Re: [vdr] Recommendation for new hd vdr system.

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Herron
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Luca Olivetti wrote: > En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: > > > The asus P5N7A-VM motherboard seems a good candidate, is its integrated >> 9300 graphics powerful enough for good deinterlacing? >> > > > Mmmh, I hate to reply to my own message, but it seems it isn't

Re: [vdr] vdr: error while reading '/etc/vdr/channels.conf

2009-05-24 Thread Andrew Herron
I've seen this. It usually means that a line in channels.conf is incorrectly formed On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM, wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > /var/log/vdr.log doesn´t contain any info regarding problems with channel > s.conf > I start vdr with -l 3 > > dmesg |grep vdr > shows nothing > > where els

Re: [vdr] [OT] NVidia ION mini-ITX arriving

2009-05-16 Thread Andrew Herron
Yes the Revo uses the HDMI port to route audio out to TV or a Surround amp. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > Magnus Hörlin a écrit : > > Well, my first imressions of the ION platform (Acer Revo) are very good. > > It does the vdpau deinterlacing without problems and so f

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-13 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi all, I see exactly this too...you can end up with a stack of running live instant recordings without realising it. I think its an area that needs some improvement. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Malcolm Caldwell < malcolm.caldw...@cdu.edu.au> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 09:39 +0200, Fran

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Herron
I agree with you 100% - the 'Pause' key should pause Live TV. However I do agree with others here that the 'Paused recording' should be automatically 'cleaned up' when you go back to Live TV or alternatively when you change channel. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Frank Scherthan wrote: > Torge

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Herron
My view is that it should behave as on other PVR's where if you change channel then the 'paused live recording' should be deleted. People are used to this behaviour. Pressing 'Stop' while in the live recording would take you back to 'Live' viewing. At anytime when you want to keep the current Live

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I totally agree with this too...at least it would be good to have the option to handle the pause-live-TV "recording" as now or to have them automatically deleted when you change channel and not have them appear at all in the 'Recordings' menu. This would me a big improvement in WAF :-) On Sat, May

Re: [vdr] VDR-1.7.7 & Video aspect ratios

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew Herron
I think what is being asked for is that the OSD always displays at the screens full physical extent even if the TV channel being watched is only 4:3 in the centre for example. Andrew On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Joachim Wilke wrote: > 2009/5/4 Nicolas Huillard : > > Matthias Becker a écrit : >

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Herron
This is a very popular feature in the Sky+ & SkyHD PVR's from Sky here in the UK as it enables them to offer the ability to rewind 'Live TV' in an ad-hoc way (at least to the point where you switched over to the currently viewed channel) I agree it must put extra wear & stress on the hard drive an

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew Herron
What is the hardware platform then? What CPU & GPU is used? Are you running closed or open graphics drivers etc? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Georg Acher wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:46:14PM +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > > But does the Reel Smart-Client box run vdr? >

Re: [vdr] reel netclient

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew Herron
But does the Reel Smart-Client box run vdr? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Georg Acher wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:28:36PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/shop_netclient.php describes a new > > product by reel that allows streaming of HD content over

Re: [vdr] Where do you live and what kind of broadcast do you receive?

2009-03-28 Thread Andrew Herron
Country: UK Transmission: DVB-T, DVB-S/S2 Encoding: MPEG-2 for SD (150+) and H.264 for HD (about 10-15) On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Petri Helin wrote: > Hi, > > I have wondered for some time how broad has VDR spread and how is it > really used. So, if people could post their location and th

Re: [vdr] New Video Decode and Presentation API from NVidia

2008-12-14 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi, This ASUS board would be suitable; http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=2579&l1=3&l2=11&l3=812&l4=0 Andrew On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Halim Sahin wrote: > Hi, > There are some mainboard chips available. > i think we can build vdr's based on a onboard nvidia chip with v

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Herron
Yep... looks that way. Must be the E-Book On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Are these channel numbers broadcast in a way that's covered in the > > DVB SI standard? If so, I see no reason why VDR shouldn't

Re: [vdr] Freeview+ aka TV-Anytime Patch (updated)

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Herron
I totally agree. LCN's here in the UK and in Australia is central to ordinary users experience of DVB (aka Freeview here in the UK). At present we use scan commands -u switch to generate the LCN data. Having vdr handle this form of channel numbering internally would seem to be the better option bu

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Herron
Yes On Feb 3, 2008 10:17 AM, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has been some controversy about my recent decision to > move forward and require the "multiproto" driver for VDR in > the developer version. It is also currently rather unclear > whether the current PES recording fo

Re: [vdr] Problem with multiple audio channels and DVB subtitles in recordings (YLE Teema)

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew Herron
ok. Thanks for clarifying that. On 7/1/07, Rolf Ahrenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Andrew Herron wrote: > Sorry to jump in here... so does the vdr-1.5.2-spids patch mean that the > subtitles patch & plugin are no longer needed? No, the subtitles patc

Re: [vdr] Problem with multiple audio channels and DVB subtitles in recordings (YLE Teema)

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew Herron
Sorry to jump in here... so does the vdr-1.5.2-spids patch mean that the subtitles patch & plugin are no longer needed? On 7/1/07, Rolf Ahrenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, JJussi wrote: > So, is there "real" solution to this missing subtitles at recorded program > problem

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Herron
, Alex Stansfield wrote: > Andrew Herron wrote: > > I believe TV-Anytime is a European standard. > > Wikipedia seems to agree: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-Anytime I now have the TVAnytime spec TS 102 323 from www.etsi.org (painless automated registration required) to

Re: [vdr] Dual Tuner Cards

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/26/07, Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't buy this card if you want to use it in a permanent (i.e. vdr) setup where your computer is on 24/7. You will notice disconnects every now an then rendering the device rather useless... And yes this still happens with *any* kernel ve

Re: [vdr] Dual Tuner Cards

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/25/07, Torgeir Veimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:41, Chris Jones wrote: Hi Laz wrote: I did read stuff a while back about people getting USB disconnects from them at random but I've never seen that with mine. Are we saying that the Hauppauge USB dual tuner ones wo

Re: [vdr] Dual Tuner Cards

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Herron
Same here... no disconnects. On 6/25/07, Laz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 25 June 2007 09:53, Alex Stansfield wrote: > Hi, > > This seems like a pretty dumb question but I hadn't seen it mentioned > before and just wanted to check. > > I'm looking to buy a dual tuner card, most likely t

Re: [vdr] Dual Tuner Cards

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Herron
yes it will. No problem at all. On 6/25/07, Alex Stansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This seems like a pretty dumb question but I hadn't seen it mentioned before and just wanted to check. I'm looking to buy a dual tuner card, most likely the WinTV Nova-T 500. My question is, as long as

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Herron
I believe TV-Anytime is a European standard. On 6/24/07, Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 18 Jun 2007, Alex Stansfield wrote: > I've been finding my way around the vdr source code as the idea of > support for this series link has me interested in seeing if it's > something I might be

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Herron
Great Stuff. My understanding was that this data was generally available for the main UK channels. On 6/15/07, Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 15 Jun 2007, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On 12/06/07, Alex Stansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone knows any more about how the s

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Herron
So on the basis that the enhanced EPG data is in the EIT how would this be added to vdr? A patch? A plug-in? Any views on this? On 6/14/07, Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Herron wrote: > The document we need to look at is the one that specifi

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Herron
MAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007, Andrew Herron wrote: > Hi, > > My understanding is that the updated epg data has been transmitted here > in the uK across all dvb-t mux's since about March/April. Not all > channels may have completely updated there backend sy

Re: [vdr] Freeview Playback

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi, My understanding is that the updated epg data has been transmitted here in the uK across all dvb-t mux's since about March/April. Not all channels may have completely updated there backend systems yet but all the major channels have done so. Clearly launching the Freeview Playback 'brand' and

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Herron
Udo - thanks for that. Much appreciated. On 6/10/07, Udo Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Herron wrote: > If I have some existing vdr recordings on another partition is there a > way to include these so that they are visible inside vdr's recording's > m

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-10 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:15 +0100, Andrew Herron wrote: > I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect > back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines will have > no dvb cards

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Petri Hintukainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If you don't watch different recordings / channels at the same time you can just run vdr-sxfe at each client and connect to the single VDR server. You'll get same video + OSD mirrored to all locations. But, if you need to have independently

[vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe to use a single vdr backend for recordings/dvb cards

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi again, Can someone give me some guidance on how to confgure the following; I have a central machine running vdr 1.4.6 (has all the recording storage and dvb cards) I have several networked vdr machines that i want to use to connect back to the 'server' vdr machine. The networked vdr machines

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
On 6/9/07, Udo Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The details about handling multiple video directories are explained in VDR's INSTALL file. Basically, if you specify -v /var/lib/video.00 on command line, VDR will automatically search for .01 and so on, and will use them all for recording. Di

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
9. Juneta 2007 13:09, Andrew Herron wrote: > I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR > 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best > to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs > increase? Magic wor

[vdr] Configuring vdr to use multiple drives/partitions for storage

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew Herron
I am trying to find out the best way to add additional storage to VDR 1.4.6-1 over time. Could someone on the list give some advise on how best to config vdr so that I can add additional storage over time as my needs increase? My current config is as follws /etc/default/vdr is as below; # /etc/d

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-27 Thread Andrew Herron
I have to say that I agree with both of you... constructive criticism is best! As a quiet 'user' of vdr, for about a year, I agree with the sentiments in Martin's post. It is very frustrating that vdr exits when reception is less than perfect. I personally would prefer it if vdr announced on scre

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Herron
The point is that a £20 freeview box automatically sorts the channel list using the broadcast lcn data without any user intervention. Then of course all the channel numbering is correct and conforms to the UK freeview channel order. By using Tony's script we get the same functionality in vdr for U

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Herron
ipt. On 2/14/07, Rob Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Herron wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I think xmltv2vdr.pl might be a better place to start for what you are > trying to achieve... as you can point it at a TV listing web site and > extract all the EPG data for the channel

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Herron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:24, Andrew Herron wrote: >>> Does anyone know if the Logical Channel Numbers that are used in the UK >>> on Freeview DVB-T transmissi

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Herron
Hi Tony, Thanks for the attached script. I'll take a look at it tonight as I am running Debian :-) Cheers Andrew On 2/14/07, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laz wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:24, Andrew Herron wrote: > &g

[vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Herron
Does anyone know if the Logical Channel Numbers that are used in the UK on Freeview DVB-T transmissions are currently handled by VDR in anyway? Cheers Andrew Herron ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo