[vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Hi, Been a while since I've used VDR. Have it setup after scanning using the scan program, however something is strange. There are multiple versions of some channels, such as BBC One/Two/News, Channel 4 etc. Some of these either have video and no EPG, have video and EPG, or have EPG and no

Re: [vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 3 November 2010 20:48, Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org wrote: Al 03/11/10 21:31, En/na Alasdair Campbell ha escrit: There are multiple versions of some channels, such as BBC One/Two/News, Channel 4 etc. Some of these either have video and no EPG, have video and EPG, or have EPG and no video

Re: [vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 3 November 2010 23:18, Torgeir Veimo torg...@netenviron.com wrote: From memory, I think the frequencies in channels.conf ends up being 166khz off the actual frequency. I remember having to tweak the channels.conf file manually, then turn off automatic updates. Can you post your file here?

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Lauri Tischler wrote: Füley István wrote: Oops, that's really not so good... one can't comment about HDTV with a resolution which is not full HDTV : 1920x1080... Ok, this means that my setup is a low-end instead of being average as I stated before, therefore my considerations about HDTV was

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Lauri Tischler wrote: Alasdair Campbell wrote: Lauri Tischler wrote: Not really, FullHD also means large, minimum 42, it is quite senseless to to watch good picture on a postcard, so you start at €1500 You forgot to add the €20,000 building an extension to your house, if you don't want

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
VDR User wrote: On Nov 22, 2007 7:30 AM, Füley István [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be clear: I did not say, that we don't need HD at all. I just said, that normal TV stations should stay in SD, and only a couple of premium (PPV, etc) channels should go HD. But the situation is more clear: not

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Beside all that, I do believe VDR needs to integrate H264 HD recording, along with support built-in for multiple frontends. Hopefully I can lend a hand with the coding (in about 6 years). ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Nov 18, 2007 9:54 PM, Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/18/07 19:16, Alasdair Campbell wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 2:08 AM, Halim Sahin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm HDTV with a matrox card What I mean is H264 video gets decoded by the extra horsepower of the P4

Re: [vdr] File play problem..

2007-08-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/08/07, JJussi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how you do that with Gentoo... If I change something, gentoo compile process will notice that.. Suspend the emerge just after the source has been unpacked and any patches applied. Might take you a couple of times to get it just before it starts

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-27 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 18/06/07, Alasdair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/06/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:16 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: Is it possible to have one of the VDR 'servers/instances' to be running on one of the clients rather than the main

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 09/06/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:15 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines will have no dvb cards (they will all be located

Re: [vdr] VDR with two DVBS cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 13/06/07, Andrey Vlassov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, could somebody point me in right direction? lots of useful info here: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page I am looking into configuring a second DVBS card to use with vdr. Configuration: Athlon 1.2GHz MB: ABIT

Re: [vdr] VDR with two DVBS cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 13/06/07, Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such option in VDR's Setup menu. Sorry, I was thinking of Primary DVB interface - something totally different.. -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-05-25 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 25/05/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, patch against xine-lib 1.1.6 is available from http://phivdr.dyndns.org/xine-lib/directfb/ Thanks so much for that! I'll be able to try it over the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on. many thanks -- A l a s d a i r C a m

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb.c), as there's not even

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Markus Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this changes are more than 7 month old, maybe there have been some changes to DirectFB to make it work in the meanwhile... As far as I saw it's only a two line patch, so I could try to manually revert it and compile xine-lib again...

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Tony Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alasdair Campbell wrote: Because I'm using a 550Mhz P3, my only option is to use the xineliboutput until I figure out what is causing the big CPU load variations. As I've never had softdevice successfully running

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend compare with xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb.c), as there's not even

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 15:06:54 schrieb Alasdair Campbell: config_xineliboutput # field parity # { none top bottom }, default: 0 #video.device.directfb_field_parity:none That's funny, my config_xineliboutput doesn't have

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 19/04/07, Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Apr 2007, at 09:41, Alasdair Campbell wrote: In the original post I was just wondering if xineliboutput has been written with the matrox specific instructions that softdevice's -vo dfb:mgatv uses. As I don't understand

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless server running vdr-xineliboutput. ** I know there has been a

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
ignore that, I was being an idiot, set to 'top' now. -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Can vdr-xineliboutput utilize the excellent interlaced output of a Matrox G450 with VGASCART cable? I'm seeing what I can only describe as video stutters/shakes with interlaced video and quick movements, long camera pans. Using latest vdr-xineliboutput, DirectFB-1.0.0 xine-lib-1.1.5 using