Re: [vdr] Strange problem with one specific channel

2010-10-28 Thread Rainer Blickle
Hi Dirk, if you have a solution, pls reply the answer to your question. You have written your solution in the vdr portal. For the others: The pids of the channel have changed. After creating a new channels.conf the channel can be received. 2010/10/25 Rainer Blickle : > Hi, > > perhaps the pid'

[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 small

Re: [vdr] Compressing VDR recordings without losing quality.

2010-10-28 Thread VDR User
> 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 smaller without > losing any quality. The only way to not lose quality is to keep the bitrate high, especially for recordings with a lot of motion. You should encode

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7.15 + DXR3 lockup problem

2010-10-28 Thread Teemu Suikki
A bit more info into this.. I'm quite sure this is somehow caused by dxr3 plugin. There's always some message on screen when it hangs.. I can make vdr lockup like this: svdrpsend.pl -p2001 MESG test -"test" appears, no lockup yet svdrpsend.pl -p2001 MESG test2 -"test" still shows, not "test2".

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.7.15 + DXR3 lockup problem

2010-10-28 Thread Teemu Suikki
Hmm, I noticed that my OSD Flush time was set to 59 seconds in VDR settings.. If I drop that to some small value like 5 seconds, VDR doesn't hang anymore because the watchdog is not triggered for such a short time. But still it is weird that VDR can't exit if there is a message on screen? -- Te