Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

Adding my 2 cents, in the hope that others more knowledgable may be able to reproduce the problem. Using a Nexus S 2.1 with the latest beta firmware, I find I lose audio sync when doing multiple yellow button skips to jump through commercial breaks, where there is a 30-50% chance the audio

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

Tony Houghton wrote: How good is Linux support for these? I was under the impression that XvMC doesn't work with ATI at all, and is broken in many versions of NVidia's Linux drivers. And that the latter don't support deinterlacing even though the hardware has been capable for quite a while

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Too bad it only has 1 expansion slot. That means only 1 tunner board. I wouldn't even concider anything with less then 2-3 slots. It does have 4 x USB 2.0 which seems to be becoming popular for tuners now. Regards, Richard

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

Heikki Manninen wrote: Just tested and I can confirm this too. Lost, Prison Break, everything that used to suffer from this problem seems to work now :) Looks good here too, on a Nexus-S 2.1 also. Thanks! Richard ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] pay TV channels New Zealand

Simon Baxter wrote: How do pay-per-view channels work? What do I need to do here?? I have no idea how PPV works, but I would assume some form of interactivity is required so that the provider knows you are viewing and can bill you accordingly. This must then require you to send some data

Re: [vdr] vdr in new zealand

Klaus Gerding wrote: in germany i used two full featured nexus dvb-s cards. that's what is plugged to my computer for now. is there a satellite providing digital tv in new zealand? Hi Klaus, I am using a Nexus dvb-s. The following are seeding channels for each transponder of interest

Re: [vdr] Plugin for MHEG (BBC RedButton service)

Is anyone able to confirm whether this plugin with a full feature, hardware decoder DVB-S card please? Regards, Richard John Williams wrote: Hello, I have adapted the standalone redbutton program (http://redbutton.sourceforge.net/) into a plugin for VDR. This allows me to view the Redbutton

[vdr] TT Premium S2-6400

Looking at the data sheet for the new TT Premium S2-6400 hardware decoder card, it mentions a Video Breakout Cable for analog audio/video. Can anyone tell me if this includes YUV/RGB out, or just composite? Thanks, Richard ___ vdr mailing list

[vdr] TT S2-6400 - high bandwidthperformance.

The original AV711X based full featured, DVB-S cards have a well known internal bandwidth limitation, that could be addressed by performing the budget patch modification to the card. Does anyone know if the same or similar limitation applies to the new S2-6400 card - better, worse or similar

Re: [vdr] [PATCH v2] multi-frontend-support for vdr 1.7.21

L. Hanisch wrote: Assumption for this patch: All frontends within one adapter have to be used mutually exclusive. All cards I know behave in this way. If there are cards with multiple frontends which can be used simultaneously I'd like to hear about it. I believe the TT S2-6400

[vdr] Fonts

Hi, I am setting up a vdr system and am trying to minimise the number of packages - there is no X11 installed. On Fedora 16, I have installed the required fontconfig and freetype packages, but when I run vdr, I get a OSD No fonts found message. I have also installed

Re: [vdr] Fonts

For the archives, all went well after installing the the gnu-free-* font packages. Regards, Richard Richard Scobie wrote: Hi, I am setting up a vdr system and am trying to minimise the number of packages - there is no X11 installed. On Fedora 16, I have installed the required fontconfig

[vdr] Using second tuner on TT S2-6400

I have just managed to get an S2-6400 based vdr sytem up and running and am trying to work out how I can use the second tuner. Currently I have a diseqc switch with two dishes connected to tuner 1, which works now I use the -D 0 vdr option. I did think that adding 0: to the top of

[vdr] Segfault in dvbhddevice

For the past few weeks, I have been running the current 1.7.XX version of vdr with an S2-6400 card, using only one tuner, which is connected to a 4 x 1 diseqc switch, without any problems. The startup command has been: /usr/local/bin/vdr -L /home/rs/vdr/PLUGINS/lib -D 1 -P dvbhddevice -P

Re: [vdr] Segfault in dvbhddevice

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Are you using the latest driver [1] and firmware [2]? [1] http://powarman.dyndns.org/hgwebdir.cgi/v4l-dvb-saa716x/ [2] http://aregel.de/ Hi Klaus, Have the latest firmware - drivers were a week old so have just updated them and the result is the same. Seems to

Re: [vdr] Segfault in dvbhddevice

Richard Scobie wrote: DVB-T' Mar 8 08:34:40 atom vdr: [751] probing /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 Mar 8 08:34:40 atom vdr: [751] creating cDvbDevice Mar 8 08:34:40 atom vdr: [751] new device number 2 Mar 8 08:34:40 atom vdr: [758] epg data reader thread started (pid=751, tid=758) Mar 8 08

Re: [vdr] Segfault in dvbhddevice

I have found that adding a sleep 5 to my startup script, between loading the drivers and starting vdr, has caused it to successfully survive five reboots. Regards, Richard ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

[vdr] Repeating Timers

If one sets a daily or weekly timer, does EPG schedule time on the day override any difference between the two? I am thinking of the situation where a weekly timer is set and for whatever reason, the broadcaster reschedules one weeks episode, with the EPG showing the correct time, will vdr

Re: [vdr] Repeating Timers

Thanks Klaus and Dave, Dave wrote: There is a 'Series Link' plugin for VDR which can cope with varying times for items in a series, see http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/vdrtva The plugin was written for the UK 'Freeview' DVB-T service, though it should work with any implementation

Re: [vdr] Repeating Timers

Dave wrote: Some more research suggests that NZ DVB-S uses the standard SI-based EIT, and also that the extensions for Series Link recording are virtually identical to the UK. So there is a very good chance that the vdrtva plugin will work. Thanks very much for that, I will certainly give

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epgfixer-plugin 0.1.0

Hi, On 05/08/2012 07:30 PM, Marx wrote: because I see no changes in EPG whatever I put in /etc/vdr/plugins/charset.conf Marx I may be way off the mark here - I have come in halfway through the thread and do not use this plugin, but wouldn't the path above be:

[vdr] Emergency exit

Is it expected behavior for vdr to do an emergency exit with two recordings in progress? If so, perhaps there could be an option to disable this. I was recording a program on one tuner, while recording and delayed viewing a sports feed on the second tuner. When the carrier was dropped at

Re: [vdr] Emergency exit

VDR User wrote: You can prevent emergency exit from actually exiting within VDR setup, or setting `EmergencyExit = 0` in the setup.conf file. Thank you. I did check the MANUAL file before posting, but missed that entry. Regards, Richard ___

[vdr] DVD menu issue

I have recently installed the dvd and dvdswitch on a new vdr system using a TT S2-6400 and am seeing a problem I did not have on the previous full feature card based setup. On all DVD images, the menu highlight area, (that moves around as you navigate the menu), is either horizontally or

[vdr] vdr-1.7.32 plugin dvbhddevice fails

I have just upgraded from vdr-1.7.31 to vdr-1.7.32 with S2-6400 and on making plugins, I receive the following error: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rs/vdr-1.7.32/PLUGINS/src/dvbhddevice/libhdffcmd' gcc -O3 -Wall -fPIC -shared -o libhdffcmd-0.1.0.so bitbuffer.o hdffcmd_av.o

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.32 plugin dvbhddevice fails

Hi Klaus, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Maybe this was caused by the change I introduced in order to be able to easily build a 32-bit version of VDR (and all its plugins) on a 64-bit machine: ---

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.32 plugin dvbhddevice fails

Hi Gerald, Gerald Dachs wrote: If you would take a deeper look into your post you would have noticed that the mentioned file bitbuffer.o is not build to this time. It must have been build in a former stage. So there is still no proof that it has been build with -fPIC. You are correct. It

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.32 plugin dvbhddevice fails

Hi Olover, Oliver Endriss wrote: The attached patch should fix this problem. Many thanks, that has fixed it. And bonus points for decoding the mangled grammer in my previous post... Regards, Richard ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Tuning timeouts blocks the other adapter

Mariusz Bialonczyk wrote: On 11/10/2012 12:12 AM, Mariusz Bialonczyk wrote: Is it possible that it is caused by some global lock or mutexes in VDR? Hello It seems the cause of the problem has been located by Alex Pipelka. The vdr freezes occurs when obtaining the signal strength/quality

Re: [vdr] Tuning timeouts blocks the other adapter

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: In an effort to eliminate the second tuner scanning empty channels as the cause, I set, UpdateChannels = 0 in setup.conf, but it appears to not have the desired effect: Jan 6 16:47:27 atom vdr: [790] frontend 1/0 timed out while tuning to channel 487, tp 212651

Re: [vdr] Channel dropout unless femon active

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.08.2013 05:32, Richard Scobie wrote: Perhaps a little off topic, but I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the following. I am viewing a signal that is very close to reception threshold - dish a little small, STR value 65%, SNR value 67%, but BER and UNC

Re: [vdr] Channel dropout unless femon active

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.08.2013 21:31, Richard Scobie wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.08.2013 05:32, Richard Scobie wrote: Perhaps a little off topic, but I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the following. I am viewing a signal that is very close to reception threshold

Re: [vdr] VDR test series about frame detector

Eike wrote: I need reports which number your stream resulted in (the Maximum TS package frame size) and what you've tested (Cable? Satellite? Terrestrical? HD, SD? Your country?). The result is interesting even if it is 5 or 6. I tested DVB-S SD recordings from three different TV networks

[vdr] TT S2 6400 not working correctly on a single tuner

I am currently having problems with either cabling or the Diseq switch attached to tuner 0 on my TT S2 6400, so as a workaround, I thought I could use the - D 1 switch to vdr, to force using tuner 1 only. When I do this, it seems vdr does not see the card as full featured any more - no MPEG

Re: [vdr] TT S2 6400 not working correctly on a single tuner

Lars Hanisch wrote: Hi, Am 28.05.2014 09:03, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 28.05.2014 07:59, Richard Scobie wrote: I am currently having problems with either cabling or the Diseq switch attached to tuner 0 on my TT S2 6400, so as a workaround, I thought I could use the - D 1 switch to vdr

[vdr] Unreliable shutdown

This is not strictly a vdr problem, but was wondering if others have seen it and have suggestions for a solution. I have an Intel Atom/Fedora based system running the latest vdr and about 20% of the time when either the Power OFF remote command is issued or the shutdown command (shutdown -h

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: Hi Richard, Could you show the changes you made? Maybe we can see from that what you missed :-) Hi Cedric, Thanks for your help. In dvbhddevice.c : - static const char *VERSION= "2.2.0"; + static const char *VERSION= "2.3.1"; In

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

Hi Klaus, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: "vdr-2.3.1-fixcrashdelrec.diff" and "vdr-2.3.1-grantrecursivewritelocks-2.diff" are the only two fixes I have. I sincerely hope to find more time for VDR development in the not so distant future. This past year I was rather busy with lots of other stuff. And

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

Replying to my own post, it looks like this crash on deleting recordings is probably not due to dvbhddevice plugin, as others have experienced it, according to comment no. 26 in this thread:

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

Further to my last post, I applied the "vdr-2.3.1-fixcrashdelrec.diff" and "vdr-2.3.1-grantrecursivewritelocks-2.diff" that Klaus posted to the thread on vdr.portal.de : http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/127271-announce-vdr-developer-version-2-3-1/index2.html and I am no

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09.09.2016 21:14, Richard Scobie wrote: ... The "recordings" menu is no longer navigable - the highlit entry will not move and more than one iten in the list will become highlighted. Yes, I have this, too. No fix yet, though. Just press the Up o

Re: [vdr] Skinflatplus plugin Channel Logo Names

VDR User wrote: png Thanks for the reply. I am using *.png, but what I meant was, what are the naming requirements, for the files, so that the skin selects the correct logo for the current channel tuned? A number of other PVR projects require the logo to be named identically to the

Re: [vdr] Skinflatplus plugin Channel Logo Names [Solved]

Richard Scobie wrote: A number of other PVR projects require the logo to be named identically to the channel name in the EPG data, but this does not seem to work here. I found that the above is true, but the filenames must be all lower case. I am very impressed with the polished appearance

[vdr] Skinflatplus plugin Channel Logo Names

Can anyone who uses the skinflatplus plugin please tell me what the filename format for channel logo icons is? I currently have them named the same as the channel name from channels.conf, but they do not display. Thanks, Richard ___ vdr mailing

[vdr] VDR 2.3.1 dvbhddevice plugin

Does anyone have a vdr 2.3.1 modified version of the dvbhddevice plugin (or a patch against 2.2.0), that they can let me have? I am not at all a coder, but with the help of the changes in the 2.3.1 Release notes and looking at another plugin that had been updated to 2.3.1, I made a few

[vdr] Large amount of logging with vdr on Fedora 24

I have just updated the OS of my TT s2-6400 based vdr box from Fedora 16 to Fedora 24 Server and all is working fine except the log (both journald and rsyslog) fill up rapidly with the following type of entry. [ 1983.410546] demux_worker (0): dma buffer = 0 [ 1983.427146] demux_worker (0): dma

[vdr] TT S2 6400 Live View vs. Recorded Audio

A number of channels on one mux have HE-AACv2 audio which I believe to be incorrectly tagged as AAC and as a result, viewing them live in VDR, the audio is mute. However, if they are recorded and played back in VDR, the audio plays fine. Can anyone explain the difference between the audio

Re: [vdr] TT S2 6400 Live View vs. Recorded Audio

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: In live mode all data is handled directly within the TT S2-6400's hardware, while when playing a recording, the data (and expecially the PAT/PMT) has been processed by VDR (when the recording was made). Don't know if this has any effect, but it's the only difference I

[vdr] VDR 2.3.2 and Plugins

Just wanted to draw attention to this thread at vdrportal for anyone who is discouraged from trying the 2.3.x vdr due to plugins not working. Or,

Re: [vdr] VDR 2.3.2 and femon

Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Try adding virtual int Width(void) const { return 50; } to cFemonDummyFont. Klaus Thanks Klaus, that fixed it. So far, so good with 2.3.2. I was having real problems with 2.3.1 but they're all fixed now. Regards, Richard

[vdr] VDR 2.3.2 and femon

Using the latest git version of the femon plugin: https://github.com/rofafor/vdr-plugin-femon I can successfully build it for vdr-2.3.1. With vdr-2.3.2 I get the following errors: *** Plugin femon: g++ -O3 -Wall -Werror=overloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses -march=native -D__user=

Re: [vdr] TT S2 6400 IR Pinout

Thanks Martin. Regards, Richard Martin Gansser wrote: Maybe you can ask here in the German-speaking VDR forum a few guys. http://www.vdr-portal.de/board60-linux/board61-hardware/107135-mini-ir-on-f%C3%BCr-tt-s2-6400/ Martin Gesendet: Samstag, 25. März 2017 um 10:23 Uhr Von: "Richard S

[vdr] TT S2 6400 IR Pinout

Hi, Does anyone know the pinout details for the IR receiver module supplied with the TT S2 6400 card? Thanks, Richard ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Video-Audio disruptions with 4.16+ kernel

, Richard Scobie ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Skinflatplus -Clear Image Cache?

Hi Andre, André Weidemann wrote: I see a reference to an image cache and I assume it is trying to load logos that no longer reside in the logos directory. I presume it is the other way around... There used to be a radio channel called "kuwait radio 1" which vanished for whatever reason. VDR

[vdr] Skinflatplus -Clear Image Cache?

When I start vdr and using the skinflatplus plugin, I see many log entries: Nov 18 11:23:06 vdr vdr[1639]: [1639] imageloader LoadLogo: /mnt/storage/video/plugins/skinflatplus/logos//kuwait radio 1 obsolete.png could not be loaded Nov 18 11:23:06 vdr vdr[1639]: [1639] imageloader LoadLogo:

[vdr] TT S2 6400 IR Remote

If there is anyone using the TT S2 6400 with the supplied IR receiver, remote and the "remote" plugin, could they please post a few lines from the remote.conf file? Thanks, Richard ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] TT S2 6400 IR Remote

Hi Detlef, Thanks very much for that. Detlef Heine wrote: Here it is: remote-ir.Up 00010001000E remote-ir.Down 000100010012 Snip ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org https://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] A couple of noob questions on VDR + vaapidevice (output plugin)

Frantisek Rysanek wrote: 50i). Maybe the VLC can somehow cope with that (perform rate conversion on the fly) but the vaapidevice plugin cannot. Maybe I should attach a TV as a second display and set the PC's HDMI frame refresh rate to 50 Hz. I have not yet started down the vaapi path yet,

Re: [vdr] Questions about good hardware to view VDR 4K

Frantisek Rysanek wrote: I've grown up in an age when websites tended to be intuitive to navigate, and straight to the point. Or maybe that's just the way my merciful memories of my youth would have it. This is not about motherboards. I'm getting old. You and me both... :)

Re: [vdr] Questions about good hardware to view VDR 4K

Karim AFIFI wrote: I will take a look to Atom CPU and Gemini Lake, but it seems there is no ATX motherboards, only mini-ITX (not enough slots PCI/PCI-E for me). As you see, it's very complicated, I continue to search ... Hi, Asrock do a range of mATX cards with integrated Gemini Lake, but

Re: [vdr] Questions about good hardware to view VDR 4K

Frantisek Rysanek wrote: OTOH, I don't like Asrock for two reasons: 1) they tend to support UEFI booting only, no legacy BIOS boot 2) they don't seem to have BIOS images publically available on the downloads site... I've not had a problem finding BIOS updates - here's the page for the board

[vdr] Utilising Nvidia HW En/Decode capabilities with ffmpeg

Not directly applicable to vdr, but for those transcoding recordings or using plugins that use ffmpeg, here's a useful recent article around using the hardware encode/decode capabilities of Nvidia's cards. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ffmpeg-transcoding-guide/ Regards, Richard