[vdr] vdr-api: how to check if VDR is up?

2009-06-08 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, the epgsearch plugin handles some tasks as separate threads, that also use SVDRP to talk to VDR. Currently these threads are started after a fixed time (e.g. 20s) to give VDR the time to start up. A user reported that epgsearch fails in SVDRP communication, because VDR was still waiting for

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread jori.hamalainen
>> On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: >> So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more >> perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall >> as mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. > Udo wrote: >Sounds

[vdr] repeat Vol key

2009-06-08 Thread martinez
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:30:34 +0200 From: Gerald Dachs Subject: Re: [vdr] repeat vol key To: vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: <20090607193034.5ef1f...@master> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I use the remote that comes with the Hauppagge S2-HD (and hence connected to the card itself) lirc c

Re: [vdr] Build failures with gcc 4.4

2009-06-08 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 04.06.2009 09:12, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > > ... > > So gcc 4.4 finally hit openSUSE as well. I use the attached patch to > > make vdr compile. Seems to work fine too. The code that requires > > those const casts is really ugly though. > > How about the attached change?

[vdr] howto change time of epg grap?

2009-06-08 Thread Mr. Tux
hello >From what I observe vdr is waiting to grap the epg content of a timed recording until this recording starts. There are a bunch of channels where this leads to unwelcome side effects: - Take a channel that is using place holder events in the "now" section of epg during commerical breaks b

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Mattia Rossi
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 23:40 +0300, Vesa wrote: > -Original Message- > I have not seen those kinds issues with eHD card. But I use on my setup > separate > video processor (DVDO VP30 with abt102) for deinterlacing and scaling to > 1080P. > Well, your setup is a little different than what I

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Mattia Rossi
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:49:02 -0700 VDR User wrote: --- snip - > On a side note I just want to say that I see some posts here about > peoples expectations.. "I want to record X, and Y, while playing Z > with no dropped frames, etc etc". I hope you guys understand that > things like that are

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:40:04PM +0200, Mattia Rossi wrote: > The need for time in such a discovery process, at least on my part, is > fully understood, I only wish that sometimes the guys from Reel would > provide a little more documentation (in english) about how they do some > things in the

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Morfsta
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Georg Acher wrote: > Just ask, there are no secrets ;) There's just not enough time to guess what > will be of interest... Great! Georg, can you let us know why FF/FR and pause/play handling within VDR with reelbox-3 is so laggy? It makes jumping, searching and see

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread Marcel Witte
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com schrieb am Montag 08 Juni 2009: > >> On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: > >> So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more > >> perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall > >> as mentioned in the article. This

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-text2skin-1.2

2009-06-08 Thread Adrian C.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Thomas Günther wrote: > Hello! > > This is the first release of the VDR Text2skin plugin from > http://projects.vdr-developer.org. Thank you very much, this is a great plugin. I often lost track of various patches and cvs snapshots and I'm so glad you took over. I also had v

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:09:06PM +0100, Morfsta wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Georg Acher wrote: > > > Just ask, there are no secrets ;) There's just not enough time to guess what > > will be of interest... > > Great! Georg, can you let us know why FF/FR and pause/play handling > wit