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- Razor_109 - 2009-10-21 11:17

hmm too bad.. and installing the ppa and adding the SC-plugin manually? or is that not possible without re-compiling?

- hepi - 2009-10-21 11:33

I have no experiences here, it's likely that the core has to be re-compiled. I guess mirak would be a person to know this. Maybe you can ask him.

- biggles - 2009-10-21 11:43

I have successfully installed vdr-sc plugin from Miraks PPA without any compiling. Pretty straightforward. The hardest part was to add the -B switch to the SC plugin for the TT1501 card. Otherwise it wasn't detected as a budget card (I only use the softcam part of the SC-pluging, not the cccam or newcs, because my card reader is only connected to one HTPC.

- orkid - 2009-10-22 03:08

So what's the set of packages, or SVN release versions + patches that work for North American satellite programming providers? Is there one?

thanks

- hepi - 2009-10-22 10:16

orkid Wrote:So what's the set of packages, or SVN release versions + patches that work for North American satellite programming providers? Is there one?

thanks

I live in Europe and have never set up a VDR in North America, but I guess the ATSC patch and the ATSC EPG plugin [1] are important for you. According to [2], the ATSC patch is only embedded in the vdr package of PPA the-vdr-team (which is based on VDR plus the so called "extensions patch"), but you could ask yourself on vdr-portal.de for further information. It's in German language, but English postings are also welcome and there is also an international section in English language [3].

hepi

[1] http://www.fepg.org/atscepg.html
[2] http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?postid=849637#post849637
[3] http://www.vdrportal.de/board/board.php?boardid=79

- mirak63 - 2009-10-22 10:39

biggles Wrote:I have successfully installed vdr-sc plugin from Miraks PPA without any compiling. Pretty straightforward. The hardest part was to add the -B switch to the SC plugin for the TT1501 card. Otherwise it wasn't detected as a budget card (I only use the softcam part of the SC-pluging, not the cccam or newcs, because my card reader is only connected to one HTPC.

You can create a ppa with just vdr plugins you want that will just depend of another ppa with vdr.

I created a team ppa when I created mine, hoping people would join efforts, but nobody did.
So I will try to invite the guy that did the karmic ppa.

- jstew - 2009-10-23 14:06

hepi Wrote:I live in Europe and have never set up a VDR in North America, but I guess the ATSC patch and the ATSC EPG plugin [1] are important for you. According to [2], the ATSC patch is only embedded in the vdr package of PPA the-vdr-team (which is based on VDR plus the so called "extensions patch"), but you could ask yourself on vdr-portal.de for further information. It's in German language, but English postings are also welcome and there is also an international section in English language [3].

hepi

[1] http://www.fepg.org/atscepg.html
[2] http://vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?postid=849637#post849637
[3] http://www.vdrportal.de/board/board.php?boardid=79

It's not that bad to get going. I just checked out the source for GDA's VDR build, edited the debian build templates for plugins and made my own deb package for vdr-plugin-atscepg.

ATSC support works out of the box, like you said, but the plugin is necessary for guide info and it has an integrated channel scanner.

- hepi - 2009-10-23 14:45

@jstew: Nice! If you have a Launchpad PPA, you could offer the plugin there for other users.

To avoid confusion: gda has different PPA's for jaunty and karmic, all VDR packages of gda include the so called "extensions patch".

Regarding karmic, gda has started off with the PPA vdr-devel [1], which is now not maintained any longer because things are now happening in team work with hotzenplotz5 and others in [2]. In [2], all packages from [1] are present and sometimes even more up-to-date.

So basically: For karmic + VDR 1.7.9 + extensions patch: Use [2]. ;-)
For karmic + VDR 1.7.9 + multipatch: Use [3]

How to decide which of these versions to use ? Hard to tell... It depends on compatibility regarding the plugins, you want to use. Just try it...

A comparison of the different repo contents is still available at [4].

For VDR+XBMC, you need the following packages as a minmum:

  1. vdr (equip it with an appropriate channels.conf in /var/lib/vdr)
  2. vdr-plugin-streamdev-server (configure it to allow connections from local network)
  3. xbmc (build of branch pvr-testing - for examlpe from my PPA [5])


If you want more VDR-frontends beside XBMC-PVR-Testing (which is still not stable as a TV frontend) there are at least the following options:
  • Streaming Live TV to VLC (or other media players): Use vdr-plugin-streamdev-server (Open http://vdr-ip:3000 in web browser for channel list)
  • Web Frontend on http://vdr-ip:8008 : Package vdr-plugin-live
  • libxine*-based VDR-frontends with OSD and VDPAU (control via remote control or keyboard):
    • vdr-sxfe from package xineliboutput-sxfe on the client and vdr-plugin-xineliboutput on the vdr-server
    • client: xine-ui+libxine*-xvdr, VDR-Server: vdr-plugin-xine

hepi

[1] https://launchpad.net/~gda-dachsweb/+archive/vdr-devel
[2] https://launchpad.net/~the-vdr-team/+archive/vdr-ubuntu-karmic
[3] https://launchpad.net/~hotzenplotz5/+archive/ppa
[4] http://www.henningpingel.de/vdrstuff/vdr_package_tracker/index.html?distribution=Ubuntu&release=karmic
[5] https://launchpad.net/~henningpingel/+archive/xbmc

- orkid - 2009-10-24 09:03

is there any known working versions for xbmc+vdr? I tried vdr-1.7.9+streamdevext+parentalrating patches from the vdr listserv, streamdev from cvs, and hepi's xbmc from PPA, and I get no audio/video although XBMC does see the proper bitrate and program number info (i have debug turned on, and am tailing xbmc.log). the PVR (manager?) automatically says that it got no audio/video for 5 seconds... that's repeated over and over, and then nothing.

I can post the log if that would help.

- biggles - 2009-10-24 21:07

I use 1.77 from mirak and it's working like a charm with xbmc from hepi. (A big thanks to both mirak and hepi!!!)