RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Russell Treleaven
> > no one has figured out how to decrypt it. Since I want the premium > > content I need the cable companies settop box to decrypt it. > > So the digital television standard your cable company uses is > really DVB-C, but content scrambling is not based on DVB-CA > (Conditional Access)? Inter

Re: [vdr] ANNOUCEMENT: xmltv2epg

2007-01-22 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Rob Davis wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Oops, forgot the scripts;-) Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Dear all, Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in t

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-01-22 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:48:47PM +0100, Udo Richter wrote: > >A more important suggestion: Could you please add a notification method > >to status.h for notifying plugins whether VDR is currently in > >interactive mode? > > You can poll this state on your own by calling > Shutdown.IsUserInact

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
Marko Mäkelä kirjoitti: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: Btw. is there an easy way to see this from the logs because my vdr box is situated in a difficult place where I can easily get only by ssh? #hdparm -d /dev/hda To enable it, use #hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

Re: [vdr] channels.conf problem

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Creutz
Bob Self schrieb: [2247];(null):12501:h:S119.0W:2:5154:5155=eng:0:0:8775:4100:20:0 Is this correct? Why isn't NASA in this list? And why are the (null)'s there? the list looks good.. the position from the null are the field for the provider name. And the (null) means that this channel

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-01-22 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Kartsa wrote: > Btw. is there an easy way to see this from the logs because my vdr box > is situated in a difficult place where I can easily get only by ssh? #hdparm -d /dev/hda To enable it, use #hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda For what it is worth, here are the

[vdr] channels.conf problem

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Self
Distribution: Ubuntu Edgy Linux lisa 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux firmware: dvb-ttpci-01.fw-2622 copied to /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/dvb-ttpci-01.fw vdr 1.4.0-2 dvb-utils: 1.1.1-2 I'm trying to generate a channels.conf file for vdr. I

Re: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
Carsten Koch kirjoitti: Is your VDR reading from local disks or via NFS? Are other things running on your machine that could make your disks busy? Do you have DMA enabled on your disks? Btw. is there an easy way to see this from the logs because my vdr box is situated in a difficult place wh

Re: [vdr] ANNOUCEMENT: xmltv2epg

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Davis
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Oops, forgot the scripts;-) Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Dear all, Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in the attachment.

Re: [vdr] error on large EPG loads via SVDRP

2007-01-22 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Rob Davis wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: Udo Richter wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: I am experiencing VDR errors when loading EPG via SVDRP. If the EPG data to ... I have recently sent the attached patch to Thomas Koch <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [vdr] error on large EPG loads via SVDRP

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Davis
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: Udo Richter wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: I am experiencing VDR errors when loading EPG via SVDRP. If the EPG data to ... I have recently sent the attached patch to Thomas Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It dramatic

RE: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering (was: FF card A/V sync - in progress?)

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
> > Kartsa wrote: > > I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. > > > > Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my > stuttering problem > > also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second > or so and begins > > stuttering for some seconds and then co

[vdr] Re: replay stuttering (was: FF card A/V sync - in progress?)

2007-01-22 Thread Carsten Koch
Kartsa wrote: > I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. > > Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem > also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins > stuttering for some seconds and then continues normally. Wit

RE: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
> -Original Message- > Subject: Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress? > > > :). After an upgrade of hw (new mb and amd 3000+ sempron) > the stuttering > > lasts only a few seconds. > > you have DMA enabled for your harddisk? > Thanks. I have to check this. Now that you mentioned

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread clemens kirchgatterer
:). After an upgrade of hw (new mb and amd 3000+ sempron) the stuttering lasts only a few seconds. you have DMA enabled for your harddisk? c. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

RE: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins stuttering for some seconds and then continues normally. With earlier fw it usually

[vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Morfsta
Hi, I added the new firmware last night and previously I even had problems with sync on live tv (had to chan+ chan- to fix) on freeview in the UK as well as the dreaded recording sync problem. Up till now I haven't seen it happen again (even watching the same programme on the same channel as last

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:54:40 +0100 Tony Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is VDR the correct tool? > > I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time > shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for > digital (DVB-S, DVB-T...) by far. Agreed. > The best way to

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Marco Skambraks
hi, now, I tested the new firmware it looks good - fast-forward and jumps in the dvd-plugin is now working almost perfect receiving and replaying recordings is working correctly I use a tt c2300 (nexus-ca) thanks Werner and Oliver - good job guys :-) marco On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Oliver Endriss

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:19:27 -0500 "Russell Treleaven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to make a small PVR appliance. I have digital cable and it > is my understanding that I could get a DVB card that captures an MPEG > stream but most of the content is encrypted and to my knowledge no o

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 à 21:19 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : A mail with correct subject line! Congratulations! =:-D > Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S, D