovski wrote: Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any problem. For the memory leak, I have not I have not reproduced it in my usage of vdr, so if someone can provide me with the steps to reproduce it, which channel it happens on and so on I will try to fix it. Regards ___ 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] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi, I have been toggling between eepg and LoadEPG plugins.. I haven't tried the patch above, perhaps it would be better? eepg seems to crash occasionally, and also I had this weird problem that all channels have Polish category-fields.. :) LoadEPG doesn't crash, doesn't speak Polish, but is not automatic so you have to launch it from crontab or something. Also it had the timezone problem for which I provided a patch earlier in this list, but that only affects people who watch satellites not from their own timezone. -- Teemu 2013/4/14 Füley István airo...@tigercomp.ro: Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the plugin is filling the log with various messages, even if I set loglevel to a low value (1). Regards, István On 2013.04.14. 11:05, Dimitar Petrovski wrote: Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any problem. For the memory leak, I have not I have not reproduced it in my usage of vdr, so if someone can provide me with the steps to reproduce it, which channel it happens on and so on I will try to fix it. Regards ___ 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 -- Teemu Suikki http://www.z-power.fi/ ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Log level can be set to 0. I will review the loginig info and silence it as much as possible. And set the default logging to 0 in git. Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the plugin is filling the log with various messages, even if I set loglevel to a low value (1). Regards, István On 2013.04.14. 11:05, Dimitar Petrovski wrote: Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as an issue here: http://projects.vdr-developer.**org/projects/plg-eepghttp://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg I will look into it. I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any problem. For the memory leak, I have not I have not reproduced it in my usage of vdr, so if someone can provide me with the steps to reproduce it, which channel it happens on and so on I will try to fix it. Regards __**_ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/vdrhttp://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr __**_ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/vdrhttp://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] Which epg for Sky UK
Am 14.04.2013 17:32, schrieb Dimitar Petrovski: Log level can be set to 0. I will review the loginig info and silence it as much as possible. And set the default logging to 0 in git. Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the plugin is filling the log with various messages, even if I set loglevel to a low value (1). BTW: You have recieved the patch for eepg to move the tables from external to internal and have even reworked the patch. How about spreading it, it minimizes the risk of a memory leak. - Mario ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Hi You can use eepg plugin who do the same job, works perfectly with vdr 2.0.0 @+ Le samedi 13 avril 2013 20:52:52 Scott Waye a écrit : Hi, I used to use freesat diff patch to get the 10 day schedule from UK Freesat (BSkyB 28.2E), but seems its not been supported much for a while so I wonder what others are using? -- Scott ___ 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] Which epg for Sky UK
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:35:39 +0200 dplu (free) d...@free.fr wrote: You can use eepg plugin who do the same job, works perfectly with vdr 2.0.0 @+ Le samedi 13 avril 2013 20:52:52 Scott Waye a écrit : Hi, I used to use freesat diff patch to get the 10 day schedule from UK Freesat (BSkyB 28.2E), but seems its not been supported much for a while so I wonder what others are using? Somebody updated the patch a few months ago with complete tables embedded in the code instead of loaded as separate files. Has eepg been updated to support Freeview HD and fix the memory leak? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
Le samedi 13 avril 2013 21:48:44 Tony Houghton a écrit : On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:35:39 +0200 dplu (free) d...@free.fr wrote: You can use eepg plugin who do the same job, works perfectly with vdr 2.0.0 @+ Le samedi 13 avril 2013 20:52:52 Scott Waye a écrit : Hi, I used to use freesat diff patch to get the 10 day schedule from UK Freesat (BSkyB 28.2E), but seems its not been supported much for a while so I wonder what others are using? Somebody updated the patch a few months ago with complete tables embedded in the code instead of loaded as separate files. Has eepg been updated to support Freeview HD and fix the memory leak? Good question, eepg create it's own file on conf directory , not seen memory leak but did not spend my life on Freesat channels I report it works even for channels like ITV HD, Channel 4 HD or BBC HD on 28.2E, it is more simple than patching vdr itself (even with internal huffman coded tables) @+ ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:06:58 +0200 dplu (free) d...@free.fr wrote: Le samedi 13 avril 2013 21:48:44 Tony Houghton a écrit : Has eepg been updated to support Freeview HD and fix the memory leak? Good question, eepg create it's own file on conf directory , not seen memory leak but did not spend my life on Freesat channels I report it works even for channels like ITV HD, Channel 4 HD or BBC HD on 28.2E, it is more simple than patching vdr itself (even with internal huffman coded tables) Yes, it worked well enough apart from the problems I mentioned above. But the original maintainer hasn't commented on those and apparently the code isn't in a very good state for someone else to take over. Someone raised the possibility of rewriting the patch as a plugin, which I would like, but I don't know how to write VDR plugins. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
I use eepg as well, although for a different provider. It's been very stable for me without any crashes since git from Dec 2012. I also haven't noticed any memory leak. The only downtime I've had has been when updating VDR every time a new version is released. If you do know of a real problem with the current git of eepg, why not contact the author? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
On 14.04.2013 00:46, VDR User wrote: I use eepg as well, although for a different provider. It's been very stable for me without any crashes since git from Dec 2012. I also haven't noticed any memory leak. The only downtime I've had has been when updating VDR every time a new version is released. If you do know of a real problem with the current git of eepg, why not contact the author? Well, the only indications that the plugin might have a problem is that the crash is gone when no longer loading the plugin, and a log entry before the crash, that a Sky.DE channel is renamed to something, and the next crash if I remember well, back from something to the other name. And I actually do not watch Sky.DE as I don't have a subscription, I'm using the eepg plugin for the BBC and other FTA british channels I occasionaly watch, but I also have 2 tuner cards, seems that it happens while one of them switches channels in the background. I will try to get the log entries again and then open a ticket... Regards, Lucian ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Lucian Muresan luci...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I use eepg as well, although for a different provider. It's been very stable for me without any crashes since git from Dec 2012. I also haven't noticed any memory leak. The only downtime I've had has been when updating VDR every time a new version is released. If you do know of a real problem with the current git of eepg, why not contact the author? Well, the only indications that the plugin might have a problem is that the crash is gone when no longer loading the plugin, and a log entry before the crash, that a Sky.DE channel is renamed to something, and the next crash if I remember well, back from something to the other name. And I actually do not watch Sky.DE as I don't have a subscription, I'm using the eepg plugin for the BBC and other FTA british channels I occasionaly watch, but I also have 2 tuner cards, seems that it happens while one of them switches channels in the background. I will try to get the log entries again and then open a ticket... Try to get a backtrace for him if you can. I use eepg on several boxes with most having multiple cards each and all is well here. Maybe the author will see this thread and chime in as well. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
