vdr September 2011

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Only getting partial EPG data with 1.7.21?
by John Klimek 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Did anything change with VDR 1.7.21 regarding EIT? For some reason I'm only getting partial EIT data (ie. lots of channels are missing EIT data). For my provider, the 7 day EPG guide is sent on one specific transponder and it contains EPG information for all satellites and services on the entire network. This worked fine in 1.7.20 but for some reason it's not updating lots of channels in 1.7.21.

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[ANNOUNCE] epgsearch-1.0.0
by Christian Wieninger 11 Sep '11

11 Sep '11

Hi, it's time for a new release. I'm quite happy with the current state, so I decided to place a '1' in front of the version :-) Because of the big distance to the last release the history is quite long. So I just put a link to it here: http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/HISTORY Have fun! download: http://winni.vdr-developer.org/epgsearch/downloads/vdr-epgsearch-1.0.0.tgz cheers, Christian

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.7.21
by Klaus Schmidinger 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

VDR developer version 1.7.21 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.21.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.20-1.7.21.diff MD5 checksums: 7300bfd997db1a848bd774fefe4aec80 vdr-1.7.21.tar.bz2 c4e745939f31543dd607b97d58fc86be vdr-1.7.20-1.7.21.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. This version contains functions to determine the "signal strength" and "signal quality" through cDevice. If you are using a DVB card that contains an stb0899 frontend chip (like the TT-budget S2-3200) you may want to apply the patches from ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/Driver-Patches to the LinuxDVB driver source in order to receive useful results from that frontend. The changes since version 1.7.20: - Fixed detecting frames for channels that split frames into several payloads (reported by Derek Kelly). - Now initializing Setup.InitialChannel to an empty string to avoid problems in case there is no setup.conf. - The start time of an edited recording is now set to the time of the first editing mark (thanks to Udo Richter). This obsoletes the CUTTIME patch. - Direct access to the members start, priority, lifetime, and deleted of cRecording as well as to position and comment of cMark is now deprecated. Plugin authors should switch to the new access functions for these members. For now the macro __RECORDING_H_DEPRECATED_DIRECT_MEMBER_ACCESS is defined in recording.h, which exposes these members, so that existing plugins will still compile. Comment out this #define to check whether a particular plugin needs to be modified. This #define may be removed in a future version. - The new functions cRecording::NumFrames() and cRecording::LengthInSeconds() return the number of frames and length (in seconds) of a recording (suggested by Steffen Barszus). - The subtitle PIDs are now stored in the channels.conf file as an extension to the TPID field (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - The new function cDevice::ProvidesEIT() is used to determine whether a device can provide EIT data and will thus be used in cEITScanner::Process() to receive EIT data from the channels it can receive (suggested by Rolf Ahrenberg). Note that by default it is assumed that a device can't provide EIT data, and only the builtin cDvbDevice returns true from this function. - The Audio and Subtitles options are now available through the Green and Yellow keys in the Setup/DVB menu (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). This is mainly for remote controls that don't have dedicated keys for these functions. - The SVDRP command HITK now accepts multiple keys (up to 31). - The Recordings menu now displays the length (in hours:minutes) of each recording (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). Note that the "new" indicator has been moved from the recording time to the length column. This new format is also used by the SVDRP command LSTR, so in case you have an application that parses the LSTR output, you will need to adjust it to the new format. - The dvbsddevice plugin now supports the new option --outputonly, which disables receiving on SD FF devices and uses the device only for output (thanks to Udo Richter). - Fixed detecting frames on radio channels (reported by Chris Mayo). - Revoked the changes to cFrameDetector that have been introduced in version 1.7.19. Detecting frames in case the Picture Start Code or Access Unit Delimiter extends over TS packet boundaries is now done by locally skipping TS packets in cFrameDetector. Have fun! Klaus

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length of running recording
by jdobry＠centrum.cz 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hello, I have small problem with running periodical recording on list view. Duration is actual only on first look. Every return to recording list show old not actualized value. It is same after recording finish. If this recording is in "root", it is ok. If it is periodical recording, it is not correct (recording is in "sub-directory" I am not found any way to actualize listed duration except vdr restart. Duration on playback status is correct, but in list of recordings still invalid. vdr 1.7.21 (I am not test older) Jiri

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Re: [vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak
by Richard F 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

@Christian - Great - memory leak looks fixed - I attach a screenshot of memory use since Sunday. The peaks on the graph are from NX login sessions, otherwise the system is running at constant ~70% (vdr total is currently 1.6% = 32M). Thanks ! Maybe time for the next release? > Subject: > Re: [vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak > From: > Christian Wieninger <cwieninger(a)gmx.de> > Date: > 21/08/2011 15:50 > > To: > VDR Mailing List <vdr(a)linuxtv.org> > > > Hi, > > @Tobi: many thanks, worked like a charm! > > @Richard: > I've found a big leak besides some smaller ones and fixed them in the > git. So please give it a try and let me know if it workes for you now. > > Cheers, > Christian

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XBMC / VNSI discontinued?
by Dominic Evans 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

Anyone have more detailed info? It seems pipelka has 'announced' that the VNSI addon is discontinued in favour of his own new XVDR addon. However, opdenkamp/dushmaniac doesn't look too happy about this situation... http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?s=3975431b107cbb88b3bfc0267a5b4bcc&p=877… How does this effect plans for yaVDR 0.4? Is someone already working on deb packaging of this new addon?

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Fix for recording problem in VDR 1.7.20
by Klaus Schmidinger 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

There have been some reports about recording problems with VDR 1.7.20 on some HD channels. This patch should fix this. Klaus --- remux.c 2011/08/15 09:50:14 2.58 +++ remux.c 2011/08/19 15:33:26 @@ -974,8 +974,10 @@ payloadUnitOfFrame = (payloadUnitOfFrame + 1) % -framesPerPayloadUnit; if (payloadUnitOfFrame != 0 && independentFrame) payloadUnitOfFrame = 0; - if (payloadUnitOfFrame) + if (payloadUnitOfFrame) { + newPayload = false; newFrame = false; + } } if (framesPerPayloadUnit <= 1) scanning = false;

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Bug in VDR which calls MsgOsdClear too often
by Michael Eiler 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi Klaus, i just realized that if you open an event osd MsgOsdClear is called too often. Example: * Open Main-OSD * Select Schedule * Select an Item Now vdr at first calls OsdCurrentItem(const char *Text) and some other items and then calls MsgOsdClear and then calls OsdTextItem(const char *Text, bool Scroll) . If I now want to save the information of this methods calls and forward it to the http-request in my restfulapi-plugin that the event-Title information is misssing because MsgOsdClear shouldn't have been called. I had a look into the vdr source and I thought the code should be in cMenuEvent but I couldn't find a call to MsgOsdClear. It would be really helpful if you have a look at this. Looking forward to your answer. nice regards Michael

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Possible to add custom EPG data?
by John Klimek 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

How difficult is it to add custom (additional) data to the epg.data file? For example, my satellite network broadcasts additional fields such as "original air date" and "repeat episode?", etc. Additional, how hard would this be to add to VDR Live (and epgsearch?)

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Re: [vdr] Diseqc problems with VDR1.7.19
by Hawes, Mark 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Just looked at the trace I sent in my initial post and realised that I had selected a Diseqc command that I had modified while trying to diagnose the situation so my annotations < > were a bit misleading. The following should be less confusing: Diseqc command list found = t v [E0 10 38 F4] W500 [E0 31 6B 04] W250 [E1 31 6B 04] W15 T Diseqc action = 1 Diseqc action = 3 Diseqc action = 7 Sending Diseqc command: E1 31 6B 04 < Wrong, should be E0 10 38 F4 > Diseqc action = 7 Sending Diseqc command: E1 31 6B 04 < Wrong, should be E0 31 6B 04 > Diseqc action = 7 Sending Diseqc command: E1 31 6B 04 Diseqc action = 2 Again, the final Diseqc command has been sent three times, not the three commands in the sequence they appear in the command list. Apologies for the confusion. Mark.

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