Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-18 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi,
Lauri Tischler schrieb:
> Sascha Vogt wrote:
>> Lauri Tischler schrieb:
>>> Sascha Vogt wrote:
 as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
 with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
 videos)
>>> Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
>> Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
> 
> Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?
I have not yet looked into that, as soon, as I get something, I'll post 
it on this list.

Greetings
-Sascha-


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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:17:11 +0200
Lauri Tischler  wrote:

> Sascha Vogt wrote:
> > Hi Lauri,
> > 
> > Lauri Tischler schrieb:
> >> Sascha Vogt wrote:
> >>> as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
> >>> with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
> >>> videos)
> >> Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
> > Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.
> 
> Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?

NVidia HDMI audio is supported in Linux but you need at least kernel
2.6.28 or drivers from ALSA 1.0.18 and you need to configure things to
use it instead of the default (asoundrc, pulse config because it ignores
asoundrc, xine/vdr-sxfe because it ignores asoundrc and pulse config).
It works for me with an M3N78-VM. 

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-18 Thread Lauri Tischler
Sascha Vogt wrote:
> Hi Lauri,
> 
> Lauri Tischler schrieb:
>> Sascha Vogt wrote:
>>> as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
>>> with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
>>> videos)
>> Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
> Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.

Any idea if its possible to get also audio via HDMI-connection ?

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-10 Thread Udo Richter
On 08.01.2009 17:14, Sascha Vogt wrote:
>>> And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR
>>> with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
>
> Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get
> at least a rough idea.
>
> PS: Suspend to Ram can be a good alternative, that's true. Hopefully
> that'll be working on that ASUS board...

I'm using Hibernate (aka. suspend to disk), and I'm quite satisfied with 
it. My boot times for a slow C3-600 system:

- Power-on to GRUB boot: 12s
- GRUB to OS up-and-running including DVB drivers: 15s
- VDR up-and-running: 15s

In total, the system needs about 45s to be up, with just 15s being OS 
related (debian/etch-a-half). The system is also not optimized for being 
very light-weighted, its mostly a normal debian without X. Booting the 
stock debian kernel takes roughly 60s longer, a selfmade kernel without 
initrd would also be noticeably faster.


Cheers,

Udo

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-09 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi Lauri,

Lauri Tischler schrieb:
> Sascha Vogt wrote:
>> as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
>> with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
>> videos)
> 
> Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?
Sorry, you're right, meant the M3N78Pro.

Greetings
-Sascha-

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Lauri Tischler
Sascha Vogt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
> with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
> videos)

Couldn't find M2N78Pro, do you mean M3N78PRO ?

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
> Nicolas Huillard schrieb:
>> Sascha Vogt a écrit :
>>> And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR
>>> with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
>> I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on 
>> an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then 
>> installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but 
>> no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...).
>> Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. [...]
> 
> Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get
> at least a rough idea.

30s on an Athlon XP 1.8GHz
roughly 45s on a C3 600MHz

Simply recompiling the kernel, removing unneeded modules and initrd, 
could reduce by 5-10s...

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi,

Nicolas Huillard schrieb:
> Sascha Vogt a écrit :
>> And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR
>> with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
> I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on 
> an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then 
> installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but 
> no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...).
> Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. [...]

Can you provide any figures? 30 seconds, 50 seconds, 90 seconds? To get
at least a rough idea.

Greetings
-Sascha-

PS: Suspend to Ram can be a good alternative, that's true. Hopefully
that'll be working on that ASUS board...

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Re: [vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Sascha Vogt a écrit :
> And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR
> with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
> (Yes I know [1], but that didn't help me with choosing one optimized for
> short boot times.) LinVDR seemed to be such, but the last version is now
> 4 years old. I personally have experiences with Gentoo and Debian, so
> that would be my choices if no one has a better option worth trying.

I started with a bare-minimum Debian/e-tobi install (with debootstrap on 
an NFS share, which gives a really light bootable system), then 
installed whatever needed, but nothing fancy (ie. X with a tiny WM, but 
no login manager, ACPI, no dbus, etc...).
Boot time is not spectacular, but OK. Next step, as others did, will be 
to suspend to RAM instead of shuting down, which means boot time will 
become irrelevant...
Install size is 724MB, with full docs (à la Debian), stock kernel, 
modules and initrd, some VDR plugins, etc. (including 187MB of useless 
cached packages).
That's work, but at least everything came in binary...

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[vdr] WinTV USB CI-Module and recommended distribution for VDR?

2009-01-08 Thread Sascha Vogt
Hi all,

as my hardware is shipping (went for the ASUS M2N78Pro, GeForce 8300
with an Athlon X2 4850e, hopefully that'll work with VDPAU and HD
videos), it's now time to choose a DVB-S/2 card.

I consider the TT 3200 and with a slight preference the Haupauge
HVR-4000 (drivers in the kernel since 2.6.28 seems a bit more
comfortable). The only point I'm unsure about is the Haupauge WinTV
CI-module USB. Does anyone know about its linux compatibility?

Or do you recommend the TT 3200 if I need an CI module?

And the second question is about the preferred distribution to use VDR
with. Are there any distributions optimized for VDR and fast boot times?
(Yes I know [1], but that didn't help me with choosing one optimized for
short boot times.) LinVDR seemed to be such, but the last version is now
4 years old. I personally have experiences with Gentoo and Debian, so
that would be my choices if no one has a better option worth trying.

Greetings
-Sascha-

[1]http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/%C3%9Cbersicht_Software#Distributionen

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