Re: [vdr] Advice from native speakers needed: To bisect or to halve?

2015-02-05 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi Klaus, On 02/05/15 16:56, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: The question now is: is bisect the right word here, which a native English speaker would use? Or should it rather be halve? Or something completely different? IMHO all these fancy words are a bit overblown. I am not a native

Re: [vdr] [PLUGIN] recsearch - a simple search for recordings

2014-01-19 Thread Carsten Koch
On 01/19/14 13:53, Stephan Loescher wrote: Would it be possible (as a new feature) to filter/search/sort for recordings by recording-lifetime and/or if it is SD or HD? I had the same problem (long time ago). As a simple solution, I wrote a small python script that creates folders with

Re: [vdr] Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG

2013-03-17 Thread Carsten Koch
On 03/17/13 13:00, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 17.03.2013 12:46, Ville Skyttä wrote: Hello, Should probably have spoken earlier, but is there any particular reason for the ugly and hard to read Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG? I suppose they're short for LOCALBUILD and PLUGINCONFIG,

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.9.4 plugin

2013-03-15 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, On 03/16/11 20:29, Reinhard Nissl wrote: I'm pleased to announce maintenance release 0.9.4. is there something newer available? In partcular, something that works with VDR 1.7.40? With VDR 1.7.40 (under OpenSUSE 12.3) I get: *** Plugin xine: WARNING: plugin xine is using an old

[vdr] Virtual VDR directories for surround and HD recordings.

2012-12-09 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, I have been thinking for a while about virtual VDR directories holding symbolic links to recordings that are stored elsewhere using different sort criteria. I have been a VDR user since 2000 http://www.tvdr.de/cgi-bin/vdr-counter.pl?action=shownumber=3 and I have recorded a lot since then

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

2012-07-14 Thread Carsten Koch
On 07/09/12 22:30, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09.07.2012 19:06, Carsten Koch wrote: but I noticed that the LCARS skin sometimes fails to show the recording name in the progress display (the one that shows up when you press OK during playback). I don't think this is related, because

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

2012-07-09 Thread Carsten Koch
On 07/09/12 18:57, Joerg Bornkessel wrote: LCARS is the new default skin of VDR. It requires at least a 4bpp (16 color) full screen OSD, but you can still operate it if your OSD can handle only fewer colors (in which case you may want to switch to the ST:TNG or Classic VDR skin).

Re: [vdr] Why is VDR appending :S23.5E: entries to my channels.conf?

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Koch
On 05/01/12 11:29, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: If you send me your channels.conf (without the S23.5E channels), diseqc.conf and setup.conf I could try to reproduce this here. I have upgraded to vdr-1.7.27, copied diseqc.conf and sources.conf from there into my config directory and removed the

[vdr] Small python script to rearrange channels.conf.

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, I wrote a small python script that helps me keep my channels.conf tidy. The scripts assumes that I have (among others) channel groups :HDTV, :Deutschsprachig, :(auch)Englisch, :Verschiedenes, :Astra Radio and :new channels at the end. It moves all radio channels from all groups into :Astra

Re: [vdr] probs with new ZDF HDchannels

2012-05-01 Thread Carsten Koch
On 05/01/12 23:16, Carsten Koch wrote: However, with that xine-lib, xine-ui now shows some of the buttons (vcd, dvb) twice, leaving no more room for the vdr button. I have found no solution for that yet. I have now. I noticed that the new version creates a new plugin directory /usr/lib64/xine

[vdr] Why is VDR appending :S23.5E: entries to my channels.conf?

2012-04-30 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, my dish is directed at Astra 19.2E. However, many of the new entries VDR automatically appends to the end of my channels.conf are :S23.5E:!? I have recently removed all :S23.5E: lines, but they came back immediately: cko/vdrconfig fgrep :S23.5E: channels.conf | wc 152 352 16541

Re: [vdr] Can VDR record only new episodes of shows?

2011-06-03 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 08:28 -0400, John Klimek wrote: ... For example, I don't want to record every single episode of a certain show, but instead I just want the new episodes. That's one of the things VDRAdmin-AM can do for you. Where new is defined as one that you have not recorded yet.

[vdr] Compressing VDR recordings without losing quality.

2010-10-28 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, I have been using VDR for over 10 years now, so I currently have ~4TB of VDR recordings. Some of them are SDTV/MPEG2, many of the newer recordings are HDTV/H.264. I wonder if there is an easy way to recompress all recordings that are not already H.264 into H.264 files, making them a lot

Re: [vdr] 10 Year Anniversary of VDR

2010-02-19 Thread Carsten Koch
I have been using (and making some humble contributions to) VDR since June 7th, 2000. So it is going to be another 4 months until I can celebrate my 10 Year Anniversary of VDR. It has always been a pleasure. Thanks, Klaus! Carsten. ___ vdr mailing

[vdr] Setting up an nfsroot VDR system with an atom ION main board (was: Recommendation for new hd vdr system).

2009-12-26 Thread Carsten Koch
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 17:12 +0100, Carsten Koch wrote: ... + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced to install a hard disk. Just in case anyone wants to try to set up an nfsroot VDR

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-25 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 13:02 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:12:56 +0100 Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: + I originally set up the system as a diskless (nfsroot) system, but KDE 4 (I am using OpenSuSE 11.2) performs unbearably slow, so I was forced

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-12-24 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 21:23 +0100, Carsten Koch wrote: ... I was thinking along the same lines and I have just bought an ION board. The main board comes with a CPU and with GeForce 9400 graphics, so that will be cheaper than the sum of a normal board + CPU + GeForce 9400 graphics. OK, i

Re: [vdr] FF/RW problems with xine

2009-11-22 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 21:07 +0200, Carsten Koch wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:37 -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: With some recordings FF/RW doesn't work correctly. The video/audio stops and when you hit play again, it has moved to the new a new location. Some recordings work, some don't

Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-14 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:17 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: Hello, Now that I have an hd tv set, I'm looking at revamping my ageing vdr system for hd. Oh, and I want it to be really cheap ;-) I was thinking along the same lines and I have just bought an ION board. The main board comes with a

[vdr] VDR can no longer be compiled with the current driver from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb.

2009-10-21 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 13:49 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... If you use a full featured DVB card for replay you need the DVB driver version from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb The driver had its API version changed on 2009-10-19 17:08:05: ---

Re: [vdr] FF/RW problems with xine

2009-10-09 Thread Carsten Koch
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:37 -0700, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: With some recordings FF/RW doesn't work correctly. The video/audio stops and when you hit play again, it has moved to the new a new location. Some recordings work, some don't. I saw that, too. It has to do with the channel. I record

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] xxv-1.4 - Stable release

2009-07-11 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 17:13 +0200, Andreas Brachold wrote: ... XXV means Xtreme eXtension for VDR and is a central service for the administration of the VDR and his environment. Looks very much like vdradmind. Can anyone summarize the differences between xxv and vdradmind? Thanks, Carsten.

Re: [vdr] error compiling vdr 1.7.7 (frontend.h - '__u8' does not name a type)

2009-06-21 Thread Carsten Koch
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 13:38 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... posted earlier in this thread I found that this --- dvbdevice.h 2009/05/08 13:33:46 2.5 +++ dvbdevice.h 2009/06/01 11:20:32 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #ifndef __DVBDEVICE_H #define __DVBDEVICE_H +#include sys/mman.h // FIXME:

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.1

2009-05-28 Thread Carsten Koch
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:37 +0300, Petri Helin wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de wrote: I like the ExtRecMenu plugin very much. In particular, I love the fact that it shows me the length of my recordings and that it allows me to display

[vdr] vdr-xine-0.9.2 plugin does not support cutting.

2009-05-27 Thread Carsten Koch
Reinhard, you have done an amazing job with the xine plugin. It works very well and considering xine's complexity, I can appreciate the hard work that must have been required to get both the infrastructure in xine and the plugin itself working as well as it does today. I noticed, however, that

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.1

2009-05-27 Thread Carsten Koch
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:32 +0200, Martin Prochnow wrote: ... Screenshots and Download: http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu_en.html I like the ExtRecMenu plugin very much. In particular, I love the fact that it shows me the length of my recordings and that it allows me to display recordings in

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7.7 compile problem with gcc 4.4

2009-05-27 Thread Carsten Koch
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:40 +0200, gimli wrote: ... have compile errors with gcc 4.4. The attached patch makes vdr 1.7.7 compileable. I wonder if it would not be better to make as many things as possible const rather than casting existing consts away. I my code, I am trying to make everything

[vdr] Newbee questions about HDTV VDR system with TT-budget S2-3200.

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi, I would like to get a HDTV VDR system started. I have the following hardware to play with: gigabyte m55plus s3g main board (nVidia GeForce 6100 / nForce 430) with Athlon 64 3500+, 1GB RAM GeForce 9500GT card with 1GB RAM 2 TT-budget S2-3200 DVB S2 cards I have installed OpenSuse

Re: [vdr] Newbee questions about HDTV VDR system with TT-budget S2-3200.

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 16:49 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb should work, but you'll still need the patch from ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/v4l-dvb-header-fix.diff because the header files apparently are still broken :-(

Re: [vdr] Newbee questions about HDTV VDR system with TT-budget S2-3200.

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 16:13 +0200, Carsten Koch wrote: ... With the patch I am getting g++ -g -O2 -Wall -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-parentheses -c -DREMOTE_KBD -DLIRC_DEVICE=\/dev/lircd\ -DRCU_DEVICE=\/dev/ttyS1\ -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE

Re: [vdr] Newbee questions about HDTV VDR system with TT-budget S2-3200.

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 13:22 +0200, Ales Jurik wrote: you don't need lirc, try plugin remote (http://www.escape- edv.de/endriss/vdr/). It seems to be easier to setup and works without problems. I got lirc to work first, then I read your message and tried the remote plugin. Very nice. No

[vdr] How to keep the channel list tidy automatically (was: Timeouts and lost locks)

2009-05-23 Thread Carsten Koch
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 11:47 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... You could also remove all unwanted channels from your list and set DVB/Update channels to names and PIDs. Then the EPG scan would only switch through the desired transponders. I believe there is room for improvement. Of course I

[vdr] How to turn a DVD into a regular VDR recording.

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Koch
My DVD player is not working at the moment, so I want to watch a DVD on my VDR system in the living room. In an earlier message on this list, somebody said that the DVD plugin is not working, so I did not waste any time trying. Also, my VDR PC does not have a DVD ROM anyway. What I did, was:

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2008-09-20 Thread Carsten Koch
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it seams logical to, at least, think about it. I like the

Re: [vdr] VDR Development

2008-09-06 Thread Carsten Koch
Davide Cavalca wrote: ... I'm neither Klaus not a regular of this list, but I think you're not being fair here: Klaus has every right to say he won't develop on a community tree; it is, after all, his own free time. BTW, if I remember well, Klaus has coded several features (i.e. subtitles) he

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.5.2a.

2008-06-29 Thread Carsten Koch
Brian wrote: a question about this version. In earlier versions you had a variable called episode, and I set the value of that to in my source file. Now you just add the string ~EPISODE to very programm name (if I understand the source correctly. You are mostly right. In epg2timers = 1.4.5,

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.5.2a.

2008-06-26 Thread Carsten Koch
Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: ... OK, no problem, this is the patch ... Thanks! I have simplified this and put it in. Attached is all I have so far for 1.5.2b. Can you please try it out and see if it still does what you wanted? Carsten. epg2timers_1.5.2a_1.5.2b.patch.bz2 Description:

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.5.2a.

2008-06-23 Thread Carsten Koch
Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: ... My question: Are there any plans to support also the extended information like actor, director, year of first appearence, etc? We can get these infos just by setting jl_format=3, but it's not decoded by epg2timer.cxx. Sounds like an interesting idea. No, I

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

2008-02-03 Thread Carsten Koch
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? Yes or No? My (selfish) vote is No. I do like the fact that 1.5.14 raises some expectation of DVB-S2 support in the (official or

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

2008-02-03 Thread Carsten Koch
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: ... I don't think that it is a good time to lose valuable Klaus's time for releasing supporting new stable version Absolutely right! A 1.6.0 release now will only slow down progress. Carsten. ___ vdr mailing list

[vdr] Thank you for all the good work and have a nice vacation!

2007-06-23 Thread Carsten Koch
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... I'll be on vacation for the next three weeks, so there won't be anything new in a while ;-) :-) ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Technotrend S2-3200 HDTV-S2 supprt (was: [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2007-05-30 Thread Carsten Koch
Hi Klaus, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... Could you tell us which card did you buy, I would like to buy the same Technotrend S2-3200 HDTV-S2 I bought two of these to replace my old budget cards which were destroyed by lightning. Is yours working for you (at least in DVB-S mode) now? Carsten.

Re: [vdr] How to change Pro7 SAT1 Channels via Menu

2007-05-29 Thread Carsten Koch
Helmut Auer wrote: ... 2) Look for the new channel entries at the end of your list and move them to the desired position. The second one is a no go - tell an old man how he should move channel 2000 to channel 2 ;) There should be an option to enter the desired number for the channel.

Re: [vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?

2007-05-26 Thread Carsten Koch
Torgeir Veimo wrote: ... A full features card still uses much less CPU however, and can automatically reclock the output based on the timing of the input DVB stream. If you're not replacing any other component at this time I'd stick with FF cards, Thanks! No, I guess I would like to keep

[vdr] Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?

2007-05-25 Thread Carsten Koch
I had 1 FF and 2 budget cards in one PC, 1 FF card in the other. All 4 were destroyed by lightning this morning during a thunderstorm. What are the best cards to replace them with? In an earlier post, Klaus wrote that he is working on HDTV support and that he is using a TT-budget S2-3200. Would

Re: [vdr] remoteosd / multi-box question

2007-05-05 Thread Carsten Koch
Simon Baxter wrote: ... Is there a way to refresh recording directories without restarting VDR? touch /video/.update ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Is there a way to give inode entries a higher cache priority than data in the linux kernel?

2007-02-14 Thread Carsten Koch
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: ... 1) Is there a bug in the linux kernel that makes it spin up the disk needlessly even if the data are still in the cache? ... I haven't tried or read it myself, but this: Documentation/laptop-mode.txt might contain the information you need. Correct.

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Carsten Koch
Kartsa wrote: Kartsa kirjoitti: I have been running vdr now for a couple days with #define PLAYERBUFSIZE MEGABYTE(64) in dvbplayer.c and for now it seems like better as in no stuttering. But I am still testing it. Okey, I've had this setting in action for a week or so now and it is

[vdr] Re: replay stuttering (was: FF card A/V sync - in progress?)

2007-01-22 Thread Carsten Koch
Kartsa wrote: I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins stuttering for some seconds and then continues normally. With

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] epg2timers 1.4.5.

2007-01-17 Thread Carsten Koch
epg2timers is a tool that allows you to use the web EPG at http://tvtv.de to program VDR from anywhere in the world simply by clicking on the things you want vdr to record in the http://tvtv.de listings. I have changed the epg2timers version number to match the VDR version number I tested it

Re: [vdr] Best DVB-S card

2006-12-17 Thread Carsten Koch
Glyn Edwards wrote: ... I've been looking at the Nexus-S because it is fully featured and I don't have any spare PCI slots left. With a FF card I could remove the DXR3. If your VDR PC works fine with the DXR3, I would not recommend a fully featured DVB-S card. It is more expensive than a

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

2006-11-30 Thread Carsten Koch
VDR User wrote: ... Logic still says that if mplayer can play vdr recordings just fine without losing sync, but vdr can't, the problem is with vdr, not the firmware. That's only correct if you ignore specifications. Maybe VDR is behaving according to the specified interface and the firmware

[vdr] Recording video clips automatically with correct naming of recordings.

2006-10-14 Thread Carsten Koch
I noticed today that Deluxe Music is labelling every song individually in the now and next EPG entries. I had been hoping such a feature would be provided by music channels. Congratulations to Deluxe for providing accurate program information. Would it not be extremely nice if one could ask VDR

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Guido Fiala wrote: ... Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. But seriously: My VDR system started out in June 2000

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Carsten Koch wrote: ... Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/artikel-computer.htm