Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-17 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/11/16 Seppo Ingalsuo seppo.ingal...@iki.fi: On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 20:24 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: 2009/11/15 Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com: The SPDIF can't carry 7.1 sound? It's just digital data stream. Should be able to carry how ever many channels get encoded to the data

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-17 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:28 +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: In my case, I have a Samsung T260 screen with fibre out, probably SPDIF. In this case the monitor would then be my limitation. Should I get an amp that takes hdmi as input and passes video onto the screen? If the signal source is

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-17 Thread Steve
Alex Betis wrote: I don't record much, so I don't worry about speed. While there's no denying that RAID5 *at best* has a write speed equivalent to about 1.3x a single disk and if you're not careful with stride/block settings can be a lot slower, that's no worse for our purposes that, erm,

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7 and no subtitles with old PES recordings

2009-11-17 Thread Rolf Ahrenberg
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, j...@mbnet.fi wrote: I'm contemplating updating my trusty 1.6.0 to the latest development version, but I can't seem to get DVB subtitles from old recordings to work. Subtitles are shown corretly both when viewing live tv and when viewing new recordings, but when viewing old

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-17 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Seppo Ingalsuo ha escrit: With just VDR DVB-C/T/S as a source there probably is no real advantage to upgrade to HDMI only over legacy SPDIF from TV to AVR setup. If the only planned source is a pc (running vdr and, say, xmbc), would it make sense to bypass the av receiver completely

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-17 Thread Seppo Ingalsuo
Luca Olivetti wrote: If the only planned source is a pc (running vdr and, say, xmbc), would it make sense to bypass the av receiver completely and just decode the audio on the pc connected to the speakers? Or it doesn't make sense (since you'll need an amplifier for each channel anyway, so you

Re: [vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

2009-11-17 Thread Falk Spitzberg
Hi Klaus (and others) the replay problem is probably fixed. It was located in the hdplayer program that runs on the eHD. The fixed version should be available soon. Thanks to the guy who is known as reel_schorsch on the VDR-Portal. Falk Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 19:25 +0200 schrieb Klaus

[vdr] Tuner switch when timer starts recording

2009-11-17 Thread Falk Spitzberg
Hello, With VDR 1.7.9 i often notice that VDR switches the live TV to a different receiver card, when a timer starts recording, although the second card is available. This causes a short interrupt in live TV. My system has two DVB cards, an old FF and a Tevii S470, and an eHD. Sample situation