Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:03:29 Nov 11, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > I recall this behavior when I had a FF card for testing. Maybe it's a > feature to stop flickering one pixel high horizontal lines in still > images by doubling one field of the frame. Maybe there exists a switch > to turn this feature off. > > You've

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

2007-11-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Reinhard Nissl ha escrit: > Hi, > > Luca Olivetti schrieb: > >> Is it possible that newer version generate more traffic/are more >> sensible to network latencies? > > Yes, at least in the buffer monitoring phase, which was introduced with > 0.7.7. Try to set it to 0 in vdr-xine's setup me

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

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Luca Olivetti schrieb: > Is it possible that newer version generate more traffic/are more > sensible to network latencies? Yes, at least in the buffer monitoring phase, which was introduced with 0.7.7. Try to set it to 0 in vdr-xine's setup menu. I'll need some time to provide a proper fix

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> Do you get the same jagged images when editing cutting marks? Most >> likely such an I frame isn't larger than 40 KB. > > Yes, they are smooth for a brief moment, and then get jagged. I recall this behavior when I had a FF card for testing. Maybe it's a feature

[vdr] [Announce] vdr-fritzbox-0.0.9

2007-11-11 Thread Joachim Wilke
Dear Fritz!Box- and VDR-Users, a new version of the Fritz!Box Plugin is available at http://joachim-wilke.de/index.htm?alias=vdr-fritz - - - The Fritz!Box Plugin connects to your Fritz!Box to inform you about incoming calls. The plugin can automatically mute or pause VDR when a call comes in. V

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 17:29, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >>> But I still think that there is no need to repeat anything. Sending a >>> progressive I-frame as still image should be sufficient, no matter what >>> size the file has. Don't know whether the DVB-API has some limi

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> But I still think that there is no need to repeat anything. Sending a >> progressive I-frame as still image should be sufficient, no matter what >> size the file has. Don't know whether the DVB-API has some limitations >> regarding image size of still frames. >

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 16:54, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >>> Hhm, if you set -n 3 for ppmtoy4m, mpeg2enc should detect, that there >>> are no changes. >> The command sequence I use now looks like this: >> >> pnmscale $S $TMP1 | \ >> pnmpad -black -width 704 -height 576

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> Hhm, if you set -n 3 for ppmtoy4m, mpeg2enc should detect, that there >> are no changes. > > The command sequence I use now looks like this: > > pnmscale $S $TMP1 | \ > pnmpad -black -width 704 -height 576 | \ > ppmntsc --pal | \ > ppmtoy4m -F 25:1 -A 4

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 16:05, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >> Looks like it is the file size. >> I have now changed the line >> >> mpeg2enc -f 7 -T 90 -F 3 -np -a 2 -v 0 -o "$TMP2" >> >> to >> >> mpeg2enc -f 7 -T 40 -F 3 -np -a 2 -v 0 -o "$TMP2" >> >> so that the resultin

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > Looks like it is the file size. > I have now changed the line > > mpeg2enc -f 7 -T 90 -F 3 -np -a 2 -v 0 -o "$TMP2" > > to > > mpeg2enc -f 7 -T 40 -F 3 -np -a 2 -v 0 -o "$TMP2" > > so that the resulting file is about the same size as yours, and now > my im

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 15:45, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > How does the attached PES file look like? In vdr-xine, I send it just once and it looks OK in xine. When it looks ok, I'll have to search for the commands which created it ;-) I think, I

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >>> How does the attached PES file look like? In vdr-xine, I send it just >>> once and it looks OK in xine. >>> >>> When it looks ok, I'll have to search for the commands which created it ;-) >>> >>> I think, I had specified an option to create progressive frames. >

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 15:30, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 11/11/07 15:20, Reinhard Nissl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: >> >>> When I display a picture generated with this script through a call >>> to DeviceStillPicture(), the display looks very nice for a short while, >>> and after that sla

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/11/07 15:20, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb: > >> When I display a picture generated with this script through a call >> to DeviceStillPicture(), the display looks very nice for a short while, >> and after that slanted lines get jagged. It appears as if the two >>

Re: [vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2007-11-11 Thread Davide Cavalca
Davide Cavalca ha scritto: > Hello everybody, > I've recorded some shows (with subtitles) with vdr 1.5.10, I wanted to > demux the recordings with projectx but it looks like it has some > problems coping with the new subtitles; the error is "suppic unknown > cmd: 44" Just tried with the last Proje

Re: [vdr] How to convert a JPEG image to an I-frame?

2007-11-11 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 11/01/07 13:21, Stefan Huelswitt wrote: > On 01 Nov 2007 Klaus Schmidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a method to convert a JPEG image to an >> MPEG-2 I-frame that can be displayed through VDR's >> cDevice::StillPicture() function. The conversion should >> be done by a (seq

Re: [vdr] vdr-1.5.11 & subtitling problems

2007-11-11 Thread Jose Alberto Reguero
El Sábado, 10 de Noviembre de 2007, Reinhard Nissl escribió: > Hi, > > Reinhard Nissl schrieb: > >>> Though, a cleaner solution would be to fix the result buffer to allow > >>> retrieving any packet as soon as it is completely available in the > >>> buffer (final subtitle packets are about 100 byte

[vdr] demuxing subtitles with projectx

2007-11-11 Thread Davide Cavalca
Hello everybody, I've recorded some shows (with subtitles) with vdr 1.5.10, I wanted to demux the recordings with projectx but it looks like it has some problems coping with the new subtitles; the error is "suppic unknown cmd: 44", a full log follows: <<< session infos >>> domenica 11 novembre 20

[vdr] [Patch] add support for drive speed to vdr-dvd

2007-11-11 Thread Sebastian Kemper
Hello all, here's a proposal for speed control for vdr-dvd. It uses SG_IO and GPCMD_SET_STREAMING so there's no need for VDR to run as root. The user needs rw permissions on the drive, though. When the plug-in is terminated the drive will be set to its initial speed (vacuum cleaner mode). The