Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down.

2009-12-25 Thread Lauri Tischler
Paul Menzel wrote: Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 13:38 -0800 schrieb VDR User: […] However, in my case since VDR is my main tv/media source, it would be annoying to have to boot the computer every time someone wanted to watch/listen to something, therefore the box stays on 24/7. Thus, never hav

Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down.

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 13:38 -0800 schrieb VDR User: […] > However, in my case since VDR is my main tv/media source, it would be > annoying to have to boot the computer every time someone wanted to > watch/listen to something, therefore the box stays on 24/7. Thus, > never having use for sh

Re: [vdr] Shutting a system down. (was: vdr shutdownskript - wrong time)

2009-12-25 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 20:00 -0800 schrieb VDR User: >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Klaus Schmidinger >> wrote: >> > At some point the shutdown mechanism apparently became "rocket science" >> > and I decided to no longer touch it

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

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:58:18 +0100 Carsten Koch wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > Another idea: if there's a spare USB (2.0 High Speed) port you could use > > a memory stick instead of NFS. > > Good idea. > I suppose this one > http://geizhals.at/deutschl

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

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:23:26 -0800 VDR User wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter > wrote: > > What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or > > live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot > > by using network or memory stick

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

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/12/25 VDR User : > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter > wrote: >> What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or >> live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot >> by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run fro

[vdr] Shutting a system down. (was: vdr shutdownskript - wrong time)

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 20:00 -0800 schrieb VDR User: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Klaus Schmidinger > wrote: > > At some point the shutdown mechanism apparently became "rocket science" > > and I decided to no longer touch it (especially since I don't even use > > it myself). > > ;)

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

2009-12-25 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or > live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot > by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from > there. Should be lightnin

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

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What you could do is to make a boot process similar to most rescue or live-cd/usb. The idea is to make the whole thing run in ram, so boot by using network or memory stick, copy squashfs to ram and run from there. Should be lightning fast. 2009/12/25 Carsten Koch : > On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +0

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

2009-12-25 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100 > Carsten Koch wrote: > > > + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) > > system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs > > unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard di

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

2009-12-25 Thread VDR User
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: > Another idea: if there's a spare USB (2.0 High Speed) port you could use > a memory stick instead of NFS. I've been using usb stick for both VDR and my fileserver. Works just fine. ___ vdr mailin

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

2009-12-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100 Carsten Koch wrote: > + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) > system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs > unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk. Another idea: if there's a spare USB (2.0 High Speed) port you

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

2009-12-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2009/12/25 Gerald Dachs > > Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100 > schrieb Carsten Koch : > > > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > > ... > > > > + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) > > > >   system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs > > > >   u

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

2009-12-25 Thread Gerald Dachs
Am Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:43:06 +0100 schrieb Carsten Koch : > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > ... > > > + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) > > > system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs > > > unbearably slow, so I was forced to install

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

2009-12-25 Thread Carsten Koch
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:55 +, Tony Houghton wrote: ... > > + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) > > system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs > > unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk. > > Couldn't you use a much lighter desktop if this is

Re: [vdr] Record HD broadcasts not working if the FF card is the primary device

2009-12-25 Thread Markus Ehrnsperger
2009/12/24 Klaus Schmidinger : > Try recording from a non-primary device, or switch to an SD channel > that is displayed in Transfer Mode to avoid these errors. > > Klaus Hi, Recording from a non-primary device, thats what I do: As ARTE-HD is DVB-S2 and my FF supports DVB-S only I use the DVB-S2