Re: [vdr] Can't get lock on BBC news

2008-07-12 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 09:12 +0200, Tony Grant a écrit : freesat: Can't get a lock on BBC News 24 since yesterday is it just me? Still not lock and 42% STNR on BBC News Is no one else having problems with theis channel? I have also lost the channel 4 group of channels although

[vdr] Can't get lock on BBC news

2008-07-11 Thread Tony Grant
Hi, freesat: Can't get a lock on BBC News 24 since yesterday is it just me? I have also lost the channel 4 group of channels although femon reports lock. Have these channels changed their transponder (again)? Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] EPIA-ML6000 and vdr-xine full screen?

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 06:26 +1200, Simon Baxter a écrit : Has anyone tested running an EPIA ML6000 fanless motherboard with vdr-xine? It is a CLE266 it will work just fine The spec's only say MPEG-2 Accelerator rather than Decoder/Accelerator - will it work with a VGA 1366x768 16:9

Re: [vdr] silly question

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 28 mars 2008 à 19:28 +, Andy Carter a écrit : Check Setup-DVB-Update channels and select your preferred option Thanks! It has been a long time since I went in there... =:-D Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

[vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Reinhard, I decided to try vdr 1.6.0 and vdr-xine 0.8.2 and have ran into the XINE VDR VERSION MISMATCH in INSTALL issue. I am running xine-lib 1.2 pulled from the xine site pkg-config --cflags libxine -I/usr/local/include I can't see what is wrong Cheers Tony --

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12:15 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : I use this in order to be sure I only got ONE xine-lib installed : Thanks Gregoire but I only have one xine-lib installed. This is a clean FC8 with xine-lib 1.2 installed from hg. Trying an update of xine-lib now (4 hours on a VIA

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12:54 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : Trying an update of xine-lib now (4 hours on a VIA Epia M1) I am quiete certain that you still have some files from the previous version... you don't have to recompil all, just delete all files in the location you installed

[vdr] vdr 1.6.0

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
OK I now have the following set up: - hush with VIA Epia M1 - Fedora Core 8 up to date except libX11* - xine-lib 1.2 from hg today 27/03/2008 - vdr 1.6.0 - vdr-xine 0.8.2 - femon 1.2.4 - vdradmin-am-3.6.1 *In order to use xine with xxmc

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine - screen size and resolution

2008-03-21 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 21 mars 2008 à 12:43 +0100, serge pecher a écrit : As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as possible to my tv screen ? try the -f option Tony --

[vdr] VDR and sky CAM

2008-03-07 Thread Tony Grant
Hello fans of British TV. At the moment I watch the FTA channels on 28.2/28.5 E I am thinking of investing £20 in a FTV card for the new freesat service. Is anyone using the card (or the sky card for existing service) with VDR? What kind of DVB-S card do you have (budget or FF)? What brand? At

Re: [vdr] VDR on OpenWRT / embedded system

2008-02-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 11:57 +0200, Theunis Potgieter a écrit : How about Western Digital Mybook World Edition - USB - EN 1000 - serial port on MB Still has the 32MB RAM limitation. Debian has been installed in place of the stock linux. And there is 500/750/1000

Re: [vdr] BBC EPG from sat ? (loadepg equivalent ?)

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 12:03 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : even if my english is quiete limited, I really enjoy the program from the BBC (S13.0E/S19.2E/S28.2E) which are FTA :-) The only thing I miss is an epg of more than current and next. Hi Grégoire, I use xmltv and xmltv2vdr I

Re: [vdr] BBC EPG from sat ? (loadepg equivalent ?)

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 20:57 +0100, Brian a écrit : Problem is that Bleb no longer has all the channels, copyright problems. Thats why I no longer use it. I use the solution pointed out by Tony Grant, it works perfectly well. You can customize which channel's epg it should retrieve

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

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 09:58 +, Laz a écrit : I don't think MPEG4 decoding will be supported in this way for a very long time, unless Via have changed their attitudes. (Not really bothered looking into this because HD is years off in the UK where I am, unless you fork out lots

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

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 17:29 +0200, JJussi a écrit : HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. But some of us do! ;-) I would probably spend a lot more time - enough to justify the cost - in front of TV if I

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-02-03 Thread Tony Grant
Le samedi 02 février 2008 à 13:13 +0100, Hans Gustafsson a écrit : I got rid of the xine blue screen/hang by downgrading libX11 and libX11-devel to the ones from fedora 7 :) OK it works. It puts CPU usage up about 2-5%. I'll tell the openchrome and xine people. Cheers Tony --

Re: [vdr] #error VDR requires Linux DVB driver API version 3.3! (was - VDR developer version 1.5.14)

2008-01-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 29 janvier 2008 à 13:00 +0100, Ales Jurik a écrit : On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Matthias Fechner wrote: I modified now the Makefile and added the following lines after the include of the conf file: ifdef DVBDIR INCLUDES += -I$(DVBDIR)/include endif For plugins which are

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput with xxmc: slow OSD

2008-01-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 09:44 +0100, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : I am experimenting with xineliboutput using the xxmc video driver for the local sxfe frontend on an EPIA-M1 board with CLE266. I have the OpenChrome Drivers installed. MPEG2 HW decoding seems usually to work, I get

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput with xxmc: slow OSD

2008-01-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 12:07 +0100, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : There is a problem with xine, the openchrome driver and VDR. You are too slow - I am seeing 9-12% CPU with current openchrome even with this bug. I am using vdr-xine rather than xineliboutput snip that was not the

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-21 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 19:40 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : There exists already a fixed version of libxcb but it is not available for a stock openSUSE 10.3. On the other hand, my EPIA MII-6000E runs openSUSE 10.3 too, using the binary openchrome driver package provided at

[vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
I pulled the dvb drivers with mercurial made and installed. Nothing has changed: Fire up vdr-xine which tunes to BBC 1 (horizintal polarization) vdr-xine: Client connected! [vaAVM]buffered 35,1 frames (v:39,0, a:35,1) frame: (0, 0)-(720, 576), zoom: (1,00, 1,00) Picture and sound perfect

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 17:53 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : Can you provide an excerpt of VDR's logfile with the content from switching to channel up to jan 17 10:25:01? Easier, I just switched channels and it stops Tony Jan 17 18:34:24 hush vdr: [4551] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known Jan

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 19:40 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : 100% CPU but it changes channels. Maybe -V xv relaxes CPU load a bit. Yes but sound eventually cuts out. Well, on my openSUSE 10.3 I cannot use xxmc anymore with my GF6600 as it dead locks for the same reason. openSUSE

[vdr] can't swich from horizintal to vertical polarisation

2008-01-16 Thread Tony Grant
OK so I fixed all my issues with my clean install of vdr and vdr-xine in Fedora Core 8 except one: - switching from horizontal to vertical polarization does not work, screen goes black, xine stops responding - I can record vertical polarized channels and play back the recording

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 22:35 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : ITV1 London;BSkyB:10758:vC56S0Z0:S28.2E:22000:2305:2310=eng,2314=NAR:2315:0:10060:2:2044:0 I have recorded from it and can see recording but it is not visible as live TV Does that help? Tony --

[vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
I noticed that I could no longer see channels with vertical polarisation - this used to work must have stopped last week. Channels: BBC 2 England;BSkyB:10773:hC56:S28.2E:22000:... etc. works ITV1 London;BSkyB:10759:vC56:S28.2E:22000:... blanks screen vdr 1.5.13, vdr-xine 0.8 Any ideas?

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 17:33 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : I can't test vdr-1.5.13 because a VDR without DVB-S2 isn't fun at all, but with vdr-1.5.12 with DVB-S2 support I can perfectly tune to : ITV1

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 17:33 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Tony Grant wrote: I noticed that I could no longer see channels with vertical polarisation - this used to work must have stopped last week. Channels: BBC 2 England;BSkyB

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 17:05 +, Chris Jones a écrit : Has anyone tried VGA out at 1600x1050 on a FullHD (Sony Bravia for example)? If so what does it look like. I've used a PC connected to a 40 Bravia via DVI and it was pretty damn good. If you sat far enough away you could use

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.8.0 plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 14:50 +, Darren Salt a écrit : - it doesn't require me to recompile libxine Neither does vdr-xine (if you're using xine-lib-1.2). affirmative! I am running xine-lib-1.2 and vdr-xine 0.8.0 at last no more messing with patching xine-lib My problems:

[vdr] 4 and 5

2007-10-28 Thread Tony Grant
Hello, Linowsat (http://www.linowsat.com/settings/vdr/unsorted/0282/fta-tv.conf) has listings for both Channel 4 and Five as FTA. I know they are FTV on Sky. When I try to watch I have EPG data and femon shows signal but I have no image or sound. Is this a Linowsat error or am I doing something

Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2007 à 09:04 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : The picture was very good, but there was dropped frames that xine reported and the stuttered on occassion and then ran very quickly to catch up. Playing around with the settings in xine (setting threads to 2 etc) didn't

Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2007 à 09:47 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : xine-lib-1.2 is only available from the hg repository. Please follow this guide: OK I have lib-1.2 and vdr-xine-0.8.0 humming along. Image very clean and CPU usage is down another 5%. I will see if the new version of

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-20 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 19:48 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : Have you tried --verbose=2 -V xv and verified from the output, that video_out_xv is used? yes it is Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-19 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 19:48 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : - any attempt at using the xine configuration dialog results in a lock up Hmm, I've upgraded to openSUSE 10.3 this morning. I now get such dead locks when using -V xxmc. The deadlock happens for simple libX11

[vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-18 Thread Tony Grant
Hi, I thought I would try this First a question asked on the Forum that did not get a reply: - PCM volume is being turned down to 0 which is very annoying Where do I change these settings? SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 The new versions of VDR and xine plugin:

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 02 octobre 2007 à 08:48 +0200, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : How did you enable the MPEG2 decoder? I enabled the xxmc option in xine (xvmc caused crashes). Are there other ways? xxmc is the correct way - I have a desktop launcher shell script to start xine with options -V xxmc -fg

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-10-01 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 07:44 +1300, Simon Baxter a écrit : I'm currently running a Shuttle SK43G with the via/unichrome chipset, running a budget card and using vdr-xine as a softdevice. Since recently adding an LCD 16:9 I'm now running it at 1360x768 with xine anamorphic, to get 4:3

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-10-01 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Torgeir Veimo a écrit : On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 08:02 +0200, Tony Grant wrote: I'm in the throws of buying an EPIA SP8000EG or SP13000 with the mpeg2/4 accelerator. Has anyone had experience with these and 16:9 through x-windows? I have

Re: [vdr] Mid range CPU choice

2007-09-05 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 13:10 +0200, Nicolas Huillard a écrit : Nice setup - but the case is too big for me. I have a single glass panel shelf, the case can be 11.5 deep maximum.. I went for a heavily customized CD player... Count 1-2 days drilling and cutting to fit the

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : What I am after is an ordered channel list in the same order as the official decoders from different providers. ie, someone from outside the UK wouldn't necessarily know that the channels go: BBC 1, 2 , ITV 1, Ch 4, five. Then

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 09:15 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : If you wanted to have the same numbers as a Sky Digibox. OK I see. I am a very basic viewer who just zaps around on a whim recording the odd film now and then and of course MotoGP. Since we moved my VDR box died (bad capacitors)

Re: [vdr] EPG Question (concerning BBC3 and BBC4)

2007-02-05 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 05 février 2007 à 17:49 +0100, Brian a écrit : BBC3 and BBC4 only start to show programs at 19:00 UK time. My EPG for these programs comes via the internet. If I try to look at the EPG for those channels before 19:00, then they are not even shown in the list of programs I have

RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 22 janvier 2007 à 19:54 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : I would like to make the system very small. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml Because you asked... Here you are rambling up the wrong track. Sorry! Read the page carefully, do you see HTPC or PVR? No.

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 à 21:19 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : A mail with correct subject line! Congratulations! =:-D Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S,