Posts by Rene

  • Monitoring if vdr is runninng

    I was planning for a oneliner in cron

    Code
    [[ $(/usr/bin/svdrpsend ping |grep 'is alive' |wc -l) -ne 1 ]] && service vdr restart

    I'm not familiar with mapfile, so i try to stick to grep. When i noticed that vdr hanged, i forgot svdrpsend.. If it ever happens again, i'll check what svdrpsend is returning..

  • Monitoring if vdr is runninng

    Hi,

    Is someone monitoring if VDR is responding, and restarting vdr if it detects a failure? While being away from home a couple of weeks, vdr froze, and i missed a buch of recordings. The process seemed to be running, so i was thinking of using simply svdrpsend (/usr/bin/svdrpsend ping |grep 'is alive' |wc -l) + a to check that vdr replies, and restart if it it does not return "is alive". Is there any other ways to determine if vdr "works"?

    ps. sorry for posting my previous questions to the german forums (i understand and read well german, but writing sucks). I just noticed that we have also an "international" part of the forum

  • softhddevice with multiple audio-outputs

    BINGO!

    Now i got it working! My asound.conf was wrong. I found the working /etc/asound.conf configuration here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1191152#p1191152

    So this is what is needed for vdr to get softhddevice working with two cards. First identify you cards. Here is how it looks for me

    My internal card is card 0 and my Geforce hdmi card is card 1. You can use many notation ways: hw:0,0 and hw:1,3 OR hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0 and hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3 OR probably any prefix visible by aplay -L

    Next my vdr softhddevice config file looks like this.

    Code
    -a default
-d :0.0
-f
-v vdpau
-xx

    and /etc/asound.conf looks like this:

    You can reload alsa with alsa force-reload or reboot your vdr


    That's it :) :thumbup:

  • softhddevice with multiple audio-outputs

    I got now some progress..



    This plays the sound in through both devices. What i have not yet figuredout is how to force softhddevice to play to this new device..


    to be continued...

  • softhddevice with multiple audio-outputs

    Hi,

    I wonder if it is possible to have softhddevice to output the sound to multiple outputs? I have my tv connected to a Gforce GT1030, and my headphones to the motherboards analog audio output. Both audioroutes work, but indifidually..

    Code
    # Gforce HDMI
-a hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
-d :0.0
-f
-v vdpau
-xx
    Code
    # Analog audio
-a -a hw:CARD=SB,DEV=0
-d :0.0
-f
-v vdpau
-xx

    I had such a setup with xineliboutput, but i lost my setting, and i can't get to work anymore :(

  • [live] Date format

    Hi,

    I tried to search for this, but I probably searched with wrong keywords.

    I can't seem to find a way to specify the date format used in Live. The current format (eg: sat, May 10) is probably based on the UI-language I use in VDR (Finnish), but i would prefer to have the date as dd.mm.yyyy. Without a year, the recording list does not show enough data.. Also the current format wastes too much space..

    Would it be possible to have some day a setting where the date format could be set?

  • Upgrading to VDR 2.7.5

    Hi seahawk1986,

    I tested upgrading my Jammy VDR from 2.7.4 to 2.7.5, but it fails due to a couple of plugins are missing. It looks like Launchpad missed a couple of plugins

    libxineliboutput-sxfe
    vdr-plugin-mplayer
    vdr-plugin-skinenigmang
    vdr-plugin-streamdev-client
    vdr-plugin-streamdev-server
    vdr-plugin-xineliboutput

    Could you please check if these could be added to the 2.7.5 repo?

  • vdr-plugin-permashift

    Quote from seahawk1986

    https://launchpad.net/~seahawk1986-h…buntu/vdr-2.7.4 has the permashift patch and plugin (and packages for jammy).

    I can find the permashift plugin for focal https://launchpad.net/~seahawk1986-h…es_filter=focal and noble https://launchpad.net/~seahawk1986-h…es_filter=noble but can't find it for yammy ;(

    Quote from seahawk1986

    Under Ubuntu 24.04 you can probably only use the noveau driver, nvidia-340 from https://launchpad.net/~kelebek333/+a…es_filter=noble didn't work with the default x-server when I tried it shortly after the release.

    I'll have to test a blank installation with noble and check if i get it to work. I'm a "if it works, dont touch it" guy, so it's always a bit scary to upgrade with ancient hardware :)

    I have to start to prepare myself for getting new hardware. I got this box second hand for 13 years ago, and i have already replaced the motherboard + processor about 6-7 years ago. The GT220 still works, and i't just fantastic because it does not have any fan. I wonder if there even exists passive graphic cards anymore that can handle HD. The original AMD CPU was also with a really low TDP-value, so i managed with a big heatsink + a big slowly rotating fan..

  • vdr-plugin-permashift

    Hi,

    I'm using seahawk1986's repo for buntu jammy. Permashift was part of that repo til 2.6.9, but it seem to have been dropped off since then.

    I'm running a pretty ancient box with a nvidia GT220 passive card that uses the version 340.108 of the Nvidia driver. Everytime there is a ubuntu version upgrade, i'm nervous upgrading :D I actually just checked, and seems that buntu noble has this driver available too :) Maybe time to upgrade...

  • vdr-plugin-permashift

    Hi all,

    I have been spoiled by great repos for ubuntu for many years now, and i have not needed to compile any plugins. Now i realized that the permashift-plugin available is for vdr 2.6.9, and i wonder if there is a reason why this is not packaged anymore in the ubuntu-repositories for more recent vdr-versions..?