Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Marko Myllymaa
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Andrew Herron wrote: > I have to say that I agree with both of you... constructive criticism is > best! > > As a quiet 'user' of vdr, for about a year, I agree with the sentiments in > Martin's post. It is very frustrating that vdr exits when reception is less > than perfect.

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread martin
Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community.   Yes, you are right - I can not address my thoughts without emotions. So we get into ITIL terminology. I will not do it 100% correct, as we need the application of ITIL to the current problem.   Okay, here it comes. Some call it "

[vdr] [PATCH] vdr-dvdswitch crashing when pressing an arrow key in empty image directory

2007-05-28 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hi there! Opening DVDSwitch menu if the image directory is empty, and then pressing some arrow key crashes vdr. The attached patch solves this bug. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) Index: dvdswitch-0.1.3/menu.c === --- dvdsw

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Stefan Taferner
On Monday 28 May 2007 10:38:50 Marko Myllymaa wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Andrew Herron wrote: > > I have to say that I agree with both of you... constructive criticism is > > best! > > > > As a quiet 'user' of vdr, for about a year, I agree with the sentiments > > in Martin's post. It is very fr

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 05/28/07 11:30, martin wrote: > Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community. > ... [ ... lengthy pamphlet, repeated three(!) times ... ] Martin, why don't you simply remove the cThread::EmergencyExit(true) calls from recorder.c and remux.c? Klaus __

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Lars Bläser
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 05/28/07 11:30, martin wrote: >> Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community. >> ... > > [ ... lengthy pamphlet, repeated three(!) times ... ] > > Martin, why don't you simply remove the cThread::EmergencyExit(true) > calls from recorder.c and

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 05/28/07 16:44, Lars Bläser wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 05/28/07 11:30, martin wrote: >>> Thanks all for your replys! At least I feel heard by the community. >>> ... >> [ ... lengthy pamphlet, repeated three(!) times ... ] >> >> Martin, why don't you simply remove the cThread::Emerge

[vdr] new video-card with h264 decoder

2007-05-28 Thread Igor Nikanov
Hello what do you think about this card ? Is it good choice for future vdr with hdtv support ? http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc/sho...=622&pageid=644 >From the results we can see the HD acceleration of HD2600 and HD2400 is >striking. The CPU usage is only about 5% by using 1.6GHz Sempron

Re: [vdr] Dropping pixel font in VDR 1.5?

2007-05-28 Thread Thomas Wehrspann
On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:49, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I'm currently implementing support for Freetype fonts in VDR 1.5 > (based on Alexander Riedel's patch) and would like to completely > drop all the pixel font stuff. > > Just to make sure there won't be somebody who absolutely needs > the pixe

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Martin
because i'm speak some dialekts like basic or turbo pascal .. but not C :( and i am not the only one, who has got the problem. and i can't tell my granny to remove the cThread :)) > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:23:04 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > vdr@linuxtv.org> Subject: Re: [vdr] Thun

Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich

2007-05-28 Thread Martin
and again, start separating the services .. PS: sorry for the 3-times :( saw it now .. my apologies! > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 16:43:33 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > vdr@linuxtv.org> Subject: Re: [vdr] Thunderstorm over Munich> > On 05/28/07 > 16:44, Lars Bläser wrote:> > Klaus Schmi

Re: [vdr] 1.5.x Shutdown

2007-05-28 Thread Udo Richter
Chris wrote: > My shutdown script checks for different running processes (or connections) > and does not quit vdr if at least one of the tests returns true. But since > 1.5.2 (or probably since 1.5.0) the shutdown script remains as a zombie > in such cases until vdr actually quits. The shutdown sc

Re: [vdr] new video-card with h264 decoder

2007-05-28 Thread Pasi Juppo
Igor Nikanov wrote: > Hello > > what do you think about this card ? Is it good choice for future vdr with > hdtv support ? > > > http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc/sho...=622&pageid=644 >>From the results we can see the HD acceleration of HD2600 and HD2400 is >>striking. > The CPU usage is

Re: [vdr] 1.5.x Shutdown

2007-05-28 Thread Chris
Monday, May 28, 2007, 9:46:12 PM, Udo wrote: > The shutdown script has always been a fire-and-forget script that did > not evaluate any return codes or output. The only change that landed > together with the VDR shutdown rewrite in 1.5.1 is that the script is > now called detached from VDR, so i

Re: [vdr] 1.5.x Shutdown

2007-05-28 Thread Clemens Kirchgatterer
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My assumption is that the problem occurs because of the missing wait > call (if SystemExec is called 'detached'). I know, if VDR would wait > in there, the script wouldn't run simultaneously. But if VDR never > waits for the child's PID, the child's termination n