[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-24 Thread Thomas Jagoditsch
[sorry edward - this post was incorrectly sent to you first - it should have gone to the list] > > tv-out: > > the only tv-outs that came close to the FF´s > > were epia´s > > Really?  The epia has very high quality tv out?  That's interesting its IMHO better as every current gfx i got to

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-23 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> tv-out: > the only tv-outs that came close to the FF´s > were epia´s Really? The epia has very high quality tv out? That's interesting As you point out the NVida has often so, so tv out quality, but I have an MSI fx5200 which is pretty reasonable if you tweak the settings. Visual sharpness a

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-23 Thread Martin Schoenbeck
Hi Klaus, sorry for writing as pm first, I didn't check, whether the return address is set correctly. Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > I really fail to see your point. If a company were to produce a *GOOD* > full featured DVB card, with a firmware (if necessary) that really works > and doesn't requ

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > From: "Holger Waechtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > like mentioned before: Full Featured cards an anachronism, I hope no > > company will be so foolish to produce such a beast again for the mass > > market. > > That's rather unlikely, as Microsoft's digital TV architectu

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Otto J. Makela
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 18:25:11 +0100, Alexandre CONRAD wrote: > Let's finish this all the way through: > > cat ~/mbox | sed -e "s/\/misinformation/g" > /tmp/x && \ > cp ~/mbox ~/mbox.old && mv /tmp/x ~/mbox && \ > rm ~/mbox.old For heaven's sake, take it offlist already :-) PS. Th

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Holger Waechtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > like mentioned before: Full Featured cards an anachronism, I hope no > company will be so foolish to produce such a beast again for the mass > market. That's rather unlikely, as Microsoft's digital TV architecture only supports "budget" cards which de

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Carsten Koch
Holger Waechtler wrote: ... $ cat ~/mbox | sed -e "s/\/misinformation/g > /tmp/x && \ mv /tmp/x ~/mbox ok? No. Except for the missing double quote that Klaus already pointed out, this starts up one process too many. Also, /tmp and ~ may lie on different file systems, which would make the mv *v

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Alexandre CONRAD
And for the REALLY paranoid: $ cat ~/mbox | sed -e "s/\/misinformation/g > /tmp/x && \ cp ~/mbox ~/mbox.old && mv /tmp/x ~/mbox && \ rm ~/mbox.old Let's finish this all the way through: cat ~/mbox | sed -e "s/\/misinformation/g" > /tmp/x && \ cp ~/mbox ~/mbox.old && mv /tm

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: s/\/misinformation/g $ cat ~/mbox | sed -e "s/\/misinformation/g > /tmp/x && \ mv /tmp/x ~/mbox ok? *g* Well, if you add the closing double quote, this might even work ;-) oops, you got me! :) -- Info: To unsubscr

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Davis
On Friday 21 November 2003 09:49 am, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Holger Waechtler wrote: > >>... > >> > ffmpeg contains a deinterlacer of pretty good quality. Give it a try. > >>> > >>>well, i doubt it can realy handle all mpeg2 wich may come from the sky, > >> > >>Pl

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > >>... > >> > ffmpeg contains a deinterlacer of pretty good quality. Give it a try. > > >>> > >>>well, i doubt it can realy handle all mpeg2 wich may come from the sky, > >> > >>Please try it before rant

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: ... ffmpeg contains a deinterlacer of pretty good quality. Give it a try. well, i doubt it can realy handle all mpeg2 wich may come from the sky, Please try it before ranting and distributing lies and underdone ideas. Holger, could you please

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > ... > >> ffmpeg contains a deinterlacer of pretty good quality. Give it a try. > >> > > > > well, i doubt it can realy handle all mpeg2 wich may come from the sky, > > Please try it before ranting and distributing lies and underdone ideas. Holger, could you please

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Holger Waechtler wrote: > > > >>Oliver Endriss wrote: > >> > >>>On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > >>> > >>> > From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > >>>

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > ... > > ? Hm, I think you got me wrong. > > If I may choose between two comparable cards, > > - one card with a closed-source firmware and > > - another card with a complete open-source driver > > I would definitely select the second one, even if it is more expensive. >

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Thomas Jagoditsch
> >> ffmpeg contains a deinterlacer of pretty good quality. Give it a > >> try. > >> > > > > well, i doubt it can realy handle all mpeg2 wich may come from the > > sky, > > Please try it before ranting and distributing lies and underdone > ideas. End even when it has problems then they are proba

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> I don't need all that "eye candy" > stuff that's often talked about. What counts most is functionality, not beauty. > After all, what I want to use this for is watching TV, recording stuff and > replaying it. Whether or not the OSD menus have thousands of colors, a > "graphical" interface (I neve

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> > http://www.dvbshop.tv/ has the TT dvb-t card for 103.90 Euro. > > > > A little googling for "dvb-t Hauppauge" at google.co.uk > > shows it e.g. at www.kelkoo.co.uk for 70.81 pounds > > or at http://web6.scan.co.uk/Products/Info.asp?WPID=9833 for 62.28 pounds. > > Satellite cards are even cheape

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Steffen Beyer wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:22:12 +0100 Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All the mentioned cards are supported by the linux driver and behave like a TT Nova card. the work is done, at least on the kernel driver side. Hmm, do you mean that the kernel driver works flawl

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:56, Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Schlabbach wrote: AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been publ

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Lauri Tischler wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: like mentioned before: Full Featured cards an anachronism, I hope no company will be so foolish to produce such a beast again for the mass market. Do you mean that if I want to make a set-top-box, I need to mess with DXR or framebuffers or matrox o

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Onno Kreuzinger wrote: There is no advantage except that these cards are really cheap. ?!? sorry, I don't understand you. They do their job and are cheap, isn't this advantage enough? well you save 100€, but loose one pc, or at least quite some resources, esp. if you actually do what you prom

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Holger Waechtler wrote: like mentioned before: Full Featured cards an anachronism, I hope no company will be so foolish to produce such a beast again for the mass market. Do you mean that if I want to make a set-top-box, I need to mess with DXR or framebuffers or matrox or some crappy tv-out or

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Onno Kreuzinger wrote: Urg i hate sending mail wrong, but it happened again Holger Waechtler schrieb: Onno Kreuzinger wrote: I was mainly thinking of df-gp, the first VDR patch I know that worked on the frambuffer (http://df-gp.sourceforge.net/). The first NEWS entry is now about 19 months old

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Schlabbach wrote: AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, and the drivers you

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-21 Thread Jon Burgess
Steffen Beyer wrote: based cards? I can't do real testing because the DXR3 driver has no 2.6.0 support yet. 2.6 support is not yet in the main dxr3 codebase, but there are patches available. There is a copy of the patch which I use at http://www.jburgess.uklinux.net/linux-2.6.0-test9-dxr3.pat

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:56, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > >>From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>>Robert Schlabbach wrote: > >>> > AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never b

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Onno Kreuzinger
Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: Holger Waechtler wrote: Oliver Endriss wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Schlabbach wrote: AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, and the driver

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Onno Kreuzinger
Urg i hate sending mail wrong, but it happened again Holger Waechtler schrieb: Onno Kreuzinger wrote: I was mainly thinking of df-gp, the first VDR patch I know that worked on the frambuffer (http://df-gp.sourceforge.net/). The first NEWS entry is now about 19 months old. df-gp suffers from ex

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > >>From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>>Robert Schlabbach wrote: > >>> > AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, > and th

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > >>From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>>Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern > >>>cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing > >>>and maint

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Steffen Beyer
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:22:12 +0100 Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All the mentioned cards are supported by the linux driver and behave > > like a TT Nova card. > > the work is done, at least on the kernel driver side. Hmm, do you mean that the kernel driver works flawlessly, ev

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
Holger Waechtler wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing and maintaining a driver is always a combin

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
Oliver Endriss wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Robert Schlabbach wrote: AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, and the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse engi

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing and maintaining a driver is always a combination of guessing and rev

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Oliver Endriss
On Thursday 20 November 2003 15:59, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, > > > and the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse > > > engin

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Niklas Peinecke wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> > >>AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, and > >>the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse > >>engineering. I don't see why this shouldn't be repeated for more > >>up-to-date > >>designs t

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Niklas Peinecke
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Robert Schlabbach wrote: From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing and maintaining a driver is always a combination of guessing and rev

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, > > and the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse > > engineering. I don't see why this shouldn't be repeated for more > > up-to-d

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern > > cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing > > and maintaining a driver is always a combination of guessing and reverse > > e

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Niklas Peinecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern > cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing > and maintaining a driver is always a combination of guessing and reverse > engineering. IMO the "reference" card s

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Niklas Peinecke
Holger Waechtler wrote: Ralph Metzler wrote: Edward Wildgoose writes: > > > 299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More > > > common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was > > > told that they sell one in a half year. > > > > Even this is

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: Edward Wildgoose writes: > > > 299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More > > > common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was > > > told that they sell one in a half year. > > > > Even this is more than twice the price y

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Olaf Titz
> The "funny" thing is that you can buy a full av7110 based set top box > for 150 Euro (sometimes cheaper), but the DVB-S/C cards are still > sold for 299 Euro here at Saturn. I would be happy if VDR were designed This is more due to Saturn and other chains having lost contact to market reality in

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Ralph Metzler
Edward Wildgoose writes: > > > 299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More > > > common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was > > > told that they sell one in a half year. > > > > Even this is more than twice the price you have to pay for a

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-20 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> > 299 EUR isn't really the price someone would pay for such a card. More > > common are prices around 200 EUR. I have asked at such a store and was > > told that they sell one in a half year. > > Even this is more than twice the price you have to pay for a modern > state-of-the-art DVB card. I w

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Holger Waechtler
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 04:15 schrieben Sie: Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the > > main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download > > volume every new version of t

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Holger Waechtler
Ralph Metzler wrote: Hi, Holger Waechtler writes: > > btw: Klaus, you know that the code responsible for synchronisation > issues in the firmware is at least as complex as the code doing the same > in ffplay.c. So everybody who believes he can fix those problems in the > firmware if he ha

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Holger Waechtler
Onno Kreuzinger wrote: I was mainly thinking of df-gp, the first VDR patch I know that worked on the frambuffer (http://df-gp.sourceforge.net/). The first NEWS entry is now about 19 months old. df-gp suffers from exactly the problems i expected, 1st: only Matrox tv-out cards are suffcienty good

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Holger Waechtler
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 02:19 schrieben Sie: Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: Hi Klaus, don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or not

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Andrea Venturi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Waechtler wrote: | | ... | Modern fanless Mainboards like the VIA Epia boards in the Hush-box have | much more CPU power and also some MPEG decoder helper functionality | speeding up the DCT on the CPU die (or was it on the graphics chip?). | My

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'? [reply-to]

2003-11-19 Thread Alexandre CONRAD
first sorry Holger, for sending that last pm, it was intended for the list, please ignore it, my writing was not suitable for public anyways, sorry once more. The list should have reply-to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This happened to me so many times. All the other lists do that. Regards, -- Alexandre

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Onno Kreuzinger
Hi, first sorry Holger, for sending that last pm, it was intended for the list, please ignore it, my writing was not suitable for public anyways, sorry once more. Holger Waechtler schrieb: Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: Hi Klaus, don't get me wrong,

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 04:15 schrieben Sie: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the > > > main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download > > > volume every new version of the "linvdr

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-19 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2003 02:19 schrieben Sie: > Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: > >>Hi Klaus, > >> > >>don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry > >>about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or > >>not

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the main > > platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume > > every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes (according to > > Mirko Dölle) VD

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Ralph Metzler
Hi, Holger Waechtler writes: > > btw: Klaus, you know that the code responsible for synchronisation > issues in the firmware is at least as complex as the code doing the same > in ffplay.c. So everybody who believes he can fix those problems in the > firmware if he had only the source is

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: Hi Klaus, don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or not) endorsing these troublesome and expensive beasts since years. We have now a

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 23:16 schrieben Sie: > Hi Klaus, > > don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry > about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or > not) endorsing these troublesome and expensive beasts since years. > > We have now at least sin

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> Well, as I always keep saying: just go ahead and write a plugin that > implements an alternate output device, and you won't have to use a full > featured DVB card any more. I get the feeling that you expect ME to do this, > but as long as my full featured DVB-S cards work as good as they do, I >

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Emard wrote: issues in the firmware is at least as complex as the code doing the same in ffplay.c. So everybody who believes he can fix those problems in the firmware if he had only the source is as well able to write a software decoder for VDR. And you know we can't release it. Sorry. Right,

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Emard
> issues in the firmware is at least as complex as the code doing the same > in ffplay.c. So everybody who believes he can fix those problems in the > firmware if he had only the source is as well able to write a software > decoder for VDR. And you know we can't release it. Sorry. Right, all th

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi Klaus, don't get me wrong, I appreciate your work. But I'm pretty angry about the situation that VDR is (I don't care whether willingly or not) endorsing these troublesome and expensive beasts since years. We have now at least since about two or three years cheap and good alternatives and t

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Holger Waechtler wrote: > >>Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >>> > >>>Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the main > >>>platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume > >>>every new version of the "linvdr"

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Pekka Virtanen wrote: > http://virtanen.org/files/vdr-test-0.0.1.tgz I think there is a bug: int64_t iPagePts = (int64_t) (Data[ 9] & 0x0E) << 29 ; iPagePts |= (int64_t) Data[ 10] << 22 ; iPagePts |= (int64_t) (Data[ 11] & 0xFE) << 14 ; iPagePts |= (int64

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Pekka Virtanen
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: Pekka Virtanen wrote: I have two computers, one with Full featured DVB-C the other with a Budget DVB-C. I ran the same software on both computers, on the same channel and the same time of course. The software prints the video PTS on the console. The results are below:

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Holger Waechtler wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the main platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes (according to Mirko Dölle) VDR must b

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Edward Wildgoose wrote: Well, if you can suggest an other full featured DVB-S card with TV out, better (or at least equal) OSD capabilities and the ability to connect a CAM, and which is also supported by the LinuxDVB driver, just let me know ;-) I had a vague impression that some of the Nova budg

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> Well, if you can suggest an other full featured DVB-S card with TV out, > better (or at least equal) OSD capabilities and the ability to connect > a CAM, and which is also supported by the LinuxDVB driver, just let me know ;-) I had a vague impression that some of the Nova budget cards had a CAM

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the main > > platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume > > every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes (according to > > Mirko Dölle) VDR mus

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Holger Waechtler wrote: > > Hi Klaus, hi everybody else, > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > > >>Johannes Stezenbach writes: > >> > Ralph Metzler wrote: > >> > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > >> > > > >> > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watc

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Holger Waechtler
Hi Klaus, hi everybody else, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Ralph Metzler wrote: Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-18 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Well, AFAICS this "old hardware" is very widely used, and the main > platform VDR is designed for. And judging from the download volume > every new version of the "linvdr" distribution causes (according to > Mirko Dölle) VDR must be rather popular ;-) So I guess this h

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > > > the DMX_GE

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ralph Metzler wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > I thought the TS packets are grabbed from the TPP before they > > reach the decoder? So we should get unaltered PES? > > No, AFAIK, you cannot get all packets of the video PID before they reach > the decoder. The TPP does all the writi

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > > the DMX_GET_STC should give you correct values.

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Ralph Metzler wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach writes: > > > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER to prevent this). However, > > the DMX_GET_STC should give you correct values. Also, AFAIK the PES > > header is not altere

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Ralph Metzler
Johannes Stezenbach writes: > Pekka Virtanen wrote: > > [...] > > Can you print that in hex to see if there is just one bit flipped? Does not look like this is the case here. > The av7110 destroys the adaptation fields if you record and watch > at the same time (record with DMX_PES_OTHER t

[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

2003-11-17 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Pekka Virtanen wrote: > > I have two computers, one with Full featured DVB-C the other with a > Budget DVB-C. I ran the same software on both computers, on the same > channel and the same time of course. > > The software prints the video PTS on the console. The results are below: > > FF DVB-C: