[linux-dvb] Announcement:NEWSTRUCT driver snapshot archive

2003-01-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I just want to let everybody know that I finally extended the DVB driver CVS archive at http://www.linuxdvb.tv/ download/ to store a daily copy of the NEWSTRUCT branch. I thought this might be useful because the release of VDR 1.2 is around the corner and some useful features (not only for

[linux-dvb] Re: CAM parameters

2002-03-16 Thread Henning Holtschneider
- Original Message - From: "Gernot A. Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:22 PM Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: CAM parameters > Ok, I downloaded dhe driver bzip file and the driver from Hauppauge. I > unpacked the Hauppaug

[linux-dvb] How to CA support in current driver? (was: Re: Re: OSD problems investigated)

2002-02-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
- Original Message - From: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:41 AM Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: OSD problems investigated > You might like to investigate the new code to read and write the CI that > has appeared in the latest drive

[linux-dvb] Re: IR-Receiver

2002-02-11 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Witch ir-code works with the haupauge receiver on the dvb? You have to use a RC-5-compatible remote control. hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: linuxdvb.tv FAQ feedback

2002-02-10 Thread Henning Holtschneider
- Original Message - From: "Olivier HAULT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: linuxdvb.tv FAQ feedback > I wonder if you can also add hardware information for the DVB-S Nova > (budget) card on your web site. Unfortunately, I have

[linux-dvb] Re: Where to buy a remote control for the CI ?

2002-02-06 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Oups: I also got a native IR-receiver on my MB... which I rarely use > with my palm/gsm that I could use with LIRC: stupid me... I don't know if this is such a good idea ;-) The receiver on your mainboard is an IrDA receiver/transmitter. I've tried two of these devices and one didn't "see" my r

[linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-06 Thread Henning Holtschneider
- Original Message - From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:03 AM Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules > Wouldn't it be nice to have a "symbiosis" between the convergence firmware > and the origina

[linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-06 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> did you test a replay with vdr and are encrypted channels still working > after that ??? Yes, the encrypted channels are still working after replay. But before you all go out and install John's driver and the patch for VDR: keep in mind that the OSD is reduced to 1/4 of the original size and s

[linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-05 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I've done some more experimentation. Here is a modified patch, which worked > for me with vdr-0.98: > > --cut- > --- ../vdr-0.99pre1.org/dvbapi.cSun Nov 25 17:38:09 2001 > +++ dvbapi.cSun Jan 13 10:17:35 2002 I can confirm that this patch works with VDR. It doesn

[linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> need for a patch to the program that does the tuning. It might be > worth trying to tune to the encrypted channel with tuxzap instead of > vdr, as I haven''t actually tested the vdr patch (I don't use the vdr > program myself). After applying the patch you need to recompile > libdvb, and the

[linux-dvb] Re: original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I think I've seen the same problem myself: sometimes the screen goes > blank when switched to recording mode. But I couldn't reproduce it > yesterday: I'll keep on trying. Are we talking about the same thing? I don't get a picture in live viewing mode ... and I haven't tried to record an enc

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB/VDR newsserver?

2002-02-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Why not start a german FAQ which could be translated from time to > time in English. This would keep the list English spoken and > German people that start to use the dvb stuff would have a > big help from the FAQ if they do not understand the English tongue > perfectly... I've been part of suc

[linux-dvb] original firmware vs. CIM modules

2002-02-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I just tried John Williams' latest patch together with Hauppauge's firmware from the 2.09 package on my Rev. 2.1 DVB-s card. I can watch FTA channels without problems (using VDR 0.99pre4) but when I switch to an encrypted (Premiere World-) channel, the screen stays black. I've got an AlphaCry

[linux-dvb] Re: LinuxDVB/VDR newsserver?

2002-02-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Have a look at this: > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/ > > We can apparantly easily set up one or several groups withing the > normal, public newsnet-hierarchy... Please, don't do this! A public newsgroups will only result in tons of SPAM ... hh -- Info: To unsub

[linux-dvb] ANNOUNCEMENT: new section on www.linuxdvb.tv

2002-02-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I finally found some time to update www.linuxdvb.tv. The major change is a new software section where I want to collect all applications, patches and tools needed to watch digital TV under Linux. Please have a look at the section and email additions, suggestions and corrections. I hope that t

[linux-dvb] Re: CVS snapshot from today

2002-01-20 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> The snapshot of tonight is rather small: > dvb-20020117.tar.bz2 17-Jan-2002 06:11 1k tar archive This happens if the CVS server is unreachable when the update script tries to fetch the files. I have just been to lazy to fix the script so that it doesn't put a copy of the incomplete file on

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB in South Africa

2002-01-20 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I am trying to get a TT Rev1.3 card working in South Africa (all channels > scrambled using the IrDeto system). I have tried both the 0.8.2 driver > (with the patch) and the latest 0.9.3 drivers - both without success. > System is Debian unstable, with 2.2.16 kernel (recompiled with make-kpkg.

[linux-dvb] Re: [vdr] Re: Re: Bad news (summary)

2001-12-18 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Marcus Metzler wrote: > We are just taking the rest of this years vacation days. We still had Happy holidays :*) > motivation. So, CA support will still take some time. I doubt it will > be GPL, though. Can you describe what this ("will not be GPL") means? Do I have to be a STB manufacturer an

[linux-dvb] Re: [vdr] Re: Re: Bad news (summary)

2001-12-18 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Martin Springer wrote: > considering using it for their standards. Due to the GNU license, our > Open Source projects will definitely survive, whatever happens to the > company convergence who made it possible. Will your developers continue to work on their projects or is everything halted until

[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge Wintv Nova and mplayer

2001-12-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I got trouble install my new nova low budget dvb card. > [...] > bash-2.05# mplayer /dev/ost/dvr > [...] > Iam doing something wrong ??? The budget card has no built-in MPEG decoder so you cannot use it with MPlayer. MPlayer's "DVB support" is a transcoder which will transform the input format

[linux-dvb] checking for data in live mode

2001-12-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, the stability of the DVB driver has been improved a lot recently, but after an EPG scan, the screen will still often be black (I've got a Rev. 2.1 card). I can switch channels and see the channel info but there is no sound and picture. VDR will restart in this case when recording but not in

[linux-dvb] Re: No signal

2001-11-27 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I first tried to get it working under the windows software, just so I > could check that it was all working before going to Linux. > > No luck there - the software supplied (v1.23b) worked, but failed to > find any senders, although the level meter sometimes went up as high as Sounds like a ca

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for help on CI problems

2001-11-27 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> it looks to me that not only the Linux driver has problems with CI's = > :-( I've got one of the first Rev. 2.1 cards from Hauppauge (retail version with remote control etc.) and an AlphaCrypt CIM. I tried WinDVBLive 2000 under Windows several times. The first version crashed the CIM after a c

[linux-dvb] Re: A LOT of newbie questions

2001-11-26 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> How to add IR support? Do I need an IrDA dongle or is there some cheaper > way to do it? Can I use any remote controller? I have a learning remote > controller, can I teach it codes that I can use with VDR? There are several options: 1. Use the IR receiver of the DVB card. Hauppauge now ships

[linux-dvb] Re: A LOT of newbie questions

2001-11-25 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> The future in DVB > - > > 1. As I've understood it, one should not buy the 1st generation > set-top-boxes since they are missing features like MHP support etc. What > about DVB cards? Can I just update my Linux DVB-driver and add some > additional software in the future in order

[linux-dvb] IR receiver dead after ARM crash

2001-11-13 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I've been using the LIRC module of the DVB driver together with VDR for about two weeks now. After some inital problems getting things up and running, everyting is working pretty well now. Sometimes during replay however, when I press the the yellow or green button quickly or hold it down to

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for help on CI problems

2001-11-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Ralph Metzler wrote: > Since the CI protocol itself does not contribute anything to the > actual security of the system this is purely about security through > obscurity (which IMHO is worthless) but, again, IANAL. The publication > of information and code related to such sensitive areas has to b

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for help on CI problems

2001-11-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Ralph Metzler wrote: > You cannot use any other firmware with the Linux driver. > The other firmwares do not support all the features on which the > driver relies. Ok. I suppose it doesn't make sense to write yet another firmware, then?! One would have to make it compatible with your driver with

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for help on CI problems

2001-11-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > 1. Write a new firmware for the DVB card. > > Is it sure that the bug is in the Firmware ? This is what Ralph wrote on this list a while ago (or, in other words, he might have said: "Get the CI module manufacturer to write a working firmware for their CI module!" ... sorry, couldn't resist ;-

[linux-dvb] Re: Video Ripping 2 DivX ;-)

2001-10-07 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> film to CD would mean that each film occupies 5/6 CDs, I would prefer to > archive some of them at least compressed in any format, but better DivX > ;-). I tried to use directly the mpeg2divx utility but says that this is > not an Mpeg2 file, so I tried to mplex that file to DVD format, MPEG2 >

[linux-dvb] Re: schematic of siemens card

2001-09-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I need the schematic of the Siemens DVB-S card. Have a look at http://www.linuxdvb.tv/documentation Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: private channels on Telekom cable

2001-09-18 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Third choice: > Wait for DVB-T Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I doubt that there will be more programs available via DVB-t than you can get through analog terestrial broadcast now. The cable companies (or should I say "company" because most of the cable was bough by Liberty Media?) that b

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr with configure and all patches

2001-09-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> What do you think about making a VDR-pakage, witch includes all possible and > existing patches and witch if configureable via a simple configure-script ? IMHO this is a lot of unecessary work because VDR is still chaning rapidly. Compiling and running the DVB driver and VDR should be absolutel

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: vdr with configure and all patches

2001-09-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> >Also a realy good Idea would be a WEBSITE with all Patches and Links to the sites ! > > > >Some Time ago - i thought about to make this - but i have not time... > that would be a really good idea - with a database background to avoid the > necessity for manual care... ;-) I haven't had time to

[linux-dvb] Re: problem with ASTON cam/seca-mediaguard

2001-09-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> i can confirm that too. i also already stated that some > while ago, but unfortunately cam support is a bit bad. :( Can anyone tell me if this problem applies to both version 1.03 and 1.05 of the CIM? I would like to update the comment in my compatibility chart (http://www.linuxdvb.tv/documenta

[linux-dvb] Re: Siemens DVB-C / AlphaCrypt

2001-09-03 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> As soon as I plug in the AlphaCrypt and start the driver I get an error > message: The AlphaCrypt CIM does not currently work with the Linux driver. Please see my CIM compatibility chart at http://www.linuxdvb.tv for a list of CIMs that work. Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail

[linux-dvb] Re: Premiere World decoding

2001-09-02 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Is it possible to use an original pw Nokia DBOX 2 to feed the linux vdr with > already decoded output instead of using irdeto allcam ? No, there is no software to do that (and I doubt that there will ever be such a thing). I haven't followed the development lately, but if you have a dbox 1, yo

[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge DVB-S Rev. 2.1

2001-09-02 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> rev 2.1 is supported by the DVB driver but IR control is in the pipe and i The Rev. 2.1 card is fully supported. There are some problems with the driver but they are not card-specific. > read that CAM support is broken. The CAM support needs some work but this is not limited to the Rev. 2.1 c

[linux-dvb] Re: Antwort: Re: HiFi-Case

2001-08-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Yeah looks good ... could be a candidate for my new case .. it even takes > ATX boards ... well maybe we should compare it with some other cases ... > how about collecting all the cases we've found and bring them to a tabel to > compare the features and sizes ... I don't see what's so special a

[linux-dvb] Re: HiFi-Case

2001-08-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I like this one: > > http://www.vatyx.com/products/3u/vm304x.html Did you see/hear it in action? It's a 19" rackmount chassis and those are usually very noisy. Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: MAXVIDEOFILESIZE configurable in menu?

2001-08-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I whish there is a way to change the size of the video chunks with the > settings menu of VDR. That weekly patching of dvb.c is paralysing :-) > Any plans to do this Klaus? Many thanks in advance ... :-) I wrote a patch that makes the video file size configurable from within VDR without recompi

[linux-dvb] Re: Pointer, avoiding "Channel not synced Problems" on HauppaugeDVBs

2001-08-17 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I have the same trouble. Beside the sync trouble I had a vry slow > channel switching and OSD in wrong colors. Are you sure this isn't caused by an unsupported Common Interface Module? If you insert a CIM that does not work with the current driver, the OSD colors will be wrong (for me purpl

[linux-dvb] Re: WG: Re: Question

2001-08-16 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> But if I want to recognize them in the OSD I have to rename them, right? Yes, and if you don't use the EPG to set the timer, the content information will also be lost (I don't know if Pro7 broadcasts any content information with its program schedule, though). Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubs

[linux-dvb] Re: Question

2001-08-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> What possibillities do I have if I want to record say "Buffy" and then > "Charmed" on Pro7 with 2 timers which are broadcast from 20.15-21.15 and > 21.15-22.15. if I say +-5 minutes then I have to have two dvb's. right? Or > can I just use one timer to record both and then cut it into two stream

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems with suse72

2001-08-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Hallo, thanks very much. It ry this. > Maybe someone put a link to this. I just added a link to Robert's guide in the documentation section on http://www.linuxdvb.tv ;-) Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.

[linux-dvb] Re: what is the prefered dvb driver for vdr 0.91?

2001-08-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> what is the best dvb driver for the current vdr 0.91 ? > The modified Version from Klaus: siemens_dvb-0.9-20010803.tgz > or the current cvs snapshot ? Either one should work. Klaus' version has a small patch that hasn't made its way into the CVS, so you should probably try siemens_dvb-0.9-20010

[linux-dvb] Survey: which Common Interface Modules work under Linux?

2001-08-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I would like to build a "CIM compatibility chart". Could those of you who own a Common Interface Module please fill out the following form and mail it to me (via private mail)? I will publish the results at http://www.linuxdvb.tv/. schnipp Name of CI module: Decryption alg

[linux-dvb] [OT] old mailing list messages wanted

2001-08-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I'm currently working on a Linux/DVB information website (see http://www.linuxdvb.tv/). I'm planning to add a searchable archive of this mailing list ;-) Unfortunately, I only archived messages dating back to March 2001 and even from March up to today, some messages are missing. Does anyone h

[linux-dvb] Re: AlpaCrypt CIM with latest CVS driver?

2001-07-31 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Did you wait long enough before giving up? > Sometimes it takes quite a while (after reloading the driver) > before even my AllCAM starts decrypting (like half a minute or so). I waited more than five minutes ...but that didn't solve my problem. Yesterday, I put my Premiere World smartcard into

[linux-dvb] Re: mplayer for DVD ?

2001-07-31 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > believe for e.g. DVD oder Mplayer [mplayer.dev.hu] it would be the best ... > > Is it possible to use mplayer to play movies with the DVD card ? > Or just X11 ? MPlayer supports X11 and Framebuffer output (I think you need a Matrox G400 for the framebuffer output to work). It does not support

[linux-dvb] Re: Fernseh-fee

2001-07-29 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> The Fernseh-Fee will stop recording while commercials are sent out. > (commercial free decoder) > > Anyone knows how this could be done ? > The product description says that the stations send out start/stop > signals whean ads are sent ?! Do we know those signals ? It's not the TV stations that

[linux-dvb] AlpaCrypt CIM with latest CVS driver?

2001-07-29 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I just gave my AlphaCrypt CI module a try with the latest CVS driver and VDR 0.85. In contrast to older drivers, VDR keeps working fine when the CIM is inserted but the TV screen stays black on the encrypted channels (yes, I have set the CI parameter in my channels.conf correctly). Is this st

[linux-dvb] cutting/still image problems with VDR

2001-07-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I've got problems jumping back and forth between cutting marks in VDR recordings (I'm using the current CVS driver and VDR 0.84 with one (1) Rev. 2.1 card). When the playback is paused (still image), I can jump to each cutting mark and the OSD progress bar works correctly but the image is not

[linux-dvb] Which MPEG formats can be replayed?

2001-07-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I'm still searching for the best way to archive my VDR recordings so that they need as little space as possible while preserving as much of the MPEG-2 quality as possible ;-) This leads me to the question what MPEG formats can be replayed using [VDR and] the DVB-s card. I have tried a VCD-co

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for the driver developers

2001-07-21 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > > documentation for the card is freely available ;-) > Where? I've got two URLs that were posted to the list a while ago: http://www.cdaniel.de/elektronik-dvb.phtml and http://www.geocities.com/buenavista18/. Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

[linux-dvb] Re: Call for the driver developers

2001-07-21 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I also don´t understand why they allready change/implement new things and dotn´t solve the "old know´n Problems" Have you ever written code for a commercial project? Oftentimes features are more important than stability. The IFA fair in Berlin is just a month away and they will focus on digital

[linux-dvb] Re: DivX player for DVB system?

2001-07-19 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> For the first, few (no?) modern cards can do low enough rates to do > PAL/NTSC, and most don't support interlacing. I can't find a single Have you tried MPlayer? According to http://mp.dev.hu/MPlayer/DOCS/TVout- G400 it works fine with a Matrox G400 and the framebuffer driver (I don't need X

[linux-dvb] Re: [VDR] Local time problem on french channels

2001-07-18 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I haven't read them, so I totally trust you ;-) > But Canal Satellite has little respect for the standards. See what they have > done for their radio channels ! > So, if it is confirmed that they don't send their EPG in GMT, should it be > possible, in the future, to add a "Time Offset" field in

[linux-dvb] revision 1.6 card? (was: VDR OSD bug fixed !?)

2001-07-18 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> apparently the current cvs driver (just 3 hours old) fixes the > OSD bug with VDR. Runs fine with VDR 0.83 here. Did you read the CVS log? It says "support for revision 1.6 card (demodulator not working yet, sound DAC works)". Looks like Techotrend introduced yet another card revision. Does any

[linux-dvb] Re: DivX player for DVB system?

2001-07-17 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> But as far as I read it here, the DVB-s hardware is not fast enough to > play a "I-frames only stream" at 25 fps. Yes, that's right. I talked to the guys from ffmpeg and MPlayer (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net, http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) and they told me that the best solution would be to

[linux-dvb] DivX player for DVB system?

2001-07-16 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, is anyone working on or has anyone tried to build a DivX player that can play back a DivX-encoded file on the DVB card? If I understand correctly, one would have to build an application that decodes the DivX stream and outputs an MPEG stream that consists only of I-frames, right? Regards, hh

[linux-dvb] Archiving VDR recording on CD

2001-07-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I'm looking for the best way to archive VDR recordings (recorded with version 0.8x) on CD ... Please forgive me if this mail is off-topic :-/ I have successfully transcoded files using PVAStrumento and FlaskMPEG to VCD so that I can play them using my DVD player (which unfortunately doesn't

[linux-dvb] Re: http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/msg08196.html

2001-07-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I tested the prog PVAStrumento with a file of VDR. > The program convert the vdr file into a mpg file but as I want to start playback, the format isn't valid. The media-player tried to download the codec but it didn't find one. You have to get an MPEG2 decoder, such as Ligos LSX player (http://

[linux-dvb] Re: Cut, View and convert .vdr to MPEG

2001-07-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> wich tools i need to cut(view) .vdr Files and convert it to MPEG(But the > mpegs would be not greater than 1 GB). You can cut the recordings using VDR directly. Have a look at the MANUAL how it works. The resulting file can then be converted to an MPEG program stream. This currently works best

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR ERROR (dvbapi.c 532):Unknown error 769

2001-07-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> i have the following Problem. > When i start to record i have this output after a few > minutes. > [...] > Jul 15 13:28:52 tv vdr[1934]: output thread started (pid=1934) > Jul 15 13:28:52 tv vdr[1935]: input thread started (pid=1935) > Jul 15 13:30:48 tv vdr[1935]: buffer usage: 76% > Jul 15 13:

[linux-dvb] Re: Cutting in VDR

2001-07-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > first i want to report a "bug" regarding cutting in vdr 0.83. > > When using the 7 and / or 9 keys to steer to a set mark the vdr process takes almost all the cpu time :-( - although the mark has been reached and olnly one picture is shown. > > So pressing 2, to start the cutting process takes

[linux-dvb] Re: ppv and VDR

2001-07-12 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> i have problems using ppv channels (like c*ned*m etc...) with vdr. > dtv can tune them without problems but vdr shows only a black screen. You didn't mention which CI module you are using. If you don't have an Irdeto Allcam, then the problem is most likely that the current DVB driver doesn't wo

[linux-dvb] Re: DVBs Video Composit Out

2001-07-11 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> can somebody tell me please, do I need a graphics card > with video out to use DVR and DVDplayer, or can I use the > composit video out on my Haupauge 1.3. card? This depends on the software you are using. VDR and DTV can use the on-screen display functions of the DVB card. I don't know if the

[linux-dvb] PVAStrumento for Linux (was: Re: Convert *.pva files to mpeg files)

2001-07-05 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> You should try pvastrumento from www.offeryn.de which runs under windows and > does always 100% sync mpeg files. > As far as i know the author is working on a linux portation - but that will > still take some time... I contacted Wiljo Heinen (the author of PVAStrumento) a while ago and we worke

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR doesn't work with latest CVS driver

2001-07-05 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> If VDR starts, it switches to the latest tuned channel and stays there. > There appears no OSD message for this first channel. > No other functions are working (No OSD, no channel switching). Same thing here. I have the rev. 2.1 card, too. > The I've payed around with the USE_OSD definition fo

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-c

2001-07-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> driver from the 28.6? where can i found this? > i only found driver from 28.4 or 18.6. You have to get it directly from the CVS server. See http://www.linuxtv.org/cvs/ for details. Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Channellist ?

2001-07-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > The module will let you watch encrypted programs like Premiere World, ORF, > > Canal+ etc. You don't need it if you just want to watch FTA channels (FTA > > means Free To Air, i.e. the program is not encrypted). > > Really? But I need the Premiere World card, needn't I ? To be able to watch e

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Channellist ?

2001-07-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Uff..em..I have the latest DVB drivers...do I really need this Common Interface > Module ? That's not cheap ;-) What can I do with it ?? The module will let you watch encrypted programs like Premiere World, ORF, Canal+ etc. You don't need it if you just want to watch FTA channels (FTA means Fre

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB Channellist ?

2001-07-04 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I just use ntuxzap with the dvbrc.astra channellist. But I'm not happy > about it because some channels doesn't work :-( for example SAT1 and MTV... Some channels are encrypted. If you do not have the appropriate decryption module (Common Interface Module), the screen will stay black. Another t

[linux-dvb] Re: Suse7.1-problems with 2.4.2 and 2.4.2-4GB

2001-07-01 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Timo wrote: > Hello > i´m quite new to linux and i have a problem wich i don´t know how to solve. > I have installed Suse7.1 via internet and everything works fine (soundcard > networkcard) but the dvb card always when i try to install the drivers tells > me the following err

[linux-dvb] Re: Q: last known working driver with VDR?

2001-07-01 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Uwe Heinrich wrote: > Hi, > does somebody can tell me the last working combination of DVB/driver and VDR > 0.83 ? > I've a Suse 7.1 with a kernel 2.4.5 from kernel.org. > With the "old" combination 0.82 / 0.80(or 0.71) everything was all right. > Since 28.Jun it's _not_ that

[linux-dvb] Re: premiere with hauppauge

2001-07-01 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Gernot A. Weber wrote: > Hi, > > so I can't use an AlphaCrypt Irdeto-Card? You can use an AlphaCrypt module to decode Premiere World but currently it doesn't work with the Linux driver :-( But that will hopefully change soon but I don't think it's worth paying a lot more mone

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with newest DVB driver and DVR

2001-07-01 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Peter Seyringer wrote: > Does anybody also have problems with the newest DVB driver from > 1.7.2001 and DVR 0.83? I have no problems to compile the drivers and > DVB but after i start DVR it shows the last channel and then i can't > change the channel or call the menu. I have

[linux-dvb] Re: OutcommandError, ARM-RESET with Viaccess Part2

2001-06-29 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Then i built it back to the LINUX-SYSTEM - and - as soon i start the driver and the CI is inserted - Outcommanderror, ARM-RESET - and System-> Crash down. - The same configuration with a IRDETO-CI works without any problem. > [...] > Yesterday i have tryed to install the new Driver (actual offi

[linux-dvb] Re: channel switching problem solved now?

2001-06-29 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Two weeks ago, I tried VDR 0.82 and drivers 0.9 (18.06.2001). I had the > problem that after switching the channel 30 times or so, vdr shows a > black picture, doesn't quit itself (so it doesn't restart by the I have the rev. 2.1 Hauppauge card and at least there the problem persists. After swi

[linux-dvb] Re: siemens_dvb-0.9 installation problem

2001-06-28 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Suse 7.2 with kernel 2.4.4 compiled sources from suse > two hauppauge dvb-s. > > make insmod: > > dvbdev.o: kernel-module version mismatch > dvbdev.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.4 > while this kernel is version 2.4.4-64GB-SMP I currently don't have a SuSE kernel source tree to look

[linux-dvb] Re: Help me with compile drivers 0.9 for Philips SkyStar1

2001-06-26 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Grzegorz 017 wrote: > Hello > We can't compile drivers for DVB card (skystar1). > We have Linux RedHat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2. We have compiled i2c and > videodev modules and loadable modules support is enable. When we do "make", > we have got a message like: > ***[modules] e

[linux-dvb] Re: ntuxplay doesn't work / blank screen with vdr

2001-06-26 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> i guess you can also enter cvs -d -x 6 :pserver > to use compression. works much faster then. I had problems updating the binary firmware files without compression. Since I turned on compression, the files are working fine. Apart from that, compression speeds up the transfer process *a

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR and A/V sync with latest CVS driver

2001-06-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I'm currently viewing a recording from channel N3 and apparently > after a while the sound gets ahead of the video, until it finally > results in audio dropouts. When I Stop/Resume the replay it works > again for a while. I haven't tried recording N3 but I restarted my VDR machine this morning

[linux-dvb] Re: Alphacrypt CI Low Priority?

2001-06-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> This info might be useful for Alphacrypt-users: > > I have heard that disabling the "feature" called "Jugendschutz", which > is enabled by default, helps to speed up the Alphacrypt-CI > significantly. This is done by entering the CAM-menu, selecting the menu > topic "Jugendschutz" and pressing O

[linux-dvb] Re: Alphacrypt CI Low Priority? (was: Re: VDR 0.82 and Alphacrypt CI)

2001-06-23 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> It helps me, as it says I have done nothing wrong. > So I'll have to boot Windows whenever I want to record or view something > encrypted, is that right? Yes. > And I'll have to crawl behind my machine and insert the alphacrypt, because > with inserted module the Linux driver hangs almost tota

[linux-dvb] Re: VDR 0.82 and Alphacrypt CI

2001-06-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> After I successfully compiled VDR, I found it VERY slow and > irresponsive, and it didn't recognize my Alphacrypt module (with original, > [...] > Is there anything I can do? Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do at the moment. Some (or just the AlphaCrypt?) CI modules don't work at th

[linux-dvb] Re: latest CVS version

2001-06-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > Thats why I'm asking. When you are finished with building in > > support for the CI IR receiver, how do you access it ? lircd ? > I think that there are other thinks wich have a much higher Priority ! > > - Channel Switching-Problem > - ARM-RESET´s > - Better CAM-Support Well, channel swi

[linux-dvb] Re: latest CVS version

2001-06-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Maybe it should be mentioned that as a general rule after updating the > driver from CVS one should: > > 0) cd DVB/driver > 1) make rmmod > 2) make clean > 3) make insmod I always remove the complete DVB source tree after unloading the driver because I have had problems with my CVS client or yo

[linux-dvb] Re: latest CVS version

2001-06-22 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> the current CVS version should fix several problems. > > Tuning with the new card version 2.1 works without problems for me > now. The main problem was that the new demodulator seems to deliver > really confusing data to the MPEG decoder when it is not locked to a > signal. The whole hardware de

[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge rev 2.1 not fully supported?

2001-06-19 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> > It's by far not as bad as it sounds > > Not being able to receive ARD, ZDF, Pro7, SAT1, 3sat, Eurosport, DSF, BR, > WDR, Kabel-1, arte, n-tv, EuroNews, tm3, Phoenix, Br-alpha and quite a > few more is "not as bad as it sounds"? I have no problems tuning these channels at all! Are you sure you

[linux-dvb] Re: Hauppauge rev 2.1 not fully supported?

2001-06-19 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> RM> Yes, the version 2.1 card still is not fully supported. > RM> Tuning still makes problems. > > sad to hear. Is there any schedule where the new cards will be > supported? If this statement would have been made some time earlier, I > could have saved a lot of money and time :-( It's by far n

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with encrypted channels.sdm

2001-06-17 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> I am getting these errors with an Alphacrypt as well as with an ASTON > 1.05. you are right it is good to know that I am not alone with my > problems. I got a reply from Ralph Metzler yesterday stating that this is a problem within the firmware (not the driver) but they have other priorities at

[linux-dvb] Re: Video Disk Recorder version 0.82

2001-06-17 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> After channel-switching I get error messages: > > vdr[108]: ERROR: (dvbapi.c,2052): Device or resource busy > > But the switching works. Same thing here. But viewing/recording/replaying seems to be unaffected. Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

[linux-dvb] Re: Problem with encrypted channels

2001-06-15 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> compiled yesterdays DVB CVS driver section without problems, in the > apps section ntuxzap had an error because it didn't find cdk/cdk.h (I > think not so important) You can get CDK from http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html if you want to build the curses-based applications. > compiled VDR 0.80 wit

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: cutting problems with VDR 0.80

2001-06-11 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> As you can see: > > The error occurs when changing the recorded files, everything is working > fine if you don't break at this point! With your modification, VDR crashes my PC :-( But you are right, I also get this "Bad address" message; I just didn't notice it when I first observed this proble

[linux-dvb] Re: Internet via DVB-Cable

2001-06-11 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> Well, I am quite new to this stuff and really starry-eyed. > As I understood the Internet connection via DVB > I send data upstream into the net via ISDN > and downstream data comes from cable to my DVB Card. I don't know of any Internet Provider that operates on cable (seems like you are talki

[linux-dvb] Re: AlphaCrypt CI module?

2001-06-11 Thread Henning Holtschneider
>> There NO LEGAL way to watch Premiere World without D-Box. > > [...] > >Well, I would interpret it that you are allowed to use the card in another receiver. I think so, too. You are allowed to use your Premiere World smart card in any receiver/Common Interface Module, as long as it's approved b

[linux-dvb] AlphaCrypt CI module?

2001-06-10 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I'm thinking about buying an AlphaCrypt CI module to be able to legally watch Premiere World with my VDR box. Does anyone have any hands-on experience with this new CI module? Is it stable enough for everyday use? Regards, hh -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

[linux-dvb] Re: Problems in VDR 8.0

2001-06-10 Thread Henning Holtschneider
> =>Is it possible to display which card is recording/displaying which > channel in the main menu ? > =>Add stop function to the timer menu ? I would appreciate such a menu entry very much, too. Right now, you have to edit the timer and set the end time to a point in the past to immediately sto

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