Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
The xorg.conf options differ for newer versions of the nvidia driver, that is why mine looks different. How I picked up on the problem was, when I ran xvidtune on DISPLAY=:0.1 (TV-Out) and found that even when I set the modeline, it still ran @60Hz, thus showing the tearing effect and had to

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 02:37, Thomas Hilber wrote: To a certain degree you can workaround this by software deinterlacing. After some further experimenting I finally found a solution to fine adjust the frame rate of my elderly Radeon type card. Just trimming the length of a few scanlines

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 07/22/08 23:32, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:30:27PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I am currently working on making the switch from PES to TS as the VDR recording format, that's why there are currently no new versions of VDR. I'll be really interested in a vdr

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Thomas Hilber wrote: solution graphics cards basically are not designed for variable frame rates. Once you have setup their timing you are not provided any means like registers to synchronize the frame rate with external timers. But that's exactly what's

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 18:12, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: eHD output device May I ask which device this is? A Reel Extension HD PCI card? -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 07/23/08 10:34, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 23 Jul 2008, at 18:12, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: eHD output device May I ask which device this is? A Reel Extension HD PCI card? Yes - but I haven't come to the point where I could actually use it, yet. Klaus

[vdr] OT: Noise and Power Supply [Was: Re: [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate]

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theunis, Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 09:41 +0200 schrieb Theunis Potgieter: Only thing making a noise now is the already relatively quiet power supply. You probably already know this, but anyway. There are power supplies called picoPSU which have no fans and are, as far as I

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:12:46AM +0200, Martin Emrich wrote: I have connected my VDR box to my TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable, set the resolution to 1920x1080 and let the graphics card do the upscaling instead of the TV, because the quality looks IMHO better this way. But ok. But if doing so you

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Thomas Hilber schrieb: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:12:46AM +0200, Martin Emrich wrote: I have connected my VDR box to my TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable, set the resolution to 1920x1080 and let the graphics card do the upscaling instead of the TV, because the quality looks IMHO better this way.

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to get perfect synchronization and no tearing? some time ago I accidentally stumbled

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:06, Martin Emrich wrote: (I wonder why there's no simple TV simulator that upmixes 50 fields/s to 50 frames/s just like a CRT TV?). It's very hard to simulate this 'upmix'. A CRT TV actually moves the electron beam across the screen and the phosphor has some time

[vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Greetings to All, Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200. Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV without framedrops or stuttering :) The tutorials on

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:09:29PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to get perfect

Re: [vdr] Control VDR with RF remote

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Stepanov
Hi Oliver, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Peer Oliver Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, Does anybody use RF remote control with VDR instead of IR? How to configure such remotes? I used the ATI RemoteWonder with it. LIRC has support for it. Is there some difference

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:43, Niels Wagenaar wrote: Greetings to All, Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200. Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy

Re: [vdr] Control VDR with RF remote

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Stepanov
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Artur Skawina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: Hello Michael, Does anybody use RF remote control with VDR instead of IR? How to configure such remotes? I used the ATI RemoteWonder with it. LIRC has support for it. Or, if your

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: It appeared to be a privilege of so called full featured cards (expensive cards running proprietary firmware) to output true RGB PAL at variable framerate. Thus always providing full stream synchronicity. I assume RGB NTSC

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008, Niels Wagenaar wrote: Greetings to All, Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200. Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Op Wo, 23 juli, 2008 15:55, schreef Torgeir Veimo: Two questions: - does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz without restarting VDR? Currently, I've setup the output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before it was set on [EMAIL PROTECTED] With this change I didn't had to restart

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Georg Acher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:55:04PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: - does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz without restarting VDR? Yes, you can change the output mode (resolution, frequency, ...) in a settings menu on-the-fly. - how is changing between video /

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
Hi, On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:04:29PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: Your approach is very interesting, I myself have seen the problems that clock drift has on judder when using softdevice with vdr. yes, that's also my experience with certain xineliboutput - xine-lib version combinations. I

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
several questions :) - does eHD support 1080p ? - which CPU do you have and what about cpu load during of decoding 1080i ? - is it hard to buy this card in Europe ? Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Op Wo, 23 juli, 2008 20:00, schreef Goga777: several questions :) I'll try to anwser them ;) - does eHD support 1080p ? Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is still a thing in the very long future (for your information, we just got HDTV since March) and it would be

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:20:08AM +0100, Laz wrote: that the only cards that could be convinced to sync at such low rates, i.e. 50 Hz for PAL, were the Matrox G400, G450, etc. Whenever I tried setting modelines with any other cards, I never got any output or an error when starting X. also

Re: [vdr] ERROR: video data stream broken

2008-07-23 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Siegfried, Siegfried Haas wrote: I´m using vdr1.4.7 on a Suse10.3 with one FF-DVB-S-Card (technotrend rev.1.3) and one budget DVB-T (winTV nova). Everything worked well until yesterday. When I turned on the TV there was no output on the TV and when one timer started recording vdr

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
- does eHD support 1080p ? Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is still a thing in the very long future (for your information, we just got HDTV since March) and it would be only be interesting for the HDDVD and BluRay movies. yes, I mean hdtv rips, hddvd/bluray

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:05:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: I assume RGB NTSC should work as well.. ? basically yes. The devil is in the details:) Just give it a try. When xine-lib calls PutImage() it checks whether to increase/decrease Xservers frame rate. This way after a short

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Georg Acher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:52:04PM +0400, Goga777 wrote: may be you know - does Pentium 4 3 GHz will be enough ? Even 300MHz are enough. The CPU load is not a load that depends on CPU speed. It depends mainly on the current state of the driver which transfers the video data from the CPU over

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread derblubber
For regular hdtv viewing over dvb-s2 this cpu should be more than fast enough. There are people running the eHD with a 700mhz Pentium 3 i have heard. Am 23.07.2008 um 20:52 schrieb Goga777: - does eHD support 1080p ? Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is still a

[vdr] Fw: ANYONE?? 682Mhz problem with TT-1501 driver inv4l-dvb

2008-07-23 Thread Simon Baxter
Can anyone help, or point me in the right direction? Can anyone help? I have patched the v4l-dvb driver with Sigmund Augdal's changes to support a new TT C-1501. I can't get channels to work on all but one frequency - 682Mhz. Frequencies which work: 578, 586, 594, 602, 610, 626, 634,

Re: [vdr] ERROR: video data stream broken

2008-07-23 Thread Siegfried Haas
Matthias Fechner schrieb: Hi Siegfried, Siegfried Haas wrote: I´m using vdr1.4.7 on a Suse10.3 with one FF-DVB-S-Card (technotrend rev.1.3) and one budget DVB-T (winTV nova). Everything worked well until yesterday. When I turned on the TV there was no output on the TV and when one