Re: [vdr] No output via xineliboutput with VDR 1.7.21

2011-11-10 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi wrote: On 10.11.2011 1:45, Chris Rankin wrote: FYI, I have been successfully using xineliboutput *for years* with VDR 1.6.x. The *only reason* I felt this worth reporting to the mailing list is because it has all stopped

Re: [vdr] No output via xineliboutput with VDR 1.7.21

2011-11-10 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Chris Rankin ranki...@yahoo.com wrote: Please see the xineliboutput README for examples on using xine-ui with xineliboutput. Both vdr-sxfe and xine-ui can act as a front-end to xineliboutput. Not any more though, it would seem. Perhaps xineliboutput has not

[vdr] Multiple tuners and reception error recovery without emergency exit

2010-08-29 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I was wondering whether what I experienced yesterday is really the way VDR functions at the moment. I have two tuner cards, one in pci slot and another connected via usb. While VDR was running I disconnected the antenna cable from the pci card in order to connect it to a hd cable ready

Re: [vdr] Ubuntu 10.04 + vdr-plugin-xineliboutput + vdr-1.7.10

2010-05-23 Thread Petri Helin
Hi! I know this is not directly this lists problem.. But probably right people read this list. I just upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 and run problem with vdr-plugin-xineliboutput package. It depency says that vdr-abi-1.6.debian is required and I'm using vdr-1.7.10. Is there something what I

Re: [vdr] Ubuntu 10.04 + vdr-plugin-xineliboutput + vdr-1.7.10

2010-05-23 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:33 AM, JJussi v...@jjussi.com wrote: 23.5.2010 23:23, Petri Helin kirjoitti: Hi! I know this is not directly this lists problem.. But probably right people read this list. I just upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 and run problem with vdr-plugin-xineliboutput package

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2010-04-05 Thread Petri Helin
On 04/05/2010 12:57 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 05.04.2010 00:55, Teemu Rantanen wrote: Hi, There's a new version of the patch implemented as a plugin. It seems to work, but there are few things to notice: - Plugin does not cache which devices are Reddo devices, instead it probes

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and libextractor3

2010-02-22 Thread Petri Helin
On 02/22/2010 11:25 AM, Stefan Wagner wrote: after update to libextractor3 (debian sid) xineliboutput will not compile: tools/playlist.c: In member function 'virtual void cID3Scanner::Action()': tools/playlist.c:172: error: 'EXTRACTOR_ExtractorList' was not declared in this scope

Re: [vdr] 10 Year Anniversary of VDR

2010-02-22 Thread Petri Helin
On 02/19/2010 06:09 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: It has been exactly 10 years since version 0.01 of VDR (originally named OSM - On Screen Menu) was released. I want to use the occasion to thank everybody who has contributed to VDR, but also those who simply use VDR in their every day life. I

Re: [vdr] A few things about DVB subtitles

2010-02-07 Thread Petri Helin
On 02/08/2010 12:50 AM, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Petri Helin wrote: Yes, I am using xineliboutput and also VDR as the subtitles decoder. Ok. I've just added a patch into xineliboutput's cvs and it should fix this (preparing for next vdr release) - at least it did in my quick

Re: [vdr] XBMC and vdr

2010-02-05 Thread Petri Helin
On 02/05/2010 04:16 PM, martinez wrote: To the best of my knowledge XBMC can only be compiled for xbox1 It is always best not to rely on flawed knowledge, but try to find out the truth instead: http://xbmc.org/about/ -Petri ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] A few things about DVB subtitles

2010-02-03 Thread Petri Helin
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rolf Ahrenberg rahre...@cc.hut.fi wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Petri Helin wrote: Thanks. But with a quick test with VDR 1.7.11 I could not get the subtitles to stay visible. They still disappear after their lifetime has been spent. Well, it worked with my FF

Re: [vdr] A few things about DVB subtitles

2010-02-02 Thread Petri Helin
On 01/26/2010 06:28 PM, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Petri Helin wrote: 1. Pausing. At the monet the subtitles will disappear like in a live view - meaning that VDR seems to adhere the life time assignened to a subtitle image though the replay has been paused, causing

Re: [vdr] epgsearch compile problem

2010-02-01 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi wrote: g++ -march=native -O2 -pipe -fPIC -c -DCONFDIR=\/etc/vdr\ -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES -DUSE_LIEMIEXT -DUSE_MCLI -DUSE_TTXTSUBS -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSENDMAIL='/usr/sbin/sendmail' -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='epgsearch'

Re: [vdr] xine-plugin and vdpau

2010-01-24 Thread Petri Helin
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Stefan Taferner tafer...@kde.org wrote: Am Samstag 23 Januar 2010 21:59:10 schrieb Jussi J: Sorry.. My fault.. It's vdr-plugin-xine.. :-) Anyway, now I can use it thru vdr-sxfe (but not using xine-ui; but that's not relevant) You need a patched version of the

Re: [vdr] xine-plugin and vdpau

2010-01-23 Thread Petri Helin
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jussi J v...@jjussi.com wrote: Hi! I have nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1) what is VDPAU capable. I have loaded xine-plugin and try to use vdr-sxfe in vdpau mode, but no success.. AFAIK xine-plugin normally refers to vdr-xine, but I think you

Re: [vdr] Channel wrapping in live-tv

2010-01-11 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Ville Skyttä ville.sky...@iki.fi wrote: On Monday 11 January 2010, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: Hi, One small feature I find is missing from vdr is to have the possibility to go from the last channel to the first channel and vice versa when changing channel to

Re: [vdr] xine vdpau not working?

2010-01-08 Thread Petri Helin
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Simon Baxter linu...@nzbaxters.com wrote: I'm using xine-lib-1.2 and patching with xine-lib-1.2-vdpau-r286.diff which There is no need to do such thing, since there already exists a repository which contains vdpau: xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2-vdpau You can use it as

Re: [vdr] rewind recordings doesn't work with xineliboutput and vdr 1.7.10

2009-12-29 Thread Petri Helin
On 12/29/2009 09:32 PM, Gerald Dachs wrote: Hello, if I try to rewind a recording, I can see the movie going fast backwards, but if I stop rewinding, the movie continues from the moment I started the rewinding. This doesn't happen with xine-ui and the xine-plugin and with xbmc using the

Re: [vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-29 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: On 10/28/09 23:15, Petri Helin wrote: Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256

[vdr] Restricting a particular dvb card from tuning to channels with a selected modulation

2009-10-28 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I have an USB DVB-C card (Reddo dvb-c, actually a relabelled Tongshi box), which works very well with the current Linux driver excluding channels with QAM-256 modulation. Would it be easy to check FE_CAN_QAM_256 in vdr before trying to use a device to tune to a particular channel? In

Re: [vdr] Problems compiling xine-lib-1.2 for vdr-xine

2009-10-10 Thread Petri Helin
Simon Baxter wrote: I'm using ffmpeg svn revision 29766 Any ideas? You must have picked up that revision number from a wrong place, since the current revision is 20199. libavcodec/avcodec.h is the file where you should look for the missing member definition. Also make sure that the

Re: [vdr] Problems compiling xine-lib-1.2 for vdr-xine

2009-10-10 Thread Petri Helin
Simon Baxter wrote: Simon Baxter wrote: I'm using ffmpeg svn revision 29766 Any ideas? You must have picked up that revision number from a wrong place, since the current revision is 20199. libavcodec/avcodec.h is the file where you should look for the missing member definition. Also

Re: [vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

2009-09-07 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, VDR Useruser@gmail.com wrote: I'd suggest posting to the mailing list or both as VDR Portal caters 99% to people who speak german and isn't much help for the very large english-speaking-only VDR community. I wouldn't say the english-speaking-only VD

Re: [vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

2009-09-07 Thread Petri Helin
VDR User wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Petri Helinphe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, VDR Useruser@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps you meant the great non-german-speaking community, who communicate in English? ;) Nope, I mean english-speaking-only. Like the

Re: [vdr] vdrconvert-vdr-1.7.0+

2009-07-06 Thread Petri Helin
hu_emulator wrote: Thank you for your help. Replaced vdr2dvd.sh with your, renamed to vdr2dvd.sh, rebooted. But still getting the following error: --- new File: '/video0/iso/tmp/vdr2dvd/9137/%Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(All_Day)_/VDRSYNC.vTpfbc/001[1].mpa' What version of Project-X are you

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.1

2009-05-28 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:10 AM, baltasa...@web.de wrote: There is a patch, I don't know the name but it is included in the ExtensionsPatch. Then you have the '0' to toggle the order. It is included also in Liemikuutio patch: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Liemikuutio-patch It

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.1

2009-05-28 Thread Petri Helin
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: I like the ExtRecMenu plugin very much. In particular, I love the fact that it shows me the length of my recordings and that it allows me to display recordings in alphabetical (and chronological) order. There

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-webvideo 0.1.4

2009-05-05 Thread Petri Helin
Antti Ajanki wrote: New version of the Webvideo plugin is available at http://users.tkk.fi/~aajanki/vdr/webvideo/ Hi Antti, since it sounded such a nice plugin I decided to give it a try, but am still trying, because the installation it not what someone might call simple :) First of all,

Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine

2009-04-29 Thread Petri Helin
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jan Ekholm jan.ekh...@smultron.net wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2009 14:05:33 Pertti Kosunen wrote: Jan Ekholm wrote: fine. Also the OSD isn't working making normal VDR use a hassle and I'm forced to switch the the s-video side to see EPG, timers etc.

Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine

2009-04-29 Thread Petri Helin
Lars Olsson wrote: I am a happy VDR user since a couple of years ago. Before VDR, I used Mythtv but switched due to its hardware requirements and bugs. My VDR is an (very) old Duron 700 MHz with 1 Technotrend FF card and 1 PVR 350 card. It has been no problem recording two channels (SD) at

[vdr] Where do you live and what kind of broadcast do you receive?

2009-03-18 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I have wondered for some time how broad has VDR spread and how is it really used. So, if people could post their location and the type of broadcast they are receiving, we could get some kind of understanding about the state of DVB (or ATSC) as it is now. Just a brief description, using

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.7.4 xineliboutput

2009-03-07 Thread Petri Helin
Artem Makhutov wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:22:11AM +0200, Lauri Tischler wrote: Artem Makhutov wrote: Is some body working on getting xineliboutput to work vdr-1.7.4? Latest CVS works. I tried the lastest CVS, but it does not work for me. Only the OSD is working. I am just

Re: [vdr] Few more questions about xinelibout

2008-12-05 Thread Petri Helin
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Few more questions about xinelibout. I've run the frontend now

Re: [vdr] Few more questions about xinelibout

2008-12-04 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Alex Betis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Few more questions about xinelibout. I've run the frontend now as a separate task and looks like it doesn't crash now except when I try to open a picture, I'll try to debug it later. Perhaps your pictures a too big

Re: [vdr] Where is the H.264 patch?

2008-11-24 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Tony Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:49:23 +0100 jlacvdr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to vdr-1.7.0, in attach file of this message : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2008-April/016513.html Is there a patch that will work with 1.6.0?

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput not working

2008-11-04 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:27 PM, hudo kkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why this (build with xine-lib 1.1.90, using xine-lib 1.1.15) if I built xine-lib 1.2? Do you have both xine-lib 1.2 and 1.1.15 installed? 1.1.90 means 1.2. -Petri ___ vdr

Re: [vdr] media player and a/52 sound.

2008-11-04 Thread Petri Helin
JJussi wrote: Base question/problem is.. Why vdr-xineliboutput don't work with xine settings? (as I stated at start of this thread, with xine I don't have problems with these files... Coping config file to setup_xineliboutput don't solve problem.) Most likely there is something else

Re: [vdr] media player and a/52 sound.

2008-11-04 Thread Petri Helin
JJussi wrote: I would.. If I could.. When I try to download file, I get 403 Forbidden Even for this direct link? http://www.diatonis.com/downloads/diatonis_ac3_48k_soal.zip -Petri ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] media player and a/52 sound.

2008-11-03 Thread Petri Helin
JJussi wrote: I assume that you use vdr-sxfe as the frontend for xineliboutput? What does its log output look like? Please set logging to verbose and post here (as attachments) the results. And the same with xine. -Petri Hi! That's right! vdr-sxfe is my front end. Here is log files.

Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-28 Thread Petri Helin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Harald Milz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: Known problem. Use newer xine-lib (if you're using what I think that you're using, it's old and unsupported) and external ffmpeg. That sounds as if the vdr-xine

Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-28 Thread Petri Helin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Niels Wagenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original message- From: Goga777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 28-10-2008 10:06 To: vdr@linuxtv.org; Subject: Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1 -- SNIP -- How did you deduce

Re: [vdr] cannot compile most recent snapshot of vdr-xineliboutput

2008-10-05 Thread Petri Helin
Diego Pierotto wrote: Uwe Kiewel ha scritto: cc -O3 -pipe -Wall -fPIC -g -I/usr/local/include-c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='xineliboutput' -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXINELIBOUTPUT_VERSION='1.0.2' -DHAVE_XRENDER=1 -DHAVE_XDPMS=1 -DHAVE_XINERAMA=1

Re: [vdr] cannot compile most recent snapshot of vdr-xineliboutput

2008-10-05 Thread Petri Helin
Uwe Kiewel wrote: Petri Helin schrieb: Diego Pierotto wrote: Uwe Kiewel ha scritto: cc -O3 -pipe -Wall -fPIC -g -I/usr/local/include-c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='xineliboutput' -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXINELIBOUTPUT_VERSION='1.0.2' -DHAVE_XRENDER

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-19 Thread Petri Helin
Jouni Karvo wrote: Petri Helin wrote: really causes VDR to not start also. My aim really was to start some discussion on whether that should be changed. I myself think that VDR should start although some plugin fails to start. I'd hate to find out that some timed recording failed because

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-19 Thread Petri Helin
VDR User wrote: I like that VDR won't load if a plugin failed. That means there was a problem, and I should go fix it. Also, it's the plugins job to continue on non-fatal errors, not VDR. How would VDR even know whats a non-fatal error for a certain plugin? From VDR's perspective either

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-19 Thread Petri Helin
VDR User wrote: I think it's a huge assumption (and incorrect one) to say the main function of VDR is to record tv shows. I know many people who use it for watching live tv, email notices, weather report, playing other media something like an htpc, etc. Ok, let me rephrase it: for my

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-19 Thread Petri Helin
Udo Richter wrote: Petri Helin wrote: In fact I am already wondering why plugins are not hot-pluggable... They are, to some degree, by using the proxy plugin. The proxy plugin can delay loading a plugin, and for some plugins it can unload a plugin while VDR is running. It can also do

[vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-18 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I have been running VDR as a daemon started via init script for some years now. I am currently using version 1.6.0-2. The problem is, that every now and then VDR doesn't start when I boot the server. The culprit seems to be lcdproc plugins, which for some reason cannot always connect to the

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-18 Thread Petri Helin
Diego Pierotto wrote: Petri Helin ha scritto: Hi, I have been running VDR as a daemon started via init script for some years now. I am currently using version 1.6.0-2. The problem is, that every now and then VDR doesn't start when I boot the server. The culprit seems to be lcdproc plugins

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput, libextract and Media Player

2008-07-10 Thread Petri Helin
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Lauri Tischler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Loaded latest xineliboutput from cvs, compiled and installed, it did complain about old libextract, says that 0.5.20 is needed, xbuntu has 0.5.18, might this be the reason for not working dvd subtitle menus in Media

Re: [vdr] OT : is Sanyo PLV-Z2000 a good choice for Full HD ?

2008-05-24 Thread Petri Helin
Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello, today, I received an intersting email with a link to http://www.digitec.ch/?param=cmswert=beamer-aktion_mai08 which also have (sorry in german) : Sanyo PLV-Z2000 Der PLV-Z2000 von Sanyo bringt die Ära der digitalen Full HD-Projektion in eine neue

Re: [vdr] Xine-Lib failed with external-ffmpeg option?

2008-05-12 Thread Petri Helin
H. Onur wrote: hi, i get this message when compiling xine-lib with external ffmpeg and latest ffmpeg svn. Perhaps you should try with xine-lib 1.2? -Petri ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput segmentation fault

2008-05-08 Thread Petri Helin
Graziano Pavone wrote: 2008/5/7 Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you update xineliboutput from the cvs and try again? In case you still see the same behaviour, attach your setup.conf (or just the xineliboutput subset) and ~/.xine

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-07 Thread Petri Helin
gimli wrote: Screen resolution is 1920x1080 for HDTV. When is switch from an SDTV channel to an HDTV channel the OSD is way to small. Looks there is no scalling to the larger resolution. You might want to give the cvs a go now. There should be a proper fix in place and no more reverting is

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput segmentation fault

2008-05-07 Thread Petri Helin
Graziano Pavone wrote: Hallo, I'm using xineliboutput as an output device, both on the main VDR server (that is attached to a 16:9 display) and over network to a client, with no DVB cards, but that connect over the network to the main server VDR with xineliboutput. Everything is working

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput segmentation fault

2008-05-07 Thread Petri Helin
Graziano Pavone wrote: 2008/5/7 Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, which version of xineliboutput are you using? Which frontend do you use (vdr-sxfe, vdr-fbfe, xine-ui or local)? -Petri I'm using xineliboutput-1.0.0, and vdr-sxfe

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-06 Thread Petri Helin
gimli wrote: Reverting xine_input_vdr.c breaks the OSD scaling. cu Edgar (gimli) Hucek Could you elaborate a bit? What settings do you have, what is the resolution of the video when it happens, what are the exact symptoms you are experiencing and so on... I myself have not yet

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-06 Thread Petri Helin
gimli wrote: Screen resolution is 1920x1080 for HDTV. When is switch from an SDTV channel to an HDTV channel the OSD is way to small. Looks there is no scalling to the larger resolution. Yes, that's an unfortunate side effect. You could try reverting several other files also, namely

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-03 Thread Petri Helin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pertti Kosunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but vdr-sxfe wasn't recompiled. it seems there's no dependency to xine_input_vdr.c You may have to run make clean-plugins. what I meant is that it does not seem vdr-sxfe depends on

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-02 Thread Petri Helin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using vdr-1.6 and xineliboutput from cvs. I'm using it with freevo and vdr is controlled through xine-ui/vdr-sxfe by stdin. For instance I send hitk Up to vdr-sxfe or EventUp to xine-ui. Every so often when i change between channels xine-ui/vdr-sxfe stops

Re: [vdr] cvs xineliboutput

2008-05-02 Thread Petri Helin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a temporary solution you could revert file xine_input_vdr.c to version 1.127: cvs update -C -r 1.127 xine_input_vdr.c It has been reported to cure the kind of behaviour you have been experiencing. btw, vdr-sxfe

Re: [vdr] vdr HD MPEG-4 DVB-C

2008-04-28 Thread Petri Helin
Simon Baxter wrote: Has anyone tried one of these new cards with VDR? http://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p149_SATELCO-EasyWatch-PCI-DVB-C-HDTV--Basic-Edition-.html Or any other DVB-C card supporting CI/CAM and MPEG-4 ? The support for MPEG-4 comes in the form of codecs

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.6.0 and subtitle

2008-04-20 Thread Petri Helin
Matti Ropo wrote: Hi all I did upgrade my vdr from 1.4.7 to 1.6.0 (packages are from ubuntu hardy repository)and notice that the vdr do not displays subtitles. I am using xineliboutput as output device. I found out from linuxtv.fi that one should have channels PID automatically

Re: [vdr] Watching old recordings with DVB subtitles with 1.6.0

2008-04-12 Thread Petri Helin
Ville Skyttä wrote: Hello, I have quite a few old recordings with DVB subtitles that were recorded and watchable with 1.4.x and the subtitles plugin. When replaying these with VDR 1.6.0, the subtitles aren't shown (new recordings made with 1.6.0 seem to be fine). I see there's some

Re: [vdr] Watching old recordings with DVB subtitles with 1.6.0

2008-04-12 Thread Petri Helin
Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote: After figuring out how to access the subtitles menu (my remote.conf was from 1.4.x series so there was no button binding for it), yes, I do see an entry named 57 there. Selecting it gives me the Finnish subtitles I was looking

Re: [vdr] Subtitles should not be cleared when a replay has been paused

2008-04-12 Thread Petri Helin
Petri Helin wrote: Hi, I think there is a slight usability flaw in the design how DVB subtitles are handled when replaying a record. Currently, if I pause the replay, subtitles will disappear when their life span has out. Could it be changed so that the subtitles stay visible as long

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-09 Thread Petri Helin
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Jouni Karvo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless, although probably most techies feel the crop mode is not interesting, perhaps you'll be able to find one that is willing to implement it - or perhaps you can DIY and share the code. I think the idea of

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput: viewing 16:9 content on 4:3 output device

2008-04-08 Thread Petri Helin
Patrick Boettcher wrote: Hi, On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Ian Bates wrote: One more remark, if as I believe from the comments in the code above, that the '16:9 crop to 4:3' behaviour is not implemented in xineliboutput, am I the only one suffering from the lack of this feature? Am I the only one

Re: [vdr] VDR as a set top box

2008-04-07 Thread Petri Helin
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jörg Knitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petri Helin wrote: [...] start up a fluxbox session. The fluxbox session runs a start up script which starts vdr-sxfe, which connect to the xineliboutput plugin. [...] One general question: Is vdr-sxfe

Re: [vdr] VDR as a set top box

2008-04-06 Thread Petri Helin
Simon Baxter wrote: Hi group My VDR box currently starts up like a regular Fedora Core user, auto-logs-in and starts xine - much like I expect most of you do. I'm looking for a way to make all the X startup and log in invisible to the user. This is where my knowledge of X and gnome

Re: [vdr] xinelibout with no OSD

2008-04-05 Thread Petri Helin
Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: Hello List, My configuration is a diskless VDR box with FF Card and xineliboutput without frontends. The client is the out-of-the-box xine-ui with the apropriate libs from the actual Debian SID on my desktop computer. Is the xvdr-plugin for xine-lib

Re: [vdr] Cannot open shared object file

2008-03-25 Thread Petri Helin
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM, ga ver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In Ubuntu 8.04 beta I have installed via synaptic vdr 1.5.13 and xineliboutput-sxfe 1.0.0-rc2-13 I run vdr -Pxineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --audio=alsa --remote=none and get vdr:

[vdr] Subtitles should not be cleared when a replay has been paused

2008-03-13 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, I think there is a slight usability flaw in the design how DVB subtitles are handled when replaying a record. Currently, if I pause the replay, subtitles will disappear when their life span has out. Could it be changed so that the subtitles stay visible as long as the replay is paused?

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.8.2 plugin

2008-03-13 Thread Petri Helin
oleg roitburd wrote: Last checkout from xine-lib-1.2 does works. But your xine/patches/xine-lib.patch has many rejects and reverts with this tree. Maybe that's why it states this in the INSTALL file ;): in case you are using xine-lib-1.2, there is no need for patching -Petri

Re: [vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

2008-03-09 Thread Petri Helin
Kimmo Taskinen wrote: Hi, Your patch didn't fix this problem although it changed behaviour. Subtitle language selection is now kind of inversed in replay mode. I mean that when I select finnish subtitles (suomi) I'll get swedish ones (during finnish talk and nothing during swedish talk)

Re: [vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

2008-03-09 Thread Petri Helin
is used when selecting the audio track, while in replay mode the EPG data takes precedence. I just wonder why Petri Helin (see his recent posting in this thread) gets correct behavior. @Petri: can you please also post the PID and info data you get? Here are the contents of the info.vdr: C C-0

Re: [vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

2008-03-07 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 03/07/08 06:21, JJussi wrote: On Friday, 7. Marchta 2008 00:37:06 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: The info.vdr file contains X 3 11 fin X 2 03 fin X 3 03 dut which indicates that audio is in Finnish, and there are two subtitle tracks. The one with type 03 looks like

Re: [vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

2008-03-04 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 03/04/08 19:55, Kimmo Taskinen wrote: Hi, I switched recently to vdr 1.5 series and noticed an annoying feature/ bug with DVB subtitles that was not present in vdr 1.4 series using subtitles plugin. The problem is that the subtitles for hearing impaired

Re: [vdr] How to change font data?

2008-03-02 Thread Petri Helin
Martin Prochnow wrote: Is it possible to change font data directly in code or do I have to create my own true type font containing the icons? the best aproach IMHO would be an API in VDR that allows you to nail custom glyphs into the glyph cache. though this could lead to problems if multiple

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2008-02-17 Thread Petri Helin
Stefan Wagner wrote: Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that Project-X is able to handle only subtitles within subID 0x20. I have a recording with subtitles with subIDs 0x20 and 0x21 and demuxing fails with command 248. If I restrict Project-X to subID 0x20, I am able to demux

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2008-02-17 Thread Petri Helin
Stefan Wagner wrote: Petri Helin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that Project-X is able to handle only subtitles within subID 0x20. I have a recording with subtitles with subIDs 0x20 and 0x21 and demuxing fails with command 248. If I restrict Project-X to subID 0x20, I am able to demux

Re: [vdr] ERROR: can't set PID xxxx on device y

2008-02-16 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 02/09/08 16:36, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 01/06/08 23:57, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Hi, Petri Helin schrieb: since VDR became subtitles aware some months ago, I have been getting this kind of entries in the log: Jan 6 23:02:48 vdr vdr: [4506] ERROR: can't set

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2008-02-15 Thread Petri Helin
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Davide Cavalca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il giorno mar, 12/02/2008 alle 03.43 +0200, Petri Helin ha scritto: Davide Cavalca wrote: My recordings are from BBC Prime. its possible, the patch is only for zdf: http://forum.dvbtechnics.info/showthread.php

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2008-02-11 Thread Petri Helin
Davide Cavalca wrote: Il giorno dom, 10/02/2008 alle 18.32 +0100, Stefan Wagner ha scritto: ProjectX 0.90.4.b22 works with vdr 1.5.x recordings. Just tried the last cvs, it still fails to process subtitles, getting stuck in a loop with message suppic unknown cmd: 44 as the previous version I

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waiting for FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-07 Thread Petri Helin
Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: Remains to be seen if VIA (or some other manufacturer) comes up with a small, low power consumption MB with h.264 hw decoding or if we see a FF DVB-S2 card before that. In the meantime there is no hurry, I'm happy with the current VDR :-) Intel should be doing

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-04 Thread Petri Helin
On Feb 4, 2008 7:15 PM, Sebastien Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Totally off topic and only my opinion A side note : I think most of the No answer comes from people who were expecting specific modifications (txtsub, full dvb subtitle, dvb-s2, h264, ts recording, ...). IMHO answering no in

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Petri Helin
Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: In my opinion DVB-S2/H.264 are nice to have extra features, but working DVB subtitling support is a must have feature for PVR software like VDR, because almost everyone needs DVB subtitles around here, but not that many watch HDTV channels yet. But the DVB

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 02/03/08 12:48, Petri Helin wrote: once there is support for h.264, a new stable release should be made. Is this a Yes or No vote? Klaus Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Should there be a stable version 1.6.0 now, based on what's in version 1.5.14

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: By texting support I assume you mean teletext subtitles. Well, they won't be implemented before DVB-S2/H.264 anyway. So it doesn't really make much difference whether there is a version 1.6.0 now ;-). Implementing also ttxtsubs would be an enormous pro for VDR in

Re: [vdr] need CAM on every DVB device?

2008-01-26 Thread Petri Helin
Simon Baxter wrote: Hi Simple question, do you need a separate CAM for every DVB device you add? I'm receiving a cable service from a single provider and want to decode up to 2 boquets at once. Do both DVB cards need to have their own CI/CAM? AFAIK, that is exactly the case. If

[vdr] ERROR: can't set PID xxxx on device y

2008-01-06 Thread Petri Helin
Hi, since VDR became subtitles aware some months ago, I have been getting this kind of entries in the log: Jan 6 23:02:48 vdr vdr: [4506] ERROR: can't set PID 2027 on device 9 PID 2027 is for a finnish subtitles stream. I cannot see anything failing or such when this entry appears, but just

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and vdr-1.5.12 compile problems

2007-12-26 Thread Petri Helin
karim wrote: Hello, I am using vdr-1.5.12 under kernel 2.6.23.12 - UTF-8. I've tried to compile 2 versions of xineliboutput without success : Xineliboutput - 1.0.0rc2 grep: ../../../include/vdr/osd.h: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and vdr-1.5.12 compile problems

2007-12-26 Thread Petri Helin
karim wrote: Hello, I tried this Makefile on the lastest cvs xineliboutput, unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem. Did I missed something, or is there anything I could check ? Thanks. Unfortunately the error messages you get while compiling aren't in a language I can read and

Re: [vdr] Subtitles - 1.5.11

2007-12-19 Thread Petri Helin
VDR User wrote: No, of course not.. That pluging would not even compile, if you try to compile it, compilation is failed because vdr is not compiled with subtitle use-flag What is a subtitle use-flag? VDR is pretty straight forward to me... Apply whatever patches you like - compile -

Re: [vdr] Subtitles - 1.5.11

2007-12-17 Thread Petri Helin
JJussi wrote: Hi! I tried start using vdr 1.5.11, but still I have problems with subtitles. I cannot help you with your problem as such, but you should definitely test the latest developer version _always_ before asking help on the mailing list. Especially now that almost all fixes in each

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2007-12-15 Thread Petri Helin
Davide Cavalca wrote: Davide Cavalca ha scritto: Hello everybody, I've recorded some shows (with subtitles) with vdr 1.5.10, I wanted to demux the recordings with projectx but it looks like it has some problems coping with the new subtitles; the error is suppic unknown cmd: 44 Just tried

Re: [vdr] remote.conf file syntax ?

2007-12-08 Thread Petri Helin
Xavier Beaudouin wrote: Hello, I have (with somewhat difficulties) to configure vdr with softdevice plugins on vesa fb (don't want X11 stuff and directfb doesn't seems to work on Ati Radeon 9100 IGP). I have also stopped to try to use a DXR3 card as well ;(. My problem is that I have

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput and G550

2007-11-30 Thread Petri Helin
On Nov 29, 2007 6:07 PM, Kimmo Taskinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My G550's DVI port is connected TV's HDMI. On software side have tried xineliboutput's remote frontends. Otherwise everything is fine but I have small issues with both X and DirectFB. 1. With vdr-sxfe I seem to have some tearing

Re: [vdr] About language choices in subtitle and audio selectors

2007-11-16 Thread Petri Helin
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 11/13/07 00:12, Petri Helin wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: So VDR just displays what the provider broadcasts - unless, of course, there is a bug in VDR's code, in which case you're welcome to send a fix. Well, it seems to work with live TV, but for replay

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-16 Thread Petri Helin
On Nov 15, 2007 9:03 PM, VDR User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lastly with regard to Petri's comment that, But VDR does support h.264 broadcasts already, although with patching, but still. So there is no need for anyone to stop using VDR because of a lack of h.264 support. I don't think anyone

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