Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 09:46:49AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
However, there are also advantages to being able to record films and
series under your own control without being exposed to the risk that
they will disappear from the online offering at some point.
Not only that. While the modern
Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 08:52:13PM +0100, Jörg Riechardt wrote:
Am 11.01.2025 um 18:50 schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
I got some video files in MPEG PS format.
Have you tried VLC ?
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I thought that
Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:53:13PM +0100, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
I got some video files in MPEG PS format.
Have you tried VLC ?
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I thought that when I ask this
on the VDR mailing list, it would be clear that I would like to play
such files in VDR, by s
I got some video files in MPEG PS format.
These files would not play in VDR even if put them in directories named
after timestamps and name them 1.ts. The command vdr --genindex
fails to create any index file.
However, if I first convert them to MPEG TS format with
ffmpeg -i file.mpg -c
Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 12:21:18PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
What? Your PI3/2 software decoders are too slow for h.262 (MPEG2) but
fast enough for h.264 needing ~ x4 cpu/fpu power?
The CPU cores in the Pi 2 and possibly also in the Pi 3 are too slow for
decoding any video in real time.
Raspberry OS
Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 04:13:21AM +0100, schorpp wrote:
Get a 4B at no cost. h.265 h/w decoding supported (at least with
libreelec).
Thanks, I already got a Pi 4, but luckily rpihddevice on the Raspberry
Pi 2 or 3 is sufficient for my needs (the DVB-T2 here only uses H.264).
My only "productio
Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:31:06PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
Am 06.12.24 um 21:32 schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
A couple of weeks ago, Finland took the penultimate step to get rid
of DVB-T. Since years, we had DVB-T and DVB-T2 running in parallel.
The DVB-T transponders should be shut down in 2025.
same
A couple of weeks ago, Finland took the penultimate step to get rid of
DVB-T. Since years, we had DVB-T and DVB-T2 running in parallel. The
DVB-T transponders should be shut down in 2025.
The step was to introduce a second free-to-air DVB-T2 bouquet to carry
some channels that were previously
Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 08:59:48PM +0100, schorpp kirjoitti:
which repository is this? I did not know Klaus is working with github?
git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git has been around for a few years, read-only.
Marko
Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 08:55:45PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
(gdb) print ptsValues[0]
$1 = 3600
(gdb) print framesPerPayloadUnit
$2 = 1
(gdb) print parser->iFrameTemporalReferenceOffset
$3 = -1
Okay, this looks like a straightforward division by zero, which in fact
should have been fixed more than 1
Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
HA! I've got this bitch of intermittent bug finally:
Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 0xad0ffb40 (LWP 27522)]
0x08136f6a in cFrameDetector::Analyze (this=0x9ade480, Data=out>, Length=296852) at remux.
Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 07:43:35PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
bt full / thread apply all bt
#2 0x081330f4 in cRemote::Get (WaitMs=10, UnknownCode=0x0) at remote.c:194
MutexLock = {mutex = 0x822feb0, locked = true}
#3 0x080f225b in cInterface::GetKey (this=0x9ee02c8, Wait=out>) at interface.c:41
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 01:37:42PM +0100, schorpp wrote:
Hello,
I'm about fixing this old BUG exiting VDR on every 1st recording start:
# gdb attach
Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 0x9c801b40 (LWP 8182)]
0x08136f6a in cFrameDetector::Analyze(unsigned ch
I would like to have a function to suspend VDR playback on my
Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, so that I could occasionally use the screen
for something else, such as a text console. Currently this is
impossible because the video overlay would block the view on the
text console layer.
I can think of several
On my Raspberry Pi 2, I observed that VDR 2.6.9 (with the rpihddevice
plugin) would hit SIGSEGV due to dereferencing a null pointer:
#0 __GI_strlen () at ../sysdeps/arm/armv6/strlen.S:26
#1 0x76a9b434 in __GI___strdup (s=0x0) at strdup.c:41
#2 0x000ff354 in cRecording::cRecording (this=0x196c
Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 09:14:30PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
The "rtcwake -m show" straight after the reboot indicated that the
alarm is off. I read all journal entries between the two rtcwake
commands, which were helpfully logged. The only thing I found was a
kernel boot message that
Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 04:38:11PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:17:03AM +0200, g.bruno wrote:
here a longer thread at problems with rtcwake (in German):
https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/rtcwake-geht-nicht-mehr/#post-9369451
Thank you. I am not going to use rtcwake on
Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:17:03AM +0200, g.bruno wrote:
here a longer thread at problems with rtcwake (in German):
https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/rtcwake-geht-nicht-mehr/#post-9369451
Thank you. I am not going to use rtcwake on those 2 problematic laptops
for anything real, but out of curio
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 ("rtcwake -m no -s 120 && shutdown -h now" or "rtcwake
-m off -s 120"):
* Success: Lenovo Thinkpad X220 (2012?), and a 5-y
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 08:29:48AM +0200, Harald Milz wrote:
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 ei
Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Joerg Riechardt wrote:
https://github.com/j1rie/IRMP_STM32
Thank you. This is a user space solution, with the benefit that it is
not limited to Linux. I think that it would be good to mention this at
https://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi
Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:23:44PM +0200, Joerg Riechardt wrote:
Maybe still not what you want, but how other guys do it:
https://www.vdr-portal.de/forum/index.php?thread/133092-ein-weiterer-ir-einschalter-f%C3%BCr-den-rpi/&postID=1319903&highlight=mosfet
https://www.vdr-portal.de/forum/index.php?th
Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 07:08:29AM -0700, VDRU VDRU wrote:
Why don't you make life easy and just add a $5-10 rtc module and be
done with it?
Based on this discussion
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=210662 one would need
more than that. "Shutting down" the Raspberry Pi will actuall
Some time ago, I created the wiki page
https://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Systemd that describes much of
my VDR installation.
On my Raspberry Pi, there is no real-time-clock. My low-tech solution
for waking up VDR for recordings is that I set an alarm on my phone, to
remind me to turn
Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:47:28AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 19.02.23 18:29, Patrick Lerda wrote:
...
I had definitively a few crashes related to this class. Thread safety
issues are often not easily reproducible. Is your environment 100%
reliable?
My VDR runs for weeks, even months 24
Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 05:17:55PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 02.02.23 21:56, Patrick Lerda wrote:
...
diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index 93eb8c0..21be7a4 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -312,13 +312,16 @@ bool cThread::Start(void)
cCondWait::SleepMs(THREAD_STOP_S
Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 06:01:46PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 22.01.23 13:52, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Hi,
I would propose the following patch, or some equivalent interface that
would allow cThread::mutex to be used with some cCondVar in derived
classes:
diff --git a/thread.h b/thread.h
Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 12:54:16AM +0100, Udo Richter wrote:
Two-ended buffers are pretty good when used correctly, but nowadays
they have a small chance of triggering memory ordering issues, where it
is possible that written data to the buffer is still stuck in a distant
cache, while the updated
Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 02:52:03PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
This code illustrates another limitation: There is no way to pass an
absolute time to cCondVar::TimedWait(). On each call, a relative
wake-up time (milliseconds from the current time) will be converted
into an absolute time. If there
Hi,
I would propose the following patch, or some equivalent interface that
would allow cThread::mutex to be used with some cCondVar in derived
classes:
diff --git a/thread.h b/thread.h
index 16c4bd75..cd1d98ab 100644
--- a/thread.h
+++ b/thread.h
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ private:
bool running;
Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 11:33:19AM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Yesterday, I finally bought external storage for my Raspberry Pi based
VDR setup, a Samsung Portable SSD T7.
I have now documented my setup in the following wiki pages:
https://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Systemd
https
Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:15:29PM +0100, Martin Dummer wrote:
Am 27.12.22 um 21:49 schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
First, I removed the custom /etc/fstab entry. Everything will be
controlled by systemd as follows:
On systemd-systems, each line in /etc/fstab is automatically converted
by a binary
Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 12:04:00PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
I might configure some more, such as:
* Write some udev rule so that when the USB storage is unplugged and
replugged, the file system will be auto-mounted and VDR service will
be started.
* Restore /etc/systemd/logind.conf to
Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 01:34:48AM +0100, Udo Richter wrote:
No, just replace the call to vdr in the service with a call to a runvdr
script (any of the ones floating around, or just a three-liner), and in
that script, after vdr ends, do whatever cleanup you need to do.
I see. That could certainly
Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Udo Richter wrote:
On 24.12.22 10:33, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
then
sudo service vdr stop
sudo umount /video
sudo udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sda
fi
The first step appears to terminate the shell script, because the shell
is a subprocess of VDR. So, the
Yesterday, I finally bought external storage for my Raspberry Pi based
VDR setup, a Samsung Portable SSD T7. It supports USB 3, but it also
works on the Raspberry Pi 2's USB 2.0 and does not consume too much
power. My old tower PC case based system that I had set up in 2004 has
now been replace
Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:21:10AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Is there an actual problem that requires this?
It has been that way for many, many years, so I'd like to see more than
"looks problematic to me" before I dare touch this ;-).
The only problem that I am currently aware of is someth
Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:30:50PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Because of the heap-use-after-free race condition that was rather
easily reproducible with AddressSanitizer (-fsanitize=address), I
thought that I should finally try to learn to use ThreadSanitizer
(TSAN, -fsanitize=thread in GCC and
Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:30:50PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Finally, I figured out what is causing the first report:
cThread::description is not protected by cThread::mutex.
Sorry, I failed to notice that even after applying both patches, both
TSAN reports are still there. The race condition
Because of the heap-use-after-free race condition that was rather easily
reproducible with AddressSanitizer (-fsanitize=address), I thought that
I should finally try to learn to use ThreadSanitizer (TSAN,
-fsanitize=thread in GCC and clang).
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html
Be
Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 01:24:09PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
The first attached patch includes your suggested fixes and nothing that
you opposed so far. The second attached patch fixes the following 2
issues. I agree that the NumCamSlots==0 case could be solved in a nicer
way.
I tried to make
Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:08:45PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Instead if typecasting I guess I'll rather do it this way:
This worked as well.
If x2 ever becomes negative, something else must have gone wrong.
The actual culprit is cDvbSubtitleConverter::FinishPage(), which was
invoking th
Hi Klaus,
Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 12:05:02AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
In cDevice::GetDevice() SlotPriority[] is never touched if NumCamSlots
is 0. So the compiler may assume whatever it wants in that case, it
won't matter. Or can you show a case where it actually misbehaves?
Because I am
Hi Klaus,
Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:08:45PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
If NumCamSlots is 0, SlotPriority[] is never accessed.
So why allocate memory for it if it is never used?
Allocating a variable-length array of length 0 is undefined behaviour.
The compiler is allowed to assume NumCamS
Another day, another sanitizer.
After fixing issues reported by -fsanitize=address yesterday, I gave
-fsanitize=undefined a try. The GCC documentation points to the clang
documentation:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
The issues related to cControl::player were tr
Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 02:01:13PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
VDR version 2.6.2 is now available at the official VDR GIT archive
git://git.tvdr.de
Thank you, Klaus!
While debugging hangs or crashes during the shutdown of rpihddevice (see
https://github.com/reufer/rpihddevice/pull/6 fo
Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 12:27:08PM +, Richard F wrote:
FYI I'm using the powersaving patch on a system with an Astrometa USB
stick + an old Winfast PCI receiver, and I see 2-3W reduction when the
Astrometa frontend is shut down:
I only tested with a single receiver. Your patch may very well s
Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 10:52:11PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
I noticed that VDR is consuming about 5% of the CPU power according to
"top". Could it not be made more event-based? It might be interesting
to check with "powertop" how many wakeups per second there are, and
wi
I thought that it would be a good idea to make use of the built-in LIRC
driver of the Linux kernel. Currently, there is a --lirc option for
interfacing to a user-space driver (lircd), but nothing for using the
kernel driver. The "remote" plugin can interface with /dev/input/event*
but not with
Hi all,
Much of this message would probably belong to some wiki page, along with
some photographs that I made. Before starting to write this, I checked
https://vdr-projects.github.io and did not find any hardware projects.
The hardware section of the VDR wiki at https://www.linuxtv.org does n
Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:34:19PM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:36:55AM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
TL;DR: How could I connect VDR to the kernel-provided /dev/lirc0
device? Is there a dummy lircd implementation that would simply
open /dev/lirc0 in LIRC_MODE_SCANCODE and
Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:36:55AM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
TL;DR: How could I connect VDR to the kernel-provided /dev/lirc0
device? Is there a dummy lircd implementation that would simply open
/dev/lirc0 in LIRC_MODE_SCANCODE and relay its contents over a socket?
I wrote a simple converter
Hi all,
TL;DR: How could I connect VDR to the kernel-provided /dev/lirc0 device?
Is there a dummy lircd implementation that would simply open /dev/lirc0
in LIRC_MODE_SCANCODE and relay its contents over a socket?
As far as I understand, LIRC was first implemented as a user-space
daemon that
Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 09:47:11AM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 06:41:19PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
sudo make -C vdr install
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib/plugins vdr -Prpihddevice
It failed due to an unresolved symbol:
vdr: /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined symbol
Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 09:16:31PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 09:57:37PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Now I will only have to figure out how to get the remote control to
work.
The Astrometa driver in the Linux kernel exposes a /dev/input/event
device that did not react to
Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 06:41:19PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
sudo make -C vdr install
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib/plugins vdr -Prpihddevice
It failed due to an unresolved symbol:
vdr: /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so: undefined symbol: glPointSizePointerOES
A similar problem (with no solution
Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote:
As Far As I Know w-scan2 is needed to tune DVB-T2
https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/w_scan2/
Another DVB-T2 compatible solution (which also supports DVB-T) is
t2scan.
This is how I built and invoked it on my Raspberry Pi 2 (using
Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 07:55:40PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland
I was able to build and install this in /opt/vc (which is where
rpihddevice looks for it) after installing sudo and cmake:
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland
(cd userland
Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 04:56:54PM +0200, René wrote:
Klaus just released 2.6.0. Any chance if we could get that version too?
:-)
For me, git://projects.vdr-developer.org/vdr-plugin-rpihddevice.git
would be a must-have feature.
Today I made an attempt of installing Debian Sid from the scratch o
Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 02:06:37AM +0300, glenvt18 wrote:
I'm not sure VDR is "idle" while a recording is paused. What is the log
output?
I can only see a clue "trying device number 2 instead":
Oct 20 21:37:56 raspberrypi vdr: [3878] DVB API version is 0x050B (VDR was
built with 0x050A)
Oct 20 2
Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:44:32PM +0300, glenvt18 wrote:
What is the output of
lsof | grep frontend
when VDR is in the "idle" state?
I produced some output from /proc/$(pgrep vdr)/fd which I think might be
more helpful. The last-but-one "ls" output was "too soon" after I
started and paused
Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 07:21:10PM +0300, glenvt18 wrote:
Here you can find an updated version of the patch:
https://github.com/glenvt18/vdr/commits/vdr-2.4.6
Thank you. I just conducted some tests with my uncalibrated Agilent
power supply. The USB cable of such low quality that the Raspberry Pi
Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Richard F wrote:
Powersaving for DVB receivers - try the attached patch from glenvt18
Thank you. I will test it later once I have hooked up the Raspberry Pi
to my laboratory power supply so that I can observe the total power
consumption.
While "uhubctl
Hi all, hi Martin!
Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 08:51:05PM +0200, Martin Wache wrote:
Yes good times! :-)
I think that softdevice (without HD in the name) was quite an
achievement for the hardware that was available about 20 years ago.
Today, I made a little progress on this. First, I was thinking
Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:57:23AM +0200, g.bruno wrote:
Hallo,
the problem for the shutdown bottom "no -s option" (not parameter) is
in /etc/vdr/config.d/00-vdr.conf
where the line 21 concerning shutdown is commented out:
#--shutdown=/usr/lib/vdr/vdr-shutdown.wrapper
Thank you, but it is not
Hi all,
I was an active VDR user from about 2004 to 2010 when my children were
younger and there was a need to record TV programs for them. The old
setup was more or less abandoned when I got a smart TV and the family
started to use video streaming services.
Some years ago, I got a Raspberry
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:26:08AM +0100, Karl-Heinz Volk wrote:
There is no EPG with this. I have tried to use dvbv5-scan like Marko
described but I cannot find initial files for my location.
Sorry, I could have mentioned that I got the initial files from
https://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-table
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 09:57:37PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Now I will only have to figure out how to get the remote control to
work.
The Astrometa driver in the Linux kernel exposes a /dev/input/event
device that did not react to any of my remote control units, including
the one that was
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:13:24AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
The second startup is for a tweak where I removed
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 and renamed frontend1 to frontend0. On
this startup, VDR will not complain anything, but it will not find any
signal either. It properly detects the M
Hallo Klaus,
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:28:13AM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 27.11.2017 19:55, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 07:21:58PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Hi all,
I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use with
VDR. It com
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 07:21:58PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
Hi all,
I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to
use with VDR. It comprises two frontends:
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (
Hi all,
I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use
with VDR. It comprises two frontends:
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (DVB-T2 and DVB-C)
I guess it is similar to this one; just a slightly diff
the source, you could also try to work around
the issues by specifying -std=gnu++03 or -std=gnu++98.
Marko Mäkelä
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 07:09:41PM +0100, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
I know have an RPi2 installed since a few days, which works great.
Coincidentally, I acquired a Raspberry Pi 2 about 2 weeks ago. I
installed Raspbian, compiled VDR 2.2.0 and the following plugins:
http://projects.vdr-develope
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:28:21AM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
vdr: /usr/local/lib/vdr/libvdr-dvbapi.so.2.2.0: undefined symbol:
_Z21set_even_control_wordPvPKh
The dvbcsa library is linked OK, so I wonder what might cause this.
c++filt demangles the symbol name to
set_even_control_word(voi
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 03:15:08PM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
Is it technically possible to for example pause a
live SD TV stream and copy some files over the Ethernet at the same
time?
Which scenario? VDR on RPI or on a remote? If VDR on a remote host,
IIRC, pausing causes very few bandw
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:40:41AM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
vdr-fbfe is connecting over network to a vdr running on a full machine.
No need for streamdev.
This looks interesting. Am I right assuming that the full machine will
not need any video output? Can vdr-fbfe be used for editing r
Hi Cedric,
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:08:05PM +0200, cedric.dew...@telfort.nl
wrote:
Write performance on the uSD card is terrible, even with a class 10
card. Updating debian on the card takes patience.
AFAIU if you are not afraid of bricking the Cubietruck, you could
install Debian on the b
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:25:22AM +0300, Füley István wrote:
I know, it's not a proper answer for your problem, but I think at the
moment the best native vdr client is a Raspberry Pi with Thomas
Reufer's great plugin. It's small, cheap and (using with vdr) it's
fast.
Speaking of small and ch
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:25:04PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 19.02.2015 12:55, fnu wrote:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Seiner-Zeit-voraus-Klaus-Schmidingers-Video-Disk-Recorder-VDR-2552972.html
Great!
Thank you Tobias, Mirko Doelle and Peter Siering!
Thanks from me, too!
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:56:28PM +0100, Eike wrote:
got German, English and Russian.
If you'd like your favorite language to be included, it's as
easy as translating the following 7 texts. For support of
SD TV displays it would be good to have every line except
the first two to be smaller than
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 02:44:40PM +0200, cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote:
How can I get, compile, package and install the latest versions on
debian?
If I remember correctly, I did roughly the following:
1. apt-get source vdr (version 1.7)
2. Get the VDR 2.x source package
3. Replace the conten
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:01:15PM +0200, cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote:
OK, I see. I would prefer an all-in-one solution (HDMI output, DVB-T
input, Ethernet and hard disk in a single device). This would seem to
be doable with an ARM board that supports SATA devices. On the RPi I
would not exp
Oh, hi, Martin! Long time no see.
Are you still using the old softdevice? I would have never guessed
someone is still using it :-)
Yes! I was in "stealth mode" for several years, until I finally upgraded
the software (Debian+VDR) from 2006 less than a year ago.
I tried to contribute some pa
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Thomas Reufer wrote:
Especially for devices like Raspberry Pi it would be very nice to have
kind of a "standby" function in VDR, which detaches active receivers
and call an appropriate function on the primary device to suspend and
blank the output. Then
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:23:36PM +0200, Milos Kapoun wrote:
TBS drivers replace all media tree in the kernel. After compilation I
have problem with IR remote on the current Hauppage Nova–T card.
If the Hauppauge card is comparable with the Nova-T PCI 90002 and if the
media drivers are being
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 04:50:39PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
After upgrading to VDR 2.0, I got Softdevice to almost work (see the
mail archive a couple of months ago). Sometimes it is showing garbage
(really random noise) on the MGA350 OSD layer; I can live with that,
as this box is only used
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 08:18:49PM -0800, VDR User wrote:
Why not just dump the dvd iso and play it with the vdr-mplayer plugin?
Or vdr-play plugin is that supports playing iso's directly.
The problem with these is that my VDR box is not connected to the living
room TV, other than via Ethernet
Hi,
I have a minimal setup consisting of an old PC sitting in a different
room, and a Samsung SmartTV in the living room. We rarely watch any DVDs
in my family, so we do not have any dedicated DVD player.
I used to use a DVD player plugin when the VDR PC was in the living
room, attached to a
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 12:23:23PM -0800, VDR User wrote:
If you haven't done so already, please bring this to Johns (author of
softhddevice) at the vdrportal forum.
I did not yet, because softdevice has little to do with softhddevice.
But thanks for the hint, I think I should set up vdr, sof
After upgrading to VDR 2.0, I got Softdevice to almost work (see the
mail archive a couple of months ago). Sometimes it is showing garbage
(really random noise) on the MGA350 OSD layer; I can live with that, as
this box is only used for infrequent recordings.
The last annoying problem is that
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 12:35:19PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I think I'll do it this way:
Thanks, this looks OK too. I guess that your patch is against the
development branch. In 2.0.4, the function is SetVideoDirectory()
instead of cVideoDirectory::SetName().
Marko
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 07:11:52PM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
With the patch, VDR successfully cut the recording. The source files
were in PES format, and also the new recording is in PES format. Based
on a discussion from 2008, this is the expected behaviour. Is there
some tool for
Hi all,
I am not sure if this was reported already, but I encountered this bug
when trying to edit a recording without setting up VDR:
./vdr -v /tmp/video --edit /tmp/video/Rec_name/2013-08-12.20.58.50.99.rec
Without the attached patch, VDR would try to create /srv/vdr/video, and
would fail
Hi Klaus,
Thanks for debugging this!
Please try whether this fixes it:
--- skinlcars.c
+++ skinlcars.c
@@ -900,6 +900,15 @@
ys03 = ys04 - Gap;
ys05 = yb15;
+ // The item area (just to have them initialized, actual setting will be done
in SetMenuCategory():
+
+ xi00 = 0;
+ xi01 = 0;
+
Hi Klaus,
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:47:10PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
#2 0x0810e3d2 in cPixmapMemory::DrawRectangle (this=0x6d3fe78,
Rect=..., Color=2566914048) at osd.c:1333
1333 cRect r = Rect.Intersected(DrawPort().Size());
As far as I can tell, the entirely uninitialized cRect
Hi all,
I played a little with Valgrind:
valgrind --vgdb=yes --vgdb-error=0 ./vdr ...
and in gdb,
(gdb) target remote |vgdb
This seems to give me a false alarm for cRecording::cRecording():
Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x0811951a in cRecording::cRecording (this=0xbee
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 01:57:37AM +0200, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
(1) The bottom 1% lines of the OSD are not being cleared when the OSD
extends that low. (I can choose up to 99% height and 0% vertical
offset.)
This looks like a bug in DirectFB or the way how softdevice is using it.
There is a
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:44:44PM +0200, Sami Ketola wrote:
This is not entirely true. All broadcasters in Finland are using DVB
subtitles except "Nelonen Media" on all their channels and MTV Media on
"Sub" channel. Yes even MTV3 seems to be DVB subtitled now.
I must admit that I do not watch
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