Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.3

2007-06-15 Thread Tony Grant
Just upgraded from 1.3.xx Where is the documentation for the new format of runvdr please? TIA Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] please please please starting over

2007-06-24 Thread Tony Grant
I have a lock on Astra 19.2E finally (can't get one on 28.2E) VDR shows key in OSD and no picture - I am guessing that the stream is unreadable? Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] Mid range CPU choice

2007-09-05 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 13:10 +0200, Nicolas Huillard a écrit : > > Nice setup - but the case is too big for me. I have a single glass panel > > shelf, the case can be 11.5" deep maximum.. > > I went for a heavily customized CD player... Count 1-2 days drilling and > cutting to fi

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-09-30 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 07:44 +1300, Simon Baxter a écrit : > > I'm currently running a Shuttle SK43G with the via/unichrome chipset, > running a budget card and using vdr-xine as a softdevice. Since > recently adding an LCD 16:9 I'm now running it at 1360x768 with xine > anamorphic, to get 4

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-10-01 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Torgeir Veimo a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 08:02 +0200, Tony Grant wrote: > > > > > I'm in the throws of buying an EPIA SP8000EG or SP13000 with the > > > mpeg2/4 accelerator. Has anyone had experience with these

Re: [vdr] EPIA mpeg2/4 quality on vdr-xine

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 02 octobre 2007 à 08:48 +0200, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : > How did you enable the MPEG2 decoder? I enabled the xxmc option in xine > (xvmc caused crashes). Are there other ways? xxmc is the correct way - I have a desktop launcher shell script to start xine with options -V xxmc -fg vdr

[vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-18 Thread Tony Grant
Hi, I thought I would try this First a question asked on the Forum that did not get a reply: - PCM volume is being turned down to 0 which is very annoying Where do I change these settings? SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 The new versions of VDR and xine plugin:

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-19 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 19:48 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > > - any attempt at using the xine configuration dialog results in a lock > > up > > Hmm, I've upgraded to openSUSE 10.3 this morning. I now get such dead > locks when using -V xxmc. The deadlock happens for "simple" libX11

Re: [vdr] VDR 1.5.10 and vdr-xine 0.7.12

2007-10-20 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 19:48 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > Have you tried --verbose=2 -V xv and verified from the output, that > video_out_xv is used? yes it is Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/c

Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2007 à 09:04 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > > The picture was very good, but there was dropped frames that xine > > reported and the stuttered on occassion and then ran very quickly to > > catch up. Playing around with the settings in xine (setting threads to > > 2 etc) d

Re: [vdr] DVB-S2 + H.264 support for VDR-1.5.10

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2007 à 09:47 +0200, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > xine-lib-1.2 is only available from the hg repository. Please follow > this guide: OK I have lib-1.2 and vdr-xine-0.8.0 humming along. Image very clean and CPU usage is down another 5%. I will see if the new version of openchro

[vdr] 4 and 5

2007-10-28 Thread Tony Grant
Hello, Linowsat (http://www.linowsat.com/settings/vdr/unsorted/0282/fta-tv.conf) has listings for both Channel 4 and Five as FTA. I know they are FTV on Sky. When I try to watch I have EPG data and femon shows signal but I have no image or sound. Is this a Linowsat error or am I doing something w

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.8.0 plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 13 novembre 2007 à 14:50 +, Darren Salt a écrit : > > - it doesn't require me to recompile libxine > > Neither does vdr-xine (if you're using xine-lib-1.2). affirmative! I am running xine-lib-1.2 and vdr-xine 0.8.0 at last no more messing with patching xine-lib My problems:

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-22 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 22 novembre 2007 à 17:41 +0200, Lauri Tischler a écrit : > >>> But to buy a 1000+ Euro TV set? That's another reason for me to stay SD. > >> Not really, FullHD also means large, minimum 42", it is quite senseless > >> to to watch good picture on a postcard, so you start at €1500 Has any

Re: [vdr] HDTV - 2B or not 2B

2007-11-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 17:05 +, Chris Jones a écrit : > > Has anyone tried VGA out at 1600x1050 on a FullHD (Sony Bravia for > > example)? If so what does it look like. > > I've used a PC connected to a 40" Bravia via DVI and it was pretty damn > good. If you sat far enough away you coul

[vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
I noticed that I could no longer see channels with vertical polarisation - this used to work must have stopped last week. Channels: BBC 2 England;BSkyB:10773:hC56:S28.2E:22000:... etc. works ITV1 London;BSkyB:10759:vC56:S28.2E:22000:... blanks screen vdr 1.5.13, vdr-xine 0.8 Any ideas? Cheers

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 17:33 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > I can't test vdr-1.5.13 because a VDR without DVB-S2 isn't fun at all, > but with vdr-1.5.12 with DVB-S2 support I can perfectly tune to : > > ITV1 > London;BSkyB:10758:vC56S0Z0:S28.2E:22000:2305:2310=eng,2314=NAR:2315:0:1006

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-13 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 17:33 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Tony Grant wrote: > > I noticed that I could no longer see channels with vertical polarisation > > - this used to work must have stopped last week. > > > &g

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.5.13 (and earlier)

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 22:35 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > ITV1 > London;BSkyB:10758:vC56S0Z0:S28.2E:22000:2305:2310=eng,2314=NAR:2315:0:10060:2:2044:0 I have recorded from it and can see recording but it is not visible as live TV Does that help? Tony -- __

[vdr] can't swich from horizintal to vertical polarisation

2008-01-16 Thread Tony Grant
OK so I fixed all my issues with my clean install of vdr and vdr-xine in Fedora Core 8 except one: - switching from horizontal to vertical polarization does not work, screen goes black, xine stops responding - I can record vertical polarized channels and play back the recording so

[vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
I pulled the dvb drivers with mercurial made and installed. Nothing has changed: Fire up vdr-xine which tunes to BBC 1 (horizintal polarization) vdr-xine: Client connected! [vaAVM]buffered 35,1 frames (v:39,0, a:35,1) frame: (0, 0)-(720, 576), zoom: (1,00, 1,00) Picture and sound perfect (yester

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 17:53 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > Can you provide an excerpt of VDR's logfile with the content from > "switching to channel" up to jan 17 10:25:01? Easier, I just switched channels and it stops Tony Jan 17 18:34:24 hush vdr: [4551] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known J

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 18:53 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > Tony Grant schrieb: > > Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 17:53 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > > > >> Can you provide an excerpt of VDR's logfile with the content from > >> "

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 19:40 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > > 100% CPU but it changes channels. > > Maybe -V xv relaxes CPU load a bit. Yes but sound eventually cuts out. > Well, on my openSUSE 10.3 I cannot use xxmc anymore with my > GF6600 as it dead locks for the same reason. openSUS

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 20:47 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > > Off topic, but are you saying you run vdr-xine or xineliboutput under X > > with > > the MII-6000E motherboard?? What other plugins do you run? > > femon, epgsearch, radio femon and streamdev on M1 no sweat > > I bough

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-17 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 23:32 +0100, Hans Gustafsson a écrit : > video_out_xxmc: New format. Need to change XvMC Context. > width: 544 height: 576 mpeg: 2 acceleration: 7 > video_out_xxmc: Disposing of surface 3 > 1 1;1 1;1 1;0 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;1 1;0 0; > video_out_xxm

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-01-21 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 à 19:40 +0100, Reinhard Nissl a écrit : > There exists already a fixed version of libxcb but it is not > available for a stock openSUSE 10.3. On the other hand, my EPIA > MII-6000E runs openSUSE 10.3 too, using the binary openchrome > driver package provided at openchrome

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput with xxmc: slow OSD

2008-01-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 09:44 +0100, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : > I am experimenting with xineliboutput using the xxmc video driver for > the local sxfe frontend on an EPIA-M1 board with CLE266. I have the > OpenChrome Drivers installed. > MPEG2 HW decoding seems usually to work, I get

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput with xxmc: slow OSD

2008-01-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 28 janvier 2008 à 12:07 +0100, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : > > There is a problem with xine, the openchrome driver and VDR. You are too > > slow - I am seeing 9-12% CPU with current openchrome even with this bug. > > > > I am using vdr-xine rather than xineliboutput > that was not the

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput with xxmc: slow OSD

2008-01-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 29 janvier 2008 à 09:01 +0100, Ondrej Wisniewski a écrit : > I am using Ubuntu 7.10 with xine lib from the repos. Here's the problem > I encounter. Might be the same bug you are talking about: > > VDR is running with xineliboutput plugin. Remote frontend sxfe is > started on the same

Re: [vdr] #error VDR requires Linux DVB driver API > version 3.3! (was - VDR developer version 1.5.14)

2008-01-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le mardi 29 janvier 2008 à 13:00 +0100, Ales Jurik a écrit : > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Matthias Fechner wrote: > > I modified now the Makefile and added the following lines after the > > include of the conf file: > > ifdef DVBDIR > > INCLUDES += -I$(DVBDIR)/include > > endif > > > > For plugin

Re: [vdr] new drivers

2008-02-03 Thread Tony Grant
Le samedi 02 février 2008 à 13:13 +0100, Hans Gustafsson a écrit : > I got rid of the xine blue screen/hang by downgrading libX11 and > libX11-devel to the ones from fedora 7 :) OK it works. It puts CPU usage up about 2-5%. I'll tell the openchrome and xine people. Cheers Tony -- _

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

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 09:58 +, Laz a écrit : > I don't think MPEG4 decoding will be supported in this way for a very long > time, unless Via have changed their attitudes. (Not really bothered > looking into this because HD is years off in the UK where I am, unless > you fork out lo

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

2008-02-06 Thread Tony Grant
Le mercredi 06 février 2008 à 17:29 +0200, JJussi a écrit : > > HD needs to be shown at sizes where the extra pixels are worth our while > > I don't have 3000€ to put into a screen. > > But some of us do! ;-) I would probably spend a lot more time - enough to justify the cost - in front of TV i

Re: [vdr] BBC EPG from sat ? (loadepg equivalent ?)

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 12:03 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > even if my english is quiete limited, I really enjoy the program from > the BBC (S13.0E/S19.2E/S28.2E) which are FTA :-) > > The only thing I miss is an epg of more than current and next. Hi Grégoire, I use xmltv and xmltv2vdr

Re: [vdr] BBC EPG from sat ? (loadepg equivalent ?)

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 20:57 +0100, Brian a écrit : > Problem is that Bleb no longer has all the channels, copyright problems. > Thats why I no longer use it. I use the solution pointed out by Tony > Grant, it works perfectly well. You can customize which channel's ep

Re: [vdr] VDR on OpenWRT / embedded system

2008-02-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 11:57 +0200, Theunis Potgieter a écrit : How about Western Digital Mybook World Edition - USB - EN 1000 - serial port on MB Still has the 32MB RAM limitation. Debian has been installed in place of the stock linux. And there is 500/750/1000

[vdr] VDR and sky CAM

2008-03-07 Thread Tony Grant
Hello fans of British TV. At the moment I watch the FTA channels on 28.2/28.5 E I am thinking of investing £20 in a FTV card for the new freesat service. Is anyone using the card (or the sky card for existing service) with VDR? What kind of DVB-S card do you have (budget or FF)? What brand? At t

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine - screen size and resolution

2008-03-21 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 21 mars 2008 à 12:43 +0100, serge pecher a écrit : > As I understand, I have different sources, with different resolutions. Is > there a manner to tell vdr-xine or xine to adapt the output as good as > possible to my tv screen ? try the -f option Tony -- __

[vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Reinhard, I decided to try vdr 1.6.0 and vdr-xine 0.8.2 and have ran into the XINE VDR VERSION MISMATCH in INSTALL issue. I am running xine-lib 1.2 pulled from the xine site pkg-config --cflags libxine -I/usr/local/include I can't see what is wrong Cheers Tony -- __

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12:15 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > I use this in order to be sure I only got ONE xine-lib installed : Thanks Gregoire but I only have one xine-lib installed. This is a clean FC8 with xine-lib 1.2 installed from hg. Trying an update of xine-lib now (4 hours on a VIA

Re: [vdr] vdr-xine oh no not again...

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 27 mars 2008 à 12:54 +0100, Gregoire Favre a écrit : > > Trying an update of xine-lib now (4 hours on a VIA Epia M1) > > I am quiete certain that you still have some files from the previous > version... you don't have to recompil all, just delete all files in the > location you inst

[vdr] vdr 1.6.0

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Grant
OK I now have the following set up: - hush with VIA Epia M1 - Fedora Core 8 up to date except libX11* - xine-lib 1.2 from hg today 27/03/2008 - vdr 1.6.0 - vdr-xine 0.8.2 - femon 1.2.4 - vdradmin-am-3.6.1 *In order to use xine with xxmc

[vdr] silly question

2008-03-28 Thread Tony Grant
This must be a FAQ but it is new for me: - how do I stop VDR adding channels to channels.conf? It started doing this when I installed 1.5.13 Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: [vdr] silly question

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 28 mars 2008 à 19:28 +, Andy Carter a écrit : > Check > > Setup->DVB->Update channels > > and select your preferred option Thanks! It has been a long time since I went in there... =:-D Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.or

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

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 06:26 +1200, Simon Baxter a écrit : > Has anyone tested running an EPIA ML6000 fanless motherboard with vdr-xine? It is a CLE266 it will work just fine > The spec's only say "MPEG-2 Accelerator" rather than "Decoder/Accelerator" - > will it work with a VGA 1366x768

[vdr] Can't get lock on BBC news

2008-07-11 Thread Tony Grant
Hi, freesat: Can't get a lock on BBC News 24 since yesterday is it just me? I have also lost the channel 4 group of channels although femon reports lock. Have these channels changed their transponder (again)? Cheers Tony -- ___ vdr mailing list

Re: [vdr] Can't get lock on BBC news

2008-07-12 Thread Tony Grant
Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 09:12 +0200, Tony Grant a écrit : > freesat: > > Can't get a lock on BBC News 24 since yesterday is it just me? Still not lock and 42% STNR on BBC News Is no one else having problems with theis channel? > I have also lost the channel 4

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Grant
Le dimanche 21 janvier 2007 à 21:19 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : A mail with correct subject line! Congratulations! =:-D > Is VDR the correct tool? I am not sure that vdr is the best tool for recording/time shifting/whatever encrypted analog video. It is the best tool for digital (DVB-S, D

RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 22 janvier 2007 à 19:54 -0500, Russell Treleaven a écrit : > I would like to make the system very small. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml Because you asked... Here you are rambling up the wrong track. Sorry! Read the page carefully, do you see HTPC or PVR? No. G

Re: [vdr] silly Question - new wide screen

2007-01-29 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 09:13 +, Linux TV homemaillist a écrit : > I've just connected my VDR box to my Sony Bravia 32" LCD. you [EMAIL PROTECTED] =:-D > I'm running the vdr-xine plugin. > > When I play recordings the screen zooms right up to the 16:9. But when > I'm just viewing the OSD

Re: [vdr] EPG Question (concerning BBC3 and BBC4)

2007-02-05 Thread Tony Grant
Le lundi 05 février 2007 à 17:49 +0100, Brian a écrit : > BBC3 and BBC4 only start to show programs at 19:00 UK time. My EPG for > these programs comes via the internet. If I try to look at the EPG for > those channels before 19:00, then they are not even shown in the list of > programs I hav

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 00:12 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : > What I am after is an ordered channel list in the same order as the > official decoders from different providers. ie, someone from outside > the UK wouldn't necessarily know that the channels go: > > BBC 1, 2 , ITV 1, Ch 4, five. T

Re: [vdr] UK Freeview Logical Channel Numbers

2007-02-15 Thread Tony Grant
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 09:15 +0100, Rob Davis a écrit : > > If you wanted to have the same numbers as a Sky Digibox. OK I see. I am a very basic viewer who just zaps around on a whim recording the odd film now and then and of course MotoGP. Since we moved my VDR box died (bad capacitors) a