Re: [vdr] Plugin for MHEG (BBC RedButton service)

2012-06-21 Thread Henning Pingel
Am 03.05.2012 10:16, schrieb Dominic Evans: On 2 May 2012 14:45, Dominic Evansoldma...@gmail.com wrote: Did you ever get anywhere with this? I'm thinking, with both the Olympics and Wimbledon coming up shortly, it would be useful to get MHEG up-and-running on my VDR install, so I was going to

[vdr] Collecting semantic channel meta data in a way to be useful for VDR

2012-06-18 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi, I posted in the discussion RFE: Make VDR more friendly when using combinations of DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C yesterday and mentioned that my little project Channelpedia could be helpful in this regard. But because my approach is more targeting the necessary semantic meta data that would be

Re: [vdr] Collecting semantic channel meta data in a way to be useful for VDR

2012-06-18 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Montag, den 18.06.2012, 18:11 +0200 schrieb Davide Chiarini davide.chiar...@gmail.com: For Channel ids, have a look at the rfc used by the xmltv grabbers, you can find a copy on http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVProject Regards Davide I have tried to stay close to rfc2838:

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

2012-06-17 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi, As some of you might already know, I'm working on a way to semi-automatically assign unique channel IDs to channels of different DVB providers. As I currently don't have time to explain it in detail today, I will just post some links and join this discussion later on when I have more

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

2012-06-17 Thread Henning Pingel
Am 17.06.2012 09:26, schrieb VDR User: No bothering with sql databases dependency Sorry, I didn't say that clearly enough: The Channelpedia uses a sqlite database - but this doesn't mean at all that VDR core would need to use a sqlite database too. Both are totally independent from each

Re: [vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-27 Thread Henning Pingel
Am 25.05.2012 21:02, schrieb Henning Pingel: Am 25.05.2012 08:40, schrieb Marx: On 23.05.2012 08:16, Marx wrote: Finally everything seems ok. Even DVB-T tuner seems to work. While it compiles and everything seems ok (I can watch or record from two cards at once), after a while (half day or so

Re: [vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-25 Thread Henning Pingel
Am 25.05.2012 08:40, schrieb Marx: On 23.05.2012 08:16, Marx wrote: Finally everything seems ok. Even DVB-T tuner seems to work. While it compiles and everything seems ok (I can watch or record from two cards at once), after a while (half day or so) suddenly I get dvb-usb: bulk message

Re: [vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-22 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Montag, den 21.05.2012, 22:47 +0200 schrieb Marx acc.for.n...@gmail.com: W dniu 2012-05-21 21:50, Henning Pingel pisze: The package linux-media-dkms (0~20120507.git265.301694~precise) [1] crafted by the yaVDR team for Ubuntu Precise (kernel 3.2) contains the patches to make the Terratec

Re: [vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-21 Thread Henning Pingel
Am 21.05.2012 15:09, schrieb Marx: Can't apply patch to 3.2.17 sources. Does anybody knows what do I need to apply it? Marx Hi, The package linux-media-dkms (0~20120507.git265.301694~precise) [1] crafted by the yaVDR team for Ubuntu Precise (kernel 3.2) contains the patches to make the

Re: [vdr] perfect little vdr client hardware

2011-09-13 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 15:01 +0200 schrieb Theunis Potgieter theunis.potgie...@gmail.com: On 9 September 2011 14:25, Henning Pingel henn...@henningpingel.de wrote: http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php/NeTV_FPGA_architecture somebody needs to write an output device plugin for the hardware

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

2011-09-13 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2011, 13:49 +0200 schrieb Udo Richter udo_rich...@gmx.de: There's currently no 'official' method to track down channels that are no longer announced. There's a trick however: Modify your channels.conf so that all channel names start with [outdated], then start VDR and

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

2011-09-13 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2011, 14:32 +0200 schrieb Luca Olivetti l...@ventoso.org: My actuator plugin has menu options to mark, unmark and delete marked channels. The idea is, you mark the channels, do a complete satellite scan, then delete the (still) marked channels. Even if I wrote that

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

2011-09-11 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi, I think it is a great feature that VDR will update channel parameters and add newly found channels automatically if UpdateChannels is set to value 5 in setup.conf. But my impression is currently that VDR might fail to find new channels on a satellite transponder in the special situation that

Re: [vdr] perfect little vdr client hardware

2011-09-09 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Torgeir Veimo torg...@netenviron.com: The netv from chumby seems to be perfect as a hardware client to VDR, if it can decode mpeg2/h.264. Does anyone here know any more about this product? It seems to be fairly open, and based on an embedded

Re: [vdr] DAB+, VDR and Linux

2011-07-18 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Montag, den 18.07.2011, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Luboš Doležel lu...@dolezel.info: Hello, I'd like to experiment with DAB+ as there are now some broadcasts in my country. Are there any DAB+ receivers known to work under Linux? Does VDR (or other tools) support it? There is little information

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

2011-06-03 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Freitag, den 03.06.2011, 15:01 +0200 schrieb Carsten Koch carstenkochelsd...@web.de: 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

Re: [vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-08 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 17:38 +0200 schrieb Henning Pingel: I was wondering if it would make sense to offer a place for VDR users using the sky_uk/freesat/S28.2E/freeview platforms to communicate with each other. The intention is that people can discuss their special needs like freesat

Re: [vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-08 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Freitag, den 06.05.2011, 14:04 +0100 schrieb Tony Houghton: And I hadn't heard of TVHeadEnd, so thank you :-). I don't think I'll abandon development of boxstar though, because there's no mention of support for Freesat's EPG or LCNs on FS or Freeview, and that's important to me. My

Re: [vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-06 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info: On 05/05/11 10:38, Henning Pingel wrote: Hello, [This email has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks. Today I had the courage to send it.] I was wondering if it would make sense to offer

Re: [vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-06 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 18:16 +0200 schrieb Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk: On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:38:42 +0200 Henning Pingel henn...@henningpingel.de wrote: I would like to offer to you to open up an English language community forum on our yaVDR board located at forum.yavdr.com [1

Re: [vdr] Sky UK Channels.conf - Channel Numbering Categories

2011-05-05 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi Dom, Did you check the new Channelpedia project? Maybe we can join forces to achieve your goal. http://channelpedia.yavdr.com/gen/html/channels_en_S28.2E.html Cheers, Henning Am Donnerstag, den 05.05.2011, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com: Hi, I had been interested

[vdr] How about a small UK/Ireland S28.2E VDR community forum?

2011-05-05 Thread Henning Pingel
Hello, [This email has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks. Today I had the courage to send it.] I was wondering if it would make sense to offer a place for VDR users using the sky_uk/freesat/S28.2E/freeview platforms to communicate with each other. The intention is that people

Re: [vdr] VDR Portal down?

2010-11-19 Thread Henning Pingel
Hi, There is a small notice about the downtime here: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite Maybe this will be updated if the downtime should persist. Cheers, Henning ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org

Re: [vdr] pvr-testing2 xbmc discussion

2010-05-12 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Mittwoch, den 12.05.2010, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info: Does anyone know where this is happening now? I know the xbmc forum was down for a while, but this discussion never seemed to happen again afterwards. Hello Rob, Could you please specify in what kind of PVR

Re: [vdr] pvr-testing2 xbmc discussion

2010-05-12 Thread Henning Pingel
Am Mittwoch, den 12.05.2010, 17:36 +0200 schrieb Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info: I have been using pvr-testing and pvr-testing2 for a while now, and try to keep up to date. However, I have two problems/questions which I want to either ask or flag to the developers but am unsure how to do it