Re: [vdr] [OT] development infrastructur for VGA2SCART patch set

2009-03-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:06:44PM +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:33:48AM +0300, Goga777 wrote: please - could you point out please on proper xorg.conf you'll find one attached. I use it on my Asus Pundit P1_AH2. System is quite old (but stable): debian etch based

Re: [vdr] [OT] development infrastructur for VGA2SCART patch set

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:03:12AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hmm.. so you get 50 Hz interlaced output with this xorg.conf. Are you able to sync to each field separately? of course not on nVidia graphics. They haven't offered their specs for us to implement that. But nevertheless this

Re: [vdr] How to turn a DVD into a regular VDR recording.

2009-03-02 Thread Rene
Carsten Koch wrote: My DVD player is not working at the moment, so I want to watch a DVD on my VDR system in the living room. In an earlier message on this list, somebody said that the DVD plugin is not working, so I did not waste any time trying. Also, my VDR PC does not have a DVD ROM

Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches

2009-03-02 Thread jori.hamalainen
we have start a poll at http://www.nmsweb.de/vdr/patch.php where you have the possibility to vote for your favorite VDR patches. I think one important patch is missing for DVB subtitles users, which makes old vdr-subtitles -plugin's recorded subtitles visible also for new subtitles by Klaus.

Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches

2009-03-02 Thread Pertti Kosunen
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: I think one important patch is missing for DVB subtitles users, which makes old vdr-subtitles -plugin's recorded subtitles visible also for new subtitles by Klaus. Is this included in liemikuutio? ___ vdr

Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches

2009-03-02 Thread Travel Factory S.r.l.
There was a patch I found interesting. In adding channels, the patch allowed vdr to create different lists based on satellite/terrestrial/cable, free/nonfree. It was really usefull for my motorised antenna. All new channels split in different @ based sections Francesco

[vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Rene
Hi All, I would have a feature-request for the LiveBuffer patch that is available VDR. Sometimes when I'm watching a program from the buffer, i accidentally hit the up/down button for pausing/resuming the program (or ch+/ch- too). This of course changes the channel, and i loose my buffer...

Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches

2009-03-02 Thread Rolf Ahrenberg
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Pertti Kosunen wrote: jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: I think one important patch is missing for DVB subtitles users, which makes old vdr-subtitles -plugin's recorded subtitles visible also for new subtitles by Klaus. Is this included in liemikuutio? Yes. BR,

Re: [vdr] [OT] development infrastructur for VGA2SCART patch set

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:43:00PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Reading your README I assume you are familiar with Git. Therefore I choose it as a backend. Thank you for your effort so far. I have no special preferences here. GIT or CVS is ok for me. Concerning the wiki: I would prefer a neutral

Re: [vdr] Vote your VDR patches

2009-03-02 Thread jori.hamalainen
I think one important patch is missing for DVB subtitles users, which makes old vdr-subtitles -plugin's recorded subtitles visible also for new subtitles by Klaus. Is this included in liemikuutio? I don't know as I don't use liemikuutio. But I downloaded the liemikuutio- patch and saw the

[vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread jori.hamalainen
As most Intel Atom boards do not have more than 1 PCI slot (stupid rule by Intel), I found an way to circumvent that limitation http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2157454.htm It is a USB-to-3-pci -slots adapter, and based on press release it is Linux compatible. Immediately I started

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
Hello Jori, As most Intel Atom boards do not have more than 1 PCI slot (stupid rule by Intel), I found an way to circumvent that limitation _http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2157454.htm_ It is a USB-to-3-pci -slots adapter, and based on press release it is Linux compatible.

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread jori.hamalainen
You might want to re-read the press-release, and the details on the manufacturer page. It needs a host adapter. This host adapter is available in either PCI, CardBus or ExpressBus format. Thanks, I re-read it and yes - you need a host card. So with host card (PCI) you could still use some other

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Pertti Kosunen
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: As most Intel Atom boards do not have more than 1 PCI slot (stupid rule by Intel), I found an way to circumvent that limitation How about normal pci-riser? http://www.logicsupply.com/products/pci201_32 Something like this.

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: You might want to re-read the press-release, and the details on the manufacturer page. It needs a host adapter. This host adapter is available in either PCI, CardBus or ExpressBus format. Thanks, I re-read it and yes - you need a host card. So with

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Peer Oliver Schmidt
Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: There are already alternatives, if you have a single PCI slot available. I am using an external box with PCI slots in there. Works a treat. as multiple people have asked me in private mail (why do we have a mailing list *grml*), here is name of the box, I am

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Rene linu...@hertell.com wrote: Also a nice thing to have is a way of watching the saved livebuffer-files. Now it get´s saved into /video/LiveBuffer, and vdr does not see this. Maybe it could be saved into a subdirectory like

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Rene
VDR User wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Rene linu...@hertell.com wrote: Also a nice thing to have is a way of watching the saved livebuffer-files. Now it get´s saved into /video/LiveBuffer, and vdr does not see this. Maybe it could be saved into a subdirectory like

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Jörg Knitter
VDR User wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Rene linu...@hertell.com wrote: Also a nice thing to have is a way of watching the saved livebuffer-files. Now it get´s saved into /video/LiveBuffer, and vdr does not see this. Maybe it could be saved into a subdirectory like

Re: [vdr] [OT] development infrastructur for VGA2SCART patch set

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Hilber
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Concerning the wiki: I would prefer a neutral domain Sure. I had no other domain handy. Your domain name could also be used, if you set up DNS this way (vga2scart.lowbyte.de) or we register some free domain name vga2scart.de.vu or

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:30:55 +0200 Rene Hertell linu...@hertell.com wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:50:42 -0800 But I wonder, does writing to the HD really shorten its life significantly compared to constant spinning or frequently being spun up and down? Yes, i guess

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:35 +0100, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: as multiple people have asked me in private mail (why do we have a mailing list *grml*), here is name of the box, I am using: EXSYS PCI Express Bus zu 4 x PCI Slot Expansion Box EX-1010 (0004558-2008-LV) The EX-1010 is a bit

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 19:15 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:30:55 +0200 Rene Hertell linu...@hertell.com wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:50:42 -0800 But I wonder, does writing to the HD really shorten its life significantly compared to constant

Re: [vdr] More features for Livebuffer

2009-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:32:02 + Gavin Hamill g...@acentral.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 19:15 +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:30:55 +0200 Rene Hertell linu...@hertell.com wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:50:42 -0800 But I wonder,

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Monday 02 March 2009, Thomas Sailer wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:35 +0100, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote: as multiple people have asked me in private mail (why do we have a mailing list *grml*), here is name of the box, I am using: EXSYS PCI Express Bus zu 4 x PCI Slot Expansion Box

Re: [vdr] A new possibility for lower power high performance VDR

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:41 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: How much did you pay for these? I found some prices around 180€, that sounds surprisingly high to me. digitec.ch (where I bought them) lists them at 217 and 257 CHF, which are approximately 140 and 170 Euro. Tom