Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
The xorg.conf options differ for newer versions of the nvidia driver, that is why mine looks different. How I picked up on the problem was, when I ran xvidtune on DISPLAY=:0.1 (TV-Out) and found that even when I set the modeline, it still ran @60Hz, thus showing the tearing effect and had to enabl

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 02:37, Thomas Hilber wrote: > To a certain degree you can workaround this by software deinterlacing. > After some further experimenting I finally found a solution to fine > adjust the > frame rate of my elderly Radeon type card. > Just trimming the length of a few scanlines

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 07/22/08 23:32, Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:30:27PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> I am currently working on making the switch from PES to TS >> as the VDR recording format, that's why there are currently >> no new versions of VDR. > > I'll be really interested in

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Laz
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Thomas Hilber wrote: > solution > > > graphics cards basically are not designed for variable frame rates. > Once you have setup their timing you are not provided any means like > registers to synchronize the frame rate with external timers. But > that's exactly what

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 18:12, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > eHD output device May I ask which device this is? A Reel Extension HD PCI card? -- Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [vdr] Standard AC3 component descriptor handling (TS's VDR ?)

2008-07-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 07/23/08 10:34, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 23 Jul 2008, at 18:12, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> eHD output device > > > May I ask which device this is? A Reel Extension HD PCI card? Yes - but I haven't come to the point where I could actually use it, yet. Klaus _

[vdr] OT: Noise and Power Supply [Was: Re: [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate]

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Theunis, Am Mittwoch, den 23.07.2008, 09:41 +0200 schrieb Theunis Potgieter: > Only thing making a noise now is the already relatively "quiet" power > supply. You probably already know this, but anyway. There are power supplies called picoPSU which have no fans and are, as far as I unders

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:12:46AM +0200, Martin Emrich wrote: > I have connected my VDR box to my TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable, set the > resolution to 1920x1080 and let the graphics card do the upscaling > instead of the TV, because the quality looks IMHO better this way. But ok. But if doing so y

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > deinterlacers. I use the machine as a home PC on DISPLAY=:0.0. I understand > that your solution helps when using a LCD/Plasma with dvi/d-sub/scart > connectors. right. It also helps for deinterlaced output using a LCD/Plasma wit

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Thomas Hilber schrieb: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:12:46AM +0200, Martin Emrich wrote: >> I have connected my VDR box to my TV via a DVI-to-HDMI cable, set the >> resolution to 1920x1080 and let the graphics card do the upscaling >> instead of the TV, because the quality looks IMHO better thi

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a > resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to > get perfect synchronization and no tearing? some time ago I accidentally stumbled

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:06, Martin Emrich wrote: > (I wonder why there's no simple "TV simulator" that upmixes 50 > fields/s to 50 frames/s just like a CRT TV?). It's very hard to simulate this 'upmix'. A CRT TV actually moves the electron beam across the screen and the phosphor has some tim

[vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Greetings to All, Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation in combination with the S2-3200. Everything works, image is very good and I can enjoy HDTV without framedrops or stuttering :) The tutorials on

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:09:29PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a > > resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to > > get perfect

Re: [vdr] Control VDR with RF remote

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Stepanov
Hi Oliver, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Peer Oliver Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > > Does anybody use RF remote control with VDR instead of IR? How to > > configure such remotes? > > I used the ATI RemoteWonder with it. LIRC has support for it. Is there some differ

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:43, Niels Wagenaar wrote: > Greetings to All, > > Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware > accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 > installation in > combination with the S2-3200. > > Everything works, image is very good and I ca

Re: [vdr] Control VDR with RF remote

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Stepanov
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Artur Skawina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > > >> Does anybody use RF remote control with VDR instead of IR? How to > >> configure such remotes? > > > > I used the ATI RemoteWonder with it. LIRC has support for it. >

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: > > It appeared to be a privilege of so called full featured cards (expensive > cards > running proprietary firmware) to output true RGB PAL at variable framerate. > Thus always providing full stream synchronicity. > I assume RGB NTS

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Laz
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008, Niels Wagenaar wrote: > Greetings to All, > > Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware > accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 installation > in combination with the S2-3200. > > Everything works, image is very good and I can enjo

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Op Wo, 23 juli, 2008 15:55, schreef Torgeir Veimo: > Two questions: > > - does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz > without restarting VDR? Currently, I've setup the output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before it was set on [EMAIL PROTECTED] With this change I didn't had to rest

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Georg Acher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:55:04PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > - does the card support changing output framerate between 50 and 60Hz > without restarting VDR? Yes, you can change the output mode (resolution, frequency, ...) in a settings menu "on-the-fly". > - how is changing between video

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
Hi, On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:04:29PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > Your approach is very interesting, I myself have seen the problems > that clock drift has on judder when using softdevice with vdr. yes, that's also my experience with certain xineliboutput - xine-lib version combinations. I a

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
several questions :) - does eHD support 1080p ? - which CPU do you have and what about cpu load during of decoding 1080i ? - is it hard to buy this card in Europe ? > Yesterday I've received my Reel eHD so that I can enjoy hardware > accelerated DVB-S/DVB-S2 playback/output on my VDR-1.7.0 insta

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Niels Wagenaar
Op Wo, 23 juli, 2008 20:00, schreef Goga777: > several questions :) > I'll try to anwser them ;) > - does eHD support 1080p ? Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is still a thing in the very long future (for your information, we just got HDTV since March) and it would b

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:20:08AM +0100, Laz wrote: > that the only cards that could be convinced to sync at such low rates, > i.e. 50 Hz for PAL, were the Matrox G400, G450, etc. Whenever I tried > setting modelines with any other cards, I never got any output or an > error when starting X. a

Re: [vdr] ERROR: video data stream broken

2008-07-23 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Siegfried, Siegfried Haas wrote: > I´m using vdr1.4.7 on a Suse10.3 with one FF-DVB-S-Card (technotrend > rev.1.3) and one budget DVB-T (winTV nova). > Everything worked well until yesterday. > When I turned on the TV there was no output on the TV and when one timer > started recording vdr te

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
> > - does eHD support 1080p ? > > Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is still a thing > in > the very long future (for your information, we just got HDTV since March) > and it would be only be interesting for the HDDVD and BluRay movies. yes, I mean hdtv rips, hddvd/b

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:05:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > I assume RGB NTSC should work as well.. ? basically yes. The devil is in the details:) Just give it a try. > > When xine-lib calls PutImage() it checks whether to increase/decrease > > Xservers frame rate. This way after a short a

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Georg Acher
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:52:04PM +0400, Goga777 wrote: > may be you know - does Pentium 4 3 GHz will be enough ? Even 300MHz are enough. The CPU load is not a load that depends on CPU speed. It depends mainly on the current state of the driver which transfers the video data from the CPU over

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread derblubber
For regular hdtv viewing over dvb-s2 this cpu should be more than fast enough. There are people running the eHD with a 700mhz Pentium 3 i have heard. Am 23.07.2008 um 20:52 schrieb Goga777: >>> - does eHD support 1080p ? >> >> Nope. Max is [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for normal viewing, 1080P is s

[vdr] Fw: ANYONE?? 682Mhz problem with TT-1501 driver inv4l-dvb

2008-07-23 Thread Simon Baxter
Can anyone help, or point me in the right direction? >> Can anyone help? >> >> I have patched the v4l-dvb driver with Sigmund Augdal's changes to >> support a new TT >> C-1501. I can't get channels to work on all but one frequency - 682Mhz. >> Frequencies which work: 578, 586, 594, 602, 610, 6

[vdr] OT: Deinterlacing algorithms [WAS:Re: [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate]

2008-07-23 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Torgeir Veimo schrieb: > On 23 Jul 2008, at 23:06, Martin Emrich wrote: > >> (I wonder why there's no simple "TV simulator" that upmixes 50 >> fields/s to 50 frames/s just like a CRT TV?). > > > It's very hard to simulate this 'upmix'. A CRT TV actually moves the > electron beam across

Re: [vdr] ERROR: video data stream broken

2008-07-23 Thread Siegfried Haas
Matthias Fechner schrieb: > Hi Siegfried, > > Siegfried Haas wrote: > >> I´m using vdr1.4.7 on a Suse10.3 with one FF-DVB-S-Card (technotrend >> rev.1.3) and one budget DVB-T (winTV nova). >> Everything worked well until yesterday. >> When I turned on the TV there was no output on the TV and wh

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
> For regular hdtv viewing over dvb-s2 this cpu should be more than fast > enough. There are people running the eHD with a 700mhz Pentium 3 i > have heard. but I think about 1080p from BluRay... Goga ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Goga777
are you planning to add 1080p support ? what about audio by hdmi ? how many audio-channels can be available by hdmi ? is it hdmi 1.3 version ? > > may be you know - does Pentium 4 3 GHz will be enough ? > > Even 300MHz are enough. The CPU load is not a load that depends on CPU > speed. It depen

Re: [vdr] OT: Deinterlacing algorithms [WAS:Re: [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate]

2008-07-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I notice a AV desync after 5 minutes, it definitely happens when it reaches an advertisement that was cut out, or when I jump to a advertisement. :( the only way I could "fix" it was to re-encode the edited recording with 'mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -of mpeg -mpegopts format=pes2 -o new/001.vdr

Re: [vdr] eHD, VDR and multimedia files

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 24 Jul 2008, at 01:19, Georg Acher wrote: >> - how is changing between video / s-video output and HDMI achieved? >> Can they be enabled simultaneously, or change automatically based on >> whether something is connected on the HDMI port? > > Analog SDTV output (576i/480i) works only when HDMI o

Re: [vdr] ERROR: video data stream broken

2008-07-23 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Siegfried, Siegfried Haas wrote: > I got told something about a broken LNBP16+Elko that provides the power > for the F-connector - but I don´t think I am able to replace it without > damaging the card. hm, that is interesting. Maybe that will enable me to repair my two damaged FF cards. D