Update my old VDR to get DVB-T2 running ...

Interesting. I am still on an "ancient" Debian distro and am starting to prepare for the DVB-T2 switch that will happen in May 2017. I have installed a budget card that does DVB-T2 HD and explicitly supports version 1.3.1. Given my old distro, I was on VDR 1.7.x. Hopeless? Anyhow, I've compiled VDR 2.3.1 from sources, but still I'm only getting sound but no video for the HD channels. I was somehow assuming that VDR would simply stream what it receives from the adapter to a file when I record a transmission. However, the .ts file only has the audio stream. A beginner's question: why do I need to patch VDR in order to pipe the stream to a file? Is VDR analyzing/parsing the stream in any case and therefore fail if no H.265 support is available?

[size=8][i][color=#009900]Mod.: Moved from here: [RFC] H.265 Frame-Parser

Zitat von SurfaceCleanerZ

Hi,
why don't you change to a newer system? You'll need new dvb-drivers and a new VDR version. The 2.3.1 is not used by many because many plugins don't work with it. You should try to use a vdr 2.2.0. You can use the sources from the easyvdr 3.0 ppa. They are patched for HEVC (and other patches for Setup-Plugin for example).

You also need an output-Plugin capable of it. KODI 17 or a patched xinelibout

Thanks for you answer. I'd love to use 2.2.0 and apply the easyvdr 3.0 patches; however, I can't seem to find the sources/patches. The easyvdr git doesn't seem to work for anonymous http access (anymore?), and I haven't been able so far to find a working ppa for easyvdr that works with my Debian wheezy installation. Any hints where to get the patched sources for me to compile myself?

I tried:

git clone http://www.easy-vdr.de/git/?p=trusty-ng/.git
Cloning into '?p=trusty-ng'...
fatal: http://www.easy-vdr.de/git/?p=trusty-ng/.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

In the meantime I fetched the original vdr-2.2.0 sources and applied the core patches for HEVC. This at least gives me .ts files that contain the video streams. Not that an mplayer patched for HEVC / H.265 support could play those (it tries MPEG2 instead because that seems to be mplayer's assumption with any .ts file), but at least a vlc that is patched for H.265 support can play the files.

I also found the git repositories for xineliboutput (http://www.easy-vdr.de/git/?p=trusty-ng/.git) and other plug-ins such as epgsearch (https://projects.vdr-developer…vdr-plugin-epgsearch.git/). Starting from those sources I'll try to build the 2.2.0-compatible plugins.

Playing the first HD streams with vlc revealed intermittent errors in the streams

libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 7) for PID 132
libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 13, expected 12) for PID 0
libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 13, expected 12) for PID 132
libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 3, expected 1) for PID 0

Not sure if this means that the streams are corrupt the way they come off the DVB card already or if something else with decoding fails sporadically. Anyway, for me this is all a pretty frustrating experience. Thanks for your support. Hoping that future standard installations will have the HEVC and necessary driver stuff built into all packages and modules for flawless interop.