vdr December 2020

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Trouble with DVB-T2 on frontend 1
by Marko Mäkelä 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Hi all, I recently got a USB adapter "Astrometa DVB-T2" that I would like to use with VDR. It comprises two frontends: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0: Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T) /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1: Panasonic MN88473 (DVB-T2 and DVB-C) I guess it is similar to this one; just a slightly different plastic case with some more ventilation holes: http://blog.palosaari.fi/2014/09/naked-hardware-18-astrometa-amdvb-t2-v2.ht… The hardware appears to work fine, once I copied the /lib/firmware/dvb-demod-mn88473-01.fw from somewhere. The firmware upload has failed at least once on the Raspberry Pi 2 (using Linux 4.9.59), but never on another machine that runs a 4.13.0 kernel. I did not yet get the infrared remote control to produce anything in evtest. With dvbv5-zap (after running dvbv5-scan), I can tune into DVB-T2 channels like this: dvbv5-zap -a 0 -f 1 -c dvb_channel.conf 'Yle TV1 HD' -r After this, I can play the video and audio stream on the Raspberry Pi 2: omxplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 Unless I explicitly specify the options -a 0 -f 1, then dvbv5-zap will fail to find any DVB-T2 senders, because it apparently defaults to frontend0, which is DVB-T only. In VDR 2.3.8, I have only been able to view DVB-T from the first frontend. When I did a trick and renamed /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend1 to frontend0 before starting VDR, VDR no longer complained that the DVB-T2 channels (which I converted from the dvb_channel.conf to channels.conf with dvb-format-convert) not being available, but it did not seem to receive anything from these channels either. Also, after using dvbv5-scan or dvbv5-zap, I sometimes have to invoke w_scan to "reset" the hardware so that VDR can receive DVB-T channels. I would like to receive and record DVB-T and DVB-T2 on this setup. I am willing to try patches or do some programming myself, but I would appreciate some hints to get started. Marko

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vdr not working in Raspbian 10
by Narcis Garcia 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Hello, I've installed vdr from Raspbian packages, to use it with Kodi. I've updated channels.conf by using w_scan2 for a DVB-T2 dongle. TV channels are found. But I try to watch some channel and I get no data. Tried with two clients Kodi software with its VDR plugin (screen interface) and with vdradmin-am (web interface). What can I check to find the problem? Notes: - TV dongle works; if I stop vdr service and use GUI applicacion Kaffeine, I can watch all TV channels. - I see VDR service attending TCP ports 34890 (VNSI), 6419 and 2010 Thank you. -- Narcis Garcia __________ I'm using this dedicated address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors.

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[ANNOUNCE] VDR version 2.4.6 released
by Klaus Schmidinger 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

VDR version 2.4.6 is now available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/vdr-2.4.6.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.tvdr.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-2.4.4-2.4.6.diff MD5 checksums: aa91614159ae2db45655d35918e2c24e vdr-2.4.6.tar.bz2 b75cc737a5ea5fc059c2264b7ed21fa9 vdr-2.4.4-2.4.6.diff You can also get the latest stable version at the official VDR GIT archive with git clone --branch stable/2.4 git://git.tvdr.de/vdr.git This version fixes a few bugs that came up after the release of version 2.4.4. The changes since version 2.4.4: - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Fixed handling newline characters in ci.c's CopyString() (reported by Winfried Köhler). - Fixed checking the return value of the Open() call in cFileName::SetOffset() (reported by Winfried Köhler). - Fixed a possible invalid lock sequence in cMenuTimers::OnOff(). - Fixed several typos (reported by Jens Schleusener). - Implemented anti-aliasing for cPixmap::DrawSlope() and cPixmap::DrawEllipse() (thanks to Christoph Haubrich). The version numbers (both VDRVERSNUM and APIVERSNUM) have been bumped to 2.4.5 to indicate this change. - Fixed alignment of semi-circles in case of odd sizes. - Increased the size of the TS buffer to 16MB, to have more reserve when recording several HD programmes. - Added checking the symbol rate to cDvbTuner::IsTunedTo(), which apparently got lost in version 1.7.13 (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Now checking for an empty command in cDvbTuner::GetSignalStats() to avoid a possible error message (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Now initializing the status variable in cDvbTuner::GetFrontendStatus() and cDvbTuner::GetSignalStats() to avoid problems with drivers that don't do this (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Fixed multiple recording entries in case a recording is started during the initial reading of the video directory (reported by Claus Muus). - Fixed an unnecessary double call to Display() in cMenuRecording::RefreshRecording() (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Fixed a crash in case an error occurs when setting a remote timer. - Fixed allocating memory for cImage (reported by Christoph Haubrich). - Fixed parsing the '-l' command line option (reported by Harald Milz). - Fixed possible compilation errors with libjpeg (thanks to Bernd Kuhls). - Fixed "read incomplete section" errors (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Fixed generating the HashId in cEIT::cEIT() (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Added initialization of cDvbFrontend::frontendInfo (thanks to Winfried Köhler). - Fixed a bug in handling shared PMTs, where after the first pass not all SIDs of a PMT pid were checked any more (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Fixed PMT handling in case locking the Channels list times out (reported by Helmut Binder). - Avoiding a lengthy lock on the Channels list when starting a recording (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Fixed error handling when loading a plugin (reported by Markus Ehrnsperger). - Improved handling missing VDRPluginDestroyer() (thanks to Winfried Köhler). - Fixed initializing tmpbuf in ExtendedEventDescriptors::getText() (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Fixed a compiler warning (thanks to Winfried Köhler). - Fixed convertCharacterTable() in case iconv_open() fails (thanks to Helmut Binder). - Official release. Have fun! Klaus

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