[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-3

2006-10-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
VDR maintenance patch 1.4.3-3 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-3.diff This is a 'diff' against version 1.4.3-2 (which is the official version 1.4.3, patched with ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4.3-1.diff and ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.4

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > On 21 Oct 2006, at 20:22, C.Y.M wrote: > >> >> Yes, it still happens on every firmware revision. But, I really dont >> think this >> is a firmware issue as much as it is a VDR one. There must be several >> ways to >> approach this problem but the best way would be an op

[vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Morfsta
On 10/22/06, C.Y.M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you thinking that mplayer might be dropping bad frames more efficiently thanVDR?  Is it possible that VDR is not dropping the bad frames properly, thus causing dvbplayer.c to struggle when processing/forwarding the video to the FFDVB card? This is t

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-22 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glyn Edwards wrote: > Streamdev isn't quite what I want since you need a whole vdr install on > the client as well. ISTR you can connect directly with MPlayer or Xine by streaming HTTP and part of the URL tells it which channel to select. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

Re: [vdr] VDR deletes directories

2006-10-22 Thread Johannes Schoeller
hi klaus i run a plain-vanilla vdr (1.4.3) now and all those empty directories are gone. so it's definetly NO BUG in vdr. i assume it's bigpatch's fault. :( regards hannes Johannes Schoeller wrote: Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I have the problem that VDR deletes directories in my /video0 o

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
C.Y.M wrote: mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -framedrop -cache 4096 -slave -nolirc -quiet 001.vdr Notice that "-framedrop" is added to the command line. I wonder if that is the reason why mplayer is "immune" to the a/v desync problem. Definitely not just that. My playback issue already disap

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
Morfsta wrote: Certainly I think the problem is that VDR is not properly doing sync, In a way, I agree. VDR does not sync at all. Never. Simplified, here's what the VDR playback really does: - Read data from file in frame-sized chunks into read buffers - If the DVB driver accepts data, read a

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Udo Richter wrote: > Thats all. VDR just delivers the data stream as fast as the DVB device > accepts it. The DVB devices do all the syncing and timing. > > And thats why I think that this is a firmware issue, not a VDR issue, > simply because VDR does almost nothing to

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Tero Siironen
On 21.10.2006 15.58, "Oliver Endriss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Udo Richter wrote: >> Tero Siironen wrote: >>> However, like Pasi Juppo told earlier in other thread, in last weeks episode >>> of Lost there was many fadeout-fadeins between scenes and a/v desync >>> happened on every one of these

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-22 Thread Glyn Edwards
> ISTR you can connect directly with MPlayer or Xine by streaming HTTP and > part of the URL tells it which channel to select. True, but as far as I'm aware, you can't access recordings and FFwd and Rwd etc... Thanks for the pointer though Glyn > _

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Richard Scobie
Adding my 2 cents, in the hope that others more knowledgable may be able to reproduce the problem. Using a Nexus S 2.1 with the latest beta firmware, I find I lose audio sync when doing multiple "yellow button skips" to jump through commercial breaks, where there is a 30-50% chance the audio w

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
The way I understand it, the shows are sent as mpeg2, VDR decodes to raw data and stores as xxx.vdr files? which then need a special player that dosn't seem to work correctly to play these now much larger files which eat up a lot more space. So why not store them as mpeg files? A more common format

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Udo Richter wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -framedrop -cache 4096 -slave -nolirc >> -quiet 001.vdr >> >> Notice that "-framedrop" is added to the command line. I wonder if >> that is the >> reason why mplayer is "immune" to the a/v desync problem. > > Definitely not just

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:56, C.Y.M wrote: Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with VDR or mplayer. Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when playing back VDR recordings, and

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The way I understand it, the shows are sent as mpeg2, VDR decodes to raw data and stores as xxx.vdr files Now vdr file are raw data sent by the card : ie mpeg2. Have you an idea of the size of uncompressed video ? Matthieu __

Re: [vdr] desperated with vdr-burn

2006-10-22 Thread Leo Márquez
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[vdr] desperated with vdr-burn

2006-10-22 Thread Leo Márquez
Hi, Finally I'm desperated with vdr-burn. Few days ago I exposed my problem but seems that I'm the one person that experience it. The problem is boost related: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::io::too_many_args' what(): boost::too_many_args: format-string refered to less

Re: [vdr] desperated with vdr-burn

2006-10-22 Thread Tobias Grimm
Leo Márquez wrote: > Finally I'm desperated with vdr-burn. Few days ago I exposed my > problem but seems that I'm the one person that experience it. At least one person at the German vdrportal.de seems to have the same problem (but no solution yet): http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?posti

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with VDR or mplayer. Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when playing back VDR recordings, and it is not prone to any type or desync, then I vote we all try t

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: > >>> >>> And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with >>> VDR or mplayer. >>> >> >> Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when >> playing back >> VDR recordings, and it is not prone to

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
Tero Siironen wrote: Here is a 3 minute clip from the episode of Lost I told earlier. http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/lost.tar 80MB file and played ok at least with VLC v 0.8.5. and MPlayer on OS X I've checked your recording. Lost "The other 48 days" - surely one of the worst episodes for me

Re: [vdr] desperated with vdr-burn

2006-10-22 Thread Tobias Grimm
Leo Márquez wrote: > I'm using debian etch and always compile vdr and plugins myself. > I see e-tobi is sarge. I also have binaries for Sid so all source packages should compile on Etch as well. > is there any problem in compile vdr myself and install vdr plugins > packages? Probably not - but w

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Udo Richter wrote: > Tero Siironen wrote: >> Here is a 3 minute clip from the episode of Lost I told earlier. >> http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/lost.tar >> >> 80MB file and played ok at least with VLC v 0.8.5. and MPlayer on OS X > > I've checked your recording. Lost "The other 48 days" - surely

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-22 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glyn Edwards wrote: > > ISTR you can connect directly with MPlayer or Xine by streaming HTTP and > > part of the URL tells it which channel to select. > True, but as far as I'm aware, you can't access recordings and FFwd and > Rwd etc... Both the above players can play vdr