Re: [vdr] TV Standards option for vdr-1.5.x

2007-03-12 Thread Patrick Mackin
www.hoochvdr.info is an NTSC-only vdr site. I also would like this option in the future! You can see vdr's North American popularity from the activity at that site. I hope so! VDR is used by a great number of NTSC users (more so than I think Klaus and the others realize) and it seems weird

Re: [vdr] BUG: Incorrect playback times for radio channels

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Mackin
VDR derives the playback times for a recording by a hard coded relationship from the number of an index entry in the recording's index file (see recording.h, FRAMESPERSEC). The default relationship of 25 frames per second doesn't suit to NTSC broadcasts with 30 frames per second, so VDR reports a

[vdr] BUG: Incorrect playback times for radio channels

2007-03-05 Thread Patrick Mackin
I have noticed a potential bug in playing back radio channels. The playback time of recorded radio channels is inflated by almost 40%. This has been confirmed on four North American satellites on three different providers. The reported time for a 10 minute recording will consistently appear a

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Mackin
Well, I would actually prefer it built in to vdr. Heck, I'd prefer that vdr's on screen EPG was as nice as yaepgs. I suggested the reminder belong in a plugin because the record timer in yaepg is more advanced / user friendly than the one built in to vdr. I may be mistaken on this--I am new t

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
Is that HD-capable? HDTV seems quite common in NA, but currently in the UK there are very few HD channels, only available through overpriced subscriptions. It looks unlikely that there'll be any FTA/FTV HD until at least after the analogue terrestrial switch-off in 2012. HDTV is not as common

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I too would like this feature, but if you are using yaepg as many are, it seems like that is a feature the plugin should provide, not vdr. wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program b

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware. Also generic video cards are increasingl

Re: [vdr] Bug in selecting audio channel over digital out

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Mackin
Subject: Re: [vdr] Bug in selecting audio channel over digital out Patrick Mackin wrote: Today I noticed that when I select left or right audio channel, this only takes effect on the analog audio out, not the digital out of my Nexus card. From my Nexus, I have video (yellow), audio right (red),

[vdr] Bug in selecting audio channel over digital out

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Mackin
Today I noticed that when I select left or right audio channel, this only takes effect on the analog audio out, not the digital out of my Nexus card. From my Nexus, I have video (yellow), audio right (red), and audio left (white) run to my television. I have the digital audio out (black) run t

[vdr] RADIO: Select left / right audio channel?

2007-01-10 Thread Patrick Mackin
Is it possible for vdr to set and remember either the left or right audio channel for a particular SID? Telstar 5 for example has several radio channels that have different programming on the left and right channels. I can select one of these, but then if I switch stations and return, it has