[vdr] Burn plugin permissions problem

2006-08-30 Thread Stuart Morris
I can create DVD ISO files using vdr-burn-0.1.0-pre20 ok but only if vdr is run as root. If I run vdr without root privelage DVD ISO creation fails at the start. My /tmp folder and ISO destination folder have the appropriate access rights. The burn shell scripts are marked executable and can be

[vdr] Epgsearch does not create timers

2007-02-06 Thread Stuart Morris
I am having difficulty getting Epgsearch plugin to create any timers. This is the procedure I am going through that I believe should cause Epgsearch plugin to create timers: Menu Program Guide Highlight a scheduled program that I wish to create search parameters for e.g. 'Space 1999' Press 0

[vdr] Ideal conditions for VDR

2007-02-16 Thread Stuart Morris
What are the ideal conditions under which to run VDR? For example: Nice level? Nice level relative to other apps, daemons and stuff running at the same time? Pre-emptive kernel? Kernel timer 250Hz? 1000Hz? Quantity of system memory? Processor speed? Frequency scaling? I am running VDR with

Re: [vdr] Output methods and WSS

2007-10-16 Thread Stuart Morris
According to the MVPvdr website http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/mvpvdr.html there appears to be no way to set timers so I have never been tempted to try it out. I failed to get an early version of the MediaMVP plugin to work many years ago. Vomp is still being developed so

Re: [vdr] Output methods and WSS

2007-10-17 Thread Stuart Morris
Kartsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laz kirjoitti: On Tuesday 16 Oct 2007, Stuart Morris wrote: According to the MVPvdr website http://www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/mvpvdr.html there appears to be no way to set timers so I have never been tempted to try it out. I failed to get an early version

Re: [vdr] VDR on OpenWRT / embedded system

2008-03-03 Thread Stuart Morris
--- Theunis Potgieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently learned of the iStar Mini HD https://www.istarhd.com/productpage/spec.html Also based on the Network Media Tank (NMT) from Syabas. Apparently it could use the same firmware from other suppliers like popcornhour. This machine has

Re: [vdr] 576i output on DVI-HDMI?

2008-07-16 Thread Stuart Morris
It's my understanding that it is the pixel rate that is doubled to meet the minimum bandwidth requirement of 25Mpixels/sec for hdmi. That is pixels are repeated hence doubling the apparent horizontal resolution. This is always the case for the 480i and 576i modes. The modeline you need should be

Re: [vdr] Editing usability

2009-05-11 Thread Stuart Morris
I haved lost count the number of times I have pressed the numbered keys on my remote by accident and then panic because I don't know how to undo what then happened. This is definitely a trap for unsuspecting beginners. Some kind of editing mode would be safer. Otherwise the key layout is ok.

[vdr] Vompserver plugin and cIndexFile::Get undefined symbol error

2009-05-27 Thread Stuart Morris
I am getting an undefined symbol error when I run Vdr 1.7.7 with the Vompserver plugin patched for TS format: vdr: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-vompserver.so.1.7.7: undefined symbol: _ZN10cIndexFile3GetEiPtPlPbPi The plugin compiles ok with no error or warning. cIndexFile::Get is called at only one

Re: [vdr] Vompserver plugin and cIndexFile::Get undefined symbol error

2009-05-27 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Thomas Günther t...@toms-cafe.de wrote: I am getting an undefined symbol error when I run Vdr 1.7.7 with the Vompserver plugin patched for TS format: vdr: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-vompserver.so.1.7.7: undefined symbol: _ZN10cIndexFile3GetEiPtPlPbPi The plugin

Re: [vdr] Vompserver plugin and cIndexFile::Get undefined symbol error

2009-05-27 Thread Stuart Morris
and cIndexFile::Get undefined symbol error To: Klaus Schmidinger's VDR vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 11:06 PM Stuart Morris wrote: That is already in the Vdr-1.7.7 Makefile. Do you mean in the plugin's Makefile? That's right. From HISTORY of VDR-1.7.4: - Added DEFINES

[vdr] Divx h264 decoder

2009-06-30 Thread Stuart Morris
Anybody know if it is possible to use the DivX h264 decoder under Linux, much like CoreAVC works under DShowServer for Linux? Stuart ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Yaepghd record dialog

2009-11-19 Thread Stuart Morris
I have been trying out the yaepghd plugin. It looks very impressive but the record dialog appears to be disabled. Does anyone know if this has been intentionally disabled or is only partially implemented? There has been no development activity on this plugin for about 9 months now.

Re: [vdr] Yaepghd record dialog

2009-11-24 Thread Stuart Morris
Thankyou The patched yaepghd now silently adds a timer (or deletes one if it already exists) for the selected event. The help bar is behaving strangely. I had no rgyb ellipses. Even when I re-implemented the ellipses in the code some were coloured some were not and some would be coloured

Re: [vdr] VDR frontend device: Xtreamer

2009-11-27 Thread Stuart Morris
Hauppauge MediaMVP and vdr-vompserver plugin. Years of happy use and good waf. No vdr osd so no access to plugins but I can access them with vdr-xine on my server. Sadly standard definition only. I have yet to see an equivalent HD mediaplayer that can be as readily hacked like the MediaMVP

Re: [vdr] streamdev for xbmc testing-pvr2

2010-01-18 Thread Stuart Morris
I am using that version of streamdev with pvr-testing2 ok. This is my setup: Streamdev plugin for XBMC http://streamdev.vdr-developer.org/ http://streamdev.vdr-developer.org/snapshots/vdr-streamdev-0.5.0-pre-200 90706.tgz PVR testing version of XBMC

Re: [vdr] streamdev for xbmc testing-pvr2

2010-01-25 Thread Stuart Morris
Oh yes I was on to that in a flash. Things are much improved but still not good enough for my 'production' setup. You can select VDPAU rendering and temporal/spatial de-interlace for h264 video (SD and HD) giving fluid 50Hz frame rate. But when you then watch some mpeg2 content it falls back to

Re: [vdr] reelchannelscan not working with empty channels.conf!

2010-10-26 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Fri, 22/10/10, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote: From: Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org Subject: Re: [vdr] reelchannelscan not working with empty channels.conf! To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Friday, 22 October, 2010, 10:04 En/na Halim Sahin ha escrit: Hi, On Thu,

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Tue, 18/1/11, Niko Mikkilä n...@phnet.fi wrote: From: Niko Mikkilä n...@phnet.fi Subject: Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2 To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Tuesday, 18 January, 2011, 13:06 On 2011-01-15 22:36 +, Tony Houghton wrote: I wonder whether it

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Morris
:48 +0200, Niko Mikkilä kirjoitti: ke, 2011-01-19 kello 10:18 +, Stuart Morris kirjoitti: My experience with an nVidia GT220 has been less than perfect. It can perform temporal+spatial+inverse_telecine on HD video fast enough, but my PC gets hot and it truly sucks at 2:2 pulldown

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Morris
, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: IMHO the best way to go for a low power HTPC is to decode in hardware e.g. VDPAU, VAAPI, but output interlaced video to your TV and let the TV sort out deinterlacing and inverse telecine. Unfortunately, with VDPAU, the hardware combines fields

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Wed, 19/1/11, Niko Mikkilä n...@phnet.fi wrote: From: Niko Mikkilä n...@phnet.fi Subject: Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2) To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Wednesday, 19 January, 2011, 10:48 ke, 2011-01-19 kello 10:18 +, Stuart Morris

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Wed, 19/1/11, Torgeir Veimo torg...@netenviron.com wrote: From: Torgeir Veimo torg...@netenviron.com Subject: Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2) To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Wednesday, 19 January, 2011, 13:50 On 19 January 2011 23:47,

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-20 Thread Stuart Morris
I believe the issue with this flag is understandable when you consider the very simple nature of most set-top boxes decoding broadcast digital TV. It will always send video to the TV interlaced regardless of the content. So it does not care about de-interlacing. However it does need to know how to

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-28 Thread Stuart Morris
: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:42:40PM +, Stuart Morris wrote: conversion and then draw the first field to the frame buffer. At the next vertical sync the shader would convert the second field and draw that to the frame buffer. With VDPAU is there a new OpenGL interop function

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video (was: Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2)

2011-01-28 Thread Stuart Morris
:57, Stuart Morris wrote: [..] Standard definition video is going to be harder than I thought. I used xrandr to set this mode via HDMI to my LCD TV: # 1440x576i @ 50Hz (EIA/CEA-861B) ModeLine 1440x576 27.000 1440 1464 1590 1728 576 581 587 625 -hsync -vsync Interlace The TV reported

Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD success with Nanostick 290e

2011-08-19 Thread Stuart Morris
Hi I too have just acquired a 290e and I am having difficulty getting it to work with VDR. Apart from the flakey driver at the moment, 'seeding' VDR's channel.conf is difficult. I tried using w_scan like this: w_scan -c GB -o 7 -I my_init_tune_file My tuning file (UK Sandy Heath) contained 1

[vdr] xine 1.2 vaapi

2011-08-30 Thread Stuart Morris
Does anyone know how one can enable vaapi in xine 1.2? I've got an AMD HD4200 motherboard graphics system working ok with MPlayer-vaapi. I have built FFMPEG with VAAPI but I don't know how to test if that works. I would like to watch UK FreeviewHD using Xineliboutput or Xine plugins. Thanks

[vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z

2011-09-17 Thread Stuart Morris
I have installed the EEPG plugin from the experimental branch; http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg/repository/show?rev=experimental (last revision was 26/08/2011), but I am getting gibberish in the EPG for the FreeviewHD channels. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z

2011-09-29 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Sat, 17/9/11, Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: From: Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk Subject: Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z To: vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 20:49 On Saturday 17 September 2011 20:32:48 Stuart Morris wrote: I have

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z

2011-09-29 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Thu, 29/9/11, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: From: Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com Subject: Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Thursday, 29 September, 2011, 10:12 --- On Sat, 17/9/11, Laz l...@club

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z

2011-09-29 Thread Stuart Morris
...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 13:00, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: Looking at the source code for Eepg it's not looking for the Freeview private data descriptor tag 0x233a. Does anyone know where I could find information on Freeview descriptors? Would

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z

2011-10-01 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Thu, 29/9/11, Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com wrote: From: Stuart Morris stuart_mor...@talk21.com Subject: Re: [vdr] eepg plugin + UK freeviewHD = }?Ln??X??Z?Z To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Thursday, 29 September, 2011, 14:15 --- On Thu, 29/9/11, Dominic Evans

Re: [vdr] vdr-checkts + vdrnfofs

2011-10-03 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Sun, 2/10/11, Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net wrote: From: Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net Subject: [vdr] vdr-checkts + vdrnfofs To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Sunday, 2 October, 2011, 22:21 Hi, Just in case someone finds them useful, I've just put two tiny tools online:

Re: [vdr] vdr-checkts + vdrnfofs

2011-10-05 Thread Stuart Morris
--- On Mon, 3/10/11, Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net wrote: From: Tobi listacco...@e-tobi.net Subject: Re: [vdr] vdr-checkts + vdrnfofs To: vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Monday, 3 October, 2011, 11:16 On 03.10.2011 11:39, Stuart Morris wrote: vdr-nfofs looks interesting. Can it be used

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG

2011-10-24 Thread Stuart Morris
I too have seen occasional EPG data on other channels become garbled. Is it possible that 'other transport stream' EIT data when received on the HD channel transport stream, is sometimes Huffman compressed? This of course is regardless whether the Eepg plugin is present or not. --- On Sat,

[vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG

2011-10-24 Thread Stuart Morris
In the absence of a modification to the Eepg plugin to decompress the FreeviewHD EPG, I have applied the original Freesat.diff to my installation of VDR 1.7.21 and have achieved some success accessing the FreeviewHD EPG. The patch is here: http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat.diff The first hunk

[vdr] Epgsearch not avoiding repeats

2011-10-29 Thread Stuart Morris
Hi Since upgrading to Epgsearch 1.0 I'm getting lots of repeat recordings. Please can anyone suggest what could be wrong here? To avoid repeats I have these settings: Avoid repeats yes Allowed repeats 0 Compare title no Compare subtitle no Compare summary yes Min. match in % 90 Compare date no

Re: [vdr] Epgsearch not avoiding repeats

2011-10-30 Thread Stuart Morris
Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Sunday, 30 October, 2011, 8:54 Hi Stuart, please turn on the log file with '-v 2' and have a look at epgsearch.log to see what's going on. cheers, Christian Am 29.10.2011 23:43, schrieb Stuart Morris: Hi Since upgrading to Epgsearch 1.0 I'm

[vdr] Garbage time and date

2011-11-08 Thread Stuart Morris
I have set my VDR to update the system clock and this has been working well for many years now. However I recently had a problem with my DVB-T antenna system causing bad reception and it really screwed up the system clock, ocasionally changing to the wrong date and time. I verified this by looking

Re: [vdr] compile error vompserver

2011-12-09 Thread Stuart Morris
The problem has been reported on the Vomp forum: http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=602.0 No fix yet. --- On Wed, 7/12/11, Andreas Hölscher andr...@andreas-hoelscher.de wrote: From: Andreas Hölscher andr...@andreas-hoelscher.de Subject: [vdr] compile error vompserver To: Klaus

Re: [vdr] Using some mediaplayer as set top box player for VDR

2011-12-09 Thread Stuart Morris
A replacement for the Hauppauge MediaMVP has been sought after for a long time. See this thread for a history: http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=526.0 --- On Wed, 7/12/11, Petric Frank pfr...@gmx.de wrote: From: Petric Frank pfr...@gmx.de Subject: Re: [vdr] Using some mediaplayer as

Re: [vdr] Using some mediaplayer as set top box player for VDR

2011-12-18 Thread Stuart Morris
Message- From: vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-boun...@linuxtv.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Morris Sent: 9. joulukuuta 2011 11:48 To: VDR Mailing List Subject: Re: [vdr] Using some mediaplayer as set top box player for VDR A replacement for the Hauppauge MediaMVP has been sought

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] vdr-1.7.21 DVB-T2 support

2011-12-22 Thread Stuart Morris
I'm running 1.7.21 with a DVB-T and DVB-T2. The only patch I have is for decoding the compressed EPG for UK Freeview HD. Does DVB-T2 need special handling in VDR? That's not been my experience. I suspect it depends on the tuner driver. I'm using a PCTV nanoStick 290e. --- On Wed, 21/12/11, Rolf

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] vdr-1.7.21 DVB-T2 support

2011-12-22 Thread Stuart Morris
...@cc.hut.fi Subject: Re: [vdr] [PATCH] vdr-1.7.21 DVB-T2 support To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 11:24 On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Stuart Morris wrote: I'm running 1.7.21 with a DVB-T and DVB-T2. The only patch I have is for decoding the compressed EPG for UK

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.23

2012-01-22 Thread Stuart Morris
Hi I have updated my DVB drivers using: git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git cd media_build ./build make install Yet VDR complains of the wrong DVB API version number: dvbdevice.h:18:2: error: #error VDR requires Linux DVB driver API version 5.3 or higher!

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.23

2012-01-22 Thread Stuart Morris
/src/dvb/media_build-git/linux ... 3. make VDR and install If you have followed these steps already then I'm sorry not to add anything new. Regards, Ian. On 22 Jan 2012, at 11:03, Stuart Morris wrote: Hi I have updated my DVB drivers using: git clone git://linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.23

2012-01-22 Thread Stuart Morris
I also had to copy compiler.h from my kernel sources to the media_build directory otherwise various plugins would not compile. cp /usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.14-96.fc14.i686.PAE/include/linux/compiler.h /usr/local/src/media_build/linux/include/linux/ --- On Sun, 22/1/12, Stuart Morris stuart_mor

[vdr] VDR2 plugin streaming problem

2013-04-03 Thread Stuart Morris
Congratulations on the release of VDR-2.0.0. I'm finding plugins streamdev, xvdr and vnsi all fail to stream live TV and radio. Is this to be expected with VDR-2.0.0 until plugin developers can catch up? Stu-e ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] VDR2 plugin streaming problem

2013-04-03 Thread Stuart Morris
Congratulations on the release of VDR-2.0.0. I'm finding plugins streamdev, xvdr and vnsi all fail to stream live TV and radio. Is this to be expected with VDR-2.0.0 until plugin developers can catch  up? No, at least streamdev and vnsi have both been working fine for me. OK Thanks.

Re: [vdr] VDR2 plugin streaming problem

2013-04-03 Thread Stuart Morris
Congratulations on the release of VDR-2.0.0. I'm finding plugins streamdev, xvdr and vnsi all fail to stream live TV and radio. Is this to be expected with VDR-2.0.0 until plugin developers can catch  up? No, at least streamdev and vnsi have both been working fine for me.

Re: [vdr] VDR2 plugin streaming problem

2013-04-04 Thread Stuart Morris
Congratulations on the release of VDR-2.0.0. I'm finding plugins streamdev, xvdr and vnsi all fail to stream live TV and radio. Is this to be expected with VDR-2.0.0 until plugin developers can catch  up? No, at least streamdev and vnsi have both been working

Re: [vdr] VDR2 plugin streaming problem

2013-04-05 Thread Stuart Morris
I'm finding plugins streamdev, xvdr and vnsi all fail to stream live TV and radio. Is this to be expected with VDR-2.0.0 until plugin developers can catch  up? No, at least streamdev and vnsi have both been working fine for me. OK Thanks.

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-16 Thread Stuart Morris
The other reason for me to use the patch is for Freeview HD's EIT. The encoding is exactly the same as Freesat's but I think the difference is that it still uses standard PIDs instead of non-standard ones. So EEPG would have to detect the encoding by using the flag bytes at the start of

Re: [vdr] DVB-T2 device in France

2015-09-21 Thread Stuart Morris
I have a 290e I use for DVB-T2 reception and it has worked really well for some time now. Shame you can't buy them anymore :-( On 19 September 2015 at 10:21, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 17.9.2015 15:01, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> My previous mail to this ML is

Re: [vdr] Logical Channel Numbers

2016-07-04 Thread Stuart Morris
On 3 July 2016 at 16:24, Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Stuart Morris <stuart8mor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I have recently upgraded to VDR v2.2.0 and I notice in the changelog > that support for Logical Cha

[vdr] Logical Channel Numbers

2016-07-02 Thread Stuart Morris
I have recently upgraded to VDR v2.2.0 and I notice in the changelog that support for Logical Channel Numbers (LCN) has been added. Is there any way to sort and select VDR channels by LCN yet? BTW My attempts at using scan to generate a channels.conf with LCN have been unsuccessful due to the