Re: [vdr] perfect little vdr client hardware

2011-09-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 9 September 2011 14:25, Henning Pingel wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 09.09.2011, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Torgeir Veimo > : >> >> The netv from chumby seems to be perfect as a hardware client to VDR, >> if it can decode mpeg2/h.264. Does anyone here know any more about >> this product? It seems to be

Re: [vdr] vdr-sxfe can't connect

2011-11-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Your vdr-xineliboutput might not be the primary output device, you must first change that before you see live video/audio. On 9 November 2011 12:02, Damien Bally wrote: > > > Le 09/11/2011 00:39, Mika Laitio a écrit : > > What am I missing ? Thanks for helping. >>> >> >> Have you configured fil

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.22 mips_uClibc-0.9.30.1 (tools.c canonicalize_file_name...)

2012-01-04 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I would change: - char *TargetName = canonicalize_file_name(FileName); + char *TargetName = MALLOC(char, PATH_MAX); + TargetName = realpath(FileName, TargetName); to - char *TargetName = canonicalize_file_name(FileName); + TargetName = realpath(FileName, NULL); >From http://linux.die.net/m

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.7.22 mips_uClibc-0.9.30.1 (tools.c canonicalize_file_name...)

2012-01-04 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I meant, + char *TargetName = realpath(FileName, NULL); On 4 January 2012 22:11, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > I would change: > > - char *TargetName = canonicalize_file_name(FileName); > + char *TargetName = MALLOC(char, PATH_MAX); > + TargetName = realpath(FileName, T

Re: [vdr] playing two audio streams at the same time

2012-08-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
vdr-streamdev plugin on vdr allows you to do this, where you can have multiple streams send to each client. If you happen to choose mplayer to play the sound then you will have to change your audio output + you might have to fiddle with alsa to split it up into separate front and rear audio devices

[vdr] Fwd: vdr-xine

2007-10-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I'm running patched xine-lib on a Gentoo system, media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.8with the vdr USE flag. vdr-1.5.8 using vdr-xine-0.7.11 as the software output device. I'm having problems with the editing of recordings when setting a marker, also with fast rewinding and fast forward, pause + forward/rewin

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] ExtRecMenu-Plugin 1.0

2007-10-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Where do you place the true type font? On 15/10/2007, Martin Prochnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Matthias, > > The icons should be displayed at the left of a list entry. Take a look > at the screenshot at plugin's homepage > (http://martins-kabuff.de/extrecmenu_en.html). > > As I mentioned

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5x: problem with recording FTA and watching scrambled at the same time

2007-10-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I also have experienced this with DVB-S, however in my situation I experienced it a bit different. I was switched to a radio channel which was FTA, a timer was set to record a channel on the same transponder but is scrambled. The vdr info bar showed it was recording. The directory was created but

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-12 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Would the jagged edges appear because the source was meant for 50Hz Interlaced, while the hardware is set for 60Hz interlaced? I had a similar problem on my nvidia tv-out device, and had to revert back to older drivers. nvidia-drivers 1.0.7185, is the last driver that still support setting the tv-

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What about a simple multimedia networking device like the Mvix www.mvixusa.com They appear to have a live community in open source development for the device. Would have been nice if the device had the sigma EM8623L and not the EM8621L, the 21L doesn't support H.264 decoding :( This would make n

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-18 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I don't agree, if we start upgrading the hardware, the software will become relaxed and would require everybody to upgrade to always be at the latest and greatest level of hardware. Then maybe later on we will see more byte-code orientated languages creeping in. Just take a look at windows. Klaus

Re: [vdr] dxr3 and 1.5.11 antialiasing

2007-11-22 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Is this related to `xine -V xxmc` too? The skin skinsoppalusikka's colours appears wrong when I use the video driver xxmc in vdr-xine. It also appears to do a "clearscreen" everytime the OSD updates, which is annoying if you have the playback bar updating every second. Theunis On 22/11/2007, Vill

[vdr] newbie question(s)

2008-01-31 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I went through the online manual at www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki, in search of explanation of why certain keys presses appears. I'm using vdr-1.5.12 If I watch live TV and press the OK button, it will show the current/next in the info bar. By pressing Left/Right the information displayed disappears and

Re: [vdr] Straw poll: stable version 1.6.0 now?

2008-02-03 Thread Theunis Potgieter
No On 03/02/2008, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has been some controversy about my recent decision to > move forward and require the "multiproto" driver for VDR in > the developer version. It is also currently rather unclear > whether the current PES recording format can be

Re: [vdr] DVB-T card on the move

2008-02-04 Thread Theunis Potgieter
udev rules On 05 Feb 2008 00:27:00 +0100, Rainer Zocholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > for years i was running VDR 1.4.3. > > Now i felt forced to use ctvdr and 1.4.7 with a > Linux 2.6.23x2 #2 SMP PREEMPT on a > Main Board: K7S8XE+ AMI BIOS P1.70 (04/27/2004) > and an AMD Duron(tm) 1350

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 06/02/2008, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for hdtv - no. > > I don't see the h.264 hardware decoding. mpeg4 is not h.264. > > Maybe this thing can be hacked to run vdr or to be used as a front-end: > http://www.popcornhour.com/ The popcornhour device (network media tank) is not l

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I apologies for my mistake, it appears very secretively to run linux, no where clearly stated. There is no source supplied. oh well, aren't we used to that? On 07/02/2008, Theunis Potgieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [vdr] HD-TV hardware decoding on motherboard instead of waitingfor FF DVB-S2 card

2008-02-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
http://lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NetworkedMediaTank Would be nice if someone could completely open up the device. On 07/02/2008, Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > El Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:44:41 +0200 > "Theunis Potgieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5x: problem with recording FTA and watching scrambled at the same time

2008-02-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I am using vdr-1.5.13 - start vdr and switch to encrypted channel - set timer on encrypted channel one minute in advance from current time - switch to same Transponder with FTA channel, in my situation a radio channel - once the timer started I cannot switch back to the encrypted channel with mess

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5x: problem with recording FTA and watching scrambled at the same time

2008-02-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
dinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/08/08 16:32, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > I am using vdr-1.5.13 > > > > - start vdr and switch to encrypted channel > > - set timer on encrypted channel one minute in advance from current time > > - switch to same Transpon

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5x: problem with recording FTA and watching scrambled at the same time

2008-02-10 Thread Theunis Potgieter
It appears to switch over to encrypted channel after a minute or so.Only if I tried it a couple of times, and only then, once it switched over it starts to record even if the timer was set a few minutes earlier. Theunis On 2/10/08, Antti Hartikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 20

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5x: problem with recording FTA and watching scrambled at the same time

2008-02-10 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I believe it is the CAM too, and me being a user :) I'll wait for someone with more experience than myself to better explain and/or know what to look for. Thanks Klaus, great product! On 2/10/08, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/10/08 17:12, Theunis Potgieter

Re: [vdr] vdr-sxfe don't start..

2008-02-18 Thread Theunis Potgieter
JJussi, I have Gentoo with xine-lib 1.1.9.1 and it works for me currently with vdr-xineliboutput plugin. Theunis On 17/02/2008, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 17. Februaryta 2008 15:56:36 you wrote: > > > Actually problem is bigger.. Gentoo xine-lib-1.1.10.1 don't install (or

Re: [vdr] gentoo + vdr-1.5.12 + VDR_LOCAL_PATCHES_DIR

2008-02-18 Thread Theunis Potgieter
ask your question on irc irc://irc.freenode.net #gentoo-vdr ask for nicknames: zzam or hd_brummy. Theunis On 17/02/2008, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > (this is maybe little bit wrong area.. But because gentoo vdr developer > read > this... I ask it here!) > > I have (in /etc/mak

Re: [vdr] gentoo + vdr-1.5.12 + VDR_LOCAL_PATCHES_DIR

2008-02-19 Thread Theunis Potgieter
zzam logged on 15min after you posted :) On 19/02/2008, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, 18. Februaryta 2008 13:06:35 Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > ask your question on irc > > > > irc://irc.freenode.net > > > > #gentoo-vdr > > >

Re: [vdr] VDR developer version 1.5.15 - compilation warnings

2008-02-19 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I am no expert, but if they teach STL for C++ why not use that instead which is suppose to be type cast safe, instead of the older printf mechanism. I don't want to start a war on what the best method is. But just wanted to understand. Or would the cost in time be too high to convert everything? m

Re: [vdr] VDR on OpenWRT / embedded system

2008-02-27 Thread Theunis Potgieter
It would be great if you could get it working, Nicolas Huillard, mentioned also the popcornhour device, which in turn also has a MIPS architecture according to: http://www.lundman.net/wiki/index.php/NMT:fuse Perhaps as time permits, one could setup a wiki page with some detailed information. I'm i

Re: [vdr] VDR on OpenWRT / embedded system

2008-02-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I recently learned of the iStar Mini HD https://www.istarhd.com/productpage/spec.html Also based on the Network Media Tank (NMT) from Syabas. Apparently it could use the same firmware from other suppliers like popcornhour. This machine has more RAM, but also not sure if one could add a dvb device

Re: [vdr] sub channel numbering system

2008-03-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
So what happens when the sub number was 2.10 is it now 21? And 2.11 becomes 21? I don't understand why there are such numbers to begin with. Why not just map 2.1 to the next available open number, giving the user the choice to move the channels in any order afterwards? my 2c On 3/7/08, Klaus Sch

Re: [vdr] sub channel numbering system

2008-03-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
So if provider 1 broadcasts a 2.1 channel and provider 2 also broadcasts a 2.1 channel and you as a vdr user can have more than 1 provider. What will the channel numbering scheme be for Provider 2? Will this introduce a bouqet in vdr? On 3/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On F

Re: [vdr] sub channel numbering system

2008-03-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Theunis Potgieter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if provider 1 broadcasts a 2.1 channel and provider 2 also > > broadcasts a 2.1 channel and you as a vdr user can have more than 1 > > provider. What will

Re: [vdr] Autosort plugin segmentation fault

2008-03-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Try implementing a zap() function, checking to see if the pointer doesn't contain a NULL before trying to free data. On 24/03/2008, Seppo Ingalsuo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: > > #0 0xb7c2036a in free () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 > > #1 0xb74fceb1 in cMenuTimeStamps

Re: [vdr] Problems playing ongoing recordings?

2008-04-02 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I guess what Jjusi is explaining is that some Broadcasters (wrong frame/sec) or in the event of bad reception etc, it can occur that some frames are lost, and/or because vdr plays back from a more reliable source e.g. from disk it will catch up to live tv eventualy. I've experienced this on my dvb-

Re: [vdr] VDR continuously initializing CAM

2008-04-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Perhaps a plug-in or a setup menu entry to enable the work around code for VDR until the driver has resolved this issue. Could this be done as a plugin? On 09/04/2008, Tuomas Jormola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9 Apr 2008, at 00:26, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > On 04/08/08 23:17, Tuomas J

Re: [vdr] HD PCIe boards

2008-04-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I hope it will have a linux driver, I like the idea of a 20W addition to my vdr. Problem is, the use of PCI-Express which only relatively new machines have. Thanks for the information. On 09/04/2008, lucian orasanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hy too all. > > It seams the first hardware capabl

[vdr] xineliboutput audio lip sync problems

2008-04-10 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Since vdr-1.5.18 I have seen lip sync problems with xineliboutput. It gets worse the longer you watch. This appears on both livetv and recordings (which was recorded from vdr-1.5.2). I do not notice the same problem with vdr-softdevice. The only quick fix for me is te press the jump button in a rec

Re: [vdr] Output plugin

2008-04-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
on Gentoo there is vdr-mplayer plugin, it is basically a script that calls mplayer as the plugin, it only works for people that use a FrameBuffer or DVB Hardware output device. Now from what I understood at the time is that there are to methods for invoking mplayer there is a mplayer.sh and a mpla

Re: [vdr] Output plugin

2008-04-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Perhaps the plugin could be adapted to pipe livetv to a unix socket and in the script tell mplayer where to connect to the unix socket? Or start recordings from VDR Admin or SVDRP and watch live-recording. Just playing with ideas. The mplayer script/plugin was designed to be not dependent on X (d

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput audio lip sync problems

2008-04-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Well it looks like I'm the only Gentoo user here that is experiencing this problem. I noticed a bit more on when it occurs. I've current changed my vdr process to run at -19 priority to see if it makes any difference. Livetv is some how now correct. But I still experience problems with recordings

Re: [vdr] EPIA-ML6000 and vdr-xine full screen?

2008-04-18 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I suppose this is a bit off topic, but what happens when the source is MPEG4-11?, can you expand on this mother board by using PCI Express add-on card? Theunis On 18/04/2008, Tony Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 06:26 +1200, Simon Baxter a écrit : > > > > Has an

Re: [vdr] new graphics processor from VIA S3 for HD video

2008-04-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
And I was just about to get exited, until I read this: XvMC issues ● Limited hardware driver support – Intel i810, i915/945 MC, 965 MC working in progress – Unichrome VLD – ATI, Nvidia (?) ● Limited modern video codec support, just for MPEG1/2, can't support H.264/AVC. – Multiple intra/inter predi

Re: [vdr] new graphics processor from VIA S3 for HD video

2008-04-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
p and realise the truth of it all... To the future of open source! On 23/04/2008, Martin Emrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Theunis Potgieter schrieb: > > > > So it appears there is no hope for my old machine with an AGP port, and > > nvidia G-Force 4 MMX

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE]: osdpip-0.0.9

2008-04-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What are the requirements of this plugin? Will it work with vdr-softdevice/vdr-xineliboutput/vdr-xine? Or does it require a work around on their behalf to make it work properly? Theunis On 28/04/2008, Anssi Hannula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Regel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > there is a

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE]: osdpip-0.0.9

2008-04-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Then surely it will not be an OSD pip any more but rather just a pip? seems like osd is the bottle neck? On 29/04/2008, Grégoire FAVRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Patrick Boettcher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With xine/softdevice, one should be able to do

Re: [vdr] no channel update on vdr 1.7.0

2008-05-21 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I would suggest to start vdr up with only one device at at time (by using the command line parameter to a fixed dvb card) and then use the channel scan plugin, repeat this for each device. This will surely force vdr to use the only selected device to do a channel scan? Theunis 2008/5/21 Jean-Cla

Re: [vdr] update 1.4 to 1.6 -> cutting recordings makes vdr unresponsive

2008-06-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On Gentoo there is a USE flag that adds a patch to vdr that solves this problem in one way. package: media-video/vdr-1.6.0_p1-r1 USE flag: cutterlimit : Limit IO bandwith used for cutting Theunis 2008/6/9 Hanno Zulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have updated my vdr: > > Old: Celeron 85

Re: [vdr] Sequential or random play?

2008-07-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
xineliboutput can do that, you just need to press the red button to get the playlist and then select random. On 07/07/2008, JJussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 6. Julyta 2008 20:09:26 Teemu Suikki wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is there an easy way to add sequential or even random playback to

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

2008-07-22 Thread Theunis Potgieter
wow, when I buy an AMD card I will sure look up your code. :) currently I'm still using a pentium 4, 2.4GHz machine with nvidia AGP 440MX card, only way to get that to work properly was with the older nvidia drivers 71.86.0 , apparently the newer drivers forces PAL or any other TV Standard to run

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

2008-07-23 Thread Theunis Potgieter
supply. Things that start up the cpu fan is xvid/divx and firefox (on DISPLAY=:0.0). Taking into account that "live" tv is also off loaded using xvmc. Theunis On 22/07/2008, Thomas Hilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:30:46PM +0200, Theunis P

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

2008-08-12 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Does somebody have a URL on how to make one? for d-sub to scart or the new DVI (modern graphic cards) to scart? On 12/08/2008, Thomas Hilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:40:15PM +0300, Jouni Karvo wrote: > > with NVIDIA driver 169 and 173 at least, this does not yet wo

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-14 Thread Theunis Potgieter
When I started to convert my vdr recordings to h264 using ffmpeg -vcodec libx264. I saw that running it without -threads or with -threads set to 2, it used the same cpu usage. When I changed it to -threads 3 I started to see more than 100% usage. Perhaps decoding should also use -threads 3 to see i

[vdr] Future of VDR and High Definition

2008-08-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Hi Guys, I read an interesting article on http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997-14.html and they say the problem why this machine can't do Blu-ray is because it is encrypted and the cpu doesn't have enough horse power to do it keep up. My question is, will it work with F

Re: [vdr] PCI fun (RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate)

2008-08-16 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Would be nice if someone could test the AMD Athlon 64 2000+ on a AMD platform, the 780G chip set on a microATX board, because it can do HD resolution (1920x1200) with high picture quality is possible through DVI/HDMI ports. On 16/08/2008, Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Ove

Re: [vdr] PCI fun (RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate)

2008-08-27 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I found this to be useful for me, however I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not NTSC colour encoding. http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html Nice background information. On 17/08/2008, Thomas Hilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 0

Re: [vdr] reelbox plugin - help compiling

2008-09-19 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Perhaps vdr in its developing phase support both, so when ever the API that wins vdr and its users can continue without the API holding it back? What does Klaus have to say about this? On 19/09/2008, Niels Wagenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original message- > From: Josce <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [vdr] Booting Linux in five seconds

2008-10-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Some interesting concepts, but some are basic 1) Try not to have any modules, built everything into the kernel, get rid of initrd 2) On Gentoo you can start daemons/scripts in parallel, run the scripts from shared memory OR have the option to use openrc, which uses C/C++ and binds a lot faster. 3)

Re: [vdr] CCID smart card interface support for sc?

2008-10-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
If I enable my subscription with my provider again, that uses irdeto2, will it work? On 05/10/2008, Mika Laitio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I though that it would mean that I could connect the card to VDR by using >> the sc plugin, but I was wrong as sc plugin seems to only support smart >> car

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] S2API for vdr-1.7.0 (05-10-2008 - quickhack for DVB-S(2), DVB-T and DVB-C)

2008-10-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
When will DVB-IP be included in the S2API? I'm asking because in South Africa, our chances are looking slim by the moment to implement DVB-T, I reckon by the time we get DVB-T the world has moved over to DVB-T2 and we might skip the whole process over to DVB-IP, I see a lot of streamdev discussions

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine A/V sync problems

2008-10-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I get the same audio/video sync problems, on recordings too. but it will happen predictably after advertisements was cut out, it will start to go out of sync by the first cut. I also noticed that my cpu usage increased and my system's clock seems to drift into the future. 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #1 Sun M

Re: [vdr] VDR and multicast streaming

2008-10-21 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What is exactly involved in changing it from streaming to multi-casting, isn't it just changing the IP destination? Or does it require repacking it from mpeg2-ts to something else? Sorry if this is a stupid question. Theunis On 21/10/2008, Frank Schmirler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 20

Re: [vdr] VDR and multicast streaming

2008-10-21 Thread Theunis Potgieter
2008/10/21 Artem Makhutov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:44:20PM +0200, Frank Schmirler wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:46:52 +0200, Artem Makhutov wrote > > > The ADB-Boxes use Multicast-TS. I have captured a transmission from > > > my IPTV provider. So you can take a

Re: [vdr] vdr & s2ap

2008-11-13 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Will mpeg-ts recording fix the problems for PopcornHour device when streamdev is the sender? Theunis On 13/11/2008, VDR User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM, lucian orasanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Waiting more for mpeg-ts recording! ;) > > ___

Re: [vdr] Windows remote client

2008-11-21 Thread Theunis Potgieter
VLC runs on *nix and Windows, I've read where streamdev is combined with vlc enables the stream to be multicast. On 20/11/2008, Alex Betis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Is there a plugin for VDR (I use 1.7.1) that allows a windows based client > to watch the channels remotely? > Wh

Re: [vdr] New Video Decode and Presentation API from NVidia

2008-11-25 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 24/11/2008, Petri Helin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Huillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > It seems that things are really moving, and VDR-HD may finally work with > > cheap hardware by the time HD material is commonplace. > > > > > Well, in that ca

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput OSD and playback problems

2008-12-02 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 02/12/2008, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:05:54 +0200 > "Alex Betis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Right now I've set with XV video and I have about 12-15% CPU with cheap > > tvtime (mplayer mode) deinterlacing > > and 18-20% CPU with non-cheap deinterla

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API

2008-12-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 07/12/2008, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apart from that the TS data stream will be saved > exactly as it comes in. So will it then also record encrypted streams just as it was, or will it save in unencrypted form? > > > Klaus >

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API

2008-12-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 08/12/2008, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08.12.2008 10:08, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > On 07/12/2008, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Apart from that the TS data stream will be saved > >> exactly as

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-08 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 08/12/2008, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently it creates a new one, but I guess this should be changed to > continue an existing file (if the file size limit hasn't been exceeded, yet). > If file splitting is removed, then it would of course continue the (one and > on

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and Switching time

2008-12-12 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 12/12/2008, Alex Betis wrote: > > Found a solution for the delay, please try it and report if it helps you > and even more important if it doesn't break something else. > Special testing should be done for HD channels with high streams. > > Change line 77 in xine_input_vdr.c > from: > #define M

Re: [vdr] VDR with S2API (update)

2008-12-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What happens if vdr has got multiple FF-dvb-s cards in the same machine, and you want to hookup multiple monitor/tvs? Can vdr successully handle this on the same machine? Or is the only answer now to run multiple intances of vdr, one for each FF-card? If vdr can do that, then surely implementing cr

Re: [vdr] 1080p ready VDR

2008-12-28 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 26/12/2008, Tony Houghton wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:54:59 +0100 > Sascha Vogt wrote: > > > Artem Makhutov schrieb: > > > > > > You can also use a Nvidia Video card with VDPAU, which will do the > > > decoding in hardware. Then then CPU-Load will be less then 10%, but > > > this is c

Re: [vdr] Frames per second PAL vs. NTSC

2009-01-05 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 05/01/2009, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > In order to correctly handle the progress indicator for NTSC > recordings I'm now determining the frame rate from the > actual data. With PAL's 25 frames per second the distance > between two frames is 3600 "ticks" of 1/9s. With NTSC > this number

Re: [vdr] Which extension for TS files?

2009-01-05 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 05/01/2009, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > I also strongly tend to drop the '.vdr' extensions and have the files > just named plain "index", "info", "marks" and "resume". > > > Klaus > I suppose if the manual page is updated accordingly it shouldn't be a problem (: _

Re: [vdr] Frames per second PAL vs. NTSC

2009-01-05 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 05/01/2009, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > On 05/01/2009, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > In order to correctly handle the progress indicator for NTSC > > recordings I'm now determining the frame rate from the > > actual data. With PAL's 25 frames per second

Re: [vdr] Support for different frame rates? (Re: Frames per second PAL vs. NTSC)

2009-01-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 05/01/2009, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Pasi Juppo wrote: > > > Would this be possible to implement? > > > There's already a modeswitching patch using xrandr for vdr-sxfe > available on VDR-Portal. However, it lacks support for interpreting > frame rate of source video, but i

[vdr] VDR streaming multiple radio stations on same Transport

2009-01-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Hi, I did have a look at vdr's plug-ins (http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Plugins) and couldn't find a suitable plug-in that would be ideal for my needs. I would like to stream the radio stations that I find on the same transport, but of course select individual stations to stream, but the

Re: [vdr] Q: How to use Multiswitch w/ 2 satellites

2009-01-15 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 15/01/2009, C.Scheeder wrote: > Harald Milz schrieb: > Hm, > i would do it this way: > replace your single LNB with a dual LNB, and buy 2 disec-c switches. > then link them together this way: > > *--**---* ** > | quad LNB |--

Re: [vdr] vdpau ouput to pal tv

2009-02-02 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 01/02/2009, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > On 1 Feb 2009, at 18:12, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > > I am having some issues trying out vdpau with an nvidia card on the > > svideo output; I'm getting testing. > > > > Hmm hangover day... Was going to say I'm getting tearing. > > > -- > Torgeir Veimo >

Re: [vdr] eHD and how subtitle timing start work

2009-02-02 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Sounds similar to xinetliboutput plugin, when I press 0 to make a Mark on a recording the time jumps 5 seconds. Fast Forward en Rewind, is almost unusable on vdr using xineliboutput. Only slow playback seems to work as it should. On 01/02/2009, Georg Acher wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 10:41:3

Re: [vdr] vdpau ouput to pal tv

2009-02-02 Thread Theunis Potgieter
ove over using RGB adapter to output TV/device. On 02/02/2009, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 18:48, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > > On the newer drivers for Linux for the later series cards from NVidia, > > they have purposefully disabled the output of 50Hz when y

Re: [vdr] vdpau output to pal tv,

2009-02-17 Thread Theunis Potgieter
What is the input resolution and do they change? What is your output resolution set to? On 2/15/09, Torgeir Veimo wrote: >> On 3 Feb 2009, at 00:58, Theunis Potgieter wrote: >> >> > There is a VGA -> RGB connector that you can assemble/buy. I've seen >> &g

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput improvements

2009-03-09 Thread Theunis Potgieter
This mail refers to the multimedia extension of xineliboutput. I would be happy if I could just have the same experience using rewind and fast forward as in softdevice with normal .vdr files :( pressing green/yellow to jump one minute breaks video/audio sync on normal .vdr recorded files. Only way

Re: [vdr] Where do you live and what kind of broadcast do you receive?

2009-03-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Country: South Africa Transmission: DVB-S Encoding: MPEG-2 (2 channels) Free to Air MPEG-2 (4 channels) NagraVision MPEG-2 (50 channels) irdeto 2 + 1 HD channel, assuming still in MPEG-2 720p ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/c

Re: [vdr] weekly or daily timers

2009-04-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
well it wasn't obvious for me, but when I pressed the left button on the date to before today, it showed a MTWTFSS, and pressing left again changed to --S (Sunday) Hope this helps. On 20/04/2009, marti...@embl.de wrote: > > Is there someway in VDR to say schedule a repeated timer 'record thi

Re: [vdr] huge .TS files

2009-04-20 Thread Theunis Potgieter
perhaps, the .TS file contains more than one video/audio transport stream? On 20/04/2009, marti...@embl.de wrote: > > Question in case somebody can help or at least explain. > > Yesterday on a standard satellite channel (TVEi) I recorded about 2 hours > and > found 10 files x 2 gigs each recordin

Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine

2009-04-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I use xineliboutput, permanently on my vdr, with xvmc enabled on my old nvidia 440 MX card. however only on SD mpeg2 broadcasts. It does provide some multimedia playback on other formats, which is useful. Normal vdr recordings are a bit of a pain, since fast forwarded/rewind doesn't work as you wou

Re: [vdr] Best practices for running vdr-xine

2009-04-29 Thread Theunis Potgieter
at my idle shows 91%, but vdr uses 17% cpu usage and this is on an old Pentium 4, 2.4GHz. So I'm not sure how that works. On 29/04/2009, Jan Ekholm wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2009, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > I use xineliboutput, permanently on my vdr, with xvmc enabled on my

[vdr] DVB-T: Compro VideoMate DVB-T200

2009-05-05 Thread Theunis Potgieter
http://www.comprousa.com/en/product/vmt200.html Did anyone get that card mentioned above successfully working with vdr? Theunis ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] VDR-1.7.7 & Video aspect ratios

2009-05-05 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I agree that OSD should be set to the output of the device's resolution. Not the video content it self. Would really love to see that change happen. On 04/05/2009, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > Matthias Becker a écrit : > > > and what about anamorphic material? > > A 16:9 SD broadcast in fact still

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
As far as I understand, vdr doesn't do pause live tv natively? I would just go in the menu and disable the pause live tv option. I'm sure that your vdr was probably patched to include this feature. On 05/05/2009, marti...@embl.de wrote: > removing the pause key from remote.conf is not a proper so

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-06 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Well honestly I'm confused. I use vdr 1.6 and when I press down or up it changes channel only. My vdr never pauses live tv. Mind you I don't have a pause key either and neither defined. So perhaps this is the way to for him. On 5/6/09, Frank Scherthan wrote: > Hi there :) > > marti...@embl.de sch

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-07 Thread Theunis Potgieter
vdr works... So perhaps I need to investigate in a plugin that displays the help. Since this is the entry point to VDR for ordinary tv viewers. Thanks for that bit of info On 07/05/2009, Frank Scherthan wrote: > Hi Theunis, Hi list, > > Theunis Potgieter schrieb: > > > Well hon

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 09/05/2009, Udo Richter wrote: > On 09.05.2009 12:38, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > - When should such a recording be deleted? > >If it gets deleted as soon as replay is stopped, you'll be very > surprised > >when you (or your kids ;-) inadvertently press Stop, and you can't > resum

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-11 Thread Theunis Potgieter
our satellite provider's pvr, has 2 tv out and 2 remotes. If you are watching a live/paused recording, you have the option to save it or discard it. I do not know what the size of this buffer is. But it does give you the option and it does show you are busy with a live buffer, icon indication is be

Re: [vdr] Can I disable pause live tv altogher?

2009-05-12 Thread Theunis Potgieter
I like this solution On 11/05/2009, Timo Eskola wrote: > Handling of the pause key is an intreresting issue. > > There was proposal to configure the pause key as down key. This works during > replay, but hitting the pause during live video changes channel. > > Better solution would be to add setu

[vdr] DVB-H

2009-05-13 Thread Theunis Potgieter
Hi, is dvb-h a subset of dvb-t? our country decided to switch on dvb-t, we receive dvb-t and dvb-h with h.264. w_scan doesn't produce a channels.conf for what appears to be dvb-h Any hints? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cg

Re: [vdr] DVB-H

2009-05-13 Thread Theunis Potgieter
r-1.6.0p2 Theunis On 13/05/2009, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi Theunis, > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > > Hi, is dvb-h a subset of dvb-t? our country decided to switch on > > dvb-t, we receive dvb-t and dvb-h with h.264. > > > DVB-H

Re: [vdr] DVB-H

2009-05-13 Thread Theunis Potgieter
My country is South Africa, (soccer host for world cup 2010) so it would be nice, if there was any kinda information on dvb-h + vdr. So would you advise me to move to vdr-1.7.7 to see if I can get H.264? On 13/05/2009, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Theunis Potgieter wr

Re: [vdr] DVB-H

2009-05-14 Thread Theunis Potgieter
On 14/05/2009, Mikko Tuumanen wrote: > ke, 2009-05-13 kello 15:55 +0200, Theunis Potgieter kirjoitti: > > > Hi, is dvb-h a subset of dvb-t? our country decided to switch on > > dvb-t, we receive dvb-t and dvb-h with h.264. > > > > Any hints? > > I wrote s

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