Re: [vdr] watching DVDs

2015-06-10 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 10.06.2015 um 16:14 schrieb Josce: Or has anyone created any sort of script that would import a dvd into the vdr recordings? Meaning, creating the vdr info file and transcoded the vob file into a ts file. In pre-VDR times I was used to burn DVDs to unload the hard-disk of my recorder. As

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

2015-02-06 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 05.02.2015 um 20:55 schrieb VDR User: adaptive skipping The action is skipping, the achievement is searching. So we do Binary Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm or Binäre Suche http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin%C3%A4re_Suche Ok, this may be considered informatics

Re: [vdr] Freesat patch

2014-12-27 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 27.12.2014 um 11:42 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: Does anyone know if these extra PID's are definitely required? Maybe only for DVB-S/2 ? Sorry, I don't know anything about that. I programmed/ported a VDR Version to Topfield in 2010[*]. At that time Freesat was broadcasting their EPG using

Re: [vdr] Problem with subtitles: not showing in HD channels

2014-08-27 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 27.08.2014 12:29, schrieb Pasi Juppo: Hi, VDR 2.06 (yavdr 0.50 distro) does not show subtitles in HD channels (Yle channels in Finland). In SD version of the same channels subtitles are working fine. TV shows subtitles fine. This is not a general HD issue, subtitels do work for me on BBC

Re: [vdr] skipping 5/10 seconds

2014-04-01 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 31.03.2014 11:42, schrieb Peter Münster: What about adding a possibility to skip ±5 or ±10 seconds when replaying a recording? BTW: The liemikuutio Patch set does have Binary Search (half jump width on each direction reversal). Around 4 lines of code to make it the perfect skipper. I guess

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 09.03.2014 14:38, schrieb Manuel Reimer: As this solution is a bit tricky and not very reliable, my question is, whether there is a better solution to get real EPG for those channels? Freesat uses a Huffman encoding for EGP data, which has not made its way into VDR core. a) Plugin EEPG

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Mario Schulz
Cf: http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Freesat-patch ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-14 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 14.04.2013 17:32, schrieb Dimitar Petrovski: Log level can be set to 0. I will review the loginig info and silence it as much as possible. And set the default logging to 0 in git. Eepg is working fine here, even running in background by vdr's EPG scan. The single issue I have is that the

Re: [vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 03.04.2012 17:23, schrieb Tony Houghton: Freeview HD's EPG uses the same encoding as Freesat, but for some reason the EEPG plugin doesn't recognise it; it probably only uses the extended decoder when it's using Freesat's non-dtandard PIDs. EEPG's code is a bit tortuous, and it has a

Re: [vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-13 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 13.03.2012 17:52, schrieb Tony Houghton: memory leak I just met hepi, he also is a Doctor Who fan and is tuned to Astra2 as I am. He complained about the bad status of EEPG, restarting his server every three days or so due to a memory leak within that plugin. As this is a 'must have' if you

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 12.03.2012 01:07, schrieb Tony Houghton: Are some DVB-S2 cards incapable of 8PSK? Mine's a TBS 6920. Tried yr 2nd variant: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M5O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307=NAR@4;2306=eng@106:2309:0:21200:2:2068:0 ... reception tested ok here.

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 12.03.2012 07:43, schrieb Mario Schulz: ... reception tested ok here. ... with Mystique Satix S2 V2. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG

2011-08-25 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 21.08.2011 23:09, schrieb Laz: Does anyone know whether the eepg plugin should just work with the Huffman encoded EPG broadcast on Freeview (DVB-T) HD channels in the UK? (Someone mentioned it on here a week or so back.) Yes, it does (next DW already programmed). In a recent version

[vdr] BBC HD went DVB S2

2011-06-11 Thread Mario Schulz
When the BBC HD channels changed from DVB-S to DVB-S2, my VDR did not notice that, it is set to 3 (update PIDs and Names). I even tried 5 and nothing happened (instead of clobbering the list with additional 1000 useless entries). So I finally lost my patience and manually modified 22000 to 23000

Re: [vdr] skip +/- 60 sec suggestion.

2011-02-06 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 06.02.2011 11:43, schrieb Torgeir Veimo: When using the skip forward / backward buttons, eg to jump through the ads, it would be convenient if the skip backward button skipped backwards 30 seconds instead of 60, on the first press. Subsequent skip backwards would skip 60 seconds as normal.

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-06 Thread Mario Schulz
Am 05.12.2010 23:33, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: What would that be necessary for? My previous platform had selectable EPG scans. When I first got into touch with VDR, I asked myself, how I was supposed to restrict searchtimers to interesting channels. In its default behaviour VDR will add