[vdr] VDR system on Raspberry pi vs these all in one systems

2020-09-27 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
My mom (82 years old) is still using a VCR with a tuner box. We are concerned about it wearing out, the tapes no longer being sold, etc.. She just spent $65 on a 9 pack of tapes from Amazon that could have gone to a new setup and she is saying she wants to get another VCR for backup. But they h

[vdr] How to open the Hauppauge curved remote for cleaning??

2018-03-13 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I know it can be done, I've done it before. I've cleaned lots of other remotes. But there is some trick to getting one of these open and I can't figure it out. The "OK" butting needs cleaning. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org https://www.linuxtv.o

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-11 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Standards??? what's that? Only thing around here that is standard is to be proprietary On 3/11/2018 2:19 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 11.03.2018 22:10, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: It turns out that both stations are owned by the same company. I have sent KGUN9 a second email about the con

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-11 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
nsport Stream Ids. And as wen can see from Timothy's old channel list, they used to have these. So somebody just screwed up! Klaus On 10 March 2018 at 08:47, Timothy D. Lenz <mailto:tl...@vorgon.com>> wrote:     Wel, it gets better. Tonight I see VDR is grabbing guide data f

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-10 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
old channel list, they used to have these. So somebody just screwed up! Klaus On 10 March 2018 at 08:47, Timothy D. Lenz <mailto:tl...@vorgon.com>> wrote:     Wel, it gets better. Tonight I see VDR is grabbing guide data for 9x and using it for 58.x. So 58.x data is now being l

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-09 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Wel, it gets better. Tonight I see VDR is grabbing guide data for 9x and using it for 58.x. So 58.x data is now being lost. g On 3/9/2018 2:29 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.03.2018 22:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.03.2018 22:13, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: I was hoping it was

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-09 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I sent an email to KGUN and if they don't fix the conflict right away, I guess I'll have to make a complaint to the FCC, not that it will do much good. On 3/9/2018 2:29 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.03.2018 22:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.03.2018 22:13, Timothy D. Len

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-08 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
n freq. and my guess is that they can use what ever numbers they want since they are on there own freq which they bought. On 3/8/2018 2:51 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 08.03.2018 03:36, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Haven't used the list in awhile I I think my first reply went to the wrong

Re: [vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-07 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
KFTU-HD,KFTU-HD:665028615:M10:A:0:65=2:0;68=spa@106,69=mul@106:0:0:2:0:179:0 :@463 getTV,getTV:665028615:M10:A:0:81=2:0;84=eng@106:0:0:3:0:179:0 :@464 ESCAPE,ESCAPE:665028615:M10:A:0:97=2:0;100=eng@106:0:0:4:0:179:0 On 3/7/2018 3:04 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 07.03.2018 00:04, Timothy D.

[vdr] Channels getting deleted on new scan

2018-03-06 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
So I'm using an old version of VDR, looks like 1.7.15 with the ATSC plugin. Just don't have the time to update everything. I noticed that the 9x locals stopped getting guide data. I did a new scan and the new list worked for 9x but would wipe 58x channels. comparing them, they changed the next to

Re: [vdr] vdr atsc support

2016-03-25 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 3/25/2016 11:55 AM, Joerg Bornkessel wrote: Am 24.03.2016 um 07:35 schrieb Mika Laitio: Does anybody know whether there is a working ATSC vdr-plugin available somewhere? I found some old discussions from the some ATSC plug-in from the mailing list pointing to http://www.fepg.org/ but from

Re: [vdr] New tool to load VDR with XMLTV Data

2013-12-23 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
So this would read data from Schedules Direct? I started trying to come up with something, but never got far with it. On 12/23/2013 2:46 PM, Adam Flott wrote: I wrote a tool to load VDR with XMLTV data. Written in Go with 0 external dependencies and does a few things nicer than that perl script

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.7 -> 2.1 upgrade tips (FHS)

2013-11-04 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
To me, dumping files all over the drives is messy, sloppy, and bad practice. Always has been and always will be. Someone just wants to copy MS stupidity into linux. On 11/4/2013 2:16 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 04.11.2013 21:25, Lars Hanisch wrote: Hi, Am 04.11.2013 17:17, schrieb VDR Us

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Better to support multi-positioners. Makes options much more flexible. On 4/21/2013 5:54 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual base class cPositioner, which defin

Re: [vdr] Rotor plugin source?

2013-02-14 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I haven't tried the patch, just the plugin. The plugin had some nice features that where handy. My rotor isn't even active now. Needs to be realigned after replacing a limit switch and I never have much secess aligning it. That and there is so little FTA in the US on small dish. Hardly worth th

Re: [vdr] [DISCUSSION REQUEST] reintroduce a common make configuration file in VDR-1.7.35

2012-12-26 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I prefer to keep files for a given program together in that programs tree. Not scatter all over the computer like ms. The only thing for vdr I move is the recordings because of the space required. All settings/config files for vdr belong in the vdr directory tree. On 12/25/2012 1:07 PM, Klaus

Re: [vdr] Digital Devices (Linux 4 Media) 4 port (8 tuner) octopus/Duoflex experiences

2012-11-27 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I glanced at these boards because at one time I wanted to replace my old nexus card and I only want to use multi-tunner cards from now on. I could not afford any upgrades now though:( But one thing I noticed is, they only support 8PASK modulation and not the others, 16/32. While they may not b

Re: [vdr] polarization character case in channels.conf

2012-11-07 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I have used upper and lower case to denote for different sources in the past in diseqc.conf and it worked. Case needs to, or needed to in the past, match. On 11/7/2012 9:12 AM, Mike Hay wrote: Well, there is a toupper() in cDvbTransponderParameters::Parse(), so I would expect that all characte

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-09-10 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I build from the hg source. On 9/10/2012 9:20 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: Hi Timothy, On 29 August 2012 22:01, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Just did a crash to grab what is in the logs: /var/log/ syslog: Aug 29 13:57:01 x64VDR vdr: [9106] ATSC Scanner thread started (pid=20976, tid=9106) Aug 29 13

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
vdr On 8/28/2012 1:11 PM, Dominic Evans wrote: On 28 Aug 2012, at 20:58, "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: The crashing problem would be better address by making it part of VDR. I am trying to make scripts to use Schedules Direct because even if VDR was picking up what the broadcasters

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
M, Dominic Evans wrote: On 28 Aug 2012, at 20:58, "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: The crashing problem would be better address by making it part of VDR. I am trying to make scripts to use Schedules Direct because even if VDR was picking up what the broadcasters send, the broadcasters themselve

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: On 25 August 2012 20:54, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The problem here in the US is, DVB is not a standard for anything. I'm guessing Klaus' problem here is that he doesn't live in the US so can't access ATSC broa

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
http://www.fepg.org/ I suspect he ether got too busy to work on it anymore or just got tired of of it. He put out several nice plugins in a short time back when the US switched to ATSC. On 8/28/2012 8:05 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: On 25 August 2012 20:54, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The problem

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
to scan for new channels where fixed, that would help. On 8/25/2012 2:42 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 25.08.2012 04:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: ATSC is the standard for OTA broadcast in the US now. It would be nice if support could be built into vdr now. The plugin for getting eit data and

Re: [vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-25 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
The problem here in the US is, DVB is not a standard for anything. On 8/25/2012 2:42 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I don't think that problems would be fixed any better if this were part of the official VDR code. If the original author no longer maintains the code, somebody else should take over

[vdr] ATSC scanning support request

2012-08-24 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
ATSC is the standard for OTA broadcast in the US now. It would be nice if support could be built into vdr now. The plugin for getting eit data and scanning for channels hasn't been updated in 2 years. It still has problems. on my x64 system, it seg faults most of the time when trying to scan fo

Re: [vdr] same channel on different hardware

2012-04-25 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 4/25/2012 2:46 AM, syrius...@no-log.org wrote: Marx writes: Hello Let's say I have same channel available from DVB-S and DVB-T. Is it possible to tell VDR that those channels are the same and can be treated the same as on dual head DVB-S devices? So It would share EPG and would be used fo

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-05 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 3/5/2012 2:52 AM, Gero wrote: On Monday 05 March 2012 - 09:02:56, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 05.03.2012 04:47, Gero wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 - 22:51:36, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 04.03.2012 19:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: ... A problem I have run into before is not that a channel

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-05 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
be what killed the card. Poor craftsmanship. On 3/4/2012 2:51 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 04.03.2012 19:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: ... A problem I have run into before is not that a channel is down, though that also happens, but that a tuner is down. I've had tuner crashes, but v

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-04 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 3/3/2012 4:48 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 02.03.2012 18:13, Udo Richter wrote: Am 02.03.2012 11:06, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: On 29.02.2012 21:33, Udo Richter wrote: Roughly, the callback should be at the places where these two get called: DELETENULL(liveSubtitle); DELETENULL(dvbSub

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-04 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 3/2/2012 11:06 AM, VDR User wrote: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: Signal the server to start recording. But then the client has to be able to match up its buffer with what the server has recorded after the buffer filled and let the server know when the temp recording

Re: [vdr] IS there a working UPnP-AV/DLNA support for VDR?

2012-02-11 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I'm interested in this also, but we have 2 Sony Bravias. Hacking the Tv not an option. I do know that on ours, for youtube, you can do searches and stuff using an on screen alphabet that follows the letter to number grouping you see on phones. So it does have a way to enter stuff. On 2/10/201

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-16 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
You could change the line to a lable by starting it with ": ". If I understand it correctly, using a space after : instead of @ and it becomes a label for the channels after. A way to group them sort of. You can then using it as a quick jump to the channel that follows, but it should be skiped

Re: [vdr] will VDR run on this?

2011-08-01 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
broadcom? yea right, someone will likely have to be willing to buy 50,000 before they will even start producing them and then you'll need to be willing to buy 10-20,000 unless someone like digi-key decides to stock it. They made a cool tuner chip that handled most if not all current sat formats

Re: [vdr] TT Premium S2-6400

2011-04-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I just looked at the pdf on this card. Euro only as it only supports PAL. Also, I just got my new 32" TV in dec and noticed that most where 1080p. There where few new 1080i. The local TV dealer said companies are discontinuing 1080i. Many new TV's even upscale to 120 or 240 creating interpolate

Re: [vdr] Can VDR use one specific transponder for EPG information?

2011-04-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
w for the recording should make it auto delete. I haven't tried it though. On 4/17/2011 3:15 PM, VDR User wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Just a thought but you could set up a daily or weekly timer with a very low priority on the recording so it auto deletes it.

Re: [vdr] Can VDR use one specific transponder for EPG information?

2011-04-17 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Just a thought but you could set up a daily or weekly timer with a very low priority on the recording so it auto deletes it. I've never used the auto delete after set time because I never know how long it will be before I get back to watching the recording. On 4/17/2011 9:18 AM, John Klimek wr

Re: [vdr] rotor-ng

2011-03-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
maybe once it's cleaned up and fully functional, in can be intigrated with vdr. On 3/22/2011 8:49 AM, VDR User wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Morfsta wrote: At the moment you need to manually edit the file to set the positions up. A later version might include assigning or changing t

Re: [vdr] rotor-ng

2011-03-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I get smoe of the terms confused. gotox is where you tell it the sat postion such as 97w and it goes there as vs telling it to go to a stored location? If that is the case, then gotox is needed as a way to get the rotor to a location. Also, VDR Diseqc should be on to use rotor as well as switc

Re: [vdr] rotor-ng in development [was [ANNOUNCE] vdr-actuator-1.2.0 plugin]

2011-03-20 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I only have a Nexus-s for sat card and right now my rotor alignment is all screwed up. Relays went bad and had to replace them. I left the rotor elevation setting untouched but now it over shoots more and more the farther it goes as if the elevation is wrong. Haven't had time to look into it.

Re: [vdr] skip +/- 60 sec suggestion.

2011-02-06 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I would not trust an ads auto skipper until broadcasters were required to embed something to signal the start/stop of ads and that be enforced by withdraw of broadcast license if not followed. And that will never happen. Advertises do anything and everything to get their ads watched even to t

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] GOTOX patch for vdr-1.7.16

2011-01-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I can't try it atm because a relay went bad in my rotor. Only goes one direction. But looking at the patch, you put the user location in the patch, not the conf? On 1/28/2011 7:40 AM, Ales Jurik wrote: Hi, after some time I've improved the gotox patch for vdr - it is now correctly resolving c

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-28 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Don't forget that modern LCD screens only have the res they are rated for. So anything you send needs to be an exact division of that or you will have pixels lost or merged with others as they fall between displayable pixels. CRT's had more points of light they the highest res they where rated

Re: [vdr] Remote receiver options...

2011-01-25 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
http://www.huitsing.nl/irftdi/ Check that link. there is a company that makes a IR sensor and USB interface module. Some have the cables made up and you can get them from digi key. Just plug in to a usb port and use the right driver. On 1/25/2011 3:16 AM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: Silverstone LC

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to, vdr

2011-01-24 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I had to put the rotor entry in he conf twice with w20 delay between to make the rotor dependable. And turn off all channel updating. On 1/24/2011 12:36 PM, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: I made this patch because the relationship of vdr diseqc core and rotor plugin was flaky. Despite of diseqc command

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to, vdr

2011-01-23 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Fixed number would help a little, but would get anoying and be in the way a lot of time. Going from one sat to the next is with in 2-3 sec's. It's when you need to do a full swing you run into collecting from the wrong sat. On 1/23/2011 2:31 PM, Arturo Martinez wrote: :·) :·) I would also

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-23 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
btw, here is a collection of pdf's on rotor function: http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/4_5_5.html On 1/23/2011 9:57 AM, Manuel Reimer wrote: Hello, I would also love to see native rotor support. The plugin crashes all the time with yavdr and is virtually unusable. IMHO it depends on how th

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-23 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Actuator control requires a simple interface device for the computer to control direction and power to a motor. This also requires a driver which has already been made. Then there is the option to make a diseq controller box that makes actuators look like rotors. They can be home made: http://w

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-23 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Once you have the rotor setup and locations stored in the rotors memory, you can already control it with with the conf as it is: S95.0W 9 V 10750 t V W15 [E0 31 6B 0E] W20 [E0 31 6B 0E] W20 [E0 10 38 FC] W5 v S95.0W 9 H 10750 t V W15 [E0 31 6B 0E] W20 [E0 31 6B 0E] W20 [E0 10 38 FC] W5

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
That would be nice, I thought he said he wasn't interested in doing it because of lack of interest. I tried to get the subject going again because there are people who would want it, but it seems most of those that would use it are not programmers and rely on others to write it. There are also

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] naludump 0.0.1

2011-01-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Has anyone here every used or seen an STB's rotor support? The one I have is a first gen Neusat SP-6000. Maybe those of you with the interest in doing it and programing skill to tackle it have a sat store near by where you can see one and get a look at the setup functions. OR find a cheap one o

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
tp://ventoso.org/luca/vdr/ (wiki page in German is here http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Actuator-plugin , use google translate to translate)? Yarema 2011/1/22 Timothy D. Lenz mailto:tl...@vorgon.com>> Time to bump this request again _

[vdr] Request for rotor/actuator support integration to vdr

2011-01-21 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Time to bump this request again ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] VDR deleting channels it shouldn't

2011-01-21 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
If RID is the last number in the list, vdr won't collect epg data if this number is anything but 0 for atsc channels. On 1/9/2011 11:28 PM, Theunis Potgieter wrote: On 10 January 2011 00:02, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09.01.2011 21:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Using vdr-1.7.15. 3 o

Re: [vdr] XBMC vnsi dts/pts errors on ATSC Channel through VDR

2011-01-21 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
is actually HD Mpeg2 720p with AC3, but the issue I have is only with XBMC and vnsiserver. I am wondering if there's a clock set wrong on their ATSC muxer or something like that which xine and every set top box out there ignores, but XBMC looks at. On 21/01/11 12:34, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The

Re: [vdr] XBMC vnsi dts/pts errors on ATSC Channel through VDR

2011-01-21 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
There was a patch posted a day or two in the in the xine list that had to do with pts. From freenode #xine: [11:43] in case of a video freeze, I assume you had a clock error [11:44] hotwings suffers them too for h264 [11:54] btw, you fixed the pts error rnissl. but when it occurs the vide

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Is it possible to figure out if the stream is interlaced or not by looking at the stream? Seems like it should be able to figure out within a frame or two (.033ms) and then just ignore the useless flags? Needs to be done with epg data. I think the Insignia boxes just try to read data regardless

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
You can't depend on the flag. It's a strange one. I have a channel that is reported as 1080i by the femon plugin but deint has to be off sometimes to reduce jitter. Other times it can be on. The FCC has gotten very lax in requirments and even more lax in inforcing what rules they do have. On

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Maybe this would be something to request for vdr-xine update On 1/19/2011 4:24 AM, Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 19 January 2011 20:18, Stuart Morris wrote: IMHO the best way to go for a low power HTPC is to decode in hardware e.g. VDPAU, VAAPI, but output interlaced video to your TV and let the TV

Re: [vdr] Deinterlace video

2011-01-19 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I thought it had to be deinterlaced as it was decoded. If we could just decode and send at was ever res (720p, 1080i, 1080p) the stream is in, then work would be offloaded to the TV. Might be a nice option for those of us with marginal video cards. On 1/19/2011 3:48 AM, Niko Mikkilä wrote:

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-16 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
grr, nvidia and their stupid naming system. 430 looks more like a 5xx card but with the discontinued number line. 4xx was being replaced by refined 5xx. This is the first non-crippled chip released with a 4xx number. So once again, like with the 8400's we can't be sure what die it's based on.

Re: [vdr] Replacing aging VDR for DVB-S2

2011-01-16 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I wouldn't buy any 4xx cards. All have dead weight on chip and are basicly power hungry/wasting beta versions. Look for 5xx On 1/15/2011 2:09 PM, Goga777 wrote: In general, get a gt220, as it has built in audio hardware, so that you should get audio without clock drift relative to the hdmi outp

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-13 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
oh, so now we need opengl and a compositing manager on top of everything else? You miss the point. I don't have a problem with vdr being usable as client/server. There are advantages. But it doesn't need to be so complex and it is seperate form the local renderer. On 1/13/2011 7:46 AM, Geral

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-13 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
And you are back to layer on layer on layer. If someone is going to write something, let it be the plugin that talks to vdr and ffmpeg. Forget xineliboutput, libxine, etc. The more middle ware we can dump the better. On 1/12/2011 12:15 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 12/01/11 18:42, VDR User wrot

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-12 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Kosunen wrote: On 11.1.2011 22:20, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: I would prefer a ffmpeg (mplayer) based interface and dump xine because xine/vdpau combo doesn't properly handle problems with the atsc stream. You can use ffmpeg decoding with xineliboutput. ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput: # priorit

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-12 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Didn't nvidia do the early ffmpeg patch as part of the example of how to support vdpau? That would explain why they work better together. On 1/11/2011 9:30 PM, VDR User wrote: That would be great actually. Or just having another option period besides something dependent on libxine. The guy w

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-12 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
When vdr was using the hardware video out of a nexus card, it worked great. I had a LOT fewer problems. The video interface plugin should be just that and nothing more. It doesn't need support for irc in it It doesn't need lirc support, that is in vdr There is an mplayer plugin if you need to

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-12 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
xineliboutput still uses xine. So it sounds like you are saying dump vdr and keep xine. xine is the problem, not vdr. On 1/11/2011 1:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 11/01/11 20:20, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: I would prefer a ffmpeg (mplayer) based interface and dump xine because xine/vdpau combo

Re: [vdr] vdradmin recording description

2011-01-12 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
maybe he's thinking about when you click on a show, you get a popup box with the show name and any other epg info vdr has. On 1/11/2011 1:17 PM, VDR User wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: When setting a timer with vdradmin the popup includes a box which is supposed

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
screen with no audio. This also corrects with a channel change. Xine also has too much extra junk and its related dependencies which are not needed. On 1/11/2011 11:33 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 11/01/11 18:23, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: xine-lib-1.2-vdpau is just a link to xine-lib-1.2. Use e

Re: [vdr] Developer versions

2011-01-11 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
xine-lib-1.2-vdpau is just a link to xine-lib-1.2. Use ether one and you get the same. You want: hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2 and if you are using vdr-xine plugin: hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-ui/ On 1/10/2011 1:52 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: On 1

Re: [vdr] VDR deleting channels it shouldn't

2011-01-10 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
OK, now the conf has been changed. First time it happened within 30sec. this time it took much longer. On 1/9/2011 3:02 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09.01.2011 21:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Using vdr-1.7.15. 3 of the local networks have duplicate transmitters. 1 is a bit too weak get right

Re: [vdr] VDR deleting channels it shouldn't

2011-01-10 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
ying to put the others in as backup channels. On 1/9/2011 3:02 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 09.01.2011 21:04, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Using vdr-1.7.15. 3 of the local networks have duplicate transmitters. 1 is a bit too weak get right now and because of a bug in atsc, I can't rescan ri

[vdr] VDR deleting channels it shouldn't

2011-01-09 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Using vdr-1.7.15. 3 of the local networks have duplicate transmitters. 1 is a bit too weak get right now and because of a bug in atsc, I can't rescan right now (crashes vdr, reported in another post). I pulled the entries for the secondary transmitters for two of the networks from the last scan

[vdr] ATSC plugin segfaults with channel scan

2011-01-05 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
This is a old problem that went partly away for awhile (only crashed sometimes) but now is all the time again. Jan 5 13:05:39 x64VDR vdr: [22436] saved setup to /usr/local/dvb/VDR/config/setup.conf Jan 5 13:05:59 x64VDR vdr: [22575] ATSC Scanner thread started (pid=22436, tid=22575) Jan 5 1

Re: [vdr] Request: E parameter in channels.conf for epg scan

2010-12-06 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I'm seeing two different things talked about here. One is not to scan EPG data on some channels and that does seem like something that belongs in the channels.conf. I use the web vdradmin and epg search for shows to record can be limited to a range of channels but they must be grouped together

Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California

2010-10-01 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I should say ATSC is the national standard replacement for NTSC On 10/1/2010 2:07 AM, Simon Baxter wrote: Do any networks or network providers provide free or accessible ATSC channels in the LA area? Is it FTA, or do they require a CI/CAM? ___ vdr ma

Re: [vdr] ATSC Channel providers California

2010-10-01 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
To find out what is around you, try this: http://tvfool.com/ It will tell you both the digital and any remaining analog stations, the direction and ~ signal level to your location. ALL ATSC is FTA free to air. It is the replacement for the old analog FTA/OTA broadcast> all high power stations

[vdr] ATSC missing program discription on some channels

2010-09-03 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Using the ATSC epg plugin I get all program names, but some channels just say no information. But if you check the same channels with a converter box, they do have program information. I was told there is a flag that is checked. If the flag is not set by the broadcaster, the program info is not

Re: [vdr] diseqc relay cascade

2010-08-30 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
ing google, but I found only uncommitted 16 input switch. Is here another (cheaper) solution that buy this 16 input switch and substitute 4 input switch with it? Thanks Jiri Jansky Timothy D. Lenz napsal(a): After looking back at the specs I am a bit confuse about "commited" and "un

Re: [vdr] diseqc relay cascade

2010-08-27 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
about this command in eutelsat documentation nor source code (these commands are implemented as ioctl() in fronted source code module). Timothy D. Lenz napsal(a): Not sure if this is what you mean, But for an example, The dishnetwork dual lnb has a switch in it and responds to F1/F5 vs a standar

Re: [vdr] Dish Network and Diseqc switches.

2010-08-18 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Ok, the problem with dish equipment is dish now scambles everything including the NASA. the only channel not scambled is 101 which is just and 24/7 comercial for DN. However, their EPG data is not scrambled, so if you can find your locals, you can add the channels to your list and add the 9 day

Re: [vdr] diseqc relay cascade

2010-08-18 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Not sure if this is what you mean, But for an example, The dishnetwork dual lnb has a switch in it and responds to F1/F5 vs a standard switch which would be F0/F4. The standard switch will only respond to F0/F4 while I think the DN switch will respond to ether set. So Putting a DN dual LNB on a

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput - pausing playback takes time

2010-08-17 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I use vdr-xine plugin instead and .xine only has 1 file, catalog.cache. It is a text readable file created by xine. On 8/17/2010 9:51 AM, JJussi wrote: Hi! I found "fix" to this problem.. After removing .xine directory (from home of 'vdr'; user what runs vdr-sxfe) pausing works as it should be.

Re: [vdr] xine, eepg and 64 bits

2010-08-17 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
When it freezes, try just letting it set for up to a minute. It often clears. Also, when that happens, check the logs. You might find vdr filled up it's buffers. On 8/17/2010 3:47 AM, Dominic Evans wrote: On 15 August 2010 07:44, wrote: b) sometimes when changing channel something very weird

Re: [vdr] frequent xine crashes with vdr

2010-08-15 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I am using Debian Lenny x64. The problems I see, I also see on my dad's x32 system and have to do with problems between xine and vdpau, such has when signal is corrupt vdpau messes with frame size and xine doesn't seem to know how to deal with that. I also see the random lockups others have rep

Re: [vdr] Hulu plugin yet?

2010-07-31 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Shouldn't need to set up a windows server to add hulu suport. Mythtv can do it, Hulu is supported in linux. Want to reduce overhead, not add to it. On 7/31/2010 9:57 AM, Rob Davis wrote: On 29/07/10 17:36, VDR User wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: Now that

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.15 problem with TV

2010-07-31 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Just an off the wall guess, buffer problem? Not that much ram needed, but how much does the system have? On 7/31/2010 12:29 AM, Simon Baxter wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Simon Baxter wrote: This is all very fascinating, but can anyone offer a suggestion to how I can debug my 3 sec

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.15 problem with TV

2010-07-31 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Need to confirm the tuner is still working also. When my dual tuner card died, the drivers still loaded but vdr couldn't access the tuners. On 7/30/2010 11:12 PM, VDR User wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Simon Baxter wrote: This is all very fascinating, but can anyone offer a suggest

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.15 problem with TV

2010-07-30 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I would like to dump xine though it is getting stable, it's still a lot of extra crap that needs installing to use it that just waste disk space. Softdevice doesn't support vdpau though does it? I'm still confused about the layers. Seems like X is the layer between vdr and vdpau driver, but we

[vdr] Hulu plugin yet?

2010-07-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Now that Hulu is offering HD of sorts (720 with sub), are there any plugins in the works to give vdr hulu access? So far the only thing I've seen are just scripts to shutdown vdr and switch to some other program. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org h

Re: [vdr] Subdirectories are missing

2010-07-15 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
For a long time I have created sub folders and moved video's there for storage when saving for a friend. Got them out of the main list but could still be seen from recordings list. But when the folder was empty, vdr auto deletes them, or did. Now that it supports folder grouping, maybe not. hav

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-09 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
ing, it has "No description provided for this event." for all events. Think it's time to look more into getting Schedules Direct working iwth vdr. On 7/8/2010 5:03 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: epgsync seemed to work for copying over the sat channels that matched the atsc cha

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-08 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
into the epgdata file. On 7/6/2010 11:56 PM, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:09:31 -0700 "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: adding the -v 3 doesn't show any more in the logs that I have seen, but another example of how changing the channel on the timer is messing something up

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-07 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I never looked at epgsync because I thought that was for syncing between 2 or more vdr systems. Didn't know it could sync within one file. On 7/6/2010 11:56 PM, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:09:31 -0700 "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: adding the -v 3 doesn't

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-07 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
g that it can't decrypt. But It's not conflicting with any other timers. On 7/6/2010 11:40 PM, Christian Wieninger wrote: Hi, Am 07.07.2010 08:21, schrieb Timothy D. Lenz: This is not what I thought I was seeing. I thought it was saying conflicts when 2 shows are back to back on the sam

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-06 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
stopping timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: add pending timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: attach starting timers Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: check time Thu 15.07. 22:01 - done Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: create conflict list - done Tue 06.07.2010 23:08:17: result of conflict check for Thu 15.07. 20:59: Tue 0

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-07-04 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
tian Wieninger wrote: Hi, Am 29.06.2010 20:36, schrieb Timothy D. Lenz: The problem is, it doesn't properly change the entry. This is the summary for the timer as it first sets up: 90 - KGUNCastle127856154012785652608518498 And just changing the channel, it does this: 1849806060

Re: [vdr] Request for rotor integration to vdr

2010-06-30 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
While poking around on the net I found this old thread from 2004: http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/01-2004/msg00848.html ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Edit timer/Timer conflict problem vdradmin/epgsearch

2010-06-29 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
On 6/29/2010 2:11 PM, Christian Wieninger wrote: as far as I know, vdradmin uses epgsearch's conflict check. epgsearch itself determines the available devices and their properties and supported sources with the same means as VDR itself. So a mix of different cards and different sources should

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