vdr May 2015

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16 participants
11 discussions

Using a rasberry pi as vdr client
by Damien Bally 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi I want to use raspberry pi as if it were a graphic card : I mean the dvb devices on a PC style server, IR receiver preferably on the server too (rpi and server in the same room) I don't know how to configure it, there is apparently 2 ways of doing it (from what I understood) + xineliboutput with vdr-fbfe (rpi plugin is closed source ? the one here : http://www.vdr-portal.de/board18-vdr-hardware/board98-arm-co/118588-rasperr…) + streamdev and rpihddevice (which additional plugins ?) The second way seems to be more complicated to configure, and I'm not sure it suits my project, but the rpihddevice is well maintained though. The first solution is perhaps much straightforward and includes a media player (?) Could you tell me more please ? Damien

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xmltv2vdr.pl
by Dominic Evans 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

I don't know if anyone else still uses the xmltv2vdr.pl perl script for piping XMLTV data into VDR's epg, but I've been keeping a version of it updated with some additional function here: https://github.com/oldmanuk/xmltv2vdr These are the changes since the last version (1.0.9) was released on the mailing list - Add support for XMLTV episode-num. Currently gets added as EPG entry 'sub-title', if no existing subtitle has been found, in the form sXXeXX (e.g., Bones~s01e01). - Change default SVDRP port number to 6419. - Better support for ATSC/PVRINPUT EPG sources. - Allow multiple channels to have the same XMLTV channel id, useful for multi input (e.g., DVB-T, DVB-S) systems where you want to feed VDR the same info. Previously only a 1:1 mapping was permitted. I've also received a pull request from someone who rewrote the whole script to be a lot more readable and to use full XML parsing (rather than just line-by-line scraping), but I still need to investigate what the performance penalty is before accepting that in.

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VDR & Multiple frontends
by Eddi 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi, I wrote a patch to Steve Toth hvr3000 repository, so my FlyDVB Trio can use multiple frontend. So I get: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net0 /dev/dvb/adapter0/net1 The bus of the two frontend is shared, isn't possible to get access to both frontend simultaneously, so I get an -EBUSY error by trying accessing frontend1 if frontend0 is in use. VDR doesn't support yet the second frontend, and it try to get exclusive access on both frontend on start, so the second frontend is inusabile. Vdr should probe for multiple frontend at start, and access frontend only on channel change. Please can someone give me an help to wrote a patch for this issue? Best Regards, Eddi

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Transcode SD to mpeg4
by Richard F 29 May '15

29 May '15

I'm wondering if anyone has created a plugin to automatically transcode SD recordings to H264 ? I'm now using Kodi on the Raspberry pi as frontend to vdr + VNSI plugin, it's pretty good aside from live HDTV which can still stutter (but version dependent, so I expect will be fixed soon). I have about 3TB of SD recordings and could probably save at least 1.5TB if converted to H264, rather than buy & power more hard disks. I did a couple of "manual" test conversions using ffmpeg, and they play OK, vdr reindexes automatically when it finds the index missing. ffmpeg -i 001.vdr -vcodec h264 -threads 2 -acodec mp3 -f mpegts 00001.ts The plugin should: a) Do a conversion automatically after recording, nice'd b) check it was error free (ie success code from ffmpeg or whatever) c) delete mpeg2 file if OK, cleanup if not, log. d) ideally force a reindex e) Option to iterate through old recordings, testing for mpeg2 and converting as required in the background. Handle .ts and old .vdr files. f) Join old 2GB max sized files before creating smaller H264 version .ts. g) Nice to have - option to enable function or not Need to handle various flavours of stream too, subtitles etc. I've seen scripts like the one below, but the author reports some issues and obviously not a complete solution. Maybe vdrrip and/or a noad type approach could be used as the basis? #!/bin/bash profile="-vpre hq" quality="-crf 26" # constant quality prefix="nice" # "nice ionice -c3" for i in "$@"; do [ -r "$i" ] || continue output="$(basename "$i" | cut -f 1 -d .).$profile.mp4" [ -e "$output" ] && continue $nice ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec copy -scodec copy -threads 0 \ -vcodec libx264 $profile $quality "$output" done

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how to limit the number of simultaneous channels being decoded
by Pascal Vandeputte 29 May '15

29 May '15

Dear, My satellite provider (M7/TV Vlaanderen) has an artificial limitation on its smartcards which makes the card lock up if you try to decode more than 4 channels at once. I'm perfectly fine with that, as 4 channels should be enough (and multiple overlapping /recordings/ on the same /channel/ still count as 1!). But because I never watch live TV, the epgsearch plugin creates all my timers automatically. So I cannot easily prevent it from locking up if I'm not at home to manually check the created timers. Most channels (PIDs) are in the same transport stream, which means I never get 'conflicts'. I've asked on IRC and it was suggested to ask for a new feature to the epgsearch plugin. Before I look into that further (my C skills date back to 1999...), I'd like to poll the maillist to hear additional opinions. For example, perhaps it would make sense to have such a setting in VDR itself to hard-limit the number of simultaneous recordings on weaker hardware/slow disks, and trigger conflicts as well. Or perhaps there is still another workaround? Best regards, Pascal Vandeputte

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Simultanous recording doesn't work
by Marx 27 May '15

27 May '15

After upgrade of VDR I can't simultanously record from 2 different programs on DVB-T tuner. Even from the same MUX, and additionally I've got dual tuner. Log doesn't show any error, no conflicts. It's "timer 1 (62 2038-2155 'Na dobre i na złe - odc. 601" which didn't start, because " timer 1 (61 2033-2355 'Piłka nożna " is currently recording. Marx May 27 20:32:16 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (65 1958-2245 ' beata~Dobre kino: Blow') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:00-22:35 'Dobre kino: Blow' May 27 20:32:16 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (62 2038-2300 ' beata~Stazysci') set to event Czw 28.05.2015 20:40-22:50 'Stazysci' May 27 20:32:16 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (61 2118-2330 ' marek~Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery') set to event Pią 29.05.2015 21:20-23:20 'Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery' May 27 20:32:16 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (67 2158-0000 ' marek~Mechanik: Prawo zemsty') set to event Sob 30.05.2015 22:00-23:50 'Mechanik: Prawo zemsty' May 27 20:32:16 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (61 2148-2255 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y.~Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,~2015.06.02-21:50-wto') set to event Wto 02.06.2015 21:50-22:45 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,' May 27 20:32:17 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (65 1958-2245 ' beata~Dobre kino: Blow') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:00-22:35 'Dobre kino: Blow' May 27 20:32:17 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (62 2038-2300 ' beata~Stazysci') set to event Czw 28.05.2015 20:40-22:50 'Stazysci' May 27 20:32:17 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (61 2118-2330 ' marek~Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery') set to event Pią 29.05.2015 21:20-23:20 'Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery' May 27 20:32:17 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (67 2158-0000 ' marek~Mechanik: Prawo zemsty') set to event Sob 30.05.2015 22:00-23:50 'Mechanik: Prawo zemsty' May 27 20:32:17 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (61 2148-2255 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y.~Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,~2015.06.02-21:50-wto') set to event Wto 02.06.2015 21:50-22:45 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (61 2033-2355 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ :Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 1 połowa )') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 21:45-23:05 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ: Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 2 połowa )' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (61 2118-2330 ' marek~Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery') set to event Pią 29.05.2015 21:20-23:20 'Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (61 2148-2255 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y.~Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,~2015.06.02-21:50-wto') set to event Wto 02.06.2015 21:50-22:45 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (62 2038-2155 'Na dobre i na złe - odc. 601 - Lęki, lęki...') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:40-21:45 'Na dobre i na złe - odc. 601 - Lęki, lęki...' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (62 2038-2300 ' beata~Stazysci') set to event Czw 28.05.2015 20:40-22:50 'Stazysci' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (65 1958-2245 ' beata~Dobre kino: Blow') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:00-22:35 'Dobre kino: Blow' May 27 20:32:20 wuwek vdr: [19818] timer 1 (67 2158-0000 ' marek~Mechanik: Prawo zemsty') set to event Sob 30.05.2015 22:00-23:50 'Mechanik: Prawo zemsty' May 27 20:32:40 wuwek vdr: [2149] switching device 2 to channel 61 (TVP1 HD OBSOLETE) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] switching device 2 to channel 61 (TVP1 HD OBSOLETE) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] timer 6 (61 2033-2355 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ :Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 1 połowa )') start May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] Title: 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ: Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 2 połowa )' Subtitle: '' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] recording file name 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ :Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 1 połowa )' truncated to 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] executing '/usr/lib/vdr/vdr-recordingaction before "/var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ/2015-05-27.20.33.61-0.rec"' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek recordingaction: executing /usr/share/vdr/recording-hooks/R90.custom before recording /var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ/2015-05-27.20.33.61-0.rec May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] record /var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ/2015-05-27.20.33.61-0.rec May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] creating directory /var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] creating directory /var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ/2015-05-27.20.33.61-0.rec May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] recording to '/var/lib/video/Piłka_nożna_-_Liga_Europejska_-_FINAŁ/2015-05-27.20.33.61-0.rec/00001.ts' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [842] recording thread started (pid=2149, tid=842, prio=high) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [843] device 2 receiver thread started (pid=2149, tid=843, prio=high) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [844] device 2 TS buffer thread started (pid=2149, tid=844, prio=high) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2149] markad: no logo found for Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ :Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 1 połowa ) May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (65 1958-2245 ' beata~Dobre kino: Blow') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:00-22:35 'Dobre kino: Blow' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (62 2038-2300 ' beata~Stazysci') set to event Czw 28.05.2015 20:40-22:50 'Stazysci' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (61 2118-2330 ' marek~Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery') set to event Pią 29.05.2015 21:20-23:20 'Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (67 2158-0000 ' marek~Mechanik: Prawo zemsty') set to event Sob 30.05.2015 22:00-23:50 'Mechanik: Prawo zemsty' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2370] timer 1 (61 2148-2255 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y.~Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,~2015.06.02-21:50-wto') set to event Wto 02.06.2015 21:50-22:45 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (61 2033-2355 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ :Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 1 połowa )') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 21:45-23:05 'Piłka nożna - Liga Europejska - FINAŁ: Dnipro Dniepropietrowsk - Sevilla FC ( 2 połowa )' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (61 2118-2330 ' marek~Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery') set to event Pią 29.05.2015 21:20-23:20 'Weekendowy Hit Jedynki - Jestem numerem cztery' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (61 2148-2255 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y.~Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,~2015.06.02-21:50-wto') set to event Wto 02.06.2015 21:50-22:45 'Agenci T. A. R. C. Z. Y. - odc. 11/22,' May 27 20:33:00 wuwek vdr: [2373] timer 1 (62 2038-2155 'Na dobre i na złe - odc. 601 - Lęki, lęki...') set to event Śro 27.05.2015 20:40-21:45 'Na dobre i n:

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lirc.c,43
by Marx 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hello Since upgrade of VDR I have many lines in log like this: May 24 19:58:50 wuwek vdr: [2423] ERROR (lirc.c,43): /var/run/lirc/lircd: Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu I suspect it's some misconfiguration in config, because I don't use lirc (in fact my VDR instance is headless so no remote at all is connected) What should I do? Marx

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OBSOLETE chnnels
by Marx 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hello I've recently upgraded VDR and all my DVB-T channels has "OBSOLETE" attached to the name. Is it already fixed? Marx

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xineliboutput and streamdev at the same time
by Patrick Boettcher 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hi list, I'm planning to update my infrastructure according to the follow scheme: http://filter-failure.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/vdr-new-backend.png The red texts are things where I'm unsure about. Especially the usage of vdr-sxfe on the RPI. I made this chart before finding out that there is rpihddevice and a recommended streamdev-usage. This shows that I have a need for streamdev and xineliboutput (as others on this list). Is there problem with running the xineliboutput and streamdev-server plugins at the same time on a vdr-host? When will we start facing problems using the xineliboutput-plugin with VDR? What is most likely to break first in this case? Thanks for any comments, -- Patrick.

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No sound using radio plug-in after update to VDR 2.2
by Matthias Lötzke 06 May '15

06 May '15

Hello All, I updated from VDR 1.42 with radio plug-in 0.9.1 running on Debian Wheezy to VDR 2.2 with radio plug-in 1.0.0 on Debian Jessie. For output I am using the TT S2-6400 dvbhddevice with drivers from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/media_build_experimental Using VDR 1.42 the radio plug-in worked fine. With VDR 2.2 and radio plug-in activated the sound stops whenever I switch to a radio channel. If the plug-in is deactivated everything works as expected. Has anyone else observed this problem? Is there a known solution? Best regards Matthias

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