Re: [vdr] Re: Cheapest FF card?
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:43:43PM +0200, Peter Dittmann wrote: > > Partial nonsense ;-)) > > > > CF has nothing to do with CI and smartcards. > > You need a CI adapter an an CAM adapter card for the smartcard. > I find no comparison/info on CI and CF on wikipedia. Could you give > me some info please? How does the CAM interface with the PC? A DVB card (may) have a special connector for a CI interfase. This is a card or 3 1/2" bay adapter to insert a CAM card into. The CAM does the actual decryption or authorisation of the provider. The smartcard is inserted into the CAM to provide the actuall keys/subscritions for the decryption The CAM always interfaces with the DVB card directly as the decryption/authorisation is done in hardware. For safety the authorisation data are never transfered on an open bus like USB/PCI. > > > > Alternatively there are standalone smartcard readers (USB/serial). > No, I clearly see it is illegal. > > But these are not working without some legally doubtfull patches/plugins > > of VDR. > > Beside the skipping of CI and CAM (which is patent violaton but not realy > > illegal) these can use illegal software keys, which is illegal in most of > > the world. > > Therefore nobody here on the list will give you any added detailes. > NP, I am not going that route either. > > > > The official method is bying a CI adapter and CAM card for your DVB card. > > Even this is a violation of some provider rules as it's not certified by > > them. > Never mind if it is a violation but I have no money to buy an FF card. Get it? > There are FF and budget DVB cards available with CI interface adapter (e.g. Technotrend / Hauppauge). You need one of both WITH CI adapter as a minimum. The CI costs around 50€ for the Technotrend/Hauppauge cards and the CAM is another 50..100€ This is costwise in between a plain (cheap) budget and a FF DVB card. > > So for me to view pay channels with a budget card, what do I do? > > Can I get a generic USB CI card? > > So that I place a CAM which houses a smart card to decrypt channels? No chance here. CI&CAM always interface directly with the DVB card (FF or budget), no external (USB) solution is available. So it's eigther a DVB+CI+CAM+Smartcard or smardcard reader (USB or serial) + software CAM [illegal !!!] It's sad that there is no 'gray' softcam option that only does the CAM opearations in software but needs the smartcard always. This would be legaly a 'gray' area as it only violates patent regulations of the decryption owner but would not circumvent the decryption. The 'banned' plugin/patch combines this 'gray' CAM simulation with a fully illegal 'simulation' of the smardcard ;-)). It's in this respect like the 'banned' CSS library which also contains 'illegal' CSS keys for DVD or just plainly breaks the encryption. I belive for DVB there could be a legally acceptable version of a software CAM when it does CAM simmulation only. If the keys are always from the smartcard there would be no 'illegal' decryption. For DVD this would only being possible if the CSS key of a 'legal' CSS library would be legally licenced from the DVD forum. Unfortunely this will (likely) never happen. For DVB the keys are transferable on the smartcard and the smard card keys are legally optained by the user when he subscribes at a program provider. So using a software CAM which uses keys from a smartcard via a card reader only violates patents of the decryption owner + program provider regulations (which CI+CAM also violates already !), but it would not being considered 'illegal' in europe. The 'illegal' softcam can be stripped down to do just that (makes the use ethically acceptable for me as a user), but the whole tool goes beyound that. Unfortunely there may be some legal court fight neccessary to settle this legally as the patent owners and providers may put up a fight first agains whomever distributes the 'gray' CAM simulation. So this option is also very likely not going to happen. kind regards Peter ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] vdradmin-am and autotimer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 18.10.2006 20:03:15: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the autotimer so I can enter in my favorite shows and > have them automatically recorded. (I think this is functionality VDR > itself needs to have but that is another discussion). I think the epg-search plugin already provides a similar autotimer functionality but I never used this yet. > > If I use the search box on the bottom, left, vdradmin-am 3.4.7b lists the > show I want. If I click AutoTimer, type in the same search pattern (i.e. > Star Trek Next Generation), enable Title, Subtitle, Description and then > hit "Test", nothing is listed. > > What am I missing here? Is there a plug-in needed on vdr to make this > work? I use autotimeredit plugin to do this from VDR and it works. But I also had some problems using timers from vdradmin-am. Could be some format or access right problem between vdradmin and vdr. My vdr runs as root at the timer.conf is always created by VDR owned by root. So I guess there are same access problems for my configuration regards Peter___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
RE: [vdr] Problem with audio sync in playback
>> I tested with VDR 1.4.3 and test_av app included in 22623 test >> firmware package, with firmwares 261a, 261f, 2622 and that test version >> 22623. >> Everytime playback stuttered and lost a/v sync after scene change situation. >> >> So I think this is more like dvb firmware/driver problem than VDR problem. >> However this is very annoying. >I agree, this is not VDR problem but firmware. However, I don't know which >mailing > list is better to report this problem: vdr or dvb thus I've sent this here. My gut feeling is that these problems appeared around when AC3 bitstream out came into DVB firmware, and I think that was done by Werner Fink. I think he has kept knowledge by himself, so maybe he should be able fix the situation? http://www.linuxtv.org/download/firmware/ 2004-12-26 dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261d Changes by Werner Fink: - Implement AC3/DTS replay capability - Proper handling of OSD bitmap loading with timeouts - Set interpolated option of video decoder to reduce block noise on hard picture changes - FlushTS command fixes 2003-10-13 dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261b fixed distortions when switching channel while recording .. 2003-07-09 dvb-ttpci-01.fw-261a (this is the first new type of firmware(is it?), and was already tested by you) But this is a feeling, not a fact. So maybe older default firmware for old type of driver should be tested, I mean not dvb-ttpci* type of file, I mean Root & Dpram -files. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] VDR and Samba charset conversion
Hi, I'm struggling with charset conversion using Samba and VDR. The Samba server is version 3.0.22 (on Gentoo). Locales are: GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8 LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 In smb.conf I've added dos charset = UTF8 unix charset = UTF8 display charset = UTF8 The Samba server should work with all NT4/XP-based based Windoze clients, MacOS 10.x- and Linux clients using de_DE.utf8 charset. The Problem is the VDR-Box. It's the Minidvblinux distribution with samba-client-2.2.3a-1. As there are no environment variables for charset I assume it uses standard POSIX/C. I've tried different iocharset and codepage options for smbmount on the MLD-VDR box, but still get weird chars. Thanx for any hint how to configure Samba/smbmount Renne ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] How to record H.264 stream in VDR?
Hallo,
some time ago there was a patch here in this list for H264 but it didnt
work for me but maybe my prob is that me receive S13.0E only on my
primary Card. (FF dvb-s)
If i add this patch VDR didnt del the VPid anymore but when i start an
recording VDR restart itself and create only 0 bytes files.
Here the patch again maybe it works for you.
--- vdr-1.4.0/pat.c2006-03-31 14:39:34.0 +0200
+++ vdr-1.4.0.jarada/pat.c2006-06-18 20:04:34.0 +0200
@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@
switch (stream.getStreamType()) {
case 1: // STREAMTYPE_11172_VIDEO
case 2: // STREAMTYPE_13818_VIDEO
+ case 0x19: // advanced codec HD digital television service
+ case 0x1b: //ISO/IEC 14496-10 Video (MPEG-4 part 10/AVC,
aka H.264)
Vpid = stream.getPid();
break;
case 3: // STREAMTYPE_11172_AUDIO
@@ -408,7 +410,7 @@
}
}
break;
- //default: printf("PID: %5d %5d %2d %3d %3d\n",
pmt.getServiceId(), stream.getPid(), stream.getStreamType(),
pmt.getVersionNumber(), Channel->Number());//XXX
+ default: printf("PID: %5d %5d %2d %3d %3d\n",
pmt.getServiceId(), stream.getPid(), stream.getStreamType(),
pmt.getVersionNumber(), Channel->Number());//XXX
}
for (SI::Loop::Iterator it; (d =
(SI::CaDescriptor*)stream.streamDescriptors.getNext(it,
SI::CaDescriptorTag)); ) {
CaDescriptors->AddCaDescriptor(d, true);
regards
Mike
dvb schrieb:
In DVB-S and DVB-T
LUXE TV HD:11240:v:S13.0E:27500:0:36,37:0:0:13809:0:0:0
VPID is 33
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Re: [vdr] Cheapest FF card?
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:58:35AM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Girish Venkatachalam ha escrit: I am looking for a somewhat affordable(whatever that means :-) full featured DVB TV card since that is the only thing supported by vdr apparently. I hear they are above the 150$ range, it is very expensive for me. There are many other options: softdevice, xine, xineliboutput, dxr3. None of them is perfect, but then it seems neither is a FF card. Hi, I think you did not get my question. I am not looking for software. I am looking for a hardware brand and chipset that I can order. I want to make sure that I buy a card that is well supported before I buy. Do you by any chance mean to say that I can buy a budget card and still run vdr? That is also okay by me. Which card do you recommend? Also I wish to view pay channels with it. Please also mention the price and from where I can get it. Thanks. regards, Girish ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr http://www.dvbshop.net/index.php/cat/c17_Premium-PCI.html For encrypted channels this card requires an optional CI (80€) AlpacryptLight (50€) K02-SmartCard (15€) from KabelDeutschland. This combination runs fine here with vdr 1.4.x and drivers from the kernel >= 2.6.12 (e.g. Suse10) Ciao Ruediger ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky??
On Mittwoch 11 Oktober 2006 06:26, Simon Baxter wrote: > It's been several months - and I never had a reply to this but it's still > happening. > > I've rebuilt several times - but it's still the same. The dvd plugin works > fine, except intermittently the sound disappears for about a second at the > end of a scene. With debugging running I get these messages when the sound > disappears: > > PPPClear(4)! > Play I don't think these messages are dvd-plugin related, as I cannot find them via grep (vdr-xine ?). With which dvds did you get these messages? > Clear(5)! > SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 [snip] > > Each time the sound disappears, I get another 3-lines as per above. If it's > relevant, I'm using vdr-1.4.1 with vdr-xine-0.7.9. > > > Any clues?? > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Simon Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "VDR Mailing List" > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:30 AM > Subject: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky?? > > > > I've had this problem for ages and never found any resolution to it as > > it's really only a problem with DVDs that have a lot of chapters. How is "a lot of chapters" defined (10, 50, 100, ..) ? > > > > When it get towards the end of a chapter, the sound disappears. The video > > is still fine, but the sound stops. -- Stefan Lucke ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky??
PPPClear(4)! Play I don't think these messages are dvd-plugin related, as I cannot find them via grep (vdr-xine ?). With which dvds did you get these messages? I've mostly noticed this will the Red Dwarf series DVDs, but it seems to happen on most. It doesn't happen if I play the DVD directly in xine. Clear(5)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 > I've had this problem for ages and never found any resolution to it as > it's really only a problem with DVDs that have a lot of chapters. How is "a lot of chapters" defined (10, 50, 100, ..) ? I think this might only be happening at chapter marks - which is every 5-10 minutes on some DVDs Stefan Lucke Simon ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
[vdr] FF card substitute - Budget and PVR 350?
I note that Hauppauge no longer list the Nexus DVB-S FF card and was wondering if anyone has succeeded in using the PVR 350, which has a hardware MPEG2 decoder and OSD, in conjuction with a budget DVB-S card. What I am looking for is the full functionality of VDR, for display on a television set via the video output on the PVR 350 - no VGA card outputs. If this is not yet possible, which pieces of the puzzle are still missing? Regards, Richard ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
