Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> One question (OT): is it normal that replaying a PES record causes > in a very high CPU load on 1.7.2 and higher? -> 80-90% on a P4/2400 > > Replaying TS produces "no" CPU load. Forget it! This seems to be fixed too since your patch. Could that be possible? -Günter -- This message was scanne

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> Just another quick thing to test: please add > > } > Data += TS_SIZE; <== this line > Length -= TS_SIZE; > Processed += TS_SIZE; > } > return Processed; > } > > to the end of cFrameDetector::Analyze(). ...looks good at all! I've tested streaming of f

[vdr] Boxstar development spin-off useful for VDR

2009-03-23 Thread Tony Houghton
For the last few weeks I've been developing a python library to provide DVB support for boxstar. I decided to make something useful out of my testing tools so I wrote a channel scanner which can output in VDR format. Its advantages over the scan tool in linuxtv-dvb-apps include: It has a Freesat o

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 23.03.2009 22:13, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 23.03.2009 21:42, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >>> Here's a quick shot - totally untested (no time, sorry). >>> Please try it and let me know if it helps. >> Hi, >> >> I've tried it: >> files are created, but with zero filesize. >> Only info is correc

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Heinrich Langos
For completeness and comparability: The Fujitsu Stick (vp7045) still by far beats the af9015 in terms of resource usage with vdr. (13% vs 19% with or 37% without hw pid filter) It doesn't seem to hava a hw pid filter ( at least it doesn't react to the force_pid_filter_usage option. so here ar

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:02:54PM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: > Heinrich Langos wrote: >> How about a module option to force usage of the PID filter? >> Should be easy to add if the code for enabling it on demand is aready >> there. > > It is there. > modinfo dvb-usb Wow! I tried it and usi

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 23.03.2009 21:42, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >> Here's a quick shot - totally untested (no time, sorry). >> Please try it and let me know if it helps. > > Hi, > > I've tried it: > files are created, but with zero filesize. > Only info is correct. > > After a few seconds vdr is restarting with

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> Here's a quick shot - totally untested (no time, sorry). > Please try it and let me know if it helps. Hi, I've tried it: files are created, but with zero filesize. Only info is correct. After a few seconds vdr is restarting with an "emergency exit!". -Günter -- This message was scanned by ES

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 23.03.2009 08:35, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 23.03.2009 01:09, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >>> There must be an other problem that's causing this, but since this doesn't >>> happen here on my system, I'm afraid you'll need to do the debugging ;-) >> Which changes have been made between 1.7.2 an

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Antti Palosaari schrieb: > Heinrich Langos wrote: >> How about a module option to force usage of the PID filter? >> Should be easy to add if the code for enabling it on demand is aready >> there. > > It is there. > modinfo dvb-usb > D'Oh, I only looked at 'modinfo dvb-usb-af9015' :) Thanks! M

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Antti Palosaari
Heinrich Langos wrote: > How about a module option to force usage of the PID filter? > Should be easy to add if the code for enabling it on demand is aready > there. It is there. modinfo dvb-usb Antti -- http://palosaari.fi/ ___ vdr mailing list vdr@

Re: [vdr] sparse DVB adapter numbers

2009-03-23 Thread Patrick Rother
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 02:21:07PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote: > > Patrick Rother wrote: > >> For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make > >> vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers. > >> > >> I have: > >> > >> r...@vdr:/de

Re: [vdr] No sound with pvrinput and PVR-250

2009-03-23 Thread Kartsa
It seems there was something wrong with the card. As it happens I have another PVR250 which I changed in place of the first one and now all works well. I did put the other card in another pci slot but I do not believe it can cause this kind of problem. It was not my first thought that the card

[vdr] No sound with pvrinput and PVR-250

2009-03-23 Thread Kartsa
Hello all again I wrote earlier about having problems with not getting HVR-1300 to work with pvrinput. As it turned out I had not read README quite as thorough as I thought. Pvrinput does not (yet) work with HVR1300. So I bought a PVR-250. I need it for to be able to record from vhs tapes. So n

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:43:50PM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: > moi! > > Martin Emrich wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Antti Palosaari schrieb: > > > >> All AF9015 devices supports PID-filtering by HW. And both Windows and > >> Linux driver supports also. > > > > Interesting. How do I enable the HW

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Antti Palosaari
moi! Martin Emrich wrote: > Hi! > > Antti Palosaari schrieb: > >> All AF9015 devices supports PID-filtering by HW. And both Windows and >> Linux driver supports also. > > Interesting. How do I enable the HW PID filter? I have an old STB (Cyrix > MediaGX 300MHz) that has only USB 1.1. Just plu

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Antti Palosaari schrieb: > All AF9015 devices supports PID-filtering by HW. And both Windows and > Linux driver supports also. Interesting. How do I enable the HW PID filter? I have an old STB (Cyrix MediaGX 300MHz) that has only USB 1.1. Thanks Martin ___

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Antti Palosaari
Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: >> af9015 USB device is that it seems to support USB 1.1 under Windows with >> a special driver: >> >> http://www.digittrade.de/shop/shop_content.php/coID/9 I think all (in recent 2 year or so) Windows drivers

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:18:56AM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > > Heinrich Langos schrieb: > > > I am pretty sure the Siemens stick doesn't filter PIDs. The easy way to > > find out about that is to look at > > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices > > and check if the device

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Heinrich Langos schrieb: > I am pretty sure the Siemens stick doesn't filter PIDs. The easy way to > find out about that is to look at > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices > and check if the device works with usb 1.1 or absolutely needs 2.0. Hmm, I did't look at this pa

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 23.03.2009 01:46, Hawes, Mark wrote: >>> A TS recording is only marginally more data than the same length recording >>> in PES. I don't think that recording in TS should require so much more >>> bandwidth >>> than PES. > >> That's clear to me. > >>> There must be an other problem that's causi

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 23.03.2009 01:09, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >> There must be an other problem that's causing this, but since this doesn't >> happen here on my system, I'm afraid you'll need to do the debugging ;-) > > Which changes have been made between 1.7.2 and 1.7.3 in > file writing mechanism? > > Not co