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,

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:19:27 -0500 Russell Treleaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to make a small PVR appliance. I have digital cable and it is my understanding that I could get a DVB card that captures an MPEG stream but most of the content is encrypted and to my knowledge no one

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Marco Skambraks
hi, now, I tested the new firmware it looks good - fast-forward and jumps in the dvd-plugin is now working almost perfect receiving and replaying recordings is working correctly I use a tt c2300 (nexus-ca) thanks Werner and Oliver - good job guys :-) marco On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Oliver Endriss

Re: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Niko Mikkila
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:54:40 +0100 Tony Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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, DVB-T...) by far. Agreed. The best way to play

[vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Morfsta
Hi, I added the new firmware last night and previously I even had problems with sync on live tv (had to chan+ chan- to fix) on freeview in the UK as well as the dreaded recording sync problem. Up till now I haven't seen it happen again (even watching the same programme on the same channel as

RE: [vdr] FF card A/V sync - in progress?

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins stuttering for some seconds and then continues normally. With earlier fw it usually

[vdr] Re: replay stuttering (was: FF card A/V sync - in progress?)

2007-01-22 Thread Carsten Koch
Kartsa wrote: I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins stuttering for some seconds and then continues normally. With

RE: [vdr] Re: replay stuttering (was: FF card A/V sync - in progress?)

2007-01-22 Thread Kartsa
Kartsa wrote: I've tested the new fw also and no sync problems has occurred. Although I was hoping that this would have corrected my stuttering problem also. Every now and then replayed video stops for a second or so and begins stuttering for some seconds and then continues

Re: [vdr] error on large EPG loads via SVDRP

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Davis
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: Udo Richter wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: I am experiencing VDR errors when loading EPG via SVDRP. If the EPG data to ... I have recently sent the attached patch to Thomas Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It

Re: [vdr] error on large EPG loads via SVDRP

2007-01-22 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Rob Davis wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: Udo Richter wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: I am experiencing VDR errors when loading EPG via SVDRP. If the EPG data to ... I have recently sent the attached patch to Thomas Koch [EMAIL

Re: [vdr] ANNOUCEMENT: xmltv2epg

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Davis
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Oops, forgot the scripts;-) Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Dear all, Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in the attachment.

[vdr] channels.conf problem

2007-01-22 Thread Bob Self
Distribution: Ubuntu Edgy Linux lisa 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux firmware: dvb-ttpci-01.fw-2622 copied to /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/dvb-ttpci-01.fw vdr 1.4.0-2 dvb-utils: 1.1.1-2 I'm trying to generate a channels.conf file for vdr.

Re: [vdr] [RFC] Shutdown rewrite for 1.5.x

2007-01-22 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:48:47PM +0100, Udo Richter wrote: A more important suggestion: Could you please add a notification method to status.h for notifying plugins whether VDR is currently in interactive mode? You can poll this state on your own by calling Shutdown.IsUserInactive().

Re: [vdr] ANNOUCEMENT: xmltv2epg

2007-01-22 Thread Pjotr Kourzanov
Rob Davis wrote: Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Oops, forgot the scripts;-) Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Dear all, Having been dissatisfied with performance and features of xmltv2vdr (too slow, no credits/category information in epg.data) I have created a new script (based on AWK), that can be found in

RE: [vdr] rambling newbie questions

2007-01-22 Thread Russell Treleaven
no one has figured out how to decrypt it. Since I want the premium content I need the cable companies settop box to decrypt it. So the digital television standard your cable company uses is really DVB-C, but content scrambling is not based on DVB-CA (Conditional Access)? Interesting,