Re: [vdr] HD programme recording still broken

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:41:05 +0200 Luboš Doležel wrote: > On 10.6.2011 21:11, VDR User wrote: > > > > I've just read a post from another user who had this problem. > > Apparently his channels.conf contained wrong info and enabling > > 'update names& pids' (or whatever it's called) fixed it. > >

Re: [vdr] HD programme recording still broken

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:31:40 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 10.06.2011 23:27, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > Or it should read the pids from the PAT and PMT every time it changes > > channel instead of using channels.conf for that information. This would > > also f

[vdr] OT: s2api backwards compatible?

2011-07-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Is s2api backwards compatible ie can you use it on older, non DVB-S2, cards? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] OT: s2api backwards compatible?

2011-07-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:53:00 +0200 Udo Richter wrote: > Am 03.07.2011 19:55, schrieb Tony Houghton: > > Is s2api backwards compatible ie can you use it on older, non > > DVB-S2, cards? > > It is, in both ways: Any supported DVB card can always be accessed by >

Re: [vdr] strcmp() segfaults if one (and only one) of the parameters is NULL ?

2011-07-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:40:14 +0200 sundararaj reel wrote: > strcmp() returns 0 if both are parameters NULL, but segfaults if one > of the parameters is NULL. I think that's officially undefined behaviour. The easiest workaround (in the absence of something like glib which provides NULL-safe versi

Re: [vdr] VPS fallback patch

2011-07-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:53:45 +0100 Dave wrote: > However I wonder if the time is now right to reconsider? In the UK an > accurate Now & Next EIT is provided on DVB-T as part of the Freeview > Plus (aka TV- Anytime) service, with the data being directly derived > from the broadcasters' playout sys

Re: [vdr] perfect vdr remote?

2011-07-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:16:17 +1000 Torgeir Veimo wrote: > I find that the old grey hauppauge remote has the perfect arrow key / > coloured key layout, but it doesn't have any programmable volume and > channel keys. > > http://www.ixbt.com/monitor/images/hauppauge-mediamvp/du.jpg If anyone else

Re: [vdr] perfect vdr remote?

2011-07-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:35 -0700 VDR User wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: > >> http://www.ixbt.com/monitor/images/hauppauge-mediamvp/du.jpg > > > > If anyone else noticed that support for that type of remote got > > broken sometim

Re: [vdr] eepg plugin with UK freeview (not freesat!) EPG

2011-08-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:42:38 +0100 Laz wrote: > HD, ITV HD, and other encoded channels alone. It does, however, > scramble the EPG for some other, totally unrelated channels on a > range of MUXes! I presume it thinks it's encoded and tries to > unencode it, scrambling it in the process. One chann

Re: [vdr] DVB-T2 tuning

2011-10-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:31:14 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I'm not aware of any DVB-T2 specific code in VDR 1.7.x. > For DVB-S2 there had to be a special flag and additional > tuning parameters. Don't know how this is handled with DVB-T2. This may help:

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:02:42 +0300 JJussi wrote: > Any suggestions for small, powerful, quiet, FullHD VDR client? > So, I search machine what would act as VDR-client, using > xineliboutput with FullHD resolution and machine would have DVI or > HDMI connection + optical audio. Is this client on

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:28:17 -0700 VDR User wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Is this client only with no DVB cards? You could use an Acer Revo, > > provided you're confident that you can get VDPAU working, because > > the Atom CPU i

Re: [vdr] Wanted VDR xineliboutput client

2011-10-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:28:17 -0700 VDR User wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Is this client only with no DVB cards? You could use an Acer Revo, > > provided you're confident that you can get VDPAU working, because > > the Atom CPU i

[vdr] vdr-sxfe and compositing

2011-10-24 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm having some problems with vdr-sxfe under GNOME3/mutter. If I start it with --fullscreen it doesn't go fullscreen properly; I can still see the gnome shell panel at the top of the screen and there's no vsync so I get tearing. If I toggle fullscreen off and on again by double-clicking it does cov

Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG

2011-10-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:36 +0100 (BST) Dominic Morris wrote: > Complete tables are here: > > http://rst38.org.uk/vdr/freesat_tables_complete.zip Those are the ones with holes in aren't they? Stuart Morris said he had to "port" the tables from eepg. __

Re: [vdr] FreeviewHD compressed EPG

2011-10-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:39:46 +0100 (BST) Dominic Morris wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Dominic Evans wrote: > > On 25 October 2011 14:27, Tony Houghton wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:36 +0100 (BST) > >> Dominic Morris wrote: > >> > >>> Co

[vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-11-01 Thread Tony Houghton
When using NVidia graphics cards and the proprietary driver I find vdr-sxfe looks quite smooth even with a monitor that only supports 60Hz. I think it's been syncing to the vertical blank "automagically". But with other graphics cards I get a lot of tearing which is marring my viewing pleasure. Thi

Re: [vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Houghton
;s a non-issue if you can't sync your frame changes to the refresh! > On 11/01/2011 07:01 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: > > When using NVidia graphics cards and the proprietary driver I find > > vdr-sxfe looks quite smooth even with a monitor that only supports > > 60Hz.

Re: [vdr] sxfe and vsync

2011-12-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:43:42 +0100 gimli wrote: > Two things to mention about vaapi : > > 1.) Use xf86-video-intel-2.15.0 Do you mean at least 2.15, or are there problems with later versions like 2.17? > 2.) Forget sxfe in combination with vaapi. sxfe plays bad tricks with > the stream and is

Re: [vdr] Betr: Re: howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:40 +0100 cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: > There is one bit of information that I would like to add to > channels.conf, and that's the channel number. This information cannot > be added the README, and other files, as this is information that > only I use. My channel.conf

Re: [vdr] howto ignore lines in channels.conf

2012-01-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:51:26 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 16.01.2012 01:45, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > VDR can already do that. Before each numbered group add a line ":@1 > > ", ":@10 ", ":@20 " etc. Exclude the quotes, but ISTR there

Re: [vdr] playback problems with recordings with vdr-1.7.20 and newer

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:38:25 +0100 Oliver Endriss wrote: > On Friday 27 January 2012 15:30:18 Andreas Albert wrote: > > > > > Then i got an other problem. When watching a recording, and i > > > fastforward of rewind the program, i get to a situation that the > > > "timecounter" get's stuck to th

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput and xine-ui not fitting together

2012-02-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:08:59 +0100 Tobi wrote: > On 03.02.2012 16:22, Manfred Schmidt-Voigt wrote: > > > working xineplugin (xineplug_inp_xvdr.so) for the xine-ui. xine-ui now ist > > based on libxine2 but the libxine1-xvdr plugin is based on libxine1 (as > > the name allready states). Are there

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-02-29 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:48:33 +0100 Manuel Reimer wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Yes, the next stable version will be 2.0. > > Version 1.0 was the "SD version", and version 2.0 shall be the "HD > > version" ;-). > > > > I'll see to make "client/server" a priority after that. > > What does

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:12:19 +0100 Manuel Reimer wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: > > I don't think a plugin is enough. For better client-server VDR > > needs to support multiple clients watching different channels with > > different OSDs simultaneously. > > It j

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:29:00 +0100 Gerald Dachs wrote: > Am 2012-03-02 00:18, schrieb Tony Houghton: > > Going off on a tangent, there's been some discussion about "Pause > > and rewind live TV". That could be implemented fairly easily in > > clients with >

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.24

2012-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:30:37 +0100 "fnu" wrote: > > about "Pause and rewind live TV". > > What is live TV there, as it is already recorded ... ? > > Only users which didn't got into VDR and epgsearch timers do call for > this live buffer function. They hope for a kind of security, which > this f

Re: [vdr] Theses Client/Server VDR

2012-03-04 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:24:11 -0800 VDR User wrote: > Servers able to (dis)allow timer privileges (create, modify, delete) > for each client. > Servers able to (dis)allow recording privileges (edit, delete) for > each client. A reasonable idea, but IMO it would need to be easily configurable on th

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:59:51 + Dominic Evans wrote: > Running vdr-sxfe as a local frontend using a pipe _should_ be as fast > (if not faster) than using XBMC over an http://localhost streamdev > connection. However, I seem to find the opposite to be the case. > vdr-sxfe still struggles with HD

Re: [vdr] Local frontend - using XBMC strm vs vdr-sxfe

2012-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 14:15:06 + Dominic Evans wrote: > On 9 March 2012 13:42, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > video.output.vdpau_hd_deinterlace_method:bob > > > > I was amazed at how good it looks, although I've only tried it at > > 720p output so far, not a

[vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-11 Thread Tony Houghton
I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or "No signal". Any ideas? This is my channels.conf entry: Channel 4 HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M2O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307=NAR@4;2306=eng@106:2309:0:21200:2:2068:0 Not muc

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:41:06 + Tony Houghton wrote: > I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays > silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or "No signal". > Any ideas? > > This is my channels.conf entry: > > Chan

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:43:40 +0100 Mario Schulz wrote: > Am 12.03.2012 01:07, schrieb Tony Houghton: > > > Are some DVB-S2 cards incapable of 8PSK? Mine's a TBS 6920. > > Tried yr 2nd variant: > > Channel 4 > HD;Freesat:11126:VC23M5O0S1:S28.2E:22000:2305=2:2307

Re: [vdr] Channel 4 HD on Freesat

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:41:06 + Tony Houghton wrote: > I can't get Channel 4 HD on Freesat with VDR 1.7.23-1. It just stays > silent with the picture frozen on the previous channel, or "No > signal". Any ideas? The plot thickens. I've done some more tests. I u

[vdr] EEPG (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:24:16 +0100 Lucian Muresan wrote: > Please forgive me for going off-topic, are you actually successfully > using the EEPG plugin without segfaults? If so, which version, what > sources? I dropped using it because it crashed my VDR every now and > then, I haven't noticed th

Re: [vdr] EEPG (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:55:06 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 12.03.2012 23:01, Tony Houghton wrote: > > ... > >I do have to restart VDR every few days > > anyway, because it has a memory leak. Disabling eepg didn't fix that > > IIRC, and the leak hides from

[vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:44 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Can you give me an estimate of the rate at which memory is consumed? > Maybe you could have a shell running the command > >top -b -d 600 | grep -w vdr At the moment: 25956 vdr 20 0 520m 213m 5136 S 0.7 11.3 28:27.27

[vdr] How to discover Freeview HD tuning details?

2012-03-21 Thread Tony Houghton
My local transmitter (uk-Rowridge) completed switchover today and the HD channels are available. They're all on one channel which isn't fully listed in the NIT in the descriptors I'm aware of for this purpose. w_scan finds this channel at 47400 with a bandwidth of 8MHz, but all the other param

Re: [vdr] Memory leak (was Re: Channel 4 HD on Freesat)

2012-03-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:06:25 +0100 Mario Schulz wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 17:52, schrieb Tony Houghton: > > > memory leak > > I just met hepi, he also is a Doctor Who fan and is tuned to Astra2 as I am. > He complained about the bad status of EEPG, restarting his server eve

[vdr] Recording two programmes with identical details

2012-03-31 Thread Tony Houghton
Say I tried to record the same programme twice, once from DVB-T and once from DVB-S, can VDR manage that? As they have different ids they should appear as unrelated to one part of VDR, but as they have the same titles and times it might want to make the same filenames for both of them and clash. Or

[vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Freeview HD's EPG uses the same encoding as Freesat, but for some reason the EEPG plugin doesn't recognise it; it probably only uses the extended decoder when it's using Freesat's non-dtandard PIDs. EEPG's code is a bit tortuous, and it has a memory leak, so I decided to look again at the Freesat

Re: [vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:33:49 +0100 Dominic Evans wrote: > On 3 April 2012 16:23, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Also, I noticed that (like the EEPG plugin) Dominic's patch only looks > for Freesat EIT data on PID 3842 (BAT & SDT data is on PID 3841). This > is where the EPG

Re: [vdr] Freeview HD support

2012-04-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:47:25 +0200 Mario Schulz wrote: > I have submitted a patch for EEPG to compile the external tables to be > part of the code. > If that is interesting for you as well, you can find it here: > > http://projects.vdr-developer.org/issues/903 > http://projects.vdr-developer.org

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 08 May 2012 20:29:13 +0200 Tobi wrote: > On 08.05.2012 18:34, Marx wrote > > > I didn't know and that's why his repository isn't updated. In fact I use > > lately Debian's version (and I was quite suprised that so new version is > > available in Debian). Hovewer number of available plugi

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:14:48 +0100 Dominic Evans wrote: > On 09/05/12 00:54, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > I'd like eepg to be packaged, but only if the memory leak can be fixed > > and it's made to work on Freeview HD. The Huffman tables and marker > > bytes a

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:31:23 +0100 Dominic Evans wrote: > On 09/05/12 14:32, Tony Houghton wrote: > > On Wed, 09 May 2012 12:14:48 +0100 > > Dominic Evans wrote: [Problems with eepg] > >> Tbh, it would probably be better if someone coded it from scratch. > >

Re: [vdr] VDR form packages

2012-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 09 May 2012 21:49:04 +0200 Tobi wrote: > On 09.05.2012 18:16, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > That sounds like a good idea. Tobias, would you be willing to add this > > patch if enabling it is made optional? > > Not if this can be done with a plugin as well. >

Re: [vdr] Betr: vdr-sxfe no longer works locally after system crash, remote ok

2012-05-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:29:12 +0200 cedric.dew...@telfort.nl wrote: > I have backed-up and emptied my home directory on the PC, (and > restored .xinitrc). Now vdr-sxfe works perfectly again. Now the hunt > is on to see what file vdr-sxfe does not like. But for now, my > origional problem is solved

Re: [vdr] RFE: Make VDR more friendly when using combinations of DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C

2012-06-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:26:22 -0700 VDR User wrote: > Why not just patch VDR so it cycles through channels that use the same > channel number. No bothering with sql databases & dependency, no > altering the real channel numbers, no real pain that I can think of. > For example, say you have 3 diffe

Re: [vdr] in-kernel lirc and devinput

2012-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:21:41 +0300 Jouni Karvo wrote: > hi, > > earlier, I used to compile lirc separately, but nowadays there are lirc > modules in the kernel source, using /dev/input and IR keymaps. After > switching to these, it seems many of the buttons in the remote have > stopped workin

Re: [vdr] in-kernel lirc and devinput

2012-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:10:53 +0300 Jouni Karvo wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. > > On 18.10.2012 00:05, Tony Houghton wrote: > > I prefer inputlirc to the original lirc. If you configure it to start > > at boot and grab the input device it should stop X or whatever f

[vdr] Ouya

2012-12-04 Thread Tony Houghton
Reading the Allwinner A10 thread made me think. Surely Ouya has great potential as a cheap, low power media client. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] Audio problem on Channel 4 HD on Freeview

2013-03-21 Thread Tony Houghton
The last two times I looked at Channel 4 HD on Freeview (DVB-T2) there was a strange problem with the audio. All the ambient sounds and background music were there but voices were very muffled. One time was a film and the other was a US drama series (Revenge). The same channel on Freesat (DVB-S2) w

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:35:39 +0200 "dplu (free)" wrote: > You can use eepg plugin who do the same job, works perfectly with vdr 2.0.0 > > @+ > > Le samedi 13 avril 2013 20:52:52 Scott Waye a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I used to use freesat diff patch to get the 10 day schedule from UK > > Frees

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-13 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:06:58 +0200 "dplu (free)" wrote: > Le samedi 13 avril 2013 21:48:44 Tony Houghton a écrit : > > > > Has eepg been updated to support Freeview HD and fix the memory leak? > > Good question, eepg create it's own file on conf directory ,

Re: [vdr] Which epg for Sky UK

2013-04-14 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:05:54 +0200 Dimitar Petrovski wrote: > Hi, I maintain the eepg plugin, if you send me a stack trace, or add it as > an issue here: > http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/plg-eepg > I will look into it. > I'm using the eepg plugin for a very long time without any probl

[vdr] VDPAU for AMD

2013-04-19 Thread Tony Houghton
Anybody seen this? I think it's great news, at last there will be decent hardware acceleration for AMD graphics, on a fully open source stack, and without front-ends needing to use a new API. I know there was already In

Re: [vdr] VDR needs some way to detect new tuners on runtime...

2013-08-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:12:25 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > I wouldn't like to add a dependency to libudev. Why not? ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] VDR jumps to old position after ff/rew

2013-08-27 Thread Tony Houghton
This problem still exists with vdr-sxfe and HD recordings. On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:28:24 -0700 VDR User wrote: > I believe that's a problem with the video decoder. I had the same problem > using vdpau with vdr-xine long ago but it was quickly fixed. When I started > testing vdr-softhddevice, the

[vdr] VDPAU deinterlacing

2013-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
Last night I tried to watch my recording of the final I.T. Crowd, but it was unwatchable because of the interlacing. However, other programmes look OK. Whatever I put for video.output.vdpau_hd_deinterlace_method and video.output.vdpau_sd_deinterlace_method in ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput it gets re

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.7 -> 2.1 upgrade tips (FHS)

2013-11-06 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:58:30 -0700 "Timothy D. Lenz" wrote: > To me, dumping files all over the drives is messy, sloppy, and bad > practice. Always has been and always will be. Someone just wants to copy > MS stupidity into linux. I think some features from the FHS predate Windows and even Mic

Re: [vdr] Analyse .ts files

2013-12-28 Thread Tony Houghton
On 28 Dec 2013 19:13:59 +0100 "cedric.dew...@telfort.nl" wrote: > I am planning to let VDR record shows in encrypted form. After the show has > been captured, I would like to launch a low-priority task to decrypt the show. > This means I will be fumbling a lot with .ts files. A lot of the time I

Re: [vdr] Logs from building VDR 2.1.3 with Clang 3.4.1

2014-02-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:51:10 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > channels.c:45:119: warning: data argument not used by format > > string [-Wformat-extra-args] > >snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), rid ? "%s-%d-%d-%d-%d" : > > "%s-%d-%d-%d", *cSource::ToString(source), nid, tid

Re: [vdr] Logs from building VDR 2.1.3 with Clang 3.4.1

2014-02-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:17:09 +0100 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 08.02.2014 14:34, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > The warning is justified, because if rid is 0 it's still there as an > > argument, but just happens to have a value of 0. I think you can make > &g

Re: [vdr] Minimum CPU requirement for xineliboutput + vdr-sxfe for HDTV

2014-02-28 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:49:12 +0100 Michal Novotny wrote: > On 02/27/2014 09:29 PM, Stephan Loescher wrote: > > I know from my own VDR-systems, that a Intel Core2 Duo @ 1.86GHz or a > > Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz has far enough power to run VDR and vdr-sxfe for > > displaying HDTV. > > My personal exp

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:38:48 +0100 Manuel Reimer wrote: > for most of the GB TV channels it is common to only have the current and > the next event in the EPG list. > > I did a few tries to work around this problem using EPG parsed from > internet services and imported to VDR via xmltv2vdr-Plu

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:52:44 +0100 Christopher Reimer wrote: > I think you are looking for this patch http://www.rst38.org.uk/vdr/ > Unfortunately it's quite old. > > Christopher > > Am 09.03.2014 15:19, schrieb Tony Houghton: > > On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:38:48 +0100 >

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-09 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:20:31 +0100 Mario Schulz wrote: > Am 09.03.2014 14:38, schrieb Manuel Reimer: > > > As this solution is a bit tricky and not very reliable, my question > > is, whether there is a better solution to get "real" EPG for those > > channels? > > Freesat uses a Huffman encoding

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:53:24 -0700 VDR User wrote: > The author of the EEPG plugin has always been very helpful. You should > just contact him about adding Freeview HD support. Then you won't have > to monkey around with patches and messing with the VDR core. I think concensus is that the patch's

Re: [vdr] EPG for BBC TV channels?

2014-03-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:45:05 -0700 VDR User wrote: > > I think concensus is that the patch's code is cleaner than the plugin's. > > I looked at the plugin code to see if I could work out how to make the > > Huffman decoding work on standard PIDs for Freeview as well as on > > Freesat's non-standa

Re: [vdr] skipping 5/10 seconds

2014-04-07 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:20:37 +0200 Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Well, that's something we can talk about. You could make it so that during > replay the Left and Right keys perform 5s skips, and the FastForward/-Rewind > keys (if present on the user's remote control) still retain their normal > func

Re: [vdr] converting ts to mkv

2014-05-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 26 May 2014 13:17:51 +0200 Gerald Dachs wrote: > Am 2014-05-26 05:09, schrieb VDR User: > > There's no reason to touch the audio/video streams at all unless you > > actually want to re-encode them for some reason. If all you want is > > an > > .mkv rather than a .ts, that can be done in

Re: [vdr] vdr doesn't recognise some remote keys when using LIRC

2007-03-06 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > I'm using a lirc setup with inputlircd daemon with a hauppauge remote > on a dvb card. Everything works with the remote plugins using /dev/ > input/eventX, but I'm trying to share the remote with several > applications. > > For some reason when

Re: [vdr] vdr doesn't recognise some remote keys when using LIRC

2007-03-06 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > On 6 Mar 2007, at 14:20, Tony Houghton wrote: > > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torgeir Veimo > >wrote: > > > >>For some reason when trying to learn keys with LIRC, when I'm > >>running the inp

Re: [vdr] (OFFTOPIC) "EFF reveals plot to cripple European television"

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Houghton
VDR User wrote: On 3/15/07, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Absolutely, since (if this insanity really happens) it means that projects like VDR are effectively dead in the water :( Why do you believe that? Personally, I don't think there's any need for panic. Too much money involved.

Re: [vdr] (OFFTOPIC) "EFF reveals plot to cripple European television"

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Houghton
Sorry about my other reply which I accidentally sent without editing. VDR User wrote: > On 3/15/07, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Absolutely, since (if this insanity really happens) it means that >> projects like VDR are effectively dead in the water :( > > Why do you believe that? >

Re: [vdr] Re: vdr doesn't recognise some remote keys when using LIRC

2007-03-17 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > On 6 Mar 2007, at 11:44, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > >I'm using a lirc setup with inputlircd daemon with a hauppauge > >remote on a dvb card. Everything works with the remote plugins > >using /dev/input/eventX, but I'm trying to share the remote

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-20 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > On 20/04/07, Markus Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >BUT I have to admit that xineliboutput uses only half of the CPU power of > >softdevice, so it's video decoder has to be more efficient... Odd, because xine also uses ffmpeg. Perhaps it

Re: [vdr] Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?

2007-04-21 Thread Tony Houghton
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alasdair Campbell wrote: > On 21/04/07, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Another alternative is to use the other vdr xine plugin with df_xine, > >which gives very good results with my Matrox (G450). About the only > &

[vdr] Subtitles patch causing ProjectX warnings

2007-06-16 Thread Tony Houghton
When demuxing my VDR recordings in ProjectX I get thousands of apparently harmless warnings like this: !> error in pes_extension of pes-ID 0xE0 @ pos: 101203597 (2048 / 19 / 20 / true / false) !> error in pes_extension of pes-ID 0xC0 @ pos: 101229768 (592 / 16 / 37 / true / true) I posted about

[vdr] PiP

2007-06-19 Thread Tony Houghton
Has anyone thought about VDR supporting PiP (picture-in-picture)? It would be quite useful, but perhaps not enough to justify the work. Supporting all outputs, FF cards in particular, would require a lot of processing power to decode two streams then encode the superimposed version back to MPEG 2.

[vdr] Two different types of DVB card

2008-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
Can VDR handle two different types of DVB card at once? I've got two different makes of DVB-T card at the moment, which is fine because they share one channels.conf, but I'm thinking of replacing one with DVB-S for HD. Can VDR assign a different channels.conf to each card and merge the channels lis

Re: [vdr] Two different types of DVB card

2008-10-20 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:40:28 +0300 Antti Hartikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:22:10PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Can VDR handle two different types of DVB card at once? I've got two > > different makes of DVB-T card at the moment, whic

[vdr] ITV HD

2008-10-24 Thread Tony Houghton
I've read that ITV HD can only be viewd by pressing the red button on a Freesat receiver. Does this mean VDR can't access it? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] OT: VDR for grandparents

2008-10-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:48:33 + Dave P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 26 Oct 2008, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: > > Hello Paul, > > > > > has anyone on this list any experience in setting up VDR for older > > > people like grandparents? It would be nice, if she/he could share > > > her/hi

[vdr] DVB-S card recommendation

2008-11-03 Thread Tony Houghton
Is it OK to ask for card recommendations here or would it be better to ask in the DVB list? I want to build a new HTPC to watch "Freesat" and I don't know what DVB-S card to buy. They're actually a bit difficult to find, being a more obscure item in the UK than DVB-T receivers. Working properly wi

Re: [vdr] DVB-S card recommendation

2008-11-04 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 01:26:44 + "hudo kkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it OK to ask for card recommendations here or would it be better to > > ask in the DVB list? I want

Re: [vdr] DVB-S card recommendation

2008-11-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:35:13 + "hudo kkow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks. I should have done more research before posting though; I found > > that PCI-e isn't

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

2008-11-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:23:49 -0800 (PST) lucian orasanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Man this is awesome , nice mouve from Nvidia guys, and wen I think about I > give aweay for free my GF8500 and switcht to ati! now i have to buy a new one > or wait ati to mouve? I just bought a new HTPC moth

Re: [vdr] Two different types of DVB card

2008-11-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:40:28 +0300 Antti Hartikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:22:10PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Can VDR handle two different types of DVB card at once? I've got two > > different makes of DVB-T card at the moment, whic

Re: [vdr] Two different types of DVB card

2008-11-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:48:16 + Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice theory, but ti doesn't work in practice for me. With just the DVB-T > channels in channels.conf (I haven't got the DVB-S card working yet) and > the DVB-S card present I get "Channe

[vdr] H.264

2008-11-15 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm currently using the Debian (unstable) package of VDR, which is based on 1.6.0. It doesn't support H.264 AFAICT. Are there any Debian packages available with H.264 support? I need x86_64 or the source package(s). Failing that I think the next easiest course of action would be to patch the source

Re: [vdr] Two different types of DVB card

2008-11-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:20:23 +0100 "Sébastien Serra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you explain it more. What is "the right module" ? I have 2 dvb card, one > nova-s and one nova-t. with szap i can use my nova-t. With vdr no success, i > have "unavailable channel" when i switch to dvb-t channel.

[vdr] Where is the H.264 patch?

2008-11-21 Thread Tony Houghton
Where can I download the H.264 patch from? I can't find it on Google. My card is only DVB-S, not DVB-S2; do I need the s2api patch as well? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listi

[vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe

2008-11-22 Thread Tony Houghton
Is there a way of configuring vdr-sxfe with a xine config file? For example, although I can select an audio driver on the command line I think libxine needs a config file to select the output device. I found ~/.xine/config_xineliboutput but it's no use editing it because vdr-sxfe overwrites it with

Re: [vdr] Configuring vdr-sxfe

2008-11-22 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:04:52 +0300 Goga777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Приветствую, Tony > > > > Is there a way of configuring vdr-sxfe with a xine config file? For > > example, although I can select an audio driver on the command line I > > think libxine needs a config file to select the outpu

Re: [vdr] xineliboutput sxfe / xxmc / via / EPIA ML6000 : great !

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:58:22 +0100 Holger Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The A780 chipset is nice for low-power needs. That's not what I found. I tried to install an Asus MA738EMH last week and had to give up in the end and replace it with a similar board with NVidia 8200 graphics (that choic

Re: [vdr] Where is the H.264 patch?

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:49:23 +0100 jlacvdr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to vdr-1.7.0, in attach file of this message : > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2008-April/016513.html Is there a patch that will work with 1.6.0? It'll make things rather easier if I can just patch the debian packages

[vdr] HD playback (was Where is the H.264 patch?)

2008-11-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:25:00 +0200 "Petri Helin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there a patch that will work with 1.6.0? It'll make things rather > > easier if

Re: [vdr] HD playback (was Where is the H.264 patch?)

2008-11-27 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:00:58 +0300 Goga777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm having trouble with playback though. I found "In The Night Garden" > >

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