Re: [vdr] Questions about good hardware to view VDR 4K

2019-06-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hi, On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:20:30PM +0200, Frantisek Rysanek wrote: > Dear Karim, > > thanks for raising that point... > > At first I thought that the i3 "T" edition was somehow limited in the > graphics output, to make people buy the i7 - but no, if I look at > some mainstream i7

Re: [vdr] VDR on Centos/RHEL6

2012-06-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 06:12:29PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: make with this version resulted in a lot of errors. ---8--- Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment

Re: [vdr] VDR on Centos/RHEL6

2012-06-26 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:55:39PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying for some days to get VDR running on my recent home server. This machine is running CENTOS6. There are various compiling errors and I am starting to wonder if somebody went through the installation

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:47:06PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: 28.3.2012 22:34, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel modules (em8300 and kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to follow upstream I googled your

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:15:39PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: 1.4.2012 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: Yep, it was from Fedora. You could always check the Fedora src.rpm for any extra patches they might have there.. I'll gladly receive a current, relevant reference that will tell me how

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-04-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 07:50:07PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 02:15:39PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: 1.4.2012 13:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: Yep, it was from Fedora. You could always check the Fedora src.rpm for any extra patches they might have

Re: [vdr] Recent breakage of DVB subtitles with dxr3

2012-03-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:54PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: Quick data points with Finnish YLE DVB subtitles, using a dxr3: 1.7.22: everything works (never tried versions between here, because I was stuck with a 2.6 kernel back then) 1.7.25: subtitles are almost black and thus illegible

Re: [vdr] Advice on new motherboard, xineliboutput, vdpau, hdmi video audio, etc.

2010-08-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:37:10AM +0300, Niko Mikkilä wrote: Thu, 2010-08-19 at 20:54 +0400, Goga777 wrote: Computer hardware usually cannot provide 50.000Hz, 59.940Hz or 23.976Hz outputs to your TV/Monitor. This will cause some judder on display output as MPEG/AVC input-stream is not

Re: [vdr] [OT] mini-PCIE with Broadcom Crystal HD Hardware Decoder (BCM970012) for HD playback with free drivers

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:22:59PM +0300, Goga777 wrote: what about of corrected interlace output ? Most of them videocards can't   do it correctly I can't answer that unfortunately. let's hope that Crystal HD can do deinterlacing and scaling Yeah, and hopefully it can do

Re: [vdr] mdadm software raid5 arrays?

2009-11-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:34:59PM +, Steve wrote: Alex Betis wrote: I don't record much, so I don't worry about speed. While there's no denying that RAID5 *at best* has a write speed equivalent to about 1.3x a single disk and if you're not careful with stride/block settings can be a

Re: [vdr] Replay Problems with Extension HD

2009-09-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:17:30PM +0300, Pasi Juppo wrote: Petri Helin wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, VDR Useruser@gmail.com wrote: I'd suggest posting to the mailing list or both as VDR Portal caters 99% to people who speak german and isn't much help for the very large

Re: [vdr] FRC - RGB/Scart with the Intel 830 driver

2009-08-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 03:04:04AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:40:25PM +0100, dave cunningham wrote: If I'm reading the patches correctly it seems that the ATI chips can currently do 720x576 only, where the Intel chips can be configured for 1440x576 and 1600x1200

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:38:09PM +1000, Torgeir Veimo wrote: 2009/8/16 Goga777 goga...@bk.ru: I'm wondering - does the problem with timing and sync also important and for for vdpau nvidia cards ? or that project is important only for intel and ati ? Now that I think about it, I

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:16 +0400, Goga777 wrote: for you.. I believe it should be possible to get 50 fps progressive output from 50i material using vdpau deinterlacing. yes, my PCI Geforce 8400 card on GPU G98

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:37:36PM +0400, Goga777 wrote: I'm wondering - does the problem with timing and sync also important and for for vdpau nvidia cards ? or that project is important only for intel and ati ? Now that I think about it, I believe this is what I was really asking

Re: [vdr] Patches for VGA timing not matching up with the TV (was: HD output - your current favourites)

2009-08-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:29:38PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 06:37:36PM +0400, Goga777 wrote: I'm wondering - does the problem with timing and sync also important and for for vdpau nvidia cards ? or that project is important only for intel and ati

Re: [vdr] HD output - your current favourites

2009-08-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:35:11PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: My current vdr-1.4.7 (compiled 2 years ago as of tomorrow!) is still serving me well.. I have a Technotrend FF DVB-C doing all the heavy lifting, but as time moves on and HD content becomes more prevalent, I'm thinking of moving up.

Re: [vdr] ExtensionHD and VDR 1.7.6

2009-05-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:19:21PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: So you have 576i 50Hz interlaced video playing at 50fps de-interlaced? Yes, the output is 1080p50. Nice. How's the deinterlacing quality? -- Pasi

Re: [vdr] ExtensionHD and VDR 1.7.6

2009-05-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:54:05PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Luca Olivetti kirjoitti: OTOH with my setup it works poorly (artifacts, banding, freezing, changes in color, etc.) and I'm not the only one, so I'm not sure vdpau support is mature enough for inclusion in xine-lib. Here

Re: [vdr] [FRC] Why are patches for framebuffer not needed anymore in release 0.1.0?

2009-03-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:34:30AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:21:18AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: you released version 0.1.0 [1]. Could you please explain to me, why the framebuffer patches (intelfb, radeonfb) are not needed anymore? since version 0.1.0 you will

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] vdpau output to pal tv,

2009-02-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:29:22PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:26:18 +1000 Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com wrote: Andy Ritger (nvidia) said in a mail to the xorg mailing list some time ago; If the application doesn't enable de-interlacing, NVIDIA's VDPAU

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 06:02:23AM +0100, Thomas Hilber wrote: It seems German related sites show more interest in VGA2SCART things. So I did not spend further time to translate all things I developed for VGA2SCART into english. Sorry for that;-) I think there's demand for this

Re: [vdr] Options for deinterlacing (or not)

2009-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:54:18PM +, Scott Waye wrote: I want to replace my UK Sky digital box with VDR (I only want the free to air channels) for watching/recording TV over HDMI on my plasma. So far everything is working OK, I have vdr 1.7.3 and xine running on an ASUS M2N VM-HDMI

Re: [vdr] 1:1 pixel mapping - a waste of time?

2009-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:17:52AM +0200, Jukka Vaisanen wrote: Yes, it's a good idea to get 1:1 pixel mapping on your display. Double scaling (first pc, then display) is not a good idea, ever. But, some problems arise: HDMI uses DVI signalling for the video (and audio is hidden in a

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 08:35:23AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: a successor of my vga-sync-fields patch (http://lowbyte.de/vga-sync-fields/) now has been released by 'durchflieger' on 'vdr-portal.de' with far more functionality especially for HDTV related things. please see:

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:11:07AM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Unfortunately I don't have Elisa/Saunalahti ADSL.. :( In DVB-S2 19.2E FTA channel Anixe HD there seems to be some olympics going on. ANIXE HD;BetaDigital:11915:hC910M2O0S1:S19.2E:27500:1535:1539

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:29:53AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: Does somebody have a URL on how to make one? for d-sub to scart or the new DVI (modern graphic cards) to scart? http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html That URL was included in the first mail of this thread.. -- Pasi On

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:08:55PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:01 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:29:53AM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: Does somebody have a URL on how to make one? for d-sub to scart or the new DVI (modern graphic cards

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:07:57PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Maybe try with recent mplayer (from svn).. and give it -demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -no-correct-pts or something similar.. you can also try with threads=4 etc.. mplayer -demuxer lavf

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:03:38PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:59:19PM +0300, Lauri Tischler wrote: Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Maybe try with recent mplayer (from svn).. and give it -demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -no-correct-pts

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:18:15PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Actually interlaced video kinda makes sense for sports and other live video.. you get 50 fields per second, so the movement is smooth.. 720p50 or even 720p60 would give superior motion

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:07:57PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Maybe try with recent mplayer (from svn).. and give it -demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -no-correct-pts or something similar.. you can also try with threads=4 etc.. mplayer -demuxer lavf

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:31:30PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:07:57PM +0300, Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Maybe try with recent mplayer (from svn).. and give it -demuxer lavf -lavdopts fast:threads=2 -no-correct-pts or something similar

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-08-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:43:19AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:40:49PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Maybe then I find some time to port the patch to other platforms (like intel based graphics cards). That would rock. maybe this way we could fix current

Re: [vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:54:32AM +0300, Rolf Ahrenberg wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hi, I'm not living in an area where Digita transmits this channel via dvb-t, so I was wondering if there are other .fi users who could record/dump some minutes of this channel

[vdr] OT: Finnish Yle HD olympics channel..

2008-08-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello! I'm not living in an area where Digita transmits this channel via dvb-t, so I was wondering if there are other .fi users who could record/dump some minutes of this channel and upload it somewhere so we others could check the quality etc :)

Re: [vdr] [PATCH] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:34:39AM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17:26PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: Unfortunately with Radeons we currently have 2 problems unsolved: 1. there appears to be a tiny bug in XV overlay scaling code which sometimes mixes even and odd

Re: [vdr] extending VDR to support external Media software

2008-07-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
fluid, I am still grinning. Cool! When you stop grinning and have some time please upload those network/packet dumps between SageTV server and HD Extender.. :) -- Pasi Markus. 2008/7/19 Pasi Kärkkäinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:05:09PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: goal develop a budget card based VDR with PAL/RGB output and FF like output quality VGA-to-SCART RGB adapter like this: http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html Hi again! One more question.. Is it possible to output

Re: [vdr] extending VDR to support external Media software

2008-07-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: Pasi,I think on Tuesday I will have some time to capture the network traffic. I have a gut feeling they use a modified vnc protocol for the GUI display, but we will see... Ok, nice :) -- Pasi 2008/7/27 Pasi Kärkkäinen [EMAIL

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:21:01PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:05:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: I assume RGB NTSC should work as well.. ? basically yes. The devil is in the details:) Just give it a try. When xine-lib calls PutImage() it checks whether

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:09:29PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:51:13PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: A bit off topic.. Does any of the video players for Linux switch to a resolution/modeline with a different refresh rate when watching a movie to get perfect

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: It appeared to be a privilege of so called full featured cards (expensive cards running proprietary firmware) to output true RGB PAL at variable framerate. Thus always providing full stream synchronicity. I assume RGB NTSC

Re: [vdr] RGB/PAL over VGA at variable frame rate

2008-07-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Thomas Hilber wrote: Hi list, the last few days I made some interesting experiences with VGA cards I now want to share with you. goal develop a budget card based VDR with PAL/RGB output and FF like output quality problem --- as

Re: [vdr] extending VDR to support external Media software

2008-07-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
and hd_extender is done.. I'm not interested in using SageTV software, but I'd like to use this device with VDR.. if possible. And possibly help developing a vdr plugin :) -- Pasi Markus. 2008/7/16 Pasi Kärkkäinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:27PM +0200

Re: [vdr] extending VDR to support external Media software

2008-07-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
software, but I'd like to use this device with VDR.. if possible. And possibly help developing a vdr plugin :) -- Pasi Markus. 2008/7/16 Pasi Kärkkäinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: Torgeir, It's this box: http://sagetv.com

Re: [vdr] 576i output on DVI-HDMI?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:08:25AM +0100, Stuart Morris wrote: It's my understanding that it is the pixel rate that is doubled to meet the minimum bandwidth requirement of 25Mpixels/sec for hdmi. That is pixels are repeated hence doubling the apparent horizontal resolution. This is always

Re: [vdr] extending VDR to support external Media software

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:20:27PM +0200, Markus Ecker wrote: Torgeir, It's this box: http://sagetv.com/hd_extender.html. Not sure about the hardware, but it runs Linux. From the spec: Video format supported: MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 up to 1080p, AVI, VOB, WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080p I run

Re: [vdr] new graphics processor from VIA S3 for HD video

2008-04-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:56:23AM +0400, Igor wrote: The question is: Which of them will offer decent open source drivers for HD decoding, and when? I wonder if every vendor pushes his own API for using these decoding accelerators? Or is there some standard (It's surely beyond

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:48:25PM +0200, Petri Helin wrote: VDR User wrote: Many users are moving away from FF cards and into the realm of h264 and HDTV, which is why VDR has lost a lot of users to that other software I won't mention. ;( ... I've been using VDR for many years now and

Re: [vdr] next features?

2007-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 06:29:55PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 11/16/07 17:32, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:20:38AM -0800, VDR User wrote: I didn't try vdr-1.5.11 because there is no H.264 patch for it. I really don't understand why they are not investigated

Re: [vdr] Extension HD PCI from ReelMultimedia in August ?

2007-08-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:40:57PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:24:14AM +0200, Georg Acher wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Torgeir Veimo wrote: Hmm, a bit confusing.. Your saying that it's a component signal, not composite nor s-video