Re: [vdr] 32-bit capabilities?

2009-01-31 Thread Udo Richter
On 28.01.2009 10:32, alex bustamante wrote: warning: `vdr' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) What is this exactly? Your vdr is compiled against libcap version 1, while your kernel already supports a newer version of capability handling, provided by libcap version 2. Compiling

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Working PlayTsXXX to PlayXXX wrapper

2009-01-26 Thread Udo Richter
On 26.01.2009 08:39, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.01.2009 23:53, Udo Richter wrote: Attached is a new version of cDevice::PlayTsVideo and cDevice::PlayTsAudio that properly handles partially accepted buffers of the PlayVideo and PlayAudio functions. The original functions would discard any

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Working PlayTsXXX to PlayXXX wrapper

2009-01-26 Thread Udo Richter
On 26.01.2009 12:10, Udo Richter wrote: On 26.01.2009 08:39, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.01.2009 23:53, Udo Richter wrote: Attached is a new version of cDevice::PlayTsVideo and cDevice::PlayTsAudio that properly handles partially accepted buffers of the PlayVideo and PlayAudio functions

Re: [vdr] consistent device removal

2009-01-26 Thread Udo Richter
On 26.01.2009 22:25, Deti Fliegl wrote: sometimes it is very useful to create and destroy cDevice based classes at runtime. Currently it is only possible to create such classes at any time but destroying causes inconsistency in the 'devices' array which leads to segmentation faults in various

[vdr] [PATCH] Working PlayTsXXX to PlayXXX wrapper

2009-01-25 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, Attached is a new version of cDevice::PlayTsVideo and cDevice::PlayTsAudio that properly handles partially accepted buffers of the PlayVideo and PlayAudio functions. The original functions would discard any partially written data. These two functions are only used by devices that

[vdr] S2API wrapper patch 0.5 for VDR-1.7.4

2009-01-25 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, The new S2API-Wrapper patch for VDR-1.7.4 is ready. Beside adding support for the final 2G-flag, the patch also reverts the change that sends TS data directly to the device, since TS playback support is even newer than S2API support. Since TS to PES conversion by VDR-1.7.4 is also

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Hard link cutter patch 0.2.1

2009-01-25 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, A first experimental version of the hard link cutter patch is available for VDR-1.7.4. The new version handles 1TB file sizes for TS recordings, properly calculates the switch-to-large-files for 65535 files, and also handles PES recordings properly with the old limits. For TS

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Cuttime-patch for VDR-1.7.3

2009-01-25 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, The Cuttime-patch modifies the recording time of edited recordings to match the time of the first cut mark of the original recording. So if you start a recording 5 minutes earlier, and then later cut off the first 5 minutes, the resulting recording will have the proper start time

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.3

2009-01-24 Thread Udo Richter
On 06.01.2009 16:06, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - Recording files larger than 4GB or with more than 255 separate files hasn't been tested yet. + The index file format has been changed to support file sizes of up to 1TB (previously 2GB), and up to 65535 separate files per recording

Re: [vdr] channel-change-prediction, doable? stupid idea?

2009-01-23 Thread Udo Richter
On 21.01.2009 19:33, Gerald Dachs wrote: Assumed I have 2 free Tuners and I zapp through the channels of one tuner. Would it be possible to tune the 2. tuner to the same time to the after next channel in change direction, so that for the next channel change in the same direction it would be

Re: [vdr] why the VDR-PC can't auto run runvdr?

2009-01-14 Thread Udo Richter
On 14.01.2009 02:48, LinHai wrote: when I start the VDR-PC,The Screen displays: /usr/bin/runvdr:line 576: 4515 Segmentation fault Line 576 is in my latest patched runvdr extreme 0.4.0 release the line in which the actual VDR process is launched, at least if you're using the

Re: [vdr] German translation for Plugin

2009-01-11 Thread Udo Richter
On 11.01.2009 18:05, Joachim Wilke wrote: 2009/1/11 Lauri Tischlerl...@iki.fi: Plse dont change it, now when searching for 'plugin' something sometimes comes up also from german sources, if the term is changed to 'erweiterung' all german sources will become essentially black holes. If this

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.3

2009-01-11 Thread Udo Richter
On 10.01.2009 21:58, Johann Friedrichs wrote: there seems to be problem in pausing replays of new recordings (output to FF). 4 out of 5 times vdr freezes when trying to continue the replay. Poll in PlayVideo runs into a timeout and a new write gives EAGAIN. This does not happen with old

Re: [vdr] Color keys replacement

2009-01-11 Thread Udo Richter
On 11.01.2009 20:44, JJussi wrote: Related question.. Is it possible to change order of those colors (what represent color-keys) at screen? Because my remote have those colors, but two of those are in different order... Would be a Skin-related issue. Skins get the key description by color

[vdr] S2API wrapper patch 0.5 for VDR-1.7.2

2008-12-25 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've released the successor of the Multiproto dvb api wrapper patch. As its predecessor, the patch allows VDR-1.7.2 to be run on kernels without S2API support by wrapping S2API calls to old API calls. Behavior can be configured in Make.config again: DEFINES += -DDVB_S2API_RUNTIME=1

Re: [vdr] Regression from a fix in VDR 1.4.1: Needless blocking of CAM DVB cards

2008-12-21 Thread Udo Richter
On 01.12.2008 16:02, Jörn Reder wrote: Jörn Reder wrote: With vdr 1.4 this worked perfectly, now with 1.6 VDR always prefers my Budget CI card for recordings so I can't view any Pay TV when a recording is active. The rules that were added with 1.4.1-4 are still present, so they probably got

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-20 Thread Udo Richter
On 15.12.2008 11:06, Frank Schmirler wrote: - no channel sync This would make an excellent addition to streamdev. Rather a separate plugin or at most part of epgsync-Plugin. Streamdev should stick to what it was meant for: streaming. Streamdev is a receiving device within VDR, and VDR can do

Re: [vdr] ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput load/save and name changes

2008-12-20 Thread Udo Richter
On 15.12.2008 11:46, Nicolas Huillard wrote: The problem is that xineliboutput seems to use a single ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput config file, stored in the home directory of the vdr user, which is defined by /etc/passwd, which is the same on all clients... You could mount different locations

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-20 Thread Udo Richter
On 20.12.2008 23:37, Frank Schmirler wrote: It seems that we have a different understanding of the term channel sync. Streamdev-0.3.4 has the capabilities you're talking about. What I had in mind was merging or replacing the client's with the server's channels list. One thing is updating the

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-13 Thread Udo Richter
On 12.12.2008 23:23, Nicolas Huillard wrote: The problems that come to mind in typical current multiple VDR are : * DVB device handling is running even if there is no actual DVB device (OK, this is not a problem in practice, except for device numbers) When there are no DVB devices available at

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-13 Thread Udo Richter
On 13.12.2008 00:04, VDR User wrote: Maybe those people who wants such a networking capable vdr should fork it and implement the needed features? Possibly. However, I could be wrong but didn't Klaus recently say if anyone forks VDR, he would stop developing it? And it isn't as if there's a

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-12 Thread Udo Richter
On 12.12.2008 18:06, VDR User wrote: I can say I've seen many people move away from VDR because it doesn't provide a good solution to this. After years of using standalone VDR boxes, I too would love if we had the option to use a networked VDR with each client being exactly as you

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-09 Thread Udo Richter
Karl Glatz wrote: But the disadvantages are clear: Modern GPUs support more than the OSD provided by VDR (even older gpus do that). So none of these Output-Plugins will face the real problem: The OSD is (mostly) limited to work with FF cards. [...] Even if you don't like such

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-08 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Is there any movement to files 2GB for the recordings? I will most likely change this when going to TS recording format. In doing so, I'd like to get rid of splitting recordings into separate files altogether. However, I think there might be people who still want

Re: [vdr] Regression from a fix in VDR 1.4.1: Needless blocking of CAM DVB cards

2008-11-30 Thread Udo Richter
Jörn Reder wrote: With vdr 1.4 this worked perfectly, now with 1.6 VDR always prefers my Budget CI card for recordings so I can't view any Pay TV when a recording is active. The rules that were added with 1.4.1-4 are still present, so they probably got over-ruled by something else. Can you

Re: [vdr] VDR on Fedora recommended window manager

2008-11-15 Thread Udo Richter
Simon Baxter wrote: Can anyone suggest a howto, or can guide me on how to circumvent this entirely? Basically I need to: 1) auto log into 'vdruser' 2) start xine This sounds familiar, and leads to the question: Do your *really* need a window manager? Or do you just run xine fullscreen

Re: [vdr] What ever happened to...

2008-10-26 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Well, I like the idea of taking the plain VDR and a FF DVB card and have it run out of the box, without having to fiddle around with any plugins ;-) This is not really a good point any more, since at least latest development 1.7.x builds wont work without a custom

Re: [vdr] What ever happened to...

2008-10-26 Thread Udo Richter
Pasi Juppo wrote: Would this approach allow easier implementation of a real client-server solution for VDR or would VDR still need severe changes in order to allow this? Has not much to do with this. The limitation for a client-server solution is that VDR has exact ONE display front end, ONE

Re: [vdr] VDR and multicast streaming

2008-10-25 Thread Udo Richter
Artem Makhutov wrote: do you know an solution to make VDR (maybe with the use of the sreamdev-plugin) to stream using multicast? I have an IPTV Settop Box, which I would like to use for wathing TV, but it only works with IP-Multicast... The xineliboutput plugin connects its remote clients

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-osdserver 0.1.2

2008-10-04 Thread Udo Richter
Hi, I've published version 0.1.2 of the OSDServer plugin. The new version fixes a bug on VDR 1.5.11+ on text edit items. The new version also adds a new Perl binding module that encapsulates the OSDServer network protocol within Perl objects. By using the Perl module, OSDServer is a lot

Re: [vdr] FW: [ANNOUNCE] DVB API improvements

2008-09-24 Thread Udo Richter
Niels Wagenaar wrote: So, this should mean that VDR 1.7.x should focus on S2API because of the obvious reasons. Has anybody started on a patch of somekind to include S2API in VDR 1.7.0 or 1.7.1? Mainly I was thinking of doing it myself (I have a Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 which is allready

Re: [vdr] VDR not starting if a plugin fails to start?

2008-09-19 Thread Udo Richter
Petri Helin wrote: In fact I am already wondering why plugins are not hot-pluggable... They are, to some degree, by using the proxy plugin. The proxy plugin can delay loading a plugin, and for some plugins it can unload a plugin while VDR is running. It can also do the requested

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] runvdr extreme 0.4

2008-09-14 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've updated the runvdr extreme script to version 0.4. The main new feature is the ability to launch an X server together with VDR, for use with xine or xineliboutput. An installed login manager like gdm/kdm/wdm/xdm wont be used, and can be used for a desktop login on a different

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-08 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09/07/08 19:42, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: ... i always wondered why dvb support was directly compiled in while other back and frontends were supposed to be plugins. this clearly leaves a sign that dvb is the preferd plattform. Well, it was the first one -

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.1

2008-09-07 Thread Udo Richter
The sky plugin does not compile any more, because it uses PID_MASK_HI which got renamed to TS_PID_MASK_HI. Patch is attached. A similar problem strikes for streamdev. Cheers, Udo --- vdr-1.7.1-old/PLUGINS/src/sky/sky.c 2008-09-07 13:34:53.0 +0200 +++ vdr-1.7.1/PLUGINS/src/sky/sky.c

[vdr] DVB API Wrapper for VDR-1.7.1

2008-09-07 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, A minimal update to the DVB API wrapper for VDR 1.7.1 is available on my web site. http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#dvb-api-wrapper http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.html#dvb-api-wrapper Cheers, Udo ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-06 Thread Udo Richter
VDR User wrote: What ever happened to the idea of setting up VDR deveopment on mercurial to allow the main contributors who want to work on it to do so without hassle/delay? My 2c on this: Lets think this through: An open VDR repository for everyone to get in their personal 'I want this'

Re: [vdr] new dvb api ?

2008-09-06 Thread Udo Richter
Jelle De Loecker wrote: I was wondering what the people on the VDR ml thought about this. From a non-dvb-insider perspective who doesn't really need things like s2 right now, I'm seeing this form a relaxed point of view. The two APIs seem to do things different, but in the end they both offer

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-06 Thread Udo Richter
Hans Werner wrote: Sourcecaps I believe has existed as a patch for about four *years* and has it's own web page. Absolutely ridiculous. I am lost for words. So I guess mythtv has something like that, right? Also, I've never heard of anyone doing a more general patch that also integrates

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-06 Thread Udo Richter
Morfsta wrote: VDR does need some of its core functionality upgraded - for example something like the Reel channel scan is badly missing, you should be able to easily scan for transponders from within VDR, just like most satellite receivers. Hmmm. My VDR automatically updates its channel

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-04 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09/04/08 12:38, Morfsta wrote: Does anyone know what is happening with VDR development these days? There doesn't seem to be much activity - is Klaus taking a long holiday or very busy with work!? :-) This summer I had quite a few other things to do, and many

Re: [vdr] About:ERROR (svdrp.c,84): Address already in use

2008-08-15 Thread Udo Richter
LinHai wrote: when I run the vdr-1.7.0+h.264,there is something wrong with it. syslog: Aug 7 02:09:05 hdtv2 vdr: [10938] ERROR (svdrp.c,84): Address already in use VDR wants to open its port for SVDRP connections (default port 2001), but someone else (another VDR?) has already opened

Re: [vdr] The issue of orphaned plugins, addons and patches (Re: pvr-input)

2008-06-21 Thread Udo Richter
Hanno Zulla wrote: So it appears that we have a problem with 1) too many vdr-related projects dying or being orphaned when the original author looses interest In most cases, its probably not just loosing interest, but running out of time. Handling a job, a family and a time-consuming

[vdr] Failed to read channels.conf after adding transponder

2008-06-17 Thread Udo Richter
Hi Klaus list, Today I had an unexpected parse error in my channels.conf, in this line: Test Feed;Test Feed:10920:hC56M2O0S0:S19.2E:22000:0:0:0:0:0:1:1063:0 The line was added by automatic transponder scan yesterday. The 'bug' of this channel is that the SID (4'th last) is 0, triggering

Re: [vdr] Use of vdr within TV companies?

2008-06-14 Thread Udo Richter
Peter Marquardt wrote: I don't see any advantages using vdr. Archived material might be used in future productions, so you'll definitely want to record the best signal, you can get. Furthermore, archived material might be needed to reproduce the signal as close as it was, to determine where

Re: [vdr] Use of vdr within TV companies?

2008-06-13 Thread Udo Richter
Hanno Zulla wrote: are there known users of vdr within TV or radio operators? There was a claim that some TV stations use vdr to archive their broadcast stream and another that vdr is used by cable companies as part of their infrastructure. You've probably heard of xeatre.tv, a large scale

Re: [vdr] playing 2 audio streams at the same time

2008-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
Peter Münster wrote: Is it possible with vdr, to send one audio channel to the headphones and the other audio channel to the speakers (or another headphones)? I don't think that this is currently possible, though it would be a really great feature. The easy way from hardware point - use stereo

[vdr] How to properly attach stream to live view?

2008-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, Is there a proper way to attach another stream receiver to the currently receiving channel, and - more important - disconnect it properly on channel change? The problem arises from difficulties with the osdteletext plugin. (see http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=70372

Re: [vdr] How to properly attach stream to live view?

2008-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - Find a way to mark a receiver as being 'extremely unimportant', and don't count them as NeedsDetachReceiver or as Receiving() in that case, maybe by using -1 as priority. Using a negative priority would be the right way: cReceiver(tChannelID ChannelID, int

Re: [vdr] DVB API Wrapper for VDR 1.7.0

2008-05-23 Thread Udo Richter
lucian orasanu wrote: I dont understend why are you kep mantaining this patch wen vdr-1.7.0 and all plugins should be evolving on multiproto. Stop releasing this patch, keep it for you!! I think that there's a need for it. In my opinion something like VDR should work on any stable Linux

[vdr] DVB API Wrapper for VDR 1.7.0

2008-05-22 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, There's a new version of the DVB API wrapper patch. The new version is compatible to the current multiproto drivers, and wraps the DVBFE_SET_DELSYS call. The new version is based on the vdr-1.7.0-multiproto-update.diff, and probably works also with the vdr-1.7.0-h264-diff.bz2

Re: [vdr] segmentation fault with Skins.QueueMessage

2008-05-18 Thread Udo Richter
lukkinosat wrote: I set a time of 40 seconds, but if time watchdog is less than 40 seconds, vdr exit with a segmentation fault. Is this normal? Is possible set a message with a time greater of time watchdog? It is. VDR 1.4.x even used a dirty workaround to display the 5 minute shutdown

Re: [vdr] transponder hopping made easy?

2008-04-26 Thread Udo Richter
Rainer Zocholl wrote: ARD swaps some transponders 2nd June. With VDR that seems to be a great pain, or? It doesn't have to, if they move their NID-TID-SID to the new transponders. VDR will then follow with the existing channel to the new transponder. Maybe they do that at the end of the

Re: [vdr] Multiproto with 1.4-1.6

2008-04-23 Thread Udo Richter
Lauri Tischler wrote: Does VDR 1.4 - 1.6 work with multiproto drivers ? The multiproto drivers are fully backwards compatible, all programs based on the old API work as before. However, the additional features like DVB-S2 are of course limited to multiproto-aware software like VDR 1.7 or VDR

Re: [vdr] new graphics processor from VIA S3 for HD video

2008-04-22 Thread Udo Richter
Igor Nikanov wrote: Chipmaker Via's S3 Graphics division has announced a high-performance discrete graphics processor positioned as the first to meet the embedded industry's thermal requirements. The 4300E targets gaming and signage, offers HD video, DVI or HDMI output, and mixes dedicated

Re: [vdr] VDR and multiproto - which driver to use?

2008-04-19 Thread Udo Richter
Lauri Tischler wrote: If that looks hard, i can push a tree which is a result of the above outlined steps. Thanks a lot for providing http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto_plus. Any instructions somewhere how to stuff that into stock kernel (debian)? I really don't want to compile the total kernel.

Re: [vdr] [patch] channels with same pids+channels update

2008-04-18 Thread Udo Richter
Thiemo wrote: The patch keeps a time stamp whenever a channel announcement is seen, and the plugin tracks the first-seen and last-seen time of all channels Is this timestamp stored in the channels.conf? If so, what about compatibility? No, it is not, to preserve compatibility and to keep the

Re: [vdr] DVB API Wrapper for VDR 1.7.0

2008-04-14 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: The new version also fixes a bug with the default DVBFE_MOD_AUTO modulation on DVB-S. Is this fix also relevant for the original VDR 1.7.0? No, its just a wrapper bug: After importing a DVB-S channels.conf from 1.6.0, VDR uses DVBFE_MOD_AUTO as modulation, and

[vdr] DVB API Wrapper for VDR 1.7.0

2008-04-13 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, There's a new version of the DVB API wrapper patch that adds fallback compatibility to the current stable DVB API without multiproto support. The new version also fixes a bug with the default DVBFE_MOD_AUTO modulation on DVB-S. Also, the patch for VDR-1.5/1.6 that allows to read a

Re: [vdr] [patch] channels with same pids+channels update

2008-04-12 Thread Udo Richter
Peter Evertz wrote: I am very interested in this feature. My providers (astra/hotbird) are smart enough not to send not to much garbage, but deleting of unused channels is really a pain. I am at 4500 Channels in my channels.conf and I am pretty sure that at least 30 % of them are long gone.

Re: [vdr] Looking for Medion MD4688 remote code for VDR

2008-04-08 Thread Udo Richter
Jean-Claude Repetto wrote: My Medion MD 4688 remote (from Aldi) has lost its codes because the batteries were dead :-( I am not using LIRC, but the RC input of a WinTV DVB-S REV 1.3, and this is my remote.conf file : remote-event0._Setup /proc/av7110_ir 8000 20 remote-event0.Up

Re: [vdr] LOCDIR/LOCALEDIR and plugins

2008-04-06 Thread Udo Richter
Ville Skyttä wrote: I'm a bit confused about the locale dir stuff in VDR 1.6.0 especially wrt. plugins. newplugin hardcodes LOCALEDIR to $(VDRDIR)/locale without taking Make.config into account at all. The result is that plugins will try to place their *.mo into a wrong location if LOCDIR

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Use pkg-config to find freetype/fontconfig flags

2008-03-09 Thread Udo Richter
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: But would it kill anybody to simply have all header files at a standard place (/usr/include and /usr/local/include)? yes it would. how would you install different versions of the same libraries (with their headers) if it wasn't in different paths? and what about

Re: [vdr] sub channel numbering system

2008-03-08 Thread Udo Richter
Timothy D. Lenz wrote: which, but not all, will be shut down in a year. For ATSC .1 is the primary channel and .2, .3, etc are the sub channels. The # on the remote could be used for the . In the channels.conf an ATSC next channel number would look like: :@13.1 Well, at least I've never

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.17 - release candidate 2

2008-03-05 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Users in Germany should please test this, too, and do an export VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE=ISO-8859-9 before starting VDR. In case we do head for a single override option, wouldn't it be more consistent to do this with a command line option instead of an environment

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] runvdr extreme 0.3

2008-03-02 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've updated the runvdr extreme script to version 0.3. The new version adds some distribution-like comfort to plugin management, by managing whole directories of configuration files. A new script, runvdr-conf.d, can be used to manage symbolic links in /etc/runvdr/conf.d/ for

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] streamplayer-0.1.5, proxy-0.1.4, po2i18n-0.3

2008-02-24 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, After some delays, I've finally updated some of my stuff to the latest i18n standards of VDR. streamplayer-0.1.5 and proxy-0.1.4 now use the VDR-1.5.8+ compatible i18n system including backwards compatibility and all the latest newplugin changes. Also, both now have Italian

Re: [vdr] dvb-ttpci: ARM crashed @ card 1

2008-02-17 Thread Udo Richter
Rainer Zocholl wrote: 1.4.7), so having no signal on DVB-S is not un-typical for my system. 1.4.3 had the problem to restart vdr in such cases, beraking all other recording(*). This restart is not very noticable in the recording. Believe me, I do notice them. And they really only happen

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-17 Thread Udo Richter
Udo Richter wrote: Theunis Potgieter wrote: udev rules Any good rules that could be used as a starting point? Since there's no working solution yet that really satisfied me, I've digged into this, trying to get automatic persistent numbering of /dev/dvb/adapterX to work. My first attempt

Re: [vdr] dvb-ttpci: ARM crashed @ card 1

2008-02-16 Thread Udo Richter
Rainer Zocholl wrote: until he learned that every card in the system MUST have a -good- antenna signal, regardless if the card is used or not... because EPG scan would use every card and that VDR behaves -unexpectable- sick without -good- antenna signals. I cannot confirm that. My VDR always

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-16 Thread Udo Richter
Rainer Zocholl wrote: This unloading leads to ACPI interrupr errors On the VDR console i could see 3 line ACPI disabling interupt This is not an error. If a DVB driver is unloaded, its IRQ is unused and ACPI disables this IRQ line. As soon as the driver gets loaded again, the ACPI IRQ will

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-16 Thread Udo Richter
Rainer Zocholl wrote: For who knows french, there is an interresting thread about udev on the dvbkivabien forum. I did use it to have my nexus always as primary device http://dvbkivabien2.info/viewtopic.php?f=21t=11255 Vous devez tre inscrit et connect pour pouvoir consulter le contenu

Re: [vdr] trouble with asprintf

2008-02-11 Thread Udo Richter
Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: char *s; asprintf(s,%ld-%.9s,random(),artist.original()); segfaults only if illegal utf8 chars appear in artist.original() asprintf returns -1, so s is nothing that could be freed, and this gives a nice backtrace: So its basically just free'ing an

Re: [vdr] trouble with asprintf

2008-02-10 Thread Udo Richter
Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: since asprintf leads to segfaults if feeded with incorrect UTF-8 characters, I wanted to write a wrapper function which would then check the return value of asprintf. I never understood what the problem is with utf8 and asprintf, since utf8 is mostly ASCIIZ

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-05 Thread Udo Richter
Theunis Potgieter wrote: udev rules Any good rules that could be used as a starting point? I thought of doing this with udev, but there are some obstacles for that: First, a DVB device has several device files, not just one. And second, the usual trick to add a custom name as symlink doesn't

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] DVB API wrapper patch v0.2 for VDR-1.5.14

2008-02-04 Thread Udo Richter
For people who encounter this bug on recent kernels: dvb_api_wrapper.c:189: error: '__invalid_size_argument_for_IOC' cannot appear in a constant-expression This is caused by an obscure kernel compile check that is supposed to do macro parameter checking for ioctl constants, but also prevents

[vdr] [PATCH] DVB API wrapper patch v0.2 for VDR-1.5.14

2008-02-03 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, Based on the original DVB API patch of last week, I've done a cleaner rewrite of the patch. This time, the changes to the VDR sources are limited to a few #includes and replacements of ioctl calls by the new DVBFE_ioctl wrapper call. All the magic goes into this API wrapper, that

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Should there be a stable version 1.6.0 now, based on what's in version 1.5.14, but without DVB-S2 or even H.264 support? My answer is a clear and determined 'Maybe'. ;) A new stable release would bring lots of useful features to the end user that is still

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 dvb-s2 H.264 patch from Reinhard

2008-01-18 Thread Udo Richter
Gregoire Favre wrote: Great, I didn't try the Hard Link cutter (see http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr//2008-January/015070.html ) because I can't seem to apply it cleanly on my vdr, do you have an idea on a good way to cut H.264 reccording ? Any detailed information would help. Note that

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Hard link cutter patch 0.2.0

2008-01-12 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've improved the hard link cutter patch. The new 0.2.0 version has support for multiple /videoXX folders. The new patch tries to find a compatible /videoXX folder that can hold a hard link for each file. Deep mounted video folders (like mount to /video/nfs-server/ or

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Udo Richter
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: I think that Morfsta's main point isn't any specific feature of VDR like HD support. The point is VDR's development model itself. It is closed now. Patches are not the answer to this problem. Developers have to be very motivated to maintain patches from version till

Re: [vdr] nfs sharing epg.data

2007-11-04 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: i suggest the introduction of a new command line option to switch off writing any epg data (implicitly switching off epg scan). this way only the server vdr maintains the epg and the clients only read it. The clients would only read this once at program start. I

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-iptv-0.0.2

2007-10-28 Thread Udo Richter
Antti Seppälä schrieb: BTW. we've actually been looking into adding support for receiving rtsp streams and while it is more laborous than other protocols I think implementing it would be entirely possible. I have an experimental version of my streamplayer plugin that allows to use RTSP

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-osdserver 0.1.0

2007-10-06 Thread Udo Richter
Hi, I've published version 0.1.0 of the OSDServer plugin. OSDServer is a plugin that allows external programs to use the OSD and the menu system of VDR. Access is done via TCP/IP and a simple script language that is primarily designed to be handled by perl programs and shell scripts. Until

Re: [vdr] Not good behaviour from vdr

2007-09-30 Thread Udo Richter
JJussi wrote: How about, when there is no stream - no writing to HD.. OK, if there is 15 minutes break middle of stream, then recording jump those 15 minutes during playback. To clear things up: Of course, if there's no stream for whatever reasons, VDR already does NOT write anything to

Re: [vdr] Not good behaviour from vdr

2007-09-29 Thread Udo Richter
dom.plu wrote: It can be interresting to use the emergency shutdown only when there are no other records running at the same time Sounds like a good idea: Emergency exit on failing to record: * Never * Only if this doesn't break other recordings * Always Maybe this could even be based on

Re: [vdr] Errorreturncode from Makefile possible?

2007-09-22 Thread Udo Richter
Torsten Kunkel wrote: I would love it, if the Makefile could give an errorcode if something went wrong. Normally I'm using make plugins ./runvdr when testing plugins. But if the compile of one or many plugins failes, the makefile gives an OK, and vdr starts (with the old plugincode). You

Re: [vdr] Prefermenu plugin ERROR: cOsd::SetAreas

2007-09-22 Thread Udo Richter
Stone wrote: vdr: [4922] ERROR: cOsd::SetAreas returned 5 This is oeWrongAlignment, and is returned if an OSD area has negative size, is outside of the screen, or does not byte-align. The latter is triggered if a 1-bit OSD has a width that is not multiple of 8, a 2-bit OSD has a width not

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.9 + xineliboutput 1.0.0rc2

2007-09-01 Thread Udo Richter
Gergely TAMAS wrote: Does someone have a patch which enables xineliboutput 1.0.0rc2 to work with vdr 1.5.9 ? There's an official patch on the dev' web page: http://phivdr.dyndns.org/vdr/vdr-xineliboutput/ (You'll need both, the 1.5.3 patch and the 1.5.9 patch) Cheers, Udo

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] po2i18n-0.2 - converter for plugin backwards compatibility

2007-08-26 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've uploaded version 0.2 of the po2i18n script that converts i18n strings from gettext to i18n.c format. The new version now properly handles multi-line i18n strings. To keep things simple, its still NOT based on Locale::PO. (Sorry, Dieter. ;) ) Also, the Makefile integration for

Re: [vdr] How to set German OSD in VDR 1.5.8

2007-08-21 Thread Udo Richter
Matthias Fechner wrote: cp Make.config.template Make.config edit it and set LOCDIR=./locale ok I changed it, now VDR says at startup: Aug 20 14:53:36 localhost vdr: [23028] found 21 locales in ./locale Aug 20 14:53:36 localhost vdr: [23028] no locale for language code 'deu,ger' [..] But

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5.7-1.5.8.diff problems?

2007-08-19 Thread Udo Richter
Luca Olivetti wrote: The diff fails on all po files, it's only me or does it happens to others? po files are a pain for diff-patches because they have lists of source code line numbers in the comments. If you've applied any other patch to the VDR sources, and did a recompile, then all your po

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] po2i18n - converter for plugin backwards compatibility

2007-08-19 Thread Udo Richter
Dieter Hametner wrote: I kind of enhanced your script to use the CPAN module Locale::PO for reading the .po/.pot files. Your implementation did not handle multi line msgids and msgstrs well. Hmmm, ok, I don't have multi-line strings that need translation, but this is probably worth a fix.

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.7

2007-08-18 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - Internationalization is now done with 'gettext' (following a suggestion by Lucian Muresan). To add another report, I had some trouble to pick anything but English at first. After some fiddling and trying the various hints, here's what was missing for me:

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] po2i18n - converter for plugin backwards compatibility

2007-08-18 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've uploaded a little perl script and instructions to convert from the new gettext based po i18n files to the old i18n.c system of VDR 1.5.6 and earlier. By using this script its easy to use the new po based i18n system for translations, and still compile the plugins with full i18n

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.7

2007-08-18 Thread Udo Richter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08/18/07 12:29, Udo Richter wrote: To add another report, I had some trouble to pick anything but English at first. After some fiddling and trying the various hints, here's what was missing for me: [...] ... and now it works. Is there a way to make VDR less

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] po2i18n - converter for plugin backwards compatibility

2007-08-18 Thread Udo Richter
Michael Brueckner wrote: Get it here: http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/scripts.html#po2i18n http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/scripts.en.html#po2i18n The download-links don't work. I think you must link to 'po2i18n-0.1.tgz' instead of 'po2i18n.tgz' :) Oooops! That happens if you don't check

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.4.7 woun't shutdown correctly

2007-08-18 Thread Udo Richter
Michael Nausch wrote: But If I try to do the same on my testsystem (vdr-1.4.7) it won't work! On syslog I'll only see: Aug 18 17:21:59 tecvdr vdr: [1916] executing '/usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown 1187452313 1800 0 1' Aug 18 17:40:51 tecvdr vdr: [1921] executing '/usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown

Re: [vdr] Comments on plugin Makefiles

2007-08-15 Thread Udo Richter
Matthias Schwarzott wrote: This time I have some comments on Makefiles for plugins. 1. Is there any reason to not allow plain make without target to work? It would be so easy to move the all: target before %.o: %.c line. My plugins usually have an early extra target like this to allow a

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] proxy-plugin 0.1.3

2007-08-12 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, For all the version junkies out there, here is proxy plugin version 0.1.3, with full support for VDR 1.5.7 and its new i18n system. Also fixed: Proxify the WakeupTime() call of VDR 1.5.1. This version is fully backwards compatible, though it requires gettext support to compile on all

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