Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Pasi Juppo wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >>Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: >> >>>Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I'd say the only downside of the Linux support kills it as a VDR platform. Graphic is NOT accelerated. That's the only downside i'm

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Pasi Juppo
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: >> Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'd say the only downside of the Linux support kills it as a VDR >>> platform. Graphic is NOT accelerated. >>> >>> That's the only downside i'm aware of, and i can understand S

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Darren Wilkinson wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> Video is inherently bandwith intensive. >> At least (for PAL): >> 720x576x4x25 = about 40MB/s (*) >> 1920x1080x4x25 = about 200MB/s >> >> And that's taking aside ANY of the other processing. Decoding, IDCT, >> YUV->RGB transformation an

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Darren Wilkinson
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Video is inherently bandwith intensive. At least (for PAL): 720x576x4x25 = about 40MB/s (*) 1920x1080x4x25 = about 200MB/s And that's taking aside ANY of the other processing. Decoding, IDCT, YUV->RGB transformation and so on. Also taking aside the total bandwith k

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'd say the only downside of the Linux support kills it as a VDR >>platform. Graphic is NOT accelerated. >> >>That's the only downside i'm aware of, and i can understand Sony a >>little in this point. Otherwis

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Clemens Kirchgatterer
"VDR User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A PS3 running VDR is more of a novelty item considering the price. > For the cost, you could easily build a computer that can handle HDTV, > be a lot more robust, and have money left over. how this? HPTC cases alone cost 100E upwards, HD-DVD drives go for 2

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Torsten Schlabach
Well, it all depends on perspective ... If you had to buy the PS3 just for that purpose, you'd probably be right. In that case, I would rather be looking at a streaming media client. Some of them have HDTV as well these days, such as for example the Kiss DP-600 oder the latest D-Link DSM. Well

[vdr] RFC: multiple channel sources in EPG

2007-01-04 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Dear all, I have a request for change in EPG data format. Currently, a lot of space is wasted when dealing with EPG for massive amounts of channels which are available from several different sources. Suppose that CNN is receivable from 10 satellites. Then, 9x the size of EPG data for CNN of sto

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread VDR User
A PS3 running VDR is more of a novelty item considering the price. For the cost, you could easily build a computer that can handle HDTV, be a lot more robust, and have money left over. I say this jokingly but not every idea is a good one mate! :) ___

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Clemens Kirchgatterer
Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say the only downside of the Linux support kills it as a VDR > platform. Graphic is NOT accelerated. > > That's the only downside i'm aware of, and i can understand Sony a > little in this point. Otherwise all game developers could just ski

Re: [vdr] flooded log when using status plugin

2007-01-04 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Joachim Wilke wrote: > Hello everyone, > > when using the status plugin and tuning to a channel without an epg > schedule, the syslog gets flooded with some hundreds of OsdProgramme > messages: > > Nov 3 20:16:17 vdr vdr: [4676] status: cStatusTest::OsdChannel 2079 > TechniSat Kanal 50 > Nov 3

Re: [vdr] NIT handling change in 1.4.3-4

2007-01-04 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Anssi Hannula wrote: > NIT handling was changed in 1.4.3-4 by adding an additional check if > we're actually receiving this transponder. See the current code: > >> for (cChannel *Channel = Channels.First(); Channel; Channel >> = Channels.Next(Channel)) { >> i

Re: [vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote: > i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i > am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an > vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it > seams logical to, at least, think about it. i came to

[vdr] vdr on PS3

2007-01-04 Thread Clemens Kirchgatterer
i can see many of us are seeking for the right hardware for vdr, so i am. i want to start some discussion about the upcoming Sony PS3 as an vdr client on steroids. as it will support linux out of the box, it seams logical to, at least, think about it. i came to the following pro/contra list: pro:

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:20, Laz wrote: > > Hmmm...I've got one of these and I've never seen it disconnect yet > (a few months so far...fingers crossed!). > > When I've seen USB disconnections with two USB2 Nova-T devices, I was > getting things like /dev/dvb/adapter0, /dev/dvb/adapter2, > /d

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Laz
On Thursday 04 January 2007 09:30, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 4 Jan 2007, at 09:20, Laz wrote: > > Hmmm...I've got one of these and I've never seen it disconnect yet > > (a few months so far...fingers crossed!). > > It looks like this (am not sure why it actually causes my machine to > crash, it mig

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 4 Jan 2007, at 09:20, Laz wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:44, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:45, Kartsa wrote: Now that this came up. I was wondering in my earlier post today about twin tuner cards and if I understood correctly Nova-T 500 is such a card. And if I again un

Re: [vdr] New VDR hardware

2007-01-04 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:44, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 3 Jan 2007, at 20:45, Kartsa wrote: > > Now that this came up. I was wondering in my earlier post today > > about twin tuner cards and if I understood correctly Nova-T 500 is > > such a card. And if I again understood correctly it works