Re: [vdr] streamdev CVS - recent tarball?

2010-09-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
Thanks to Frank for updating the tarball on http://vdr.schmirler.de/ :) It compiles and loads cleanly on my VDR 1.6.0 system - I can see the new HTTP menu with javascript categories (nice! :) but the basic feature of streaming via HTTP fails. I have moved the streamdevhosts.conf into

Re: [vdr] streamdev CVS - recent tarball?

2010-09-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
Ah, it does work, but only if I use http://hostname:port/TS/. PES/PS/ES do not work. I'm not bothered too much about PES/PS but ES is very useful for streaming radio. How can I help to debug this further? gdh ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] channels.conf for Sky UK ?

2010-09-19 Thread Gavin Hamill
:) It was precisely the numbering/grouping I was after - at the moment I have the similar output from 'scan' but was hoping to avoid cut/paste pain... Thanks anyway - that site is a good resource. gdh ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

[vdr] channels.conf for Sky UK ?

2010-09-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
Does anyone have a reasonably recent channels.conf for Sky in the UK that they wouldn't mind sharing - it'd save me from a couple of very dull hours! Cheers, Gavin. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

[vdr] streamdev CVS - recent tarball?

2010-09-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi, I'm trying to compile streamdev 0.5.0 on an elderly 2006 Ubuntu and am getting some compile errors. Frank Schmirler says the current CVS contains fixes for that, but the CVS server at vdr-developer.org is down. Does anyone have a recent CVS checkout they wouldn't mind sending me? streamdev

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

[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

Re: [vdr] Play-only client with a FF card or dlink 320rd

2010-01-06 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:31 +0100, Travel Factory S.r.l. wrote: I finally setup a vdr server with a Skystar II and a usb dvb-t stick, running vdr 1.4.7, display with xine plugin... and probably some minor patches I don't remember. I now need to watch live and/or recorded tv programs on

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:29 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:01:41 + Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: The trouble with a purpose-built decoder is that it takes up a valuable PCI(-E) slot when there are plenty of motherboards with onboard graphics which should be

Re: [vdr] livebuffer patch improvements suggestions.

2009-11-18 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:41 +, Scott wrote: I agree, if the buffer was a configurable FIFO file (location and size), then the user could choose if the location was on a hard disk or a RAM disk. I've never used the livebuffer patch - does it add any measurable latency when zapping

Re: [vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

2009-09-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 08:18 -0700, VDR User wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Lauri Tischlerl...@iki.fi wrote: Somewhat related question is, is there some solution to have HD-VDR without X, other than eHD ? Not that I'm aware of but by no means have I researched that question in

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

2009-08-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:26 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: So what happens when the main/server machine gets stuck on channel zapping, when there and you see only a no channel display on the client? Should the recording happen on the server? or on the client side? how do you restart vdr if

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

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-16 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:16 +0400, Goga777 wrote: for you.. I believe it should be possible to get 50 fps progressive output from 50i material using vdpau deinterlacing. yes, my PCI Geforce 8400 card on GPU G98 can do 10...@50 but with the simplest bob deinterlacing only. I

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-16 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 22:20 +0400, Goga777 wrote: I don't know exactly there's report that on G98 temporal works well. I believe in it So, I suppose that PCI bus is limited nvidia mentioned http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.29/README/appendix-h.html In order for

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 14:41 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Take a look at these patches: http://lowbyte.de/vga-sync-fields/ I believe they are useful also for HDMI/HD stuff. I haven't tried them yet myself. :) I'm very familiar with this patches - Thomas and I spent many hours trying

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-15 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 16:33 +0400, Goga777 wrote: I'm wondering - does the problem with timing and sync also important and for for vdpau nvidia cards ? or that project is important only for intel and ati ? Now that I think about it, I believe this is what I was really asking about.. is it

[vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of moving up. Right now I have an EPIA 800MHz quiet PC with the Technotrend

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 19:15 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:30:55 +0200 Rene Hertell linu...@hertell.com wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:50:42 -0800 But I wonder, does writing to the HD really shorten its life significantly compared to constant

Re: [vdr] information about NO signal

2009-02-28 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:57 +0300, Goga777 wrote: Hi is it possible to implement in VDR the feature as that - If there is NOT any LOCK to write about it like Channel doesn't found What a great (and obvious!) idea... often I have to use the 'femon' plugin to see if there's a lock, when

Re: [vdr] Windows remote client

2008-11-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:04 +0200, Alex Betis wrote: Thanks. Nice project. I'll try to use it, few questions still bother me. What is MVP that that client was intended to use? Hauppauge MediaMVP - small hardware device that was supposed to use its own Hauppauge Windows software as

Re: [vdr] ITV HD

2008-10-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:10 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: I've read that ITV HD can only be viewd by pressing the red button on a Freesat receiver. Does this mean VDR can't access it? It seems very unlikely. Red Button services merely act as a GUI frontend to the raw streams.. e.g. the 'News

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:14 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. Having vdr handle this form of

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:48 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 10/07/08 10:26, Gavin Hamill wrote: On my Sky digibox Sky One is on chanel number 106 - but I never saw that number in any programme announcement on Sky. The only say ... on Sky One, and not ... on channel 106. So where

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:10 +0100, Dave P wrote: A few months ago I posted a VDR patch to implement support for Freeview+, the cut-down version of TV-Anytime (ETSI TS 102 323) broadcast in the UK. I've prepared a new version against VDR 1.6.0-2, and included a simple Perl script which

Re: [vdr] PCI fun (RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate)

2008-08-17 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 03:41 +0200, Artur Skawina wrote: PCI in general should be perfectly fine, for SDTV at least. While displaying SDTV (vdrsxfe) I see ~20% cpu use for X on AGP, ~44% on PCI (same machine, different heads, AGP is MGA450, PCI is MGA200). Yes, 40% CPU has been what I've

Re: [vdr] PCI fun (RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate)

2008-08-16 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi all, Over the last days, Thomas and I have been trying to sort out why my nearly-identical machine couldn't run his VGA sync patches properly. The key difference is my Radeon 7000VE is PCI, whilst his is AGP. I tried the PCI Radeon in two old Pentium-3 era machines, and on my modern

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

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:25 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: Good heavens, this is all getting rather heavyweight :) oh - a very interesting fact. that's different to mine (see my output of top below). Xorg takes only 0.7%(!) CPU on my system. Are there some special patches in ubuntu that causes

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

2008-08-14 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:22 +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:25 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: Oh, aptitude solved the dependencies for me (needed to explicitly downgrade one package, then all was well.) Here's the vmstat 1 output during mplayer playback... i.e. no madness

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

2008-08-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:39 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: 1. for the moment please encomment both in 'radeon_video.c' and 'drift_control' //#define RESYNC_FIELD_POLARITY_METHOD1 //#define RESYNC_FIELD_POLARITY_METHOD2 Done, recompiled + reinstall the .deb, and recompiled the drift_control

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

2008-08-13 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:39 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: And now.. part 2 :) 4. stop drift_control 5. unload all dvb modules (there are known issues with some) 6. start vdr with local sxfe frontend (make channels.conf zero size file) 7. start replay of some recording. Because field polarity

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

2008-08-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: These two links seem to have a bit different ways of doing the cable.. The first link has more complicated cable.. Can someone try and compare these or explain the differences? Only Radeons can output a composite sync signal.

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

2008-08-12 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:19 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:29:53AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: Hi again, Thomas :) I have a system not dissimilar to yours.. it's a P3-1GHz with PCI Radeon 7000. OS is Ubuntu hardy with the patches from your 0.0.2 release. Now that

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

2008-08-08 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:37 +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: Hi list, Finally I have had a chance to try these patches - I managed to get an old Radeon 7000 PCI (RV100)... I am using a fresh bare install of Ubuntu hardy which ships xine-lib 1.1.11, but the patches don't compile :( The Makefile.am

Re: [vdr] UPnP/DLNA server plugin?

2008-05-01 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:20 +0300, Teemu Suikki wrote: I tried loading streamdev urls like http://vdr:3000/TS/3 with PS3 browser.. It does understand that it's some sort of stream, but I think it mistakes it as mp3 audio for some reason. Perhaps it would help if the url would end with

Re: [vdr] Two VDR's on one machine

2008-01-09 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:57 +0100, Magnus Hörlin wrote: other diskless client overloads my network. Therefore I'm interested to know how hard it would be to modify vdr so I can run one vdr process with, say /dev/dvb/adapter0-3 and a second one on adapter4? Where do I start looking? Is it

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Frontend for VDR/mplayer on Nokia 770/800

2007-08-05 Thread Gavin Hamill
Just some Python I knocked together - don't expect the world. It reads a channel list via SVDRP, shows the list, and launches mplayer with the appropriate arguments. Requires python and mplayer on the Nokia, VDR with streamdev-server and a machine (perhaps the VDR machine) with a CGI-capable

Re: [vdr] Too many open files - error

2007-02-20 Thread Gavin Hamill
Carlos Javier Borroto wrote: On 2/19/07, Kartsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was about to test the performance of vdr when I stumbled on this message ERROR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0: Too many open files I'm also having this error, only in my case, is not only related to recording, it also

Re: [vdr] streamplayer - no audio when streaming audio only?

2007-01-10 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:19:29 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Fredriksson) wrote: Is there anyone who has a clue about whi it isn't working - is it because there is no video? Yes. Using 0.1.3 from the Udo's homepage shows this in the README: --