[vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
Hi all, Running vdr-sxfe as a local frontend using a pipe _should_ be as fast (if not faster) than using XBMC over an http://localhost streamdev connection. However, I seem to find the opposite to be the case. vdr-sxfe still struggles with HD content, has pops and clicks in the audio, crashes out

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Niels Wagenaar
2012/3/9 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com: Hi all, -- SNIP -- Does anyone have vdr-sxfe running flawlessly as a local frontend for HD content? I use a fully updated yaVDR 0.4 and I don't have any issues with the vdr-sxfe frontend. For me, XBMC with the xvdr plugin seems to produce very

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
On 9 March 2012 10:09, Niels Wagenaar n.wagen...@xs4all.nl wrote: Does anyone have vdr-sxfe running flawlessly as a local frontend for HD content? I use a fully updated yaVDR 0.4 and I don't have any issues with the vdr-sxfe frontend. Hmm. I have the same (yaVDR) running on an ION330 box.

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Niels Wagenaar
2012/3/9 Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com: On 9 March 2012 10:09, Niels Wagenaar n.wagen...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hmm. I have the same (yaVDR) running on an ION330 box. The channels I most have problems with are 1080i HD at bitrates of around 9-10 MB/s. Perhaps you could post your

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:59:51 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: Running vdr-sxfe as a local frontend using a pipe _should_ be as fast (if not faster) than using XBMC over an http://localhost streamdev connection. However, I seem to find the opposite to be the case. vdr-sxfe still

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
On 9 March 2012 13:42, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: The difference between vdr-sxfe and XBMC you're experiencing could be due to differences in the deinterlacing setting. You didn't say what your graphics card is, but the sort of low-power fanless card most of us like to have in an

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Jonas Bardino
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2012 10:09, Niels Wagenaar n.wagen...@xs4all.nl wrote: Does anyone have vdr-sxfe running flawlessly as a local frontend for HD content? I use a fully updated yaVDR 0.4 and I don't have any issues with the

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
On 9 March 2012 15:11, Jonas Bardino jo...@bardinosen.dk wrote: I launch vdr-sxfe with a command that overrides video_num_buffers, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll add the buffers cmdline to my vdr-sxfe startup. Interesting that you're using xvdr+tcp://localhost rather than the default unix

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Bio H
i also have struggled for this holy grail xbmc would really be the ideal interface for me (just cant beat this flexibility - try playing a .bin / .img over a network which is .rar'd - cant do this on vdr) i like the xbmc plugins and flexibility, for the most part. :) for last few months i've been

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Jonas Bardino
On 2012-03-09 16:28, Dominic Evans wrote: On 9 March 2012 15:11, Jonas Bardinojo...@bardinosen.dk wrote: I launch vdr-sxfe with a command that overrides video_num_buffers, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll add the buffers cmdline to my vdr-sxfe startup. Interesting that you're using

[vdr] xmltv2vdr.pl

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
I don't know if anyone else still uses the xmltv2vdr.pl perl script for piping XMLTV data into VDR's epg, but I've been keeping a version of it updated with some additional function here: https://github.com/oldmanuk/xmltv2vdr These are the changes since the last version (1.0.9) was released on

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Jonas Bardino
On 2012-03-09 16:34, Bio H wrote: i also have struggled for this holy grail xbmc would really be the ideal interface for me (just cant beat this flexibility - try playing a .bin / .img over a network which is .rar'd - cant do this on vdr) i like the xbmc plugins and flexibility, for the most

[vdr] STNG Schedule Now and Next Column Widths

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
Using the STNG skin at 1920x1080 (with the font size slightly reduced from default), the columns on the Now and Next pages of the Schedule don't currently adjust their width, but simply allocate all the extra space to the final column containing the title. See http://i.imgur.com/TKvGy.jpg for an

Re: [vdr] STNG Schedule Now and Next Column Widths

2012-03-09 Thread Dominic Evans
On 9 March 2012 16:18, Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: Ideally the channels column would be auto-sized to display the full channel name, as these tend to be a max of 20 characters it would be useful to be able to see the whole thing. On a related note, it would also be good if the Now

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:15:06 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2012 13:42, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: video.output.vdpau_hd_deinterlace_method:bob I was amazed at how good it looks, although I've only tried it at 720p output so far, not at 1080p. I

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Baxter
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: I just wish I could have the full VDR OSD, but within XBMC :) Yeah, shame about that. It's unfortunate the development on XMBC isn't anywhere as active or mature as VDR. I recently got really lazy and installed

Re: [vdr] xmltv2vdr.pl

2012-03-09 Thread Laurence Abbott
On 9 March 2012 15:54, Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if anyone else still uses the xmltv2vdr.pl perl script for piping XMLTV data into VDR's epg, but I've been keeping a version of it updated with some additional function here: https://github.com/oldmanuk/xmltv2vdr

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:59:51 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Running vdr-sxfe as a local frontend using a pipe _should_ be as fast (if not faster) than using XBMC over an http://localhost streamdev connection. However, I seem to find the opposite to be the case.

Re: [vdr] xmltv2vdr.pl

2012-03-09 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:54:29 + Dominic Evans oldma...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if anyone else still uses the xmltv2vdr.pl perl script for piping XMLTV data into VDR's epg, but I've been keeping a version of it updated with some additional function here: I don't want to discourage you