Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-09-10 Thread VDR User
IIRC you have to add "-ggdb" to make VDR & plugins with debugging symbols. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-09-10 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I build from the hg source. On 9/10/2012 9:20 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: Hi Timothy, On 29 August 2012 22:01, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Just did a crash to grab what is in the logs: /var/log/ syslog: Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR vdr: [9106] ATSC Scanner thread started (pid=20976, tid=9106) Aug 29 13:57

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-09-10 Thread Dominic Evans
Hi Timothy, On 29 August 2012 22:01, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > Just did a crash to grab what is in the logs: > > /var/log/ > syslog: > Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR vdr: [9106] ATSC Scanner thread started (pid=20976, > tid=9106) > Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR kernel: ATSC Scanner[9106]: segfault at 7f9ca800010

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Just did a crash to grab what is in the logs: /var/log/ syslog: Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR vdr: [9106] ATSC Scanner thread started (pid=20976, tid=9106) Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR kernel: ATSC Scanner[9106]: segfault at 7f9ca8000108 ip 7f9ca8000108 sp 7f9c9dc9cbc8 error 15 messages: Aug 29 13

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I don't mess with this enough to remember the steps for making the dumps, but making it crash is as easy as telling it to scan for channels. So if you want to put up the steps to get the data... :) I'm using Debian x64 and I use putty/winscp to work with it. On 8/28/2012 1:11 PM, Dominic Evans

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Dominic Evans
On 28 Aug 2012, at 20:58, "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: > The crashing problem would be better address by making it part of VDR. I am > trying to make scripts to use Schedules Direct because even if VDR was > picking up what the broadcasters send, the broadcasters themselves are > unreliable and ha

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Yes, and there are programs that can capture part of a stream to a file to examine. So you don't need access to the stream to see where the broadcasters are failing to follow the FCC set standards. I think Dvbsnoop is one and I have compiled, though I only used it once or twice several years ag

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
http://www.fepg.org/ I suspect he ether got too busy to work on it anymore or just got tired of of it. He put out several nice plugins in a short time back when the US switched to ATSC. On 8/28/2012 8:05 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: On 25 August 2012 20:54, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The problem h

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
The crashing problem would be better address by making it part of VDR. I am trying to make scripts to use Schedules Direct because even if VDR was picking up what the broadcasters send, the broadcasters themselves are unreliable and half assed at sending eit. But if the seg fault when trying to

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: > On 25 August 2012 20:54, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: >> The problem here in the US is, DVB is not a standard for anything. > > I'm guessing Klaus' problem here is that he doesn't live in the US so > can't access ATSC broadcasts for testing, so it

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Dominic Evans
On 25 August 2012 20:54, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: > The problem here in the US is, DVB is not a standard for anything. I'm guessing Klaus' problem here is that he doesn't live in the US so can't access ATSC broadcasts for testing, so it doesn't really make sense for him to attempt to maintain it in

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
The problem here in the US is, DVB is not a standard for anything. On 8/25/2012 2:42 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I don't think that problems would be fixed any better if this were part of the official VDR code. If the original author no longer maintains the code, somebody else should take over

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-25 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 25.08.2012 04:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: ATSC is the standard for OTA broadcast in the US now. It would be nice if support could be built into vdr now. The plugin for getting eit data and scanning for channels hasn't been updated in 2 years. It still has problems. on my x64 system, it seg f

[vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-24 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
ATSC is the standard for OTA broadcast in the US now. It would be nice if support could be built into vdr now. The plugin for getting eit data and scanning for channels hasn't been updated in 2 years. It still has problems. on my x64 system, it seg faults most of the time when trying to scan fo