[vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Hawes, Mark
If I pause live video then restart it starts in slo-mo i.e. judders, and >> then eventually freezes, but may then start again, still juddering >> and freezing ... > > Well, then I have no idea why it wouldn't work with an NTFS partition, > while it does work with others. > > Klaus > Hi

Re: [vdr] [patch] softdevice+mplayer-plugin

2009-03-22 Thread Stefan Lucke
On Sunday 22 March 2009, ua0lnj wrote: > Hi > This patch allows correct work of mplayer-plugin with softdevice from cvs. > Otherwise softdevice lock output resources, and mplayer can't play (for > example no audio for me). > Thanks, if thats so simple... some action on: pmExtern_THIS_SHOULD_BE_

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.03.2009 01:42, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >>> If I pause live video then restart it starts in slo-mo i.e. judders, and >>> then eventually freezes, but may then start again, still juddering …. >>> and freezing … >> Well, then I have no idea why it wouldn't work with an NTFS partition, >> while

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
Hawes, Mark schrieb: > > > /If I pause live video then restart it starts in slo-mo i.e. judders, and/ > >>>/ then eventually freezes, but may then start again, still juddering …./ > >>>/ and freezing …/ > >>/ / > >>/ Well, then I have no idea why it wouldn't work with an NTFS partition,/ >

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.03.2009 09:15, Hawes, Mark wrote: > > > ... > I have checked the recording directory and sure enough, the index file stops > growing after a short while (seconds). > I have tried mounting the NTFS partition with the async option but to no > avail, i.e. problem is still there. Please try

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
>> I've never had a problem like this in older VDR versions, and I often do >> cutting and recording at the same time. > > Strange - the code for actually writing the index file hasn't changed > between PES and TS recording. But maybe you can take a closer look at > the changes to cIndexFile betwe

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Stefan Wagner
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I believe you mean 'genindex'. > Maybe I should make VDR automatically generate an index file when replaying > a TS recording without one... good idea stefan ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-b

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> Strange - the code for actually writing the index file hasn't changed > between PES and TS recording. But maybe you can take a closer look at > the changes to cIndexFile between version 1.7.2 and 1.7.3. Possibly you may want to have a look to my logfile, while the error occurs: snip

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.03.2009 12:39, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >> Strange - the code for actually writing the index file hasn't changed >> between PES and TS recording. But maybe you can take a closer look at >> the changes to cIndexFile between version 1.7.2 and 1.7.3. > > Possibly you may want to have a look to

Re: [vdr] sparse DVB adapter numbers

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote: > Patrick Rother wrote: >> For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make >> vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers. >> >> I have: >> >> r...@vdr:/dev/dvb# ls -l >> total 0 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/ >> drw

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> > Well, if there are buffer overflows and the TS data is corrupted, it's > no wonder the index file stops growing. > > Does this happen on all channels, or only on some (or even only on a > particular one)? Well, I've tried it on several channels ARD,ZDF,arte,Das Vierte,MünchenTV and so on. C

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> Well, if there are buffer overflows and the TS data is corrupted, it's > no wonder the index file stops growing. > > Does this happen on all channels, or only on some (or even only on a > particular one)? > Additional infos: I recompiled older versions beginning at 1.7.3 and made some tests.

Re: [vdr] sparse DVB adapter numbers

2009-03-22 Thread Artur Skawina
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 21.03.2009 14:17, Artur Skawina wrote: >> Patrick Rother wrote: >>> For a reason not to go in details too much here, I would like to make >>> vdr recognise sparse DVB adapter numbers. >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Mar 19 11:59 adapter0/ >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120

[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-iptv-0.2.6

2009-03-22 Thread Rolf Ahrenberg
Hi, a new IPTV plugin release is now available: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/iptv/ 2009-03-22: Version 0.2.6 - Added a note about recommended frequencies into README. - Fixed a locking bug with section filters. - Fixed some lint warnings. I strongly encourage every IPTV user to upgr

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-22 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:40:38PM +0200, Antti Palosaari wrote: > Heinrich Langos wrote: >> I ran "dvbtraffic" (itself causing about 10 wakups but hardly any cpu load) >> on another console to see what is happening and it seems like "femon" >> does only check the receiver's status while "zap" rea

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-22 Thread Martin Emrich
Hi! Heinrich Langos schrieb: > > I ran a couple of tests with a different DVB-T USB stick. The rather old > "Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-T Mobile TV". That one turns out to need a lot less > system resources. It also transfers the whole transport stream (several > video and audio streams) over the USB and

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.03.2009 15:36, Niedermeier Günter wrote: >> Well, if there are buffer overflows and the TS data is corrupted, it's >> no wonder the index file stops growing. >> >> Does this happen on all channels, or only on some (or even only on a >> particular one)? >> > > Additional infos: > > I recompi

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-22 Thread Heinrich Langos
Here's the powertop output for the siemens stick in various situations: cheers -henrik running zap to tune into a channel and transfer the TS over USB PowerTOP version 1.10 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> A TS recording is only marginally more data than the same length recording > in PES. I don't think that recording in TS should require so much more > bandwidth > than PES. That's clear to me. > There must be an other problem that's causing this, but since this doesn't > happen here on my syste

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
...is there switch, or simple possibility to change recording format from TS to PES in 1.7.4 - just for a simple verification? BTW: In your environment, do you stream over net or local disk? Because streaming to a local (linux)disk makes no problem, and would be hard to produce it, or measure the

Re: [vdr] power consumption, powertop and wakups per second with a af9015 device, vp7045, and various plugins

2009-03-22 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 06:16:29PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote: > Heinrich Langos schrieb: > > > > I ran a couple of tests with a different DVB-T USB stick. The rather old > > "Fujitsu-Siemens DVB-T Mobile TV". That one turns out to need a lot less > > system resources. It also transfers the whole t

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.03.2009 19:06, Niedermeier Günter wrote: > ...is there switch, or simple possibility to change recording > format from TS to PES in 1.7.4 - just for a simple verification? Sorry, PES recordign has been completely removed from VDR. > In your environment, do you stream over net or local disk?

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Niedermeier Günter
> There must be an other problem that's causing this, but since this doesn't > happen here on my system, I'm afraid you'll need to do the debugging ;-) Which changes have been made between 1.7.2 and 1.7.3 in file writing mechanism? Not codechanges, because I dont understand them, but in words ple

Re: [vdr] Instability with recordings on VDR-1.7.4 when recording to a NTFS partition

2009-03-22 Thread Hawes, Mark
>> A TS recording is only marginally more data than the same length recording >> in PES. I don't think that recording in TS should require so much more >> bandwidth >> than PES. >That's clear to me. >> There must be an other problem that's causing this, but since this doesn't >> happen here on m