Re: [vdr] vdr-satip, Digibit R1 and 2 satellites

2023-09-20 Thread Harald Milz
Hi Torsten, long time no hear! Good you're still around! On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote: > There is an alternative firmware for this box In fact I tried to boot satip-axe from a USB stick but for unknown reasons the box stuck to the original FW. :-( After diggin

[vdr] vdr-satip, Digibit R1 and 2 satellites

2023-09-17 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I recently got a stone-aged Digibit R1 to replace an even older PCI-E card. My satellite antenna points at Astra S19.2E and Hotbird S13E, 2 Dual LNBs in Quad configuration. However, the Digibit device seems not to find anything on S13E. Not sure if I need DiSeQC with SATIP but I set: in

Re: [vdr] Wake-on-timer rtcwake experiments on various PC hardware

2023-04-16 Thread Harald Milz
Reminds me of the nvram-wakeup lotto back in the day. Am 16. April 2023 19:54:03 MESZ schrieb "Marko Mäkelä" : >Today, I tested rtcwake on several x86 or x86-64 based computers. > >The outcome: > >(1) Suspend to RAM (say, "rtcwake -m mem -s 10"): >* Success: Every system. >(2) Wake-on-timer ("rtc

Re: [vdr] Integartion with systemd and rtcwake

2023-04-11 Thread Harald Milz
Let me put my unsolicited €0.02 in. My mindset is pretty hackerish as well, but I'm also an engineer thinking in efficiency terms. The raspi is what it is, and it is a nice building block for many jobs. If I wanted to build a vdr, I'd either let the raspi run permanently (given its low energy de

Re: [vdr] Trying to run satip w/ Geniatech EyeTV Netstream 4Sat

2023-03-30 Thread Harald Milz
Hi Martin, On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:21:21PM +0200, Martin Dummer wrote: > I miss lines like these: > > Mar 28 19:28:25 vdr vdr: [21100] SATIP: Adding server > '192.168.166.129|DVBC-4|FRITZ!Box 6490 Cable' Bind: default Filters: > none CI: no Quirks: n > one Oh, these were 30 or 40 lines furthe

[vdr] Trying to run satip w/ Geniatech EyeTV Netstream 4Sat

2023-03-29 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I'm trying to consolidate my stuff a bit and got a 4Sat these days. I'm trying to run VDR-2.6.0 with the satip plugin connecting to the Satip device. 4 receivers, 2x S19.2E, 2x S13.0E. So far, the LNB ran on a DD Cine PCI-E card just fine. (but I want to get rid of the server). (Tuner #4

[vdr] [SOLVED] Looking for DVB-C channels conf for Kabel DE München

2022-01-01 Thread Harald Milz
OK, disregard all after good morning. I found that you can download the full up-to-date channels list in various formats from https://helpdesk.vodafonekabelforum.de, including channels.conf. On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 11:28:26AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > Hi all, > > happy new year

[vdr] Looking for DVB-C channels conf for Kabel DE München

2022-01-01 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, happy new year everyone! I would like to add my DVB-C channels to my existing setup but can't seem to find a working channels.conf for Kabel Deutschland München anywhere. There are only older versions around but I know that they changed their channel assignments considerably in the last

[vdr] SOLVED Re: option parsing for --log still broken

2020-11-18 Thread Harald Milz
Hi Klaus, On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:15:51PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > This should do, too: > > --- vdr.c 2020/05/18 16:47:29 4.33 > +++ vdr.c 2020/11/17 17:11:51 > @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ >SysLogLevel = l; >if (!p) >

[vdr] option parsing for --log still broken

2020-11-17 Thread Harald Milz
Hi Klaus and all, it appears that option parsing for the --log option is still broken, as described in this thread: https://www.vdr-portal.de/forum/index.php?thread/108924-gel%C3%B6st-logging-von-yavdr-in-separaten-logfiles-anstelle-des-syslog-und-probleme/ Short version: vdr stops parsing the

[vdr] Many "Tuning timeout" messages and signal disruptions with minisatip and the satip plugin

2020-11-12 Thread Harald Milz
Hi guys, I migrated my VDR and my KVM host to Ubuntu 20.04-latest lately. The KVM host has the sat card (Digital Devices Cine S2 V6.5 DVB adapter), the driver stack (0.9.33-integrated), plus minisatip-latest from git, and the vdr VM runs the normal Ubuntu stack with vdr-2.4.1 and satip-2.4.0 (plu

Re: [vdr] VDR does not find S13E channels after upgrading (not quite solved yet)

2020-05-01 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Harald Milz wrote: > Möglicherweise habe ich verpasst, weil ich sehr lange nicht danach geschaut > habe, dass sich an den diesbezüglichen Configs von vdr-2.2.0 nach -2.4.0 was > geändert hat. [Background: since my upgrade from 2.2.0

[vdr] VDR findet S13E nicht mehr nach Upgrade

2020-04-30 Thread Harald Milz
Servus, ich brauche ausnahmsweise mal Hilfe ;-) Nach längerem habe ich mich endlich aufgerafft, meinen VDR von Ubuntu 14.04 / Kernel 4.4.0 / vdr-2.2.0 / dddvb-0.9.32 hochzuziehen auf Ubuntu 18.04 / Kernel 4.15.0 / yavdr-2.4.0 / dddvb-0.9.38 (latest aus git). An den Configs habe ich nichts geänd

[vdr] Race condition when executing recording hook

2017-12-13 Thread Harald Milz
Hi everyone, I finally managed to pull myself together and install markad-0.1.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and vdr-2.2.0. Not trivial for me because the markad sources needed patching in order to compile and link properly. Different story - if someone wants a clue just drop me a note. When playing ar

Re: [vdr] VDR without PrimaryDVB but with xineliboutput ?

2016-12-21 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Niedermeier Günter wrote: > > I use these config parameters for xineliboutput plugin > > --local=none > --primary > --remote=0.0.0.0:37890 Yup, me too. In this case xineliboutput will be the primary display, and there will always be a channel running on

Re: [vdr] VDR without PrimaryDVB but with xineliboutput ?

2016-12-21 Thread Harald Milz
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:09:46PM +0100, Stephan Loescher wrote: > Hi! > > I never tried it myself, but isn't vdr-dummydevice used for that? Hmmm, it seems xineliboutput doesn't like not being the primary: Dec 21 14:39:38 vdr vdr: [3419] [xine..put] Dropping client: xineliboutput is not the p

[vdr] VDR without PrimaryDVB but with xineliboutput ?

2016-12-20 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I would like to run my headless VDR without a primary DVB (or suspended output) but keep xineliboutput running. I can't figure out how. My VDR has 4 receivers (2x Astra, 2x Hotbird) without MPEG decoder. It runs vnsiserver (for my Kodi client), streamdev-server (for some browser / VLC cl

Re: [vdr] NOW SOLVED!!! buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-02-17 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I think I found the cause of the buffer overrun problem. My system has now been running for nearly 10 hours without a single problem, with occasional "buffer stats 0..3%" in the syslog. It appears that the problem relies with the Ubuntu-wily HWE kernel 4.2.0-something. I downgraded to 3.

Re: [vdr] NOT SOLVED!!! buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-02-09 Thread Harald Milz
de between 2.2.0 and devel-latest? I'm a bit reluctant to try 2.3.x because some plugins may not work with it. TIA! On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:17:08AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > Richard, > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:34:17PM +, Richard F wrote: > > One of the thing

Re: [vdr] SOLVED??? buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-02-07 Thread Harald Milz
Richard, On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:34:17PM +, Richard F wrote: > One of the things that the vnsi developer said to do set this in the VDR > config > > vnsiserver.AvoidEPGScan = 1 > (http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=203396) Now that you mention it - I also see interruptions sometimes

Re: [vdr] SOLVED??? buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-02-06 Thread Harald Milz
vdr: [31943] ERROR: driver buffer overflow on device 2 > > Again, this happens only when watching live TV with vnsiserver / kodi (on RPi2 > with OpenELEC-latest or on Android 5.1.1 using Kodi-latest as from Google > Play). Every other combination (recording, watching recordings, watching

Re: [vdr] Using a rasberry pi as vdr client

2016-02-01 Thread Harald Milz
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 07:19:32PM +0100, Gerald Dachs wrote: > > > An IR receiver is usually not necessary. The HDMI-CEC support of the > raspberry pi is very good. > Mostly the remote of the TV is just enough. Yup. If only my 2004 TV set supported HDMI-CEC. -- The mind is its own place, and i

Re: [vdr] Using a rasberry pi as vdr client

2016-02-01 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, a bit late maybe but vnsiverver on the VDR side and Openelec / kodi on the RPi side should be fine, that's what I am using, and the WAF is pretty high. I got a Hama MCE remote with USB IR receiver, which worked out of the box. HTH! On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 07:19:13PM +0200, Damien Bally wro

Re: [vdr] buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-01-31 Thread Harald Milz
. Every other combination (recording, watching recordings, watching live TV with xineliboutput / vdr-sxfe (on Ubuntu 14.04-x86)) does not exhibit the problem. I have no idea what I can do here. Any hint or help is appreciated. TIA! On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:40:19AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote:

Re: [vdr] buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-01-30 Thread Harald Milz
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 12:35:49PM +0100, Thomas Netousek wrote: > Try disabling MSI interrupts in the ddbridge driver. Thank you for the hint... 17: 0 02317734690 IO-APIC 17-fasteoi ddbridge but sadly: Jan 30 17:38:36 seneca vdr: [26112] buffer usage: 70% (t

[vdr] buffer overruns and sync probs after change of receivers

2016-01-30 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I recently changed the receivers of my VDR from two TeVii S660's to a Digital Devices Cine S2 + Duoflex card. Everything else remained unchanged on the VDR side of things. Since then, I encounter frequent (as in, once per day approx.) buffer overruns and resync probs. As it seems from the

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and streamdev at the same time

2015-04-21 Thread Harald Milz
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:41:57PM +0300, Petri Hintukainen wrote: > Do you mean setting the marks (and letting remote VDR to do the actual > editing) ? Or using VDR in RPi to cut recordings ? Cutting with RPi is > probably very slow and consumes lot of limited I/O resources. > > For setting editi

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and streamdev at the same time

2015-04-21 Thread Harald Milz
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:25:48AM +0200, M. Fiegert wrote: > On 21.04.2015 07:41, Harald Milz wrote: > > I have been happily using vdr-sfxe on an NVidia ION board on Ubuntu 12.04 > > for > > quite a while (with a sufficiently high WAF factor :-) ) . But I haven't >

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and streamdev at the same time

2015-04-20 Thread Harald Milz
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:40:41AM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:33:02 +0200 Torgeir Veimo > wrote: > > > Have you tried rpihddevice plugin with VDR on the rpi? It might work > > even smoother than using xinelinboutput, but you'd have to find a > > different setup for c

Re: [vdr] Commercial detection and automatic cutting

2014-09-24 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:28:05AM -0400, Norm Dressler wrote: > > I searched for noad but could not find it. I have it installed now and am > trying it out. How do you create a recording with the commercials cut > out? Or do you just rely on VDR to do it on the fly? Hi Norm, you'll find noad

Re: [vdr] Raspberry Pi, Streamdev + rpihddevice

2014-07-08 Thread Harald Milz
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 02:34:37PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > I guess that for the cheap ARM boards such as the Raspberry Pi, it > is simplest to keep the base hardware "always on" (the base power > consumption being so low, and because there is no battery-backed > clock or wakeup timer). I'm us

Re: [vdr] Minimum CPU requirement for xineliboutput + vdr-sxfe for HDTV

2014-02-27 Thread Harald Milz
It might be even cheaper to get a cheap Nvidia card along with s power saving CPU. My player is an ION board with an Atom 230... On 27. Februar 2014 21:29:20 MEZ, Stephan Loescher wrote: >Hi! > >I am interested in your experiences with xineliboutput-plugin and >vdr-sxfe for HDTV and not using

Re: [vdr] Streaming DVD contents from VDR?

2014-02-01 Thread Harald Milz
Hi Marko, have you tried the xineliboutput plugin together with vdr-sxfe on the headless box? It basically gives you a remote VDR display including the OSD. The downside is, the DVD needs to be in the VDR PC in the different room... which may not be what you want. (And yes, a simple headless sol

[vdr] vdr-fritzbox no longer working after FBF firmware upgrade

2014-01-21 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I've been happily using vdr-fritzbox for a very long time. Since the last upgrade to Fritz!OS 5.50 and then to 5.53 (54.05.50 respectively 54.05.53) the plugin cannot connect to the FBF any more. The log: Jan 21 10:10:58 seneca vdr: [2393] [libfritz++/FritzClient.cpp:210] logging into f

Re: [vdr] xinelib / vdpau suddenly fails to detect Nvidia ION GPU

2014-01-05 Thread Harald Milz
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 12:01:50PM +0100, André Weidemann wrote: > > On 03.01.2014 22:01, Harald Milz wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 11:52:11AM +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>On Thursday 26 December 2013 19:13:05 Harald Milz wrote: >

Re: [vdr] xinelib / vdpau suddenly fails to detect Nvidia ION GPU

2014-01-03 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 11:52:11AM +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 26 December 2013 19:13:05 Harald Milz wrote: > > Any idea where I should look? Why might xinelib or vdr-sxfe fail to > > correctly detect the ION (MCP79) chip when everything is unchanged

[vdr] xinelib / vdpau suddenly fails to detect Nvidia ION GPU

2013-12-26 Thread Harald Milz
Hi all, I've been using a Zotac ION board with Nvidia GPU as XINE player for SD and HD for quite a while. The player is vdr-sxfe with "--video vdpau". This has worked fine until recently, when the combo started to throw spurious errors like (from the vdr-sxfe log): load_plugins: plugin /usr/lib/

Re: [vdr] probs with new ZDF HDchannels

2012-05-02 Thread Harald Milz
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:18:33PM +0200, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 01.05.2012 20:08, schrieb Harald Milz: > > >I just added the new ZDF HD channels (ZDF, KIKA, ZDF neo, kultur and info) > >and > >I get strange effects like the ones described in >

[vdr] probs with new ZDF HDchannels

2012-05-01 Thread Harald Milz
Hi guys, I just added the new ZDF HD channels (ZDF, KIKA, ZDF neo, kultur and info) and I get strange effects like the ones described in http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Neue-HDTV-Sender-Ruckler-auf-bestimmten-Receivern-1564225.html. It looks as if the color pallette switched every 0.7 s. Th

[vdr] Feature suggestion: @include in channels.conf

2011-07-25 Thread Harald Milz
Hi guys, I'm currently working on integrating my VDR setup with the commercial kartina.tv offering (found no workable reference so I'm doing it myself - will be documented at http://vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Kartina.tv_mit_IPTV). Because the channel list may be modified by the provider every no

[vdr] Spare Reel eHD card for sale

2009-05-29 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I've got a spare Reel eHD card for sale. The retail price was €159. VDR geeks know what this is. I'll ship within Europe (e-mail me for a shipping quote). Make me an offer! Payment possible via EU SWIFT/IBAN bank wire (or standard bank wire if within Germany). Ciao, hm -- Entropy isn't wha

Re: [vdr] Q: How to use Multiswitch w/ 2 satellites

2009-01-17 Thread Harald Milz
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:10:17AM +0100, C.Scheeder wrote: > replace your single LNB with a dual LNB, and buy 2 disec-c switches. > then link them together this way: > > *--**---* ** > | quad LNB || disec-c | |

Re: [vdr] Q: How to use Multiswitch w/ 2 satellites

2009-01-15 Thread Harald Milz
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:37:42AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > On 15/01/2009, C.Scheeder wrote: > > this way you can record with both cards both Sat-positions. Great, that should work. Thanks for the hint! > So is the quad LNB now acting like dual LNB? a waste of a quad LNB? It's already

[vdr] Q: How to use Multiswitch w/ 2 satellites

2009-01-14 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, at the moment I use 2 satellites (Astra1 @ 19.2E, Hotbird @ 13.0E) with 3 budget cards and cables (2x Astra from a quad LNB, 1x Hotbird from a single) with the capabilities patch. In the future I may need to cut down the 3 to 2 cards / cables. I know I will need to replace the quad LNB by a qu

Re: [vdr] EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes

2008-12-23 Thread Harald Milz
year. On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > now that my VDR works fine with 2 satellites thanks to the help of some > kind folks here and the SourceCaps patch (did I mention it should be in the > mainstream VDR?) I have now a couple of FTA programmes in russian

Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-28 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Harald Milz may or may not have written... > > > this seems to be a famous one, possibly a GCC bug according to some fora. I > > can't build vdr-xine-0.8.2 and the related xine-lib on openSU

Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-15 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:50:40PM +0200, Harald Milz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > > Packman also offers xine packages built with the same options. > > But without netvdr as it seems ... Disregard - it's in. But --en

Re: [vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-15 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:08:10PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Harald Milz wrote: > > this seems to be a famous one, possibly a GCC bug according to some fora. I > > can't build vdr-xine-0.8.2 and the related xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 with > > > > [...] > >

[vdr] Problems building xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 w/ gcc 4.3.1

2008-10-15 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, this seems to be a famous one, possibly a GCC bug according to some fora. I can't build vdr-xine-0.8.2 and the related xine-lib on openSUSE 11.0 with gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) - apparently an asm optimization thing: gcc -DHAVE_

Re: [vdr] Which DVB-S Card to buy in Germany

2008-07-13 Thread Harald Milz
Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lauri Tischler wrote: > > I think your dish has moved or coaxial is broken. > no the second card is working fine and all other cards in the house too. > And that the cable breaks when no one touch it is nearly impossible. If I were you I'd definitely

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.8.2 plugin

2008-03-17 Thread Harald Milz
Reinhard Nissl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pleased to announce a the maintenance release 0.8.2. You can > find it on my homepage as usual: I'm trying to build a small playback-only box using vdr-xine based on a Via Epia-15000 board with the onboard video adapter. I don't try to scale images

[vdr] Q: Fanless VDR streaming client ?

2008-01-06 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, my current VDR works fine with 3 Sat cards and a fanless case so far - but the case is quite bulky, and since I'm going to move to a new home shortly, I am looking for a nice fanless streaming solution. Xine-plugin works fine so far, and I can use Reinhard's patched xine player on my laptop ni

Re: [vdr] HDTV future for VDR

2007-09-15 Thread Harald Milz
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manu Abraham promised in DVB-linux list > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-August/019784.html > that in September in hg repository will be Technotrend S2-3200's support if > everything will br OK. It's great news. > But which will be next step to

[vdr] Anybody working on AVC (Automatic Volume Control)?

2007-08-20 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, some commercial products (LCD TV sets, mostly) now start to offer a feature named AVC that is meant to prevent ad blocks from being significantly louder than the rest of the programme. While it's clear that this requires on-line detecting advertising (as opposed to off-line processing with noa

[vdr] HELP! vdr-1.4.1 and softdevice-0.4.0 aren't working any more

2007-07-09 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, after having reinstalled my VDR with OpenSUSE 10.1 a couple of weeks ago (after which VDR was working happily for some time) some very strange things happened. At first, after a reboot, sound was gone, without any change in the configuration, only after rebooting. My setup is still as describe

Re: [vdr] Q: no sound with dvd-plugin and softdevice

2007-05-14 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, does nobody have an idea concerning this one? The question appears to be "how do I use softdevice-audio with dvd-plugin". Harald Milz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to use the dvd plugin (CVS as of today) together with > softdevice-0.4.0. Plays D

[vdr] Q: dvd-plugin and softdevice

2007-05-11 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I would like to use the dvd plugin (CVS as of today) together with softdevice-0.4.0. Plays DVDs fine but no sound. In the plugin's source code there's in player-dvd.c: BitStreamOutActive = false; HasBitStreamOut = (cPluginManager::GetPlugin("bitstreamout") != NULL); SoftDevi

Re: [vdr] 4:3 stretched to 16:9?

2007-05-09 Thread Harald Milz
Simon Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way in VDR to reformat recordings made in 4:3 to play back in > 16:9 ? Besides xine softdevice has that functionality too. -- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[vdr] VDSB with m920x-2bfda2098748 and TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI

2007-04-25 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I was trying to get my MSI Digivox Mini SL to run with m920x-2bfda2098748. Basically, the USB stick works fine but my TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI seems to refuse work with the budget_ci driver contained therein. The setup is: frontend 1 Fujitsu Siemens Activy Budget-S PCI (Astra) frontend

[vdr] VDRAdmin-AM with UTF-8 support?

2007-03-27 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, is anyone working on a UTF-8 version of VDRadmin-AM? I'm using vdr with the UTF8 patch (de and ru) and need to always select UTF8 manually in the browser to avoid seeing the à stuff. Looking at the html files in template/default/, I see everything is hardcoded in iso-8859-1, but that should be

Re: [vdr] VDRAdmin and character mapping

2007-01-02 Thread Harald Milz
Andreas Mair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What language/locale do you use in VDRAdmin-AM? > Do you use any VDR patch, that changes its character encoding? I'm using the UTF-8 patch (because I'm using Russian and German EPGs), and German umlauts are displayed incorrectly unless I tell the browser

Re: [vdr] EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes

2006-12-26 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:19:15AM +0100, Oleg Roitburd wrote: > EPG for some russian channels you can find in XMLTV. That works just fine now, thank you. Just one thing is wrong - time zones. The XML files contain everything encoded in the Moscow time zone (although CEST is written there)

Re: [vdr] Utf8-patch experiences, anyone?

2006-12-05 Thread Harald Milz
Alexander Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UTF8 user found Freetype fonts better than built-in. Size is scallable. > Marko Mäkelä schrieb: > > For one, I fear that Freetype could use too much processing power. > > Secondly, I would expect the rendered glyphs to look bad in the > > interlaced o

Re: [vdr] Utf8-patch experiences, anyone?

2006-11-30 Thread Harald Milz
Petri Helin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now there are some problems that have come up with the HD OSD. Font > rendering and the way fonts and OSD are used by plugins are the main > distractions. I bumped in to this Utf8-patch > (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Utf8-patch) which looks Has so

[vdr] EPG for Hotbird / russian programmes

2006-11-29 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, now that my VDR works fine with 2 satellites thanks to the help of some kind folks here and the SourceCaps patch (did I mention it should be in the mainstream VDR?) I have now a couple of FTA programmes in russian language for my better half :-) The only problem is, none of these programmes ca

Re: [vdr] Hint needed: 3 budget cards and Astra / Hotbird

2006-11-27 Thread Harald Milz
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:16:55PM +0200, Antti Hartikainen wrote: > What you're missing is "soucecaps" patch, it tells vdr which card can see > which satellite. Wow this works great. It should be in the standard vdr distro! Thanks! Ciao, Harald PS: I missed your answer - sorry for the second

[vdr] Re: Hint needed: 3 budget cards and Astra / Hotbird

2006-11-27 Thread Harald Milz
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:22:10AM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > 00:0b.0 Class 0280: 13d0:2103 (rev 01) > 00:0b.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB > chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 01) > > DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV dev

[vdr] Hint needed: 3 budget cards and Astra / Hotbird

2006-11-27 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I recently added a third budget card to my VDR which contained 2 budgets pointing at Astra so far (using softdevice for decoding): 00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 00:0f.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) 00:0a.0 Class 0480

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.4.1 can't play old recordings???

2006-10-17 Thread Harald Milz
Harald Milz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been upgrading to 1.4.1 last May, then rebuilt my VDR lately. It seems > it can't playback older recordings (pre-1.4.1) any more. The sound is > stuttering heavily, and it looks as if audio were entirely out of sync.

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.4 and osdpip anyone?

2006-10-15 Thread Harald Milz
Ville Skyttä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 14:00 +0000, Harald Milz wrote: > > receiver.h:32: error: extra qualification ‘cOsdPipReceiver::’ on member > > ‘cOsdPipReceiver’ > > make[1]: *** [osd.o] Fehler 1 > http://koti.mbnet.fi/kurg/vdr/vd

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.4 and osdpip anyone?

2006-10-14 Thread Harald Milz
Udo Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > osdpip requires a patch since 1.3.31. See wiki: > http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Osdpip-plugin#Patches > http://deela.cc.fh-lippe.de/files/vdr-osdpip/ Ooops I saw it bit missed to get it. But it still cries for help: receiver.h:32: error: extra

[vdr] vdr-1.4 and osdpip anyone?

2006-10-13 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I'm trying to compile osdpip-0.0.8 in vdr-1.4.1, and I get osd_info.c: In member function ‘eOSState cOsdInfoWindow::ProcessKey(eKeys)’: osd_info.c:233: error: ‘cDevice’ has not been declared osd_info.c:260: error: ‘cDevice’ has not been declared osd_info.c:260: error: invalid type in declarat

[vdr] vdr 1.4.1 can't play old recordings???

2006-10-10 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I've been upgrading to 1.4.1 last May, then rebuilt my VDR lately. It seems it can't playback older recordings (pre-1.4.1) any more. The sound is stuttering heavily, and it looks as if audio were entirely out of sync. The whole setup is identical to the old one (cause for the rebuild was a dyi

[vdr] VDRadmin-AM-3.4.7 and softdevice

2006-10-04 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, I'm using softdevice and would like to see the VDR screen in VDRadmin-AM-3.4.7. I have no FF card, just 2 dumb ones. All I get in VDRadmin is a random noise screen. It there a way to get the live screen, e.g. via the streamdev-server? TIA! -- Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little t

Re: [vdr] News story: Fox TV tries fixed image ads

2006-09-27 Thread Harald Milz
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:44:27AM +0200, Udo Richter wrote: > Found this English article about it: > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-DVR-Viewers.html OK so apparently everybody copied the AP flash. I have no idea where Netzeitung got the notion of "technically impossible" to skip or

[vdr] News story: Fox TV tries fixed image ads

2006-09-26 Thread Harald Milz
Hi, German Netzeitung writes on http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/443044.html that Fox TV tries to force ads even in digital recordings by using fixed images. According to the story, you can't skip or cut fixed images. What kind of nonsense are they writing? Why should it be "technically impossibl

Re: [vdr] VDR with Matrox G550 - console on analog head - VDR on DVI - how?

2006-09-16 Thread Harald Milz
Anthony Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want however is the console to be on the analog output only and VDR > to be on the DVI exclusively. At th moment if VDR exits then I get the > console output on the analog output. I'd like to know that too and asked this question when I installed