Re: [vdr] [Offtopic] US Television (near Washington D.C.)

2006-08-03 Thread Marco Goebenich
Hi! Do you really mean DAVIC, as I read as much manuals as I could get, it seems, that DAVIC is a standard for MHP, or digital internet services with a back channel over cable modems. I found DVB-C and OpenCable as the two standards used in the US, and it seems that Comcast uses OpenCable, but

[vdr] softdevice: audio device selection

2006-08-03 Thread Alex Golks
hello, i have a little question concerning the audio device selection of the softdevice. i'm running vdr 1.4.1 with softdevice 0.2.3a. my tv card is recongized as: bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected] with frontendend: DVB: registering frontend 0 (DST DVB-T)... and my sou

Re: [vdr] softdevice: audio device selection

2006-08-03 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, You can't get audio output since you write -ao dummy: Best regards. Halim ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Re: softdevice: audio device selection

2006-08-03 Thread ich
thats quite sure. the only way momentarly getting the softdevice running is with "-ao dummy:". without it, it complains about: "[softdevice-audio] Playback open error: plug:spdif, Invalid argument FATAL exiting". for my understanding, it gets ac3 audio stream from the tv-card, and tries to open th

Re: [vdr] [Offtopic] US Television (near Washington D.C.)

2006-08-03 Thread Jon Burgess
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:34 +0200, Marco Goebenich wrote: > Or a completly other direction, if not using vdr, how do americans > record digital TV with their PCs, as I think of Windows Media Center > software, or something else. > For me it seems, that only a few people in the US use digital TV.

Re: [vdr] Error while Recording and loose signal

2006-08-03 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:34:32PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote: > daliman wrote: > >Sorry but it is not possible for me to describe this error in english. > >Maybe the google-translator work. > > > >Bei Aufzug eines Gewitters empfängt die Satanlage kein Signal mehr, > >so daß ich nur noch schwarz sehe

Re: [vdr] Error while Recording and loose signal

2006-08-03 Thread Udo Richter
Herbert Poetzl wrote: for some reason channel A fails because of a thunderstorm or a covered lnc (think bird) or one of several DVB cards have a problem with the reception (cable unplugged, wrong diseqc commands issued or whatever), which leads to a vdr which is restarting every 10-15 seconds,

[vdr] LCDproc plugin 0.1.0 with VDR 1.4.1-1

2006-08-03 Thread Christian Kruft
Hey, does anybody have a patch to make the lcdproc 0.1.0 plugin work with VDR 1.4.1-1 ? I've tried one from January but this patch doesn't help. While starting VDR I got this errors: Close Called Not Connected !!! After that, VDR shuts down. LCDproc is working fine, only this plugin won't wor

Re: [vdr] Error while Recording and loose signal

2006-08-03 Thread devzero
Udo Richter schrieb: Herbert Poetzl wrote: for some reason channel A fails because of a thunderstorm or a covered lnc (think bird) or one of several DVB cards have a problem with the reception (cable unplugged, wrong diseqc commands issued or whatever), which leads to a vdr which is restart

Re: [vdr] Re: softdevice: audio device selection

2006-08-03 Thread Dave
Why dont you just try -ao alsa:pcm=default your said your soundcard doesnt have spdif and you arent using it, so why are you telling softdevice to use spdif? ich wrote: > thats quite sure. > the only way momentarly getting the softdevice running is with "-ao > dummy:". without it, it complain

Re: [vdr] Error while Recording and loose signal

2006-08-03 Thread devzero
devzero schrieb: Udo Richter schrieb: Herbert Poetzl wrote: for some reason channel A fails because of a thunderstorm or a covered lnc (think bird) or one of several DVB cards have a problem with the reception (cable unplugged, wrong diseqc commands issued or whatever), which leads to a vd

[vdr] vdr suggestions & osd colour oddity

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Elsworth
Hello! I've just started using vdr 1.4.0 in Ubuntu and I have to say I'm extremely impressed and very happy with it - very nice work, well done to the author :) I have a couple of things I'd like to suggest and wonder if they'd be up for consideration. When viewing a channel, pressing Up/Down cu