Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
Hi, Morfsta schrieb: 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 really make much difference. However, for the first time I've spent playing with this I was impressed with the picture quality out of VDR. Top reported that the CPU was ~40% idle so I don't know why I saw dropped frames... Frame duration wasn't set at all in xine-lib for this case. xine-lib-1.2 contains now a fix for this issue. The fix is part of vdr-xine-0.8.0's xine-lib.patch for xine-lib-1.1.8, too. One other thing I noticed though was when using XVMC (-V xxmc) to view normal MPEG2 channels the VDR OSD looked terrible (very blockly looking) and playing with the settings in the xine plugin did not make it better. Any recommendations on improving this? When using MPEG4 (i.e. software accel) the OSD was fine. xxmc's OSD support allows only 16 colors. I assume, you've enabled font antialiasing in VDR, which requires much more than 16 colors. This is the case for hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding. For H.264, xxmc falls back to xv where there is no such limitation. You may also want to try to choose unscaled OSD in vdr-xine's setup menu, which renders the OSD on top of the video image, using libX11. It is therefore not limited to 16 colors but doesn't support OSD transparency at all. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
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 really make much difference. However, for the first time I've spent playing with this I was impressed with the picture quality out of VDR. Top reported that the CPU was ~40% idle so I don't know why I saw dropped frames... Frame duration wasn't set at all in xine-lib for this case. xine-lib-1.2 contains now a fix for this issue. The fix is part of vdr-xine-0.8.0's xine-lib.patch for xine-lib-1.1.8, too. Reinhard, Where can I find xine-lib-1.2? Without patching and using the 0.3.0 CPU is back down under 40% on my Epia M1 Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
Hi, Tony Grant schrieb: Frame duration wasn't set at all in xine-lib for this case. xine-lib-1.2 contains now a fix for this issue. The fix is part of vdr-xine-0.8.0's xine-lib.patch for xine-lib-1.1.8, too. Where can I find xine-lib-1.2? xine-lib-1.2 is only available from the hg repository. Please follow this guide: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/OpenSuSE_DVB-S2_-_Step_by_Step_Installationsanleitung_%28Achtung_Beta%29 Although not required, I'd suggest you to use vdr-xine-0.8.0 too (see other thread about fixes). Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
Try the patch at posted at http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=50139page=32 from Reinhard, which will solve most of the performance problems. Unfortunately, transmissions using interlaced pictures+spatial direct mode still do not seem to work right and may cause major performance and stability problems. Awesome, that works like a charm even with deinterlacing on. I will try xine-0.8.0 tonight. Keep up the nice work Reinhard! Jan ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
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 openchrome and libXVmc fixes something (CPU was 15% when I started this VDR journey). Zaps fast. Locks solid when right clicking to get the xine menu... How do I set the PCM volume on startup? The setting in the OSD? Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
On 24 Oct 2007, at 15:44, Tony Grant wrote: 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 openchrome and libXVmc fixes something (CPU was 15% when I started this VDR journey). Zaps fast. Locks solid when right clicking to get the xine menu... Is there any support for h.264 decoding in any of the linux support libraries for the CN700 now? Otherwise I'd assume that XvMC was not in use when not doing mpeg2 decoding. -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] blank screen with xv softdevice on NVIDIA 6150
On 10/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Fabian Ritzmann: The issue I am seeing with softdevice is that I have a black screen that displays the OSD just fine. In other words, the TV broadcasts are not being displayed but I can see and use the VDR menus as well as teletext and DVB subtitles (pretty weird seeing the subtitles displayed v-a-v a black picture). You should set OSD alpha blending to software instead of pseudo. Thanks, but unfortunately that has not helped. These are the settings I am using now: softdevice.AC3Mode = 0 softdevice.AlsaAC3Device = hw:0,1 softdevice.AlsaDevice = default softdevice.autodetectAspect = 0 softdevice.avOffset = 0 softdevice.bufferMode = 0 softdevice.CropBottomLines = 0 softdevice.CropLeftCols = 0 softdevice.CropMode = 0 softdevice.CropModeToggleKey = 0 softdevice.CropRightCols = 0 softdevice.CropTopLines = 0 softdevice.Deinterlace Method = 0 softdevice.ExpandLeftRightCols = 0 softdevice.ExpandTopBottomLines = 0 softdevice.mainMenu = 1 softdevice.OSDalphablend = 1 softdevice.Picture mirroring = 0 softdevice.PixelAspect = 0 softdevice.PixelFormat = 2 softdevice.Postprocess Method = 0 softdevice.Postprocess Quality = 0 softdevice.Suspend = 0 softdevice.syncTimerMode = 2 softdevice.UseSetSourceRectangle = 0 softdevice.UseStretchBlit = 0 softdevice.vidBrightness = -1 softdevice.vidContrast = -1 softdevice.vidHue = -1 softdevice.vidSaturation = -1 softdevice.Xv-Aspect = 1 Fabian ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10
Hi, Tony Grant schrieb: 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 openchrome and libXVmc fixes something (CPU was 15% when I started this VDR journey). Zaps fast. Locks solid when right clicking to get the xine menu... It would be interesting, where the deadlock occurs. To analyze the deadlock, please compile xine-lib and xine-ui with debug information by running configure like that: CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' ../xine-lib/configure --prefix=/soft/xine-lib-cvs --enable-debug --disable-optimizations --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-dxr3 CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' ../xine-ui/configure --prefix=/soft/xine-ui-cvs --enable-debug --disable-optimizations --enable-vdr-keys When the deadlock occurs, run gdb like that: gdb /path/to/xine `pidof xine` There will be a lot of libraries listed by gdb. Among the output gdb will also report for which libraries it could find debug symbols. For the best result, try to install missing debug symbols if your Linux distribution provides them. For simplicity, quit gdb by typing quit and let xine alive. Restart gdb as mentioned above until debug symbols for all libraries are available. Then type the following command into gdb: thread apply all bt gdb will then output the backtrace of each thread (and there will be about 20). Please report the backtraces here. How do I set the PCM volume on startup? The setting in the OSD? When VDR sets the volume, vdr-xine stores this value internally. When xine connects to vdr-xine, the stored value will be transmitted to xine. Please have a look into VDR's setup menu. There exists a setting which controls whether VDR shall restore the last set volume when it starts. When VDR doesn't restore the volume setting, then vdr-xine's internal value will be 0 and xine's volume will be set to 0, too. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] Missing sound..
Hi! I have my vdr with DVB-C cards at livingroom and now I build other vdr (without cards) to bedroom and use NFS to connect to video directory. When I try to play recordings, everything except SOUND is fine.. I get following error: ffmpeg_audio_dec: increasing buffer to 98304 to avoid overflow. ffmpeg_audio_dec: trying to open null codec audio_decoder: no plugin available to handle 'MPEG layer 2/3' What libs (or something) I miss? -- JJussi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] 2 DVB-T cards == can't record
JJussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I invested little money (20€) and bougth 1 in 8 out amplifier.. No I can connect 8 devices (TV cards, TV, what ever) and every one of them get equal good signal. And so I bought an amplifier today and it works! Brilliant! Thanks a lot, and thanks to Darren, as well! Cheers, Jan -- Jan Exner · [EMAIL PROTECTED] · 0x9E0D3E98 · http://www.jan-exner.de/ Neues aus Frankreich und England http://www.jan-exner.de/uk.html ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] blank screen with xv softdevice on NVIDIA 6150
Fabian Ritzmann wrote: On 10/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Fabian Ritzmann: The issue I am seeing with softdevice is that I have a black screen that displays the OSD just fine. In other words, the TV broadcasts are not being displayed but I can see and use the VDR menus as well as teletext and DVB subtitles (pretty weird seeing the subtitles displayed v-a-v a black picture). You should set OSD alpha blending to software instead of pseudo. Thanks, but unfortunately that has not helped. These are the settings I am using now: softdevice.AC3Mode = 0 softdevice.AlsaAC3Device = hw:0,1 softdevice.AlsaDevice = default softdevice.autodetectAspect = 0 softdevice.avOffset = 0 softdevice.bufferMode = 0 softdevice.CropBottomLines = 0 softdevice.CropLeftCols = 0 softdevice.CropMode = 0 softdevice.CropModeToggleKey = 0 softdevice.CropRightCols = 0 softdevice.CropTopLines = 0 softdevice.Deinterlace Method = 0 softdevice.ExpandLeftRightCols = 0 softdevice.ExpandTopBottomLines = 0 softdevice.mainMenu = 1 softdevice.OSDalphablend = 1 softdevice.Picture mirroring = 0 softdevice.PixelAspect = 0 softdevice.PixelFormat = 2 softdevice.Postprocess Method = 0 softdevice.Postprocess Quality = 0 softdevice.Suspend = 0 softdevice.syncTimerMode = 2 softdevice.UseSetSourceRectangle = 0 softdevice.UseStretchBlit = 0 softdevice.vidBrightness = -1 softdevice.vidContrast = -1 softdevice.vidHue = -1 softdevice.vidSaturation = -1 softdevice.Xv-Aspect = 1 Fabian Recent Nvidia cards haven't been a good choice for softdevice. IIRC it's because nvidia dropped some overlay features in the last few years. When I was trying to get softdevice to work with directfb on my geforce 6600 I had to alter the alphablend (like you've been told), the stretchblit and the pixelformat settings. I can't remember what they changed to though. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] blank screen with xv softdevice on NVIDIA 6150
Darren Wilkinson wrote: Recent Nvidia cards haven't been a good choice for softdevice. IIRC it's because nvidia dropped some overlay features in the last few years. When I was trying to get softdevice to work with directfb on my geforce 6600 I had to alter the alphablend (like you've been told), the stretchblit and the pixelformat settings. I can't remember what they changed to though. http://www.spinics.net/lists/vdr/msg13392.html Select YUY2 as the pixel format and select Use StrectBlit. You'll now get video. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] Missing sound..
On Wednesday, 24. Octoberta 2007 20:40:52 Reinhard Nissl wrote: Well, I'm not used to it, but it uses libxine like vdr-xine does. Therefore I think that your libxine lacks support for libmad, which implements the Mpeg Audio Decoder. Yep! (Now it works!) I had installed libmad but I had not set USE=mad at make.conf... -- JJussi ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
