Re: [vdr] Problem with two cards

2007-02-01 Thread Andre . Weidemann
Teemu Suikki wrote: Perhaps there is some problem having tda10045 and tda10046 in same system? After all, both are handled by the same tda1004x module.. The dmesg output does not look suspicious at all. It seems as if both cards have been registered successfully. The only thing you can do, (t

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: > Hi! > > The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync > problems > for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? Oh, well. Turns out that I had somehow failed to install the new firmware proper

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
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 definitely better. Th

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

[vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I have vdr 1.4.4 after fourth recording star

Re: [vdr] Problem with two cards

2007-02-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Teemu Suikki may or may not have written... > Hi, > I have been using VDR for about two years now, without any big problems. :) > Now I built a new system with two cards. One is my old hauppaude nova-t, > other is technotrend nova-t with CI.. [snip] What has this to do with the sh

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Heikki Manninen
On to, 2007-02-01 at 19:29 +0200, Kartsa wrote: > I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 > (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels > simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember > there seemed to be no trouble doing it

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0100, Udo Richter wrote: > Marko Mäkelä wrote: > >First, and more important: Can you please suspend the playback of > >recordings when Shutdown.IsUserInactive() holds? Here is the relevant > >hunk from my vdr-suspend patch: > > This would break the other intere

Re: [vdr] Blocking the playback of recordings in plugins

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > I believe that the easy fix would be to have these methods return 0 only > when playing a recording. Can the plugin detect this somehow? For live TV, VDR runs a transfer thread and the replaying device may use cDevice::Transferring() to detect this (works at least for

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Heikki Manninen wrote: >> I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 >> (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels >> simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember >> there seemed to be no trouble doing it. Now when I ha

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-02-01 Thread Boguslaw Juza
I have noticed smilar trouble: When VDR playbacks a recording, and I pause playback and put play again, video starts playing, then stops for less than second after about 5 seconds, then plays, after two seconds stops again for one second, and then plays smoothly. I have noticed "replay stut

Re: [vdr] Blocking the playback of recordings in plugins

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:57:20PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Marko Mäkelä wrote: > > > I believe that the easy fix would be to have these methods return 0 only > > when playing a recording. Can the plugin detect this somehow? > > For live TV, VDR runs a transfer thread and the repl

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:49:55PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: > >Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker > >was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason > >why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same time. > > > >Bye. > > >

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: Hi, Heikki Manninen wrote: I've noticed that earlier when I was using PIII 550 MHz and vdr 1.3.22 (or something about) I made a test by recording nine channels simultaneously and watching a recording at the same time. I remember there seemed to be no trouble doin

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:27:14PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > > Maybe not switching off display while doing playback? It doesn't make > > much sense anyway to run playback invisible. > > It does. The typical use case is that you pause live video or start > a recording with a timer, then start

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: > I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I > haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap > USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding > MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware.

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: > Hi! > > The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync > problems > for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? I was just watching an Idols Extra recorded today and there were multiple out of

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:49:55PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Most likely, it's me who has to be blamed. Around 1.3.27, cVideoRepacker was introduced which has an impact on CPU load. This could be a reason why the menu is slow when running several recordings at the same time

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I wouldn't be so sure about the majority of VDRs using FF cards. I haven't seen any ad for an FF card, but I have seen many ads for cheap USB DVB-T tuners. The trend is likely to change, given that decoding MPEG-2 is no challenge to current PC hardware. Also generic video cards are increasingl

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: > Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: > >>I do not think that it is the reason. I checked that the cpu load was > >>less than 10% on my 3000+ AMD and even with my 550MHz PIII less than 20% > >>when there were 5 simultaneuous recordings. > >> > > > >

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: > This is what was in the log if this is at all relevant. > > Feb 1 21:20:48 vdr: [2635] replay > /srv/vdr/Idols_Extra/2007-02-01.20.59.50.99.rec > Feb 1 21:20:59 vdr: [3955] 3 cRepacker messages suppressed > Feb 1 21:20:59 vdr: [3955] cAudioRepacker(0xC0): skipped 134 bytes

Re: [vdr] Vdr or driver performance dropout

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Would it really matter in this case when cpu load was that small? I was just trying to say that even though there were almost no cpu load vdr was working sluggish. Without trying it, it is hard to say. Yo

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Gregoire Favre wrote: > Thank you very much for taking a look at VDR diseqc commands sequence :) Attached is a patch which adds some output to the tuning process. t: 1170360811.082, c: 0, r: 0, a: -- t: 1170360811.082, c: 0, r: 0, a: ioctl(fd_fron

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: If you can reproduce this behaviour, would you please activate the following line in remux.c: dsyslog("TS continuity error (%d)", ccCounter); I will try with the recording if the problem reappears and then activate that line. The cRepacker messages might be

[vdr] Re: vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, maybe my hardware is not optimal : running a simple bash command : for j in `seq 0 2`;do for i in `seq 1 12`; do szap -a $j -x -n $i ; date ;done;done > TUNING.log And then grep FE_HAS_LOCK TUNING.log |wc 28 4482212 Which show I miss some lock ??? I got lots of "cx88[1]/2-mpeg:

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, here VDR's log with your patch : nice -n -19 ./vdr -u root -c /etc/vdr -l 3 -w 90 -s /usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown -P'xine -r -q' t: 1170367257.885, c: 0, r: 0, a: -- t: 1170367257.885, c: 0, r: 0, a: ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_DISEQC_SEND_BURST, SEC_MI

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Mackin wrote: > >Also generic video cards are increasingly coming with video decoding > >features, and HDTVs can be connected straight to a PC without the need > >for a horrible scaler or special screen mode. Although not all the > >decoding features are available t

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello, just after a dvb modules reload : nice -n -19 ./vdr -u root -c /etc/vdr -l 3 -w 90 -s /usr/local/bin/vdrshutdown -P'xine -r -q' t: 1170368152.594, c: 0, r: 0, a: -- t: 1170368152.598, c: 1, r: 0, a: --

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > I'll now add the same output to szap. See attachment. While comparing the output of VDR and szap I've discovered a bug in szap. It didn't set FE_DISEQC_SEND_BURST correctly. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] szap.tar.gz Descriptio

[vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread abbe normal
hello all wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program but not have vdr record it... not sure but just thinking it would be nice to have a option in the menu to not record but still go to

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
I too would like this feature, but if you are using yaepg as many are, it seems like that is a feature the plugin should provide, not vdr. wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program b

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: > Should I do both these changes at the same time or separately? I think you may apply both changes at the same time. Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://ww

Re: [vdr] vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

2007-02-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Hello, > While comparing the output of VDR and szap I've discovered a bug in > szap. It didn't set FE_DISEQC_SEND_BURST correctly. Here's for j in `seq 0 2`;do for i in `seq 1 12`;do ./szap -a $j -x -n $i; date;done;done >NING-debug

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Patrick Mackin
Is that HD-capable? HDTV seems quite common in NA, but currently in the UK there are very few HD channels, only available through overpriced subscriptions. It looks unlikely that there'll be any FTA/FTV HD until at least after the analogue terrestrial switch-off in 2012. HDTV is not as common

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-02-01 Thread Udo Richter
Marko Mäkelä wrote: It does. The typical use case is that you pause live video or start a recording with a timer, then start watching it while it is still recording, so that you can skip commercial breaks. Then you get interrupted while watching it. It would be very handy to push the power but

AW: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread martin
You should have a look at the BigPatch. It has some "switch timer" included. Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von abbe normal Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007 23:42 An: vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: [vdr] to record or not hello

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Brueckner
Am Donnerstag 01 Februar 2007 23:42 schrieb abbe normal: > wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to > record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer > to watch a program but not have vdr record it... not sure but just > thinking it would be nice to ha

Re: [vdr] to record or not

2007-02-01 Thread VDR User
On 2/1/07, abbe normal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello all wondering if there is a way from the timers menu to only select to record or not record a program. what im wanting to do is set a timer to watch a program but not have vdr record it... not sure but just thinking it would be nice to hav