moving from VDR native to yavdr-0.4.0

  • I've been a vdr user since ~2005, so about 6 years. For all of that I've used a generic build of Fedora with VDR installed (along with a raft of plugins and XMBC).


    With the supposed simplicity of yavdr, built in yavdrweb, VDR Live and nvidia vdpau support, I thought I'd give yavdr a go.


    First impressions.
    * installation on new hardware (cheap motherboard, HDMI card etc) was very straightforward.
    * no problems (apart from getting used to Ubuntu, having come from Fedora!) getting the basic 3x IPTV channels up and working
    * pretty quickly had all my old VDR recordings working, remote control (through an Android VDR app), music, picture and video collections and DVD playing
    * the web portal provides easy access to configure most basic things; hdmi audio, front end selection, remote control, streaming etc
    * the "templates" you have to use to update .conf files, grub files etc took some getting used to - but it's a pretty clean way of managing your customizations
    * out-of-the-box the vdpau runs great. CPU is at 0.5%, where my native VDR system ran at 15-20% cpu


    Things still to work out how to do
    * get remote keys working on xbmc


    Things still causing frustration!!
    * I have some customizations I need on VDR source code - how do I a)download vdr sources b)integrated these into yavdr
    * it seems every time I try and do some fairly normal Ubuntu tasks, like updating packages, kernels etc, I break yavdr and need to re-install yavdr



    any other english people out there going through the same challenges as me? X(

  • Welcome!


    Regarding "Customizations I need on VDR source code": yaVDR is already shipping with a lot of patches that add a lot of features that are not part of the vanilla VDR core. You should evaluate if it is really necessary to recompile VDR. There is a pretty good chance that there already is a much easier solution for the problem you are trying to solve without the need to patch VDR. The only exceptions I can think of ATM would be some ATSC EPG specialties. We had a discussion a while ago with a user who wanted to use an ATSC EPG patch. Has your patch publicly been discussed on the vdr mailing list?


    However, you can get all source packages of all our binary packages from Launchpad in the way it always works on Debian/Ubuntu:


    Code
    apt-get source vdr


    Be aware of the fact that you often need to recompile all VDR plugins used after patching the VDR package.


    Cheers,
    hepi

  • Things still causing frustration!!
    * it seems every time I try and do some fairly normal Ubuntu tasks, like updating packages, kernels etc, I break yavdr and need to re-install yavdr


    This is absolutely not normal. Explain what you are doing and what messages you get.


    Gerald


    HP Proliant MicroServer Gen8, Xeon E3-1230, 12 GB RAM, 3xWD red 2TB im RAID 5, 2xSundtek MediaTV Home DVB-C/T, L4M TWIN-C/T, Ubuntu Server 14.04.1, Plex Media Server
    Samsung UE55H6470

  • Thanks - I'll keep this in mind. My customisations are to do with static PCIDs - which I may be able to work around. Won't be sure until I can test this, which won't be for a while.


  • This is absolutely not normal. Explain what you are doing and what messages you get.


    Gerald

    OK, so some things I broke:
    1) Wasn't sure what would happen, but I did the "oneiric" release update as prompted to so from a console login. This updated loads of stuff, and it wouldn't boot after that. Screwed grub up, put all current kernels into a "previous kernels" sub-dir, and only offered linux-3.0.0.0. Won't do that again!
    2) Did a re-install "over the top" of this partition. Which kind of worked, but grub still had to be manipulated to not have a sub-dir of previous kernels.
    3) Tried to clean up older kernel versions (using dpkg remove), but managed to delete 2.6.38-13. Tried to boot to 2.6.38.12, but the window manager wouldn't start. VDR started in the background, but couldn't attach a frontend - and the syslog messages said "could not connect to 0:0".
    Have no idea what window manager is running (not fluxbox, which I'm used to??) so gave up and did a complete clean install.
    4) I used to run VDR in a "screen" session so I could "screen -x" in and press keys etc to control VDR. This also let me see the console messages, rather than having to look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog. Can this still be achieved in yavdr? Where is the VDR console now and can it be accessed directly?

  • OK, so some things I broke:
    1) Wasn't sure what would happen, but I did the "oneiric" release update as prompted to so from a console login. This updated loads of stuff, and it wouldn't boot after that. Screwed grub up, put all current kernels into a "previous kernels" sub-dir, and only offered linux-3.0.0.0. Won't do that again!


    Okay, this has killed yaVDR.

    Have no idea what window manager is running (not fluxbox, which I'm used to??) so gave up and did a complete clean install.


    We are using Openbox.

    4) I used to run VDR in a "screen" session so I could "screen -x" in and press keys etc to control VDR. This also let me see the console messages, rather than having to look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog. Can this still be achieved in yavdr? Where is the VDR console now and can it be accessed directly?


    We have no interest in doing this. It is not necessary to look so often to the output of the vdr. So it is no big thing to look into the syslog. It is even very easy because you can do it with the webfrontend.


    If you are not pleased with the way we are doing it in yaVDR, then maybe yaVDR is not for you?


    Gerald


    HP Proliant MicroServer Gen8, Xeon E3-1230, 12 GB RAM, 3xWD red 2TB im RAID 5, 2xSundtek MediaTV Home DVB-C/T, L4M TWIN-C/T, Ubuntu Server 14.04.1, Plex Media Server
    Samsung UE55H6470

  • OK - I can't see any easy way to get epg working


    can't get XmltvGUI working


    Don't really want to use XTVD-Tools - as getting info out of mysql will be somewhat involved.


    Is there an easy way to get Schedules Direct integrated into yavdr??

  • You are using vdr-plugin-atscepg?

    Website


    Software: Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit, VDR 1.7.18 und diverse Plugins
    Hardware: Modded Fanless HUSH Gehäuse, ZOTAC ION ITX-F, S2-6400, 2x 1GB RAM, 1TB WD GreenPower, 90W PicoPSU, Alphacool LCD, Atric

  • Seems to me there must have already been a plugin for importing .xml epg?


    Does anyone know of one?


    The xmltv2vdr Plugin do this. You need write an simple "Grabber" to add support for your own XML Datafile.
    http://projects.vdr-developer.…sions/master/entry/README


    cu

  • OK, so yavdr "nooobie" question...


    As this plugin isn't in the yavdr list of available plugins, how do I add it to my yavdr-0.4.0 setup?


    -install vdr sources? Recompile ALL other installed plugins?



    Thanks

  • OK, so yavdr "nooobie" question...


    As this plugin isn't in the yavdr list of available plugins, how do I add it to my yavdr-0.4.0 setup?


    Its in unstable-vdr.



    -install vdr sources? Recompile ALL other installed plugins?


    Recompile vdr and all other Plugins are not needed.


    Get the xmltv2vdr package source from yavdr unstable, update the code to latest xmltv2vdr git (AFAIK there are some fixes) and create the package. Then install the package. Thats all as far as i know.


    cu

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