Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:57:35PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 19.05.2012 22:32, Juergen Lock wrote: Hi! (I guess the forums are not the best place to post this, hence reposted here...) By accident I stumbled across the special case for TT-budget S2-3200 (DVB-S/DVB-S2) in

Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 20.05.2012 10:55, Juergen Lock wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:57:35PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 19.05.2012 22:32, Juergen Lock wrote: Hi! (I guess the forums are not the best place to post this, hence reposted here...) By accident I stumbled across the special case for

[vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Matti Lehtimäki
Hi I made a patch to allow special case for instant recordings to only record the present event. This is done by defining Instant rec. time to 0. There is still the question what should be done if event is non-existent or otherwise not obtained? Should the VDR default Instant rec. time be

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 20.05.2012 11:30, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: Hi I made a patch to allow special case for instant recordings to only record the present event. This is done by defining Instant rec. time to 0. Nice idea. However, please also take VPS into account. If Setup.UseVps is set, and the event has a VPS

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Matti Lehtimäki
On 05/20/2012 12:37 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Nice idea. However, please also take VPS into account. If Setup.UseVps is set, and the event has a VPS time, the timer's start time should be set to the VPS time, and the timer's ttVps flag should be set. Hi Attached is a new version of the

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 20.05.2012 13:09, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: On 05/20/2012 12:37 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Nice idea. However, please also take VPS into account. If Setup.UseVps is set, and the event has a VPS time, the timer's start time should be set to the VPS time, and the timer's ttVps flag should be

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Matti Lehtimäki
On 05/20/2012 02:15 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: One more thing comes to mind: you also need to make sure that the 'day' is set to the day of the EPG event. Just in case it is past midnight already and the event started yesterday ;-) Indeed that was missing. I think setting the day is relevant

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 20.05.2012 13:41, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:15 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: One more thing comes to mind: you also need to make sure that the 'day' is set to the day of the EPG event. Just in case it is past midnight already and the event started yesterday ;-) Indeed that was

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Matti Lehtimäki
On 05/20/2012 02:45 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 20.05.2012 13:41, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:15 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: One more thing comes to mind: you also need to make sure that the 'day' is set to the day of the EPG event. Just in case it is past midnight already and

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] Allow instant recording to record only present event

2012-05-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 20.05.2012 13:55, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:45 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 20.05.2012 13:41, Matti Lehtimäki wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:15 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: One more thing comes to mind: you also need to make sure that the 'day' is set to the day of the EPG event.

Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread VDR User
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Klaus Schmidinger klaus.schmidin...@tvdr.de wrote: Well, maybe if this is common to all STB0899 frontends it could even be fixed in the driver itself ;-) I always thought that the *driver* should provide a normalized interface for getting signal strength and

[vdr] [PATCH] toggle between recordings sort order with 0 key

2012-05-20 Thread Mika Laitio
Hi Attached is a patch which allows to toggle the sort order of recordings in the recording menu with vdr-1.7.27 between - name - date - recording length by pressing 0 key. At least I have found this to be very useful feature when trying to find a just made recording from which you do not

Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread Thomas Sailer
On 05/20/2012 05:51 PM, VDR User wrote: This subject has come up at least a few times, one of which was in the The right way to interpret the content of SNR, signal strength and BER from HVR 4000 Lite thread. For some reason the Apart from the SNR/Signal Strength issue, does the card work for

Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread Papernik
My card is old mystique model satix dvb-s2 ( KNC1 DVB-S2 Plus , Satelco Easywatch DVB-S2 , TT S2 3200, Technisat DVB-S2 all i think has same problem ). Card is working fine, but i cannot see signal level on femon, and can not use any channel scan program like wirbelsacn ( no signal il locked ). I

[vdr] Emergency exit

2012-05-20 Thread Richard Scobie
Is it expected behavior for vdr to do an emergency exit with two recordings in progress? If so, perhaps there could be an option to disable this. I was recording a program on one tuner, while recording and delayed viewing a sports feed on the second tuner. When the carrier was dropped at

Re: [vdr] Emergency exit

2012-05-20 Thread VDR User
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Richard Scobie r.sco...@clear.net.nz wrote: Is it expected behavior for vdr to do an emergency exit with two recordings in progress? If so, perhaps there could be an option to disable this. I was recording a program on one tuner, while recording and delayed

Re: [vdr] Emergency exit

2012-05-20 Thread Richard Scobie
VDR User wrote: You can prevent emergency exit from actually exiting within VDR setup, or setting `EmergencyExit = 0` in the setup.conf file. Thank you. I did check the MANUAL file before posting, but missed that entry. Regards, Richard ___

Re: [vdr] [PATCH, RFC] STB0899 signal strength (pctv452e, others too?)

2012-05-20 Thread Marx
I have such a card, Pinnacle PCTV SAT HDTV 452E PRO USB. I'm trying to use it but no luck. I've tried (I use Debian): - linux 3.2 kernel After reboot many errors: May 20 10:08:47 wuwek kernel: [ 63.984760] pctv452e: pctv452e_power_ctrl: 1 May 20 10:08:47 wuwek kernel: [ 63.984763] May 20

[vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-20 Thread Marx
Hello I use VDR a few years, but lately I changed my system into ITX (AMD Brazos) and so changed PCI DVB-S2 card into USB. Additionaly I has bought DVB-T tuner. While buying hardware I was sure I buy hardware which is supported in-kernel, so no need to hunt for driver. Unfortunatelly every

Re: [vdr] Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-20 Thread Torgeir Veimo
You can get a sony playtv, they are dual tuner and it's mostly plug and play, except for intermittent noise from time to time (suspecting retuning second tuner for eit scanning causing noise on first tuner). On 21 May 2012 07:48, Marx acc.for.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I use VDR a few years,

[vdr] Betr: Bad choices of USB cards

2012-05-20 Thread cedric . dewijs
Hello I use VDR a few years, but lately I changed my system into ITX (AMD Brazos) and so changed PCI DVB-S2 card into USB. Additionaly I has bought DVB-T tuner. snip The last miss was buying USB DVB-T stick based on Af9015. Generally it works, but only a few minutes. I suspect it overheats...