Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] naludump 0.0.1

2011-02-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 01.01.2011 22:29, schrieb Udo Richter: Later versions will also integrate into VDR as a patch, and will filter out these fillers while recording. I've released an quick early naludump patch for vdr-1.7.16, you can get it at VDR portal: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=979062

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7.16 FF card crashes

2011-02-14 Thread Udo Richter
Am 14.02.2011 01:33, schrieb syrius...@no-log.org: Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de writes: Using 1.7.16 on an unmodified FF DVB-S regularly, no special issues. Rock solid as usual, as long as you don't do transfer mode on high bandwidth channels. Are you still using it as a primary device

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] naludump patch 0.1

2011-02-20 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've uploaded the final patch version of the h.264 NALU fill removal for VDR 1.7.16. The patch deletes NALU fill data from h.264 streams while recording. The overall stream structure isn't modified, only complete TS packets of NALU fill data are dropped. On HD TV channels that use fixed

Re: [vdr] How's the 24 bit OSD VDR coming?

2011-03-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.03.2011 22:09, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Don't get too excited about the TrueColor OSD, though. What comes with VDR is only the basic OSD platform that allows plugins to use full screen 32 bit ARGB color, with alpha blendable pixmaps and such. Do you have any numbers on OSD speed for,

Re: [vdr] priorities in streamdev

2011-03-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.03.2011 15:18, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 27.07.2010 15:15, Frank Schmirler wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:07:23 +0200, syrius.ml wrote Have you had a look at http://projects.vdr-developer.org/issues/show/10 ? Yep: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2010-July/023243.html Hope

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.17

2011-03-19 Thread Udo Richter
Am 19.03.2011 18:40, schrieb Juergen Lock: There is one remaining bug tho: After playback of a short recording (sd in this case, 20s or so), vdr seems to kind of hang and I have to kill it... Can you reproduce that? Longer recordings are not affected. This is probably an old bug: For me,

[vdr] [1.7.17][Patch] Program guide scroll

2011-03-19 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, In reference to [1], and to give this a push-up, I've attached an updated patch for program guide scroll for VDR-1.7.17. The patch also fixes the non-working scrolling in longer descriptions. If anyone needs this fixed for VDR 1.7.17, let me know. Cheers, Udo [1]

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.17

2011-03-19 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.03.2011 12:46, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: - While replaying, the editing marks are now updated every 10 seconds (based on a patch from Manuel Reimer). Thanks for this! With it, the jumpplay-patch gets obsoleted for me, as I only used the marks reloading. (As a good-bye, I've posted an

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.17

2011-03-20 Thread Udo Richter
Am 20.03.2011 13:31, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 20.03.2011 12:46, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I have attached a patch that implements this. Would this be ok? Sorry, there was a line missing that makes sure the initial load takes place. Attached is a revised version of the patch. You're too

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] naludump patch 0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Udo Richter
Am 22.03.2011 09:16, schrieb Matthias Fechner: On 20.02.11 21:31, Udo Richter wrote: I've uploaded the final patch version of the h.264 NALU fill removal for VDR 1.7.16. which config parameter I must set in the setup.conf to enable this patch? (I have no video output on my recording machine

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] naludump patch 0.1

2011-03-23 Thread Udo Richter
Am 23.03.2011 07:58, schrieb Matthias Fechner: One question here, if I shrink already existing recordings with the command line tool, is it necessary to delete the index? The command line tool just processes a single .ts file. You have to process each file of the recording, and you have to

Re: [vdr] [Patch] Make RGYB buttons customizeable

2011-04-02 Thread Udo Richter
Am 02.04.2011 12:23, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: I could imagine accepting a patch that centralizes handling the sequence in which the color buttons are displayed, and offers a standard interface to skin plugins that allows them to arrange the color buttons accordingly. What I don't want to

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.17

2011-04-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.03.2011 16:45, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Can you please rewrite your patch so that it keeps the original 'd' variable? I liked the fact that the 'nextUpdate' variable was incremented in *one* place, and not in several places. Made the whole thing more transparent to me. Besides, I could

Re: [vdr] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Can VDR use one specific transponder for EPG information?

2011-04-17 Thread Udo Richter
Am 18.04.2011 00:15, schrieb VDR User: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: Just a thought but you could set up a daily or weekly timer with a very low priority on the recording so it auto deletes it. I've never used the auto delete after set time because I

Re: [vdr] TT Premium S2-6400 (F?ley Istv?n)

2011-04-20 Thread Udo Richter
Am 20.04.2011 10:54, schrieb serge pecher: I was a little bit surprised to see in the specifications that it needs a CPU minimum P4 2 Ghz. Thats probably because you need at least an 2GHz P4 to boot windows and a virus scanner nowadays. The CPU and RAM demands should be not much higher than

Re: [vdr] TT Premium S2-6400 (F?ley Istv?n)

2011-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
Am 20.04.2011 23:33, schrieb VDR User: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: Thats probably because you need at least an 2GHz P4 to boot windows and a virus scanner nowadays. I seriously doubt virus scanners have anything to do with anything. That seems

Re: [vdr] [OT] Windows resource needs, WAS: TT Premium S2-6400 (F?ley Istv?n)

2011-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
Am 21.04.2011 21:01, schrieb VDR User: I can't believe a dvb card vendor sets their minimum requirements based on things such as McAfee loads. It would be absurd to do so. Probably not that specific, but they have to calculate an average OS with average software running on it, and for a

Re: [vdr] Stop live TV whilst in menu

2011-05-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.05.2011 01:49, schrieb Dominic Evans: For example, currently if I want to watch two or three recordings one after another, I go to recordings menu, play 1 till end, hit back (returning me to recordings menu), play 2 till end and so on. Each time I go back to the recordings menu to choose

Re: [vdr] Small fix for GCC 4.6 issue

2011-05-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.05.2011 07:44, schrieb Tobi: 8.5/9 of the C++ standard says If no initializer is specified for an object, and the object is of (possibly cv-qualified) nonPOD class type (or array thereof), the object shall be default-initialized; if the object is of const-qualified type, the

Re: [vdr] Small fix for GCC 4.6 issue

2011-05-15 Thread Udo Richter
Am 15.05.2011 23:45, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 14.05.2011 13:06, Tobi wrote: Right. The C++ standard explicitly requires an user-declared default constructor here. So it should also work if you add an empty constructor cCursesFont::cCursesFont() { } ??? Yes. Either this or

Re: [vdr] Anybody using VDR-Live with VDR 1.7.18?

2011-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
Am 07.06.2011 15:07, schrieb John Klimek: I'm using VDR 1.7.18 with the latest GIT version of VDR-Live and it's not working that great... For example, some images do not appear and then when I try to access certain links (randomly) VDR will just crash without any errors. I'm using a

Re: [vdr] cppcheck: VDR 1.7.18: [timers.c:53]: (error) snprintf size is out of bounds

2011-06-15 Thread Udo Richter
Am 15.06.2011 18:34, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 15.06.2011 15:30, Paul Menzel wrote: if (Instant channel) snprintf(file, sizeof(file), %s%s, Setup.MarkInstantRecord ? @ : , *Setup.NameInstantRecord ? Setup.NameInstantRecord : channel-Name()); ...this should be

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.19

2011-06-19 Thread Udo Richter
Am 19.06.2011 22:57, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 19.06.2011 12:41, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: - Fixed detecting frames in case the Picture Start Code or Access Unit Delimiter extends over TS packet boundaries (reported by Johan Andersson). I'm afraid this change causes a short distortion in

Re: [vdr] OT: s2api backwards compatible?

2011-07-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 03.07.2011 19:55, schrieb Tony Houghton: Is s2api backwards compatible ie can you use it on older, non DVB-S2, cards? It is, in both ways: Any supported DVB card can always be accessed by s2api and by DVB v3 API. Functionality may be limited on DVB v3 API of course. S2api is part of any

Re: [vdr] Transfer mode vs TS playback: any difference in TS streams for vdr.1.7.19?

2011-07-11 Thread Udo Richter
Am 11.07.2011 18:12, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 11.07.2011, at 03:21, Laz l...@club-burniston.co.uk wrote: Before I dig into buffers, etc., is there any difference between the streams sent to PlayTS in transfer mode and in playback? I see that transfer mode generates a PAT/PMT on the fly

Re: [vdr] Ring buffer overflows with streamdev and remux script

2011-07-14 Thread Udo Richter
Am 14.07.2011 02:28, schrieb VDR User: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Luboš Doležel lu...@dolezel.info wrote: Apart from simplifying the script to a single line I've found a solution: I've tripled the size of the ring buffer in vdr-streamdev-server and the problem is gone. No problems after

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an HD video frame?

2011-07-24 Thread Udo Richter
Am 23.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: jpegtopnm $Pict | pnmscale --xscale=$ScaleW --yscale=$ScaleH | pnmpad --black --width $SW --height $SH | ppmtoy4m -F $framerate -I p -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -f 3 -b 12500 -a $aspect -q 1 -n $system2 -o $Mpeg While this works fine for

Re: [vdr] Feature suggestion: @include in channels.conf

2011-07-25 Thread Udo Richter
Am 25.07.2011 11:17, schrieb Harald Milz: Because the channel list may be modified by the provider every now and then, and VDR cannot know anything about it, the channels.conf file needs to be rebuilt frequently outside of VDR (and reloaded on the next VDR restart). You know that you can

Re: [vdr] Diseqc problems with VDR1.7.19

2011-07-25 Thread Udo Richter
Am 25.07.2011 13:12, schrieb Hawes, Mark: I’ve done some further investigation and as far as I can tell the problem appears to be with the value returned by cDiseqc::Codes in diseqc.c. The following trace from 1.7.19 shows the problem: Received from diseqc-Codes(n) a pointer 137345509

Re: [vdr] perfect vdr remote?

2011-07-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 26.07.2011 17:49, schrieb VDR User: Those kind of remotes are cool but I wouldn't want one for daily use. I prefer direct access to many options with one button press, not going through menus on a remote screen. From my experience, the keys I _really_ use, are: (1) Core keys: 0-9,

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.19

2011-08-10 Thread Udo Richter
Am 19.06.2011 12:41, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: - The initial channel is now stored by the channel ID in the setup.conf file, in order to avoid problems in case channels are reordered or deleted (reported by Lars Bläser). This change includes a change to cMenuEditChanItem to accept a

Re: [vdr] MaxVideoFileSize

2011-08-15 Thread Udo Richter
Am 15.08.2011 18:07, schrieb Dominic Evans: Apart from FAT16/FAT32/ISO 9660 compatibility reasons, are there any benefits to keeping MaxVideoFileSize for recordings at = 2GB? Not from within core VDR. If you want to transfer or post-process video files 2G, you should make sure that everything

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.20

2011-08-16 Thread Udo Richter
Am 16.08.2011 18:57, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: VDR developer version 1.7.20 is now available at Thanks for the new version - at a surprising time. ;) ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.20.tar.bz2 Just a note: The tar file includes a 0-byte epg.data file and an empty themes

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.20

2011-08-19 Thread Udo Richter
Am 16.08.2011 23:13, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 16.08.2011 19:56, Udo Richter wrote: Am 16.08.2011 18:57, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: - cSkins::Message() now blocks calls from background threads (thanks to Michael Eiler for reporting a crash in such a scenario). Unfortunately

[vdr] Osdserver-0.1.3 and Hard Link Cutter-0.2.2 for VDR-1.7.20

2011-08-19 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, Updates for VDR-1.7.20 on my web page: Hard Link Cutter for 1.7.20: Fixes rejects http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#hlcutter http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.html#hlcutter Osdserver-0.1.3: - Fix: Message command blocked from background thread, use callback - Update

Re: [vdr] [feature request] recording length computation and storage

2011-08-19 Thread Udo Richter
Am 19.08.2011 15:30, schrieb Steffen Barszus: On 08/19/11 11:46, Steffen Barszus wrote: i would like to request, that vdr is storing the length of a recording and make it accessible to the plug-ins. Where it gets stored is not my point, that it can be served from in meory data read by

Re: [vdr] May it be possible to use a fullfeature cards as output device only ?

2011-08-26 Thread Udo Richter
Am 26.08.2011 14:12, schrieb Dieter Bloms: the tuner part of my fullfeatured card ist broken, so I want to buy a nova card and use this fullfeatured card as output device only. At the moment vdr tries to use this card also as receiver. So may it be possible to tell vdr it should use this card

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-11 Thread Udo Richter
Am 11.09.2011 11:37, schrieb Henning Pingel: And this tackles another small problem: I think that VDR doesn't delete any channels from the channels.conf in any case. So outdated channels have to be removed manually. Has there been an attempt to offer a functionality that VDR makes a note of

Re: [vdr] Undetected channels on transponders switching from DVB-S to DVB-S2

2011-09-13 Thread Udo Richter
Am 13.09.2011 11:03, schrieb Henning Pingel: That sounds *very* interesting to me. If I can assist you in going public with this patch + plugin, please let me know. I currently don't see a reason to reset the timestamp to zero on VDR start, but I probably just don't get your concept yet.

Re: [vdr] old recordings are not deleted

2011-10-21 Thread Udo Richter
Am 21.10.2011 20:47, schrieb cedric.dew...@telfort.nl: I have installed VDR. It runs great, but it has one problem. It does not delete my old recordings. I have a lot of recordings, and they all have a lifetime of 0. See also the following info file: VDR deletes old recordings if - Disk space

Re: [vdr] old recordings are not deleted

2011-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
Am 22.10.2011 07:51, schrieb cedric.dew...@telfort.nl: I see. I have 2 partitions, a / partition and a /storage partition. I would like to record to /storage/video/video.00. I have edited /etc/default/vdr so it reads: OPTIONS=-v /storage/video/video.00 -w 60 Still I get the error: Oct 22

[vdr] Hard Link Cutter 0.2.2 for VDR-1.7.22

2011-12-05 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, Hard Link Cutter is updated for VDR-1.7.22 available for download: http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#hlcutter http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.html#hlcutter Original patch by Ville Skyttä, adapted to the variant that VDR-1.7.22 uses. Not intensely tested, but should

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Fix build with g++ 4.7.0.

2012-01-04 Thread Udo Richter
Am 04.01.2012 21:04, schrieb Ville Skyttä: This is the PR24163 case mentioned in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/157671 diff --git a/config.h b/config.h index 7825364..b0233a9 100644 --- a/config.h +++ b/config.h @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ public: if

Re: [vdr] problems with playback and plugins with vdr-1.7.22

2012-01-06 Thread Udo Richter
Am 07.01.2012 01:17, schrieb René: ERROR: loading plugin libvdr-epgsearch.so.1.7.22: undefined symbol: _ZN6cTimerC1EbbP8cChannel ERROR: loading plugin libvdr-skinenigmang.so.1.7.22: undefined symbol: _ZN6cTimerC1EbbP8cChannel ERROR: loading plugin libvdr-text2skin.so.1.7.22: undefined symbol:

Re: [vdr] problems with playback and plugins with vdr-1.7.22

2012-01-07 Thread Udo Richter
Am 07.01.2012 16:27, schrieb Marc: The problem come from the livebuffer patch. It redefines cTimer::cTimer to add the length of the already buffered stream so when the instant recording start, it records the buffer too : +#ifdef USE_LIVEBUFFER + cTimer(bool Instant = false, bool Pause =

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

2012-01-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.01.2012 21:10, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 08.01.2012 20:45, Lars Hanisch wrote: Not really, because the driver changes introduced by Manu are on its way into linux-media. After that only one frontend will be left and new ioctls are there to switch between delivery systems. Rumours

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Udo Richter
Am 15.01.2012 14:49, schrieb fnu: Well that is an other question and valid argument, why is there no sufficient solution to scan for channels in VDR, like is quit normal on commercial solution. I've been living with VDR's auto channel update quite well, back since VDR 1.3.x eliminated the need

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] S2API wrapper for VDR-1.7.23 (also upgrades 5.x to 5.3 API)

2012-01-15 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, And here I was, thinking that I could finally drop support for this old compatibility patch that noone really needs any more, and then the new VDR-1.7.23 requires linux-3.0 or newer headers to compile... yay... So here it is again: S2API Wrapper 0.8 is released, and should allow to

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-20 Thread Udo Richter
Am 20.02.2012 10:18, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 20.02.2012 00:06, Joerg Riechardt wrote: With dvbplayer.[hc] from version 1.7.23 and adjusted menu.[hc] it is ok again. Other patches were not involved. Jörg Well, then I guess it's best if I revoke that change. Any objections? Or maybe a

Re: [vdr] Intelligent management of simulcast DVB-S2 / DVB-T channels

2012-02-23 Thread Udo Richter
Am 23.02.2012 19:36, schrieb Magnus Hörlin: This is an interesting topic and I have had exactly the same ideas. But I think this violates Klaus's Keep it simple philosophy and (as usual) I tend to agree with him. If you've ever read the algorithm that picks the best possible device for a

Re: [vdr] Prefer non-CI equipped adapters for FTA channel recording

2012-02-23 Thread Udo Richter
Am 23.02.2012 10:30, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Just check what's actually happening in the GetDevice() function. ... and try with minimal plugins, they might introduce side effects. OSDTeletext for example is known to have such side effects on device selection. Cheers, Udo

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-24 Thread Udo Richter
Am 24.02.2012 17:23, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 24.02.2012 15:37, Frank Schmirler wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:54:48 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote - Fixed handling the PrimaryLimit when requesting a device for live viewing (reported by Uwe Scheffler). Hmmm, didn't even notice that

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.02.2012 14:33, schrieb Frank Schmirler: Instead of a configurable LiveTV priority, your approach uses the fixed priority value 0 for LiveTV. The new idle priority of -100 opens the range for cReceivers with negative priority. The problem is, that *any* negative priority is still

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-29 Thread Udo Richter
Am 29.02.2012 17:50, schrieb Tony Houghton: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:48:33 +0100 Manuel Reimer manuel.rei...@gmx.de wrote: What does this mean? Do you plan built-in networking support or do you plan to improve streamdev? IMHO it is a big task to make really good networking support. Keeping this

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-29 Thread Udo Richter
Am 29.02.2012 16:17, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: + The function cDevice::Receiving() now returns true if there is any receiver attached to the device. Its boolean parameter has no meaning any more. Please remember to drop the following line from PLUGINS.html, as it is now finally

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-01 Thread Udo Richter
Am 01.03.2012 06:37, schrieb Gero: A timer menu that belongs to a recording backend, a recording menu that displays content of storage modules, several frontends that can connect to one recording backend or several storage modules, ... I think, here is already the first shortcoming in

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-01 Thread Udo Richter
Am 01.03.2012 07:03, schrieb VDR User: one option to spread the workload could be Klaus assigning different portions to different contributors that would like to work on it. If Klaus is clear about what he wants and is in good communication with other coders, perhaps it could become more of a

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-01 Thread Udo Richter
Am 01.03.2012 22:25, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Guys, *please*! I stated earlier that I am currently concentrating on making a stable version 2.0, and that I will see to make client/server a priority *after* that. Agreed, lets focus on 2.0 for now. We just got carried away dreaming of VDR 3.0

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Udo Richter
Am 02.03.2012 11:35, schrieb Jarkko Kangas: On 2.3.2012 12:17, Pertti Kosunen wrote: It would be great if next stable could include ttxtsubs-plugin readiness, i.e. recording/viewing teletext subtitles would not require patching of main VDR code anymore. It would be also great if next stable

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Udo Richter
Am 02.03.2012 10:30, schrieb fnu: You want to have a feeling how it feels, if a live buffer is the underlying central function in a PVR solution, just go and test MythTV. I think the main objection against buffering was that for old FF cards, this also forces transfer mode, resulting in

Re: [vdr] [OsdTeletext] detach receiver for VDR 1.7.25

2012-03-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 03.03.2012 21:40, schrieb Andreas Brachold: It should be : -- #if VDRVERSNUM = 10725 Ouch, you're right, of course... COMPILER! Y U NO ERROR? Cheers, Udo ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Segfault in dvbhddevice

2012-03-07 Thread Udo Richter
Am 07.03.2012 21:19, schrieb Richard Scobie: 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. I'm doing an udevadm settle --timeout=30 after load/unload, haven't had any issues with that.

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.26

2012-03-11 Thread Udo Richter
Am 10.03.2012 16:18, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Any plugins that implement cStatus::ChannelSwitch() need to add the parameter 'bool LiveView' to that function. The 'status' plugin, part of the VDR source, does not yet use the new LiveView parameter. Just one of many plugin breakages.

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.26

2012-03-11 Thread Udo Richter
Am 11.03.2012 16:58, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 11.03.2012 16:05, Anssi Hannula wrote: -Werror=overloaded-virtual Thanks. I'll change the Makefiles accordingly. We'll see how many false errors this will have. With my quickdirty fix (see vdrportal) it still complains about overloaded

[vdr] Hard Link Cutter for VDR-1.7.27

2012-04-02 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, A bit late, but finally a fixed version of Hard Link Cutter for 1.7.27 is uploaded on my web page. I got ninja'd by Ville Skyttä anyway, so most credits go to him this time. Also: Finnish and German translation included. http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/patches.en.html#hlcutter

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-07 Thread Udo Richter
Am 06.04.2012 15:01, schrieb Christopher Reimer: could someone please review the attached patch? It's originally posted by Maniac in this thread -- On the original topic, I see room for one improvement: The defaults of the new --cachedir and --resdir parameter are the defaults set by

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.04.2012 09:48, schrieb Manuel Reimer: It is difficult to read your description (and no, I didn't understand it). How would you want to document this in a way, someone actually understands it? I guess I have to find a way to be more clear... Ok, second attempt: - Makefile does not set

Re: [vdr] OT: video dir symlink [WAS:Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.]

2012-04-08 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.04.2012 11:36, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: At any rate, I want to get rid of that symlink stuff and allow VDR to see only one big video directory. Sorry for being OT, just wanted to extend my thought of the last post-2.0-offtopic discussion: Modularize. Defining an interface for 'video

Re: [vdr] Filesystem hierachy standard patch needs review.

2012-04-09 Thread Udo Richter
Am 09.04.2012 11:54, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: However, there is one thing in the current behavior that I would even consider a bug: if one starts VDR with vdr -v /mydir it uses /mydir as the video directory, but still uses /video for the configuration files. I believe that as long as

Re: [vdr] Understanding the dataflow

2012-04-21 Thread Udo Richter
Am 20.04.2012 23:58, schrieb Roland Tapken: What is cPlayer? As cTransfer implements both cReceiver and cTransfer I thought about it as some kind of frontend abstraction (FF-output, xine, streamdev-server). But it seems that cPlayer directly acts on cDevice, and that doesn't make sense to

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.27 : compilation error with several plugins

2012-05-01 Thread Udo Richter
Am 01.05.2012 14:00, schrieb Karim Afifi: Hello, I am building a new box with vdr-1.7.27. Several plugins don't compil anymore with this error msg : i18n.h:8: error: ‘tI18nPhrase’ does not name a type Is there a solution to fix this ? Most plugins should have updated versions or

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.28

2012-06-03 Thread Udo Richter
timers.c: In constructor ‘cSortedTimers::cSortedTimers()’: timers.c:832: error: class ‘cSortedTimers’ does not have any field named ‘cVector’ I don't get such an error message here. May be a compiler dependent problem. The attached patch makes it work for me. Cheers, Udo -- NEU:

Re: [vdr] RFE: Make VDR more friendly when using combinations of DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C

2012-06-17 Thread Udo Richter
:@ to end the group without explicitly setting :@101 as next number. Cheers, Udo -- Udo Richter mailto:udo_rich...@gmx.de (GPG/PGP avail.) http://www.udo-richter.de

Re: [vdr] Please share your systemd (Upstart) service file

2012-07-03 Thread Udo Richter
On 3 July 2012 07:51, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: VDR (and me, too ;-) doesn't care in what way a particular system boots or starts its services. It would be handy though, if VDR proper came default with a way to toggle plugins on and off in the user interface.

Re: [vdr] VDR File splitting validation

2012-09-04 Thread Udo Richter
Am 04.09.2012 15:22, schrieb Rares Pop: Now, when VDR does the file split (after the quota has been met and a video I-Frame is about to start) the audio packets that would be in sync with the latest video frames before the split are actually being contained in the next split file. Thats

Re: [vdr] VDR File splitting validation

2012-09-05 Thread Udo Richter
Am 05.09.2012 11:13, schrieb Rares Pop: You were saying that VDR does splitting and editing on the data stream level, not on the audio/video-track level. Am I to understand that vdr doesn't make the files at the beginning of a video I-frame? The video stream gets split at a TS packet that

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] vdr-1.7.31 small improvement for last viewed recording

2012-10-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 03.10.2012 10:36, schrieb AlexW: If no last viewed recording was set (mostly after restart of vdr) and you press the Play Button all Recordings will be shown. Nice idea. But I think the idea of having the play button have more functionality can be improved further. For one thing, a

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.31

2012-10-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 30.09.2012 15:41, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: - The new class cIoThrottle is used to allow I/O intense threads to temporarily suspend their activities in case buffers run full (suggested by Torsten Lang). Currently the cutter thread is suspended if the TS or Recorder buffer use more

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] vdr-1.7.31 small improvement for last viewed recording

2012-10-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 03.10.2012 12:28, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Not really. If the last viewed recording has been deleted, this new functionality could still kick in The patch above just checks the string presence. It should also check whether the string is an existing recording then. Sounds way too

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.31

2012-10-03 Thread Udo Richter
Am 03.10.2012 14:55, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Which file system are you using for your video directory? I recently switched from ext3 to ext4 and it does feel a little snappier. Its an XFS disk, and it was surprisingly fast on deleting when it was fresh. Unfortunately, #df -m /video

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-26 Thread Udo Richter
I've been doing things with Make.config too, and would like it to be available again. My plugins usually followed this pattern: -include $(VDRDIR)/Make.global -include $(VDRDIR)/Make.config -include Make.config so you always had the chance to have optional control without patching makefiles.

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.34

2012-12-26 Thread Udo Richter
Am 24.12.2012 10:39, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: - The plugin Makefiles now have a separate 'install' target (suggested by Christopher Reimer). In order to still allow the normal building of VDR (with all plugins in its ./PLUGINS/src subdirectory, the plugin libraries in ./PLUGINS/lib and

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.34

2012-12-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.12.2012 14:43, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: If you want to use your hardlink cutter with recent versions of VDR, you could simply patch out the calls to DanglingPacketStripper.Process(), GetPendingPackets() and ptsFixer.Fix() in cCuttingThread::ProcessSequence(). There will be no fixing of

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-28 Thread Udo Richter
Am 28.12.2012 09:28, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Well, if a plugin is no longer actively maintained, it's probably time to drop it. You know what they say about dead horses ;-). Being actively developed and being needed are two different things. I wouldn't want to drop all the plugins that

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-28 Thread Udo Richter
Am 28.12.2012 14:37, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 28.12.2012 14:19, Udo Richter wrote: Plus, any updated plugin (at least any built-in plugin) does no longer create the *.so.$APIVERSION file, and there's no generic way to do this. Well, then maybe this works (haven't tested it): for i

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-29 Thread Udo Richter
Am 28.12.2012 16:38, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: So should we go back to the Makefiles of version 1.7.33 and declare this area of the program source untouchable forever? Beside all the current whining (and *I* don't exclude myself from that), it is nevertheless a step in the right direction.

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-30 Thread Udo Richter
Am 30.12.2012 01:08, schrieb Christopher Reimer: 2012/12/29 Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de: Even if there was an thread in vdr-portal, I did miss it, and there was no word of it in the mailing list, which I always considered to be the central spot of development. Really? http://linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] Permissions in vdr-1.7.35 tarball

2013-01-05 Thread Udo Richter
Am 05.01.2013 13:16, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Looks like this was caused by an NFS problem on my system. Will be OK again in the next version. While on packaging, you might want to check for some empty folders that get packaged. Last version had a locale/ tree and a

Re: [vdr] Call for development: enhancing mplayer-plugin

2013-02-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.02.2013 11:56, schrieb Peter Münster: Support for seeing the VDR osd over mplayer doesn't exist yet. Who could add this feature please? And what would be the price? Basically, the OSD-over-mplayer does work for dvbsddevice and other devices that mplayer supports. Also, there was already

Re: [vdr] Call for development: enhancing mplayer-plugin

2013-02-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.02.2013 22:16, schrieb VDR User: Is there any hope that this could be resurrected? Also, what about those of us who use VDPAU? Its more a thing for hardware decoder cards that cannot handle an uncompressed video stream, as it always re-encodes to some fixed output format, eg. mpeg1/2.

Re: [vdr] read-only video directory

2013-03-06 Thread Udo Richter
Am 05.03.2013 10:35, schrieb Peter Münster: How is it possible, to mount the video directory in read-only mode? I want to use a slave vdr like this: vdr -Pstreamdev-client -Pxineliboutput -v/net/media/data/video But it does not work, because /net/media/data is mounted read-only. The slave vdr

Re: [vdr] read-only video directory

2013-03-07 Thread Udo Richter
Am 06.03.2013 21:56, schrieb Peter Münster: On Wed, Mar 06 2013, Stephan Loescher wrote: On Wed, Mar 06 2013, Udo Richter wrote: You can always mount an unionfs or aufs on top of the read only mount, and redirect all write access to a local disk or ram disk. That way VDR will be able to write

Re: [vdr] read-only video directory

2013-03-10 Thread Udo Richter
Am 08.03.2013 19:35, schrieb Stephan Loescher: When you use the suggested solution with unionfs, then the client uses the servers setup/timers/epg/etc. because it sees them in its /video-directory. Only until the first write, after that the client will continue with its local writable copy.

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.41: what's new way to run vdr out of it's sourcedir?

2013-03-17 Thread Udo Richter
Am 17.03.2013 09:51, schrieb Lars Hanisch: Am 17.03.2013 09:20, schrieb Halim Sahin: vdr doesn't copy plugins to PLUGINS/lib. Is there a way to get the old behaviour back? I think make LCLBLD=1 should do it. Mostly, but YMMV. Some plugins may not support it. From my builds yesterday, the

[vdr] Channel update on HD transponders broken?

2013-03-30 Thread Udo Richter
Hi list, I've noticed that I don't get channel updates any more on most of the German HD transponders, since my update from 1.7.37 to 1.7.41 on 2013-03-16. I'm running VDR in add new transponders full update mode. I didn't check 1.7.42 yet, sorry. I'm running a very minimal old patch that tracks

Re: [vdr] Channel update on HD transponders broken?

2013-03-31 Thread Udo Richter
Am 31.03.2013 09:08, schrieb Oliver Endriss: Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de wrote: I've noticed that I don't get channel updates any more on most of the German HD transponders, since my update from 1.7.37 to 1.7.41 on 2013-03-16. Could you test whether the patch in the VDR portal post http

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] S2API Wrapper Light 0.10 for VDR-2.0

2013-03-31 Thread Udo Richter
Hi, I've uploaded the newest version of S2API Wrapper 'light', the wrapper patch to VDR that ensures DVB API compatibility to all DVB 5.0 API kernel headers. The new version fixes the DVB-S2 EPG bug that was introduced with 1.7.40, whenever the runtime kernel had DVB API 5.7 or less. To do so,

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.0.0 released

2013-03-31 Thread Udo Richter
Sorry for interrupting the party, great job for sure, but I think EPG on DVB-S2 is in fact buggy on DVB APIs 5.3 to 5.7. For these API verisons, the API 5.8 code fork replaces DTV_STREAM_ID with DTV_DVBT2_PLP_ID, and sends this command to DVB-S2 cards, even though DVB-S2 cards can hardly handle

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] TT6400 dvbhddevice ScaleVideo aspect ratio correction

2013-04-05 Thread Udo Richter
Am 05.04.2013 19:37, schrieb Lucian Muresan: I wrote a patch for the ScaleVideo implementation in the dvbhddevice, for keeping the actual aspect ratio of the video material when scaling. My initial thought on the code was that it seemed to unnecessary do too many double to int conversions, plus

Re: [vdr] Problems with VDSB, how to automate in SYSLOG

2013-04-27 Thread Udo Richter
Am 27.04.2013 10:50, schrieb Brian-Imap: Hi, on some channels I get Video Data Stream Broken messages, not sure quite what triggers them yet. VDSB is triggered if a recording doesn't receive any video data within 30 seconds. Usually this is because either the channel doesn't exist / doesn't

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