Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info wrote: The usb adapter works upstairs on a patched VDR 1.6, but am not sure it works on 1.7.12 yet.. Will try again tomorrow. My main problem is by the time I get home from work, my wife wants to watch TV. Maybe she should read a book instead for a change then? Go for a walk/run? Take a nap? ;) SOLVED... It turns out when everything was moved about on Saturday (We just moved into our house), someone stuck some power supplies over the cable feed. I guess I was getting interference on just that frequency. The tests I was doing was in another part of the house, which was why it worked.. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
Quick way to force vdr to use selected tuners is the -D option. For example, if you want it to use the 1ts and 3rd in a 3 tuner system: -D 0 -D 3 Need all the spaces for it to work. Just add -D x for any tuner you want vdr to see. If you only have the plugin and the usb and only want vdr to use the usb, try -D 1 likely the usb tuner is numbered after the slotted one. On 4/13/2010 12:45 PM, Rob Davis wrote: Just had a thought, that may be some kind of data or guide channel and vdr is getting something it doesn't know what to do with or thinks it does and is wrong. what scanner are you using to pick up that channel and what cable company is it? It's Comcast. I am trying to narrow down the problem. I tried putting my USB dongle in the server yesterday, but couldn't get VDR up long enough to work out which card it was using for the channel, may try again today. The usb adapter works upstairs on a patched VDR 1.6, but am not sure it works on 1.7.12 yet.. Will try again tomorrow. My main problem is by the time I get home from work, my wife wants to watch TV. I discovered scte65scan, which I think will be excellent, I will probably use that and w_scan to a kaffeine file to create a channels.conf file with names on it. VDR with update pids will throw away the audio pids consistently and put caids in when I can actually view the channels, so I don't use that.. On 4/12/2010 1:36 PM, Rob Davis wrote: Hi Guys, I have two ATSC adapter. On one I scan my channels, create my channels.conf file (via a convoluted script), the channels work on that laptop using 1.6. I make a couple of edits to allow it to work on 1.7.12, but a particular frequency causes VDR to crash and get restarted by the watchdog.. The offending frequency is 567000, It's a Qam256 ATSC Cable frequency. I have an HVR1850 PCI-E adapter. Unfortunetly, it's the mux with all my local SD channels, although I can watch the HD ones, two channels don't have HD versions.. I can't see anything in dmesg or the vdr log which causes a problem. As an aside, a scan using w_scan to create a kaffeine channels.conf file on that adapter, doesn't find anything on that frequency. Am I getting interference from something? Any ideas? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
I use vdpau and find it VERY picky about stream quality. It will crash. Xine not as bad but still more picky then the HW video out of a nexus. You could leave that on a badly pixelated stream all day. I've seen vdpau crash even when there are no visual problems with the stream. When it goes down, it seems to take xine with it. A big problem with using ATA and the signal is weak. On 4/14/2010 5:33 AM, Rob Davis wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Davisr...@davis-family.info wrote: The usb adapter works upstairs on a patched VDR 1.6, but am not sure it works on 1.7.12 yet.. Will try again tomorrow. My main problem is by the time I get home from work, my wife wants to watch TV. Maybe she should read a book instead for a change then? Go for a walk/run? Take a nap? ;) SOLVED... It turns out when everything was moved about on Saturday (We just moved into our house), someone stuck some power supplies over the cable feed. I guess I was getting interference on just that frequency. The tests I was doing was in another part of the house, which was why it worked.. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
Yup, me too. I have a button setup on my remote to kill vdr-sxfe and start xbmc-pvr, or vice versa. That way I don't need to get out of my chair to fix xine. I also find on h264 streams, audio goes out of sync easily with vdpau/xine. Doesn't happen with either mplayer or xbmc. I have a Hauppauge PVR-HD which streams hd content from my cable box.. I use vdpau and find it VERY picky about stream quality. It will crash. Xine not as bad but still more picky then the HW video out of a nexus. You could leave that on a badly pixelated stream all day. I've seen vdpau crash even when there are no visual problems with the stream. When it goes down, it seems to take xine with it. A big problem with using ATA and the signal is weak. On 4/14/2010 5:33 AM, Rob Davis wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Davisr...@davis-family.info wrote: The usb adapter works upstairs on a patched VDR 1.6, but am not sure it works on 1.7.12 yet.. Will try again tomorrow. My main problem is by the time I get home from work, my wife wants to watch TV. Maybe she should read a book instead for a change then? Go for a walk/run? Take a nap? ;) SOLVED... It turns out when everything was moved about on Saturday (We just moved into our house), someone stuck some power supplies over the cable feed. I guess I was getting interference on just that frequency. The tests I was doing was in another part of the house, which was why it worked.. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info wrote: I also find on h264 streams, audio goes out of sync easily with vdpau/xine. Doesn't happen with either mplayer or xbmc. I have a Hauppauge PVR-HD which streams hd content from my cable box.. Maybe you need to adjust your buffer settings. Most guys I know run vdpau without problem but the ones who do have one seem to be a real pain in the *. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
Do you know about the atscepg plugin? It can now scan cable as well as atsc though cable scanning may need a bit more work. I think the author could use some feed back on cable scans to fine tune it. http://www.fepg.org/atscepg/download/ Use the hg version to get the latest. hg clone http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/atscepg On 4/12/2010 1:36 PM, Rob Davis wrote: Hi Guys, I have two ATSC adapter. On one I scan my channels, create my channels.conf file (via a convoluted script), the channels work on that laptop using 1.6. I make a couple of edits to allow it to work on 1.7.12, but a particular frequency causes VDR to crash and get restarted by the watchdog.. The offending frequency is 567000, It's a Qam256 ATSC Cable frequency. I have an HVR1850 PCI-E adapter. Unfortunetly, it's the mux with all my local SD channels, although I can watch the HD ones, two channels don't have HD versions.. I can't see anything in dmesg or the vdr log which causes a problem. As an aside, a scan using w_scan to create a kaffeine channels.conf file on that adapter, doesn't find anything on that frequency. Am I getting interference from something? Any ideas? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
Just had a thought, that may be some kind of data or guide channel and vdr is getting something it doesn't know what to do with or thinks it does and is wrong. what scanner are you using to pick up that channel and what cable company is it? On 4/12/2010 1:36 PM, Rob Davis wrote: Hi Guys, I have two ATSC adapter. On one I scan my channels, create my channels.conf file (via a convoluted script), the channels work on that laptop using 1.6. I make a couple of edits to allow it to work on 1.7.12, but a particular frequency causes VDR to crash and get restarted by the watchdog.. The offending frequency is 567000, It's a Qam256 ATSC Cable frequency. I have an HVR1850 PCI-E adapter. Unfortunetly, it's the mux with all my local SD channels, although I can watch the HD ones, two channels don't have HD versions.. I can't see anything in dmesg or the vdr log which causes a problem. As an aside, a scan using w_scan to create a kaffeine channels.conf file on that adapter, doesn't find anything on that frequency. Am I getting interference from something? Any ideas? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel frequency crashing VDR
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Rob Davis r...@davis-family.info wrote: The usb adapter works upstairs on a patched VDR 1.6, but am not sure it works on 1.7.12 yet.. Will try again tomorrow. My main problem is by the time I get home from work, my wife wants to watch TV. Maybe she should read a book instead for a change then? Go for a walk/run? Take a nap? ;) ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
