Re: [vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-06 Thread Chris Elsworth
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:46:22AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > 
> > So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a
> > beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)
> 
> try to manually set the HUE to 0 or 100 instead of
> the default 50, we had (and solved?) this problem some
> time ago ..

Hello Herbert,

Yes, I read the old mails and found the hue of 0 or 100 suggestion,
and tried it (see original mail I posted) and it didn't work. I just
tried it again with softdevice from cvs to double check and it didn't
have any effect, so maybe I'm running into a slightly different
problem.

Do you have any suggestions about how I might try to debug it?

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Re: [vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-05 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
> > Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > >When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel;
> > >would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel
> > >information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels,
> > >allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? 
> > 
> > Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next 
> > display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
> 
> Hello Udo,
> 
> Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask
> for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way
> of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).
> 
> 
> > >I think it would also be nice if there were more than one
> > >rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the
> > >appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x
> > >speed, again for 8x speed?
> > 
> > Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode
> 
> Perfect! Don't know how I missed that one, you added it when I wasn't
> looking ;) Much appreciated, thanks very much. That does exactly what
> I want.
> 
> So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a
> beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)

try to manually set the HUE to 0 or 100 instead of
the default 50, we had (and solved?) this problem some
time ago ..

HTH,
Herbert

> thanks Udo,
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Re: [vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Elsworth
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > >When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel;
> > >would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel
> > >information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels,
> > >allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? 
> > 
> > Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next 
> > display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.
> 
> Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask
> for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way
> of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).

PS: vdr-pilotskin (and vdr-pilot, but I didn't try that one) look like
they do exactly what I'm after in this section :) hope tht helps
anyone else who was looking for that functionality.

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Re: [vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Elsworth
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
> Chris Elsworth wrote:
> >When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel;
> >would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel
> >information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels,
> >allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? 
> 
> Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next 
> display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.

Hello Udo,

Hm yes, that will actually do the job. I guess the only reason I ask
for the above is that I'm used to it, and found it a fairly nice way
of channel hopping (I'm migratin from Sky in the UK).


> >I think it would also be nice if there were more than one
> >rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the
> >appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x
> >speed, again for 8x speed?
> 
> Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode

Perfect! Don't know how I missed that one, you added it when I wasn't
looking ;) Much appreciated, thanks very much. That does exactly what
I want.

So my only issue to sort is the miscoloured OSD now. It turns a
beautiful shade of pink when the problem occurs on my setup :)

thanks Udo,
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Re: [vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-04 Thread Udo Richter

Chris Elsworth wrote:

When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel;
would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel
information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels,
allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? 


Why don't you use the schedule from main menu for it? There's a now/next 
display mode for that. You can also switch channels from there.



I think it would also be nice if there were more than one
rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the
appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x
speed, again for 8x speed?


Setup -> Replay -> Multi speed mode

Cheers,

Udo


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[vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Elsworth
Hello!

I've just started using vdr 1.4.0 in Ubuntu and I have to say I'm
extremely impressed and very happy with it - very nice work,
well done to the author :)

I have a couple of things I'd like to suggest and wonder if they'd be
up for consideration.

When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down currently changes channel;
would it be possible to allow these buttons to just show channel
information (with now/next in) for the previous/next channels,
allowing one to quickly view what is on the other channels? ie, I
could keep pressing Up to go through the channels, seeing what is on
now and next, but without actually changing channel - then press OK to
change the channel once I find one to watch.

I think it would also be nice if there were more than one
rewind/fastforward speed, achievable by repeated pressing of the
appropriate button; press ff once to ff at 2x speed, again for 4x
speed, again for 8x speed?

I'd like to have a go at adding these features myself but I've not
read much of the code yet. I'll see how much I can decipher in due
course, but maybe someone already did these, or they're planned.


I'm suffering a problem that I have no idea how to fix, however - I've
read the list archives and noted a few months ago that some posts were
made about oddly-coloured OSD when using softdevice and nvidia cards.
I believe this is the same problem that I currently see too; it only
seems to happen with low resolution broadcasts - when the resolution
drops below 640x480 or thereabouts, the OSD turns "pink" for me. On
any channel with a higher resolution than this it's ok.  I'm using an
NVidia 7600 connected to a TV using softdevice/xv. The NVidia natively
directs output to the TV since it's the only output device connected,
so X is running on it at 1024x768 without any other special
configuration.  Changing the softdevice/hue to either 0 or 100 as was
suggested in those previous posts did not fix the problem for me - I
was wondering if anyone else had any tips on what I might try to fix
this.

thanks very much for any replies & advice,
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