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EDL support in VNSI - mezi - 2013-04-22
Hi FernetMenta and all!
A very happy VNSI4 alpha user here. Thanks for all the great work.
I was wondering if EDL support (i.e. using commercial marks created by noad vdr-plugin in XBMC) is anywhere on the horizon for VNSI?
Thank you!
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-04-22
We have discussed this already in the team. It requires a change of the pvr api which also lacks support for displaying timeshift buffer states. It's on the list but there are a couple of things like broken audio engine with higher priority.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - mezi - 2013-04-22
Aha, OK, I understand. I saw the functionality is available in XVDR and MythTV plugins and thought that only the VNSI plugin side needed to be improved. Thanks for the explanation.
Back to manual skipping, then
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-04-22
Oops, you are right. We already have it: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/b2188bad588119ed0e7de5e87d8107edbd2c4e94
I will look into it after I have finished the new audio engine.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - mezi - 2013-04-25
Great! Looking forward to it.
After playing with the XVDR's implementation a bit, I have a few ideas/suggestions:
VNSI should create "commercial break"-type scene marks. XVDR creates "cut"-type marks, and that means that the marked part of the video is simply inaccessible - which can give you a problem if the commercial detection algorithm made an error - which happens often
This is probably not a function that the PVR-plugin should take care of, but it would be great if there was a notification (a popup, on-screen text etc.) when a skip happens. Also, I like the MythTV's frontend functionality on only notifying the user (by a popup) that a commercial break has started (not skipping over it), and you can then press a button to skip to the end manually.
Let me know if you need any help with definition or testing or...
RE: EDL support in VNSI - mezi - 2013-08-20
(2013-04-22, 21:29)FernetMenta Wrote: Oops, you are right. We already have it: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/b2188bad588119ed0e7de5e87d8107edbd2c4e94
I will look into it after I have finished the new audio engine.
@FernetMenta - any chance of this one coming up on your to-do list soon? Thanks!
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-08-20
I am busy with new audio engine, then I will look into it.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-11-08
the api change for timeshift will be merged the coming days into pvr. then I will change the vnsi protocol and include EDL support.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - avjui - 2013-11-10
Nice to hear
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-11-14
here comes vnsi5 with edl support: https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc-pvr-addons/tree/vnsi5
currently scene markers are supported.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - charlie0440 - 2013-11-14
Awesome I'll test this tonight/ next few days,assume it requures recompilation of the vdr vnsi server addon
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-11-14
yes, it does. It's vnsiserver5 now. rename your vnsiserver4 folder to vnsiserver5.
RE: EDL support in VNSI - ursli - 2013-11-14
(2013-11-14, 10:36)FernetMenta Wrote: here comes vnsi5 with edl support: https://github.com/FernetMenta/xbmc-pvr-addons/tree/vnsi5
currently scene markers are supported.
Could you clarify that for the newcomers to EDL/scene markers? I thought I'd give this a try since we got support now so I've been looking around for vdr plugins and the only one I've found that seems to be actively developed is "markad". I manually created a marks file for one of my recordings but it doesn't seem to be recognized, does that mean the markad plugin isn't yet supported, or am I just doing something wrong?
RE: EDL support in VNSI - FernetMenta - 2013-11-14
you don't need any vdr plugin for this. if you have a file named marks in the recordings folder, it will be opened. you should see debug logs stating that scene markers were added. Note there is no default key mapping for nextscene/previousscene
http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Vdr%285%29#MARKS
RE: EDL support in VNSI - charlie0440 - 2013-11-15
Not going to have much time to experiment with this tonight.
If anyone wants it I made an Generic OpenElec with fernets VNSI5 branch > https://www.dropbox.com/s/xum1u92ksf3vfkn/OpenELEC_Gotham-Generic.i386-devel-20131114220038-r16378.tar
This is for people who have VDR on another machine (not there OpenElec machine)!
Also requires the vnsi5 server addon to be compiled on your vdr machine.
I can try and make an openelec vdr-addon for VNSI5 (for people with VDR on their OE machine) if there is someone who wants it?