[linux-dvb] Re: More than 4 DVB cards - again

2004-06-22 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:50:27 +0200, Carsten Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Irek Defee wrote: > > I can only confirm that in version 2.4 there is no problem whatsoever, > > I am running machines with 6 cards installed since I have that many PCI > > slots available and all is fine and stable. Ano

[linux-dvb] Re: Fwd: Re: DEBI irq oops, crashes: kernel 2.6 & Hyperthreading unusable with DVB

2004-05-09 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 7 May 2004 16:56:53 +0200 (MEST), Udo Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd stand a lot if it just costs only 5% performance > but I want to stay in hyperthreading. Switching off hyperthreading costs > 30-40% performance. :( I have run a 4 card VDR system and NFS server for 2 VDR client

[linux-dvb] Re: DEBI irq oops, crashes: kernel 2.6 & Hyperthreading unusable with DVB

2004-05-02 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sun, 2 May 2004 23:18:05 +0200 (MEST), Udo Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 16:1533283 20198587 IO-APIC-level saa7146 (0) ... > Any help for me ? Do I have to give more informations ? Try to move the interrupt to 9 or 10 to get edge triggered interrupts, may be this helps. Emil

[linux-dvb] Re: Help with J2 RGB

2004-04-29 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:22:24 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apart from the 75 Ohm resistor I don't even know what the rest of the > circuitry is for. With just the resistors the signal is terminated and > the TV doesn't have the R, G or B values overdriven. > > Please e

[linux-dvb] Re: Help with J2 RGB

2004-04-29 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:34:42 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In an email sent to me rather than the list you mentioned the > following. I hope you don't mind me forwarding this part to the list as > I wanted further opinions. No, it is just the brain-dead setting of this m

[linux-dvb] Re: Help with J2 RGB

2004-04-29 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:05:30 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PLEASE explain to me what I am doing wrong and how to avoid this > ghosting. Preferably without needing to spend another 40 hours > soldering. And if you know of any PRACTICAL advice on how to solder for > a begi

[linux-dvb] Re: More on reading from 4 cards simultaneously

2004-02-26 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:05:32 +0100 (MET), "Johann Hanne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have checked this earlier...: If i use TWO processes (the first one > reading from 3 boards, the second one reading from the 4th), i get data from > all 4 boards. > > I.e. only if all 4 boards (demux an

[linux-dvb] Re: Reading from 4 cards simultaneously?

2004-02-09 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:43:21 +0100, Johann Hanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm reading the entire transport stream from every card by using the dummy PID > 8192 on the demux device and I use poll() calls to check if data is ready on > some dvr device. But after opening the fourth device, no mo

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S rev1.5 tuning problem

2003-12-30 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:49:36 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NOTE: Last time I sent this it never made it onto the list for some > reason so I'm sending it again. > > Now that I've come up with a temporary solution to my TV-out problem > I've moved onto tuning. I haven't b

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S RGB output wiring suggestions

2003-12-26 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:21:43 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found some info at > http://www.vdrportal.de/board/portal_vdrinfo.php? > site=7&infonr=4&infoln=en&sid=2e010195ed29a33af8a7f3d506ae42c0 but > cannot decipher it. This is the same as I have proposed, termi

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S Rev1.5 RGB out nightmare

2003-12-23 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:58:55 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a 75Ohm resistor on the ground? Are you sure you don't mean on the > composite video/luminance signal? I am electrically ignorant so it > doesn't make much sense to me to put it on ground. I mean between red and

[linux-dvb] Re: DVB-S Rev1.5 RGB out nightmare

2003-12-23 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:18:12 +1000, Michal Dobrzynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldn't help myself and I just tried it. It works :) Thanks. > > But I'm a bit concerned. Something doesn't seem quite right about the > output. It's grainier than I think it should be and this is even > visib

[linux-dvb] Re: Transponder switching taking considerably longer

2003-08-01 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:52:27 +0200, Javier Marcet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It must be consequence of some of the other changes committed these days, > since channel switching, whether on the same or on different > transponders is appreciably faster now. I think it is the change in dvb_frontend

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 01:15:00 +0100, Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do the oopses only occur with a xx01 as type > in the gpioirq? No, this was just my test case. I have done 6 concurrent recordings on 3 DVB cards. Here is another sample during regular use: Feb 16 13:23:29 vdrpc k

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi Ralph, here we are. I now call the interrupt functions directly. The first column identifies the trace point: 00: av7110_irq() 2nd column: av7110 pointer 3rd column: isr 0x0008 debi interrupt 0x0008 gpio interrupt 01: gpioirq() 2nd column: av7110 pointer 3rd co

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-15 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:27:50 +0100, Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, it would be interesting to know from which point on e.g. in the > debiirq() a gpioirq() can occur and also which new type (not the old > debitype) this gpioirq() has. I will try this tomorrow morning. Currently are

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-15 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:00:07 +0100, Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but they should not happen in the first place. > We will need some more detailed debugging info to find the position > when e.g. the gpioirq() interrupts the debi processing. > It should not be able to happen befor

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-15 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:36:56 +0100, Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally, what exactly is the problem you are having with the > combined GPIO/DEBI IRQs? > When do problems occur and with which firmware/driver? > > Maybe something went wrong when moving to tasklets, which I (for > g

[linux-dvb] Re: AV7110 stable protocol proposal

2003-02-15 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:54:20 +0100, Oliver Endriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because DPRAM is a very limited ressource, it would be great to > resize the upload/download buffers dynamically. > This way throughput could be optimized. Why not use the buffers as shared resource with a minimum res

[linux-dvb] Re: New DVB driver release 1.0.0-pre1

2003-02-14 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:41:21 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:43:04PM +0100, Emil Naepflein wrote: > > Did you have a look at the traces I posted some days ago regarding the > > GPIO0 oops? > > Yes, briefly. But I

[linux-dvb] Re: New DVB driver release 1.0.0-pre1

2003-02-13 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:31:37 +0100, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Daniel Schneider wrote: > > How stable is this DVB driver version with VDR 1.1.24? Are there > > still OSD errors (missing text lines in menus) and does the ARM still >

[linux-dvb] Re: GPIO0 irq oops, DEBI irq oops

2003-02-11 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, I have build a trace which shows the sequence of interrupts. Here are a few samples. I deleted the lines related to other controllers. The first column identifies the trace point: 00: av7110_irq() 2nd column: av7110 pointer 3rd column: isr 0x0008 gpio interrupt 0x0

[linux-dvb] GPIO0 irq oops, DEBI irq oops

2003-02-09 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, since I have installed a new disk controller I sometimes see messages like the following: Feb 9 13:11:20 vdrpc kernel: GPIO0 irq oops Feb 9 13:11:20 vdrpc kernel: DEBI irq oops Sometimes even a arm crash follows. I have tried with different drivers and played around with interrupt assignme

[linux-dvb] Re: Adding SDI SMPTE 259M interface to DVB card

2002-12-31 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:10:59 +, "Daniel Schmelzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know that there is open source bridge code for the SAA7146 Bt.656 > interface. There's plenty of open source code for the Conexant Fusion 878A > and CX2388x chips, at least for Windows. That's what we use

[linux-dvb] Re: Adding SDI SMPTE 259M interface to DVB card

2002-12-31 Thread Emil Naepflein
On 30 Dec 2002 18:57:34 +, Justin Cormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:48, Emil Naepflein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > has someone already thought about adding a SDI video interface to the > > DVB-S card? > > > > The AV71

[linux-dvb] Adding SDI SMPTE 259M interface to DVB card

2002-12-28 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, has someone already thought about adding a SDI video interface to the DVB-S card? The AV7111 has a digital video output port (YCOUT8bit, YCCLK) which outputs 8 bit 4:2:2 data with a 27 MHz clock. Is this port normally activated in the firmware? The spec also says that if the 32-bit EBI is u

[linux-dvb] Re: automatic AD cutting [was "Timing recording"]

2002-12-13 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:48:39 +0100, Alexandre CONRAD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you get the idea ? And if you have any ideas, your suggestions are open. The problem is that you probably will not get always exact the same frame content. There is a lot that can go wrong from retrieving it from

[linux-dvb] Re: automatic AD cutting [was "Timing recording"]

2002-12-13 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:56:58 +0100, Alexandre CONRAD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess having a "tolerance" on the image should do. But of course, that > makes it more sophisticated. How much do you know about image recognition? What you want is possible, but it needs a lot of processing pow

[linux-dvb] Re: CAMs - the never ending story...

2002-04-17 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:22:12 +0100, "Stuart L. Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does enough information exist in the public domain for someone (given > enough time ;-) to decrypt B-Sky-B's VideoGuard encryption? I'm not > talking about getting around the encryption but totally legal Sky >

[linux-dvb] Re: the task :)

2002-04-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:55:24 +0200, Axel Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >vdr can do this on pentium 100MHz systems with drives mounted via NFS... > > all the work is done by the dvb card, and the data stream is only few > > MB/s... > No not in all cases - here a 800MHZ is nearly enough for a

[linux-dvb] Re: What's the minor-shift (if there is one set)?

2002-03-07 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:23:20 -0800, "Aurelian Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one of the driver developpers might know the problem? > Could it be the fact that I changed that define in dvb.h? I tried to use 5 dvb cards several month ago and have given up because of interrupt problems. But I

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr and "softcam"?

2002-02-17 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:52:37 GMT, "Alessio Sangalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if I have an official subscription to 2 irdeto providers, why can't I > record from them the same time? You can, with two CAMS and the official cards. I am not denying it. Read the subject again. We talk abou

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr and "softcam"?

2002-02-17 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 08:46:32 +0100, Daniel Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybee soon, when Third Reich censorship is introduced again to > protect the industry, their patents and their monopolies. Gassners Law - You loose. I hope for you that never the fruits of your hard work with wh

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr and "softcam"?

2002-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:21:54 GMT, "Alessio Sangalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emil Naepflein writes: > > > > I fully agree with you here. The use of such a software is certainly not > > legal and is unethical. > > certainly not? even if you pu

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr and "softcam"?

2002-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:23:45 +0100, "Ulrich Petri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok i agree with you that integrating such a feature into vdr/dvb driver > ist not such a good idea, but perhaps the way it was done on win can be > gone here too (i'm talking of some kind of "plugin")... Then do this

[linux-dvb] Re: vdr and "softcam"?

2002-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:44:56 +0100, "Reiner Rosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I really would appreciate, if discussions about such a piece of software > will stop on this list. I know that nobody can be forced to do so... I fully agree with you here. The use of such a software is certainly

[linux-dvb] Re: The contrast of my PAL output is VERY bad!?!

2002-02-16 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:05:05 +0100, "Engelmann F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just installed DVB and VDR 0.99 on my Debian Woody System. Works Great!!! > I think i will sell my MM9800s, but till now the contrast of my DVB card > (Hauppauge DVB-s 1.3) is VERY poor!! The colores are also not th

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: HDTV & DVB / VDR (dscaler ..)

2002-01-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:16:27 +0100, Mirko Morschheuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if the DVB stream contains the same flags as in the Mpeg2 > stream on a DVD? Software Mpeg2 decoders usually read these flags and > deinterlace according to them. Therefore you get problems when

[linux-dvb] Re: HDTV & DVB / VDR (dscaler ..)

2002-01-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:17:01 +0100 (CET), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emil Naepflein writes: > > Does the MPEG stream transmitted bei DVB contain the interlace flag > > identifying fields that belong together just like on DVD? > > Probably depends on the encoder

[linux-dvb] Re: HDTV & DVB / VDR (dscaler ..)

2002-01-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:23:31 +0100 (CET), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think people are not aware that the DVB-s card also has a > video4linux device that can give you the decoded video output via DMA. > You can scale the picture, change the brightness etc. . > How do you think xawtv displays t

[linux-dvb] Re: HDTV & DVB / VDR (dscaler ..)

2002-01-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:11:41 +0100, Patrick GUENEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure whether MPlayer is doing 3:2 Pulldown, but that's not a > problem for us as we all live with PAL. We need proper 2:2 pulldown to avoid the zick-zack lines. Emil -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail

[linux-dvb] Re: is interrupt sharing possible?

2001-12-27 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:54:00 +0100, Jonas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my box is really stuffed with lots of peripherals.now my problem is that my > dvb card shared it's irq with one of my nics and it seems that was the reason > why my system keeped hanging. are there chances that i can p

[linux-dvb] Re: Entering file names ...

2001-09-06 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:01:26 +0200, "Reiner Rosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Klaus on this whole Name-thing, leave it as it is ;)... > ... ok the handy-style makes some sense, but this matrix > And even with T9??? I hope you made a joke ;) ... you would > even need a

[linux-dvb] Re: "Standard" VDR remote control.

2001-09-06 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:11:55 +0200, Carsten Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you can see, it supports the required vdr buttons > "Up", "Down", "Ok", "Left", "Right", "Red", "Green", > "Yellow", "Blue", "0"-"9", "Power" directly and > nicely. It has 8 additional buttons. Two of them > would h

[linux-dvb] Re: @klaus: idea for a new simple menu feature in vdr:

2001-09-06 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 06:35:02 +0200, Emil Naepflein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I am missing most of the time is a fast way to display the channel > menu to select a channel. The Humax 5400 displays it when pressing the > OK button in TV mode. As VDR doesn't use the OK

[linux-dvb] Re: @klaus: idea for a new simple menu feature in vdr:

2001-09-06 Thread Emil Naepflein
On 06 Sep 2001 17:57:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Zocholl) wrote: > Or the "back" key pressed 5 times(or so did not count how > deep VDR's menu struture is) > leds always to the top "menu": The normal TV screen. Today you can press the menu button twice to go into the top menu. I think t

[linux-dvb] Re: Playback in network

2001-09-03 Thread Emil Naepflein
> Since some day´s i use a full automatic script for TVTV.DE > - so i can programm both Machines over the WEB. This is certainly no option for me. > Additional i can programm the "MAIN" VDR over the Remote-Controll. > Please standby - currently Carsten and myself test this new > solution and

[linux-dvb] Re: Playback in network

2001-09-02 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:31:38 +0100, Axel Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here i can have 3 Recordings (with 3 DVB-CARDS) and 2 Playback´s > (2 clients with 1 DVB-CARD in each) - without any Problems ! How looks your solution for programming the timers? Are you programming them on your record

[linux-dvb] Re: timeshift and more

2001-08-29 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:30:00 +0200, Arno Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since a few days I'm the proud owner of 2 DVB cards. One of the biggest > advantages of this configuration for me is the possibility to perform > timeshift. If I set up a timer, then the second card is used to record >

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: OT: (Astra-)Channels with undubbed movies?

2001-06-18 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:45:30 +0200, "Gerhard Andreas (RtW1/WIR2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, no satellite channel can broadcast original audiotrack due > to licensing problems. When broadcasted via cable, distribution can be > controlled and respective license fees are paid. V

[linux-dvb] Re: Prevent recordings from deletion

2001-06-14 Thread Emil Naepflein
On 13 Jun 2001 14:12:08 UT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using DVB 0.82 + VDR 0.72. > > I dont plan to upgrade next time. > I have modified VDR 0.72 to never delete recordings with priority 99 and a name starting with '%'. Look at recording.c if (Recordings.Load(false)) {

[linux-dvb] Someone tested more than 4 DVB-s cards?

2001-06-10 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, yesterday I put 5 DVB-s cards into one PC (MSI K7T with 6 PCI slots). I also changed MAX_NUM_DVB to 5 in the DVB driver. The driver recognizes and loads 5 DVB cards but after printing the message the whole system just freezes and the only thing that can be done is to do a reset. I have also c

[linux-dvb] Re: 16:9 Output Question

2001-06-06 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, > > What would be the best way to enable 16:9 Output? I asked this question already one month ago but didn't get any answer. :( I tried it with the ioctl VIDIOCSASPECTRATIO from VDR but had no success. > Secondly trying to change the driver to treat 16:9 > the same as a 4:3. This should w

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: AW: again: IS simultaneous recording of Video + AC3 "nearly" dropoutfree possible ?

2001-05-31 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Thu, 31 May 2001 09:49:28 +0200, "Nils Heidorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if the firmware guys could teach this to the DSP (?!?) in the DVB > Card too ... This has been discussed to death already here. Just look back in the archive. The problem ist hardware and not software. The

[linux-dvb] Re: AW: VDR 0.80pre8, current CVS OSD problems

2001-05-30 Thread Emil Naepflein
Hi, here are another ideas which probably solve the conflict: As I understood the problem with memory appears during recording and only during recording. The OSD is used only during normal viewing and playback. So I see two possible solutions: 1. Systems using only one card During recording the

[linux-dvb] Re: Lifetime timer

2001-05-22 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Tue, 22 May 2001 23:22:17 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that both fields add useful functionality and don't want to drop > either of them. Somehow I like the idea of being able to set a guranteed > lifetime, no matter what else might happen. Yes, I use this f