[vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Can vdr-xineliboutput utilize the excellent interlaced output of a Matrox G450 with VGA>SCART cable? I'm seeing what I can only describe as video stutters/shakes with interlaced video and quick movements, long camera pans. Using latest vdr-xineliboutput, DirectFB-1.0.0 & xine-lib-1.1.5 using Gen

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 18/04/07, Markus Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can vdr-xineliboutput utilize the excellent interlaced output of a > Matrox G450 with VGA>SCART cable? I'm asking myself the same question. I've played arround with xineliboutput and softdevice the last days and came across the same issue

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 19/04/07, Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 19 Apr 2007, at 09:41, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > In the original post I was just wondering if xineliboutput has been > written with the matrox specific instructions that softdevice's "-vo > dfb:mgatv"

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Sorry for replying to myself, but in the meantime, while waiting for xineliboutput to work again, anyone reading know if I can use df_xine for the video display, while retaining xineliboutput as the lirc transport to my headless server running vdr-xineliboutput. ** I know there has been a tremend

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 19/04/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 12:53 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > Using df_xine -a 5:4 -l 0 -s -f top 001.vdr > I get perfect output! This is what Markus and I are seeing for a few > seconds before the field sync get

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-19 Thread Alasdair Campbell
ignore that, I was being an idiot, set to 'top' now. -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you have the softdevice source code laying arround, you can have a look in that, especially 'video-dfb.c'. Search for 'setupStore->useMGAtv'. There are some if-constructs in there using this variable where some DirectFB settings (and mayb

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 15:06:54 schrieb Alasdair Campbell: > config_xineliboutput > > # field parity > # { none top bottom }, default: 0 > #video.device.directfb_field_parity:none That's funny, my config_

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > Because I'm using a 550Mhz P3, my only option is to use the > xineliboutput until I figure out what is causing the big CPU load > variations. As I've never had

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend & compare with > xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:21 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > I'll have a look at the softdevice src this weekend & compare with > xineliboutput. Better to compare with xine-lib (src/video_out/video_out_directfb

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/04/07, Markus Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, this changes are more than 7 month old, maybe there have been some changes to DirectFB to make it work in the meanwhile... As far as I saw it's only a two line patch, so I could try to manually revert it and compile xine-lib again...

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 22/04/07, Alasdair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried to give xine-lib1.1.2-r3 a go today but after rebuilding xineliboutput against xine-libs., I still receive the message "[12674] [input_vdr] WARNING: Video output driver reports it does not support unscaled overlays !&qu

[vdr] cFemonOsd::Show() cannot open frontend device

2007-05-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
When trialing vdr-femon-1.1.0 with vdr-xineliboutput-1.0.0_rc1 I receive the following error when trying to view the signal information of my recording server via my streaming only client. ERROR: cFemonOsd::Show() cannot open frontend device. Is this a known problem or is there something more I

Re: [vdr] cFemonOsd::Show() cannot open frontend device

2007-05-20 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 20/05/07, Rolf Ahrenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > Is this a known problem or is there something more I need to configure > for my specific setup? Yes, it's a known problem reported only in xineliboutput setups: somehow "

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-05-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
entioned. I'd happily lose osd opacity in favour of a consistant look to my vdr experience - maybe others would too. I actually struggle to read some of the text with low resolution channels. all the best -- Alasdair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-05-25 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 25/05/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, patch against xine-lib 1.1.6 is available from http://phivdr.dyndns.org/xine-lib/directfb/ Thanks so much for that! I'll be able to try it over the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on. many thanks -- A l a s d a i r C a m

[vdr] Sky Freesat and VDR

2007-06-04 Thread Alasdair Campbell
As I've just been told that the scaffolding currently surrounding the communal aerial in my neighbourhood will be up for months, I'm looking at purchasing a DVB-S card. The terrestrial analogue reception is just terrible, so much that my dvb-t cards keep choking and dying. As I'm in the UK, and ha

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 09/06/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:15 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > > I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect > > back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines will have > > no dvb cards (they will all be l

Re: [vdr] VDR with two DVBS cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 13/06/07, Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > could somebody point me in right direction? lots of useful info here: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page > I am looking into configuring a second DVBS card to use with vdr. > > Configuration: > > Athlon 1.2GHz > MB:

Re: [vdr] VDR with two DVBS cards

2007-06-13 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 13/06/07, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no such option in VDR's Setup menu. Sorry, I was thinking of "Primary DVB interface" - something totally different.. -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m ___

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-17 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 16/06/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:16 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > Is it possible to have one of the VDR 'servers/instances' to be > > running on one of the clients rather than the main server pc? > > Y

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-27 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 18/06/07, Alasdair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/06/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:16 +0100, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > > Is it possible to have one of the VDR 'servers/instances' to be &g

Re: [vdr] femon and xineliboutput

2007-07-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 02/07/07, Simon Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > when I try to start femon with xineliboutput nothing apears. It seems to > to start but nothing is shown on screen (using vdr-sxfe or xine > directly). Starting femon on console works when vdr is not running. All > other plugins seem

Re: [vdr] File play problem..

2007-08-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 21/08/07, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And how you do that with Gentoo... If I change something, gentoo compile > process will notice that.. Suspend the emerge just after the source has been unpacked and any patches applied. Might take you a couple of times to get it just before it start

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Nov 19, 2007 1:31 AM, Magnus Hörlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Maybe it actually is about time for me to build a new VDR. > > I'll probably take a look at the Reel Extension HD PCI. > > But that means I'll also need a new motherboard with at least > > five PCI slot

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Nov 19, 2007 2:08 AM, Halim Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm HDTV with a matrox card What I mean is H264 video gets decoded by the extra horsepower of the P4, matrox is used with software output device in vdr. Are you planning on buying an HD television set Klaus? Then ignore wha

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On Nov 18, 2007 9:54 PM, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/18/07 19:16, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2007 2:08 AM, Halim Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm HDTV with a matrox card > > > > What I mean is H264 vid

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Lauri Tischler wrote: > Füley István wrote: >>> Oops, that's really not so good... one can't comment about HDTV with a >>> resolution which is not full HDTV : 1920x1080... >> Ok, this means that my setup is a low-end instead of being "average" as I >> stated before, therefore my considerations abo

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Lauri Tischler wrote: > Alasdair Campbell wrote: >> Lauri Tischler wrote: >>> Not really, FullHD also means large, minimum 42", it is quite senseless >>> to to watch good picture on a postcard, so you start at €1500 >> You forgot to add the €20,000 building

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
VDR User wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 7:30 AM, Füley István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To be clear: I did not say, that we don't need HD at all. I just said, >> that normal TV stations should stay in SD, and only a couple of premium >> (PPV, etc) channels should go HD. But the situation is more clea

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Beside all that, I do believe VDR needs to integrate H264 & HD recording, along with support built-in for multiple frontends. Hopefully I can lend a hand with the coding (in about 6 years). ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cg

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Alasdair Campbell
VDR User wrote: > Just curious... Why did you buy a dvb card? Antennas work just fine > and are less expensive. Everyone else was buying them ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
Hi, Been a while since I've used VDR. Have it setup after scanning using the scan program, however something is strange. There are multiple versions of some channels, such as BBC One/Two/News, Channel 4 etc. Some of these either have video and no EPG, have video and EPG, or have EPG and no video.

Re: [vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 3 November 2010 20:48, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Al 03/11/10 21:31, En/na Alasdair Campbell ha escrit: >> There are multiple versions of some channels, such as BBC >> One/Two/News, Channel 4 etc. Some of these either have video and no >> EPG, have video and EPG, or

Re: [vdr] UK users - multiple BBC One/Two/News in channels list

2010-11-03 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 3 November 2010 23:18, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > From memory, I think the frequencies in channels.conf ends up being > 166khz off the actual frequency. I remember having to tweak the > channels.conf file manually, then turn off automatic updates. Can you > post your file here? After leaving it fo