Re: [vdr] weekly or daily timers

2009-04-21 Thread Stefan Taferner
On 20. April 2009 12:36:08 marti...@embl.de wrote: Is there someway in VDR to say schedule a repeated timer 'record this monday to friday from 9pm til 11pm' or at least a daily timer 'record this every monday between 9pm and 11pm' Perhaps some plugin? Any hints? I favor the epgsearch plugin.

Re: [vdr] weekly or daily timers

2009-04-21 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Stefan Taferner tafer...@kde.org wrote: I favor the epgsearch plugin. It allows to set several parameters for search timers, e.g. to record films with a specific name, in a specific channel, when they run in a specific time range. This is what I use when I

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
On 20.04.2009 10:56, Peter Dittmann wrote: A simple use case: * standalone settop box with VDR and DVD recording capability * OS gets a seperate small partition * /videoX get the big rest To add some more variations to the same solution the others already mentioned: - Mount your

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Gerald Dachs
Quoting Peter Dittmann peter.dittm...@pldsnet.com: E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the partition. The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary partitions, but could be of course. Strange as it finally uses symlinks to create

Re: [vdr] weekly or daily timers

2009-04-21 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! VDR User schrieb: I've been using epgsearch and vdradmind-am for years and I can't imagine not using them! Yes, I forgot to mention epgsearch. As more and more stations at least in Germany have the nasty habit of moving TV shows to other time slots if the ratings are not satisfactory,

Re: [vdr] [Announce] xxv-1.3 - Feature release (1.4 rc)

2009-04-21 Thread Marco Göbenich
Hi! This happens if you run vdr with --vfat then VDR cuts the recording name. Regards Marco Andrey Kuzmin schrieb: There is still one issue for me: http://binitex.com/jet/20090420-i7x-194kb.jpg It seems that long names are truncated. The problem is that even short names in Russian are

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Dittmann
Quoting Peter Dittmann peter.dittm...@pldsnet.com: E.g. ctvdr/debian uses (I think ...) /var/vdr/videoX directly to mount the partition. The directories are named /var/lib/video.XX and this are not necessary partitions, but could be of course. Strange as it finally uses symlinks to

Re: [vdr] [Announce] xxv-1.3 - Feature release (1.4 rc)

2009-04-21 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
This happens if you run vdr with --vfat then VDR cuts the recording name. Please check another screen shot http://binitex.com/jet/20090421-28m-192kb.jpg This is the same channel. Channel name is truncated in tree, recordings are in different place

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Peter Dittmann schrieb: I can't see any evidence for this symlinks, and I don't know a reason for this. The vdr gets told via the option '-v /var/lib/video.00' where the video dir is located. But you see what I'm pointing to. The distries are usually mounting the partition directly

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread VDR User
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus st_bars...@gmx.de wrote: the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows that there is a solution/recommendation to create some .do_not_touch files in

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
VDR User schrieb: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Steffen Barszus st_bars...@gmx.de wrote: the content therein is pretty vdr specific. So the suggested (and sensible) recommendations are in fact not that obvious. This also shows that there is a solution/recommendation to create some

Re: [vdr] BBC HD and vdpau

2009-04-21 Thread Morfsta
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info wrote: I have VDR working with BBC HD almost, and Sky HD +24 and a few others, however, BBC doesn't seem to display properly, as well as having problems with the audio selection.  It looks like it has macrovision protection or

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Steffen Barszus
Ville Skyttä schrieb: On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Peter Dittmann wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] weekly or daily timers

2009-04-21 Thread Dieter Hametner
Hello Am Dienstag, 21. April 2009 schrieb VDR User: I've been using epgsearch and vdradmind-am for years and I can't imagine not using them! Not to forget the LIVE plugin, which has a very good integration with epgsearch too. After all most of the LIVE timer functionality was provied by the

Re: [vdr] [Fwd: Re: let vdr ignore non vdr directories ?]

2009-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
On 21.04.2009 21:27, Ville Skyttä wrote: So better suggestion for the distri maintainers would be to use the \mnt tree for mounting any partitions. I disagree, /mnt is system admin area, not something distros should touch.

Re: [vdr] BBC HD and vdpau

2009-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Morfsta ha escrit: If you turn Dolby Digital off in the VDR DVB menu then it will play only the MPA track and the picture will then work fine in VDR. I tried activating dolby digital (I usually have it set to no), and I don't have a problem with the video (as long as I use xxmc,

Re: [vdr] BBC HD and vdpau

2009-04-21 Thread Rob Davis
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Morfsta ha escrit: If you turn Dolby Digital off in the VDR DVB menu then it will play only the MPA track and the picture will then work fine in VDR. I tried activating dolby digital (I usually have it set to no), and I don't have a problem with the video (as

Re: [vdr] BBC HD and vdpau

2009-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Rob Davis ha escrit: I tried the turning off dolby digital and I get the Narrative track ok, but I still get corruption on vdpau. It's like vertical banding, I my case the bands are horizontal reminiscent of trying to copy a video with macrovision. My pc doesn't display it well