[HOWTO] HDTV with Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) using VDR, Xine or Xineliboutput
October 23rd, 2009 by acmelab68
Tips
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If you want to grep all existing HD channels from your channels.conf you can do the following on your command line:
cat channels.conf | grep C23M5O35S1 -
if you want only FTA and VPID != 0 channels, do this:
cat channels.conf | egrep -iv "(test|service|radio|arab)" | awk -F":" '{ if ( $09 == 0 ) print $0 }' | awk -F":" '{ if ( $6 != 0 ) print $0 }'Here I also filter test, service, radio and arab stuff.
- If you should be asked to teach in lirc command on VDR's start, add this to your
/etc/default/vdr
OPTIONS="-w 60 --lirc=/dev/null"
Known issues
- Glitches running with windows manger. Use "
xinit -e vdr-sxfe ...orxinit -e xine -f -V vdapu ...instead. Shut down your window manager first. See section Launching - No sound. Be sure using alsa, and the xine-ui and lib from the hotzenplotz5 PPA repository. Your installed files should look like this.
- Video and sound stutter
Set your CPU governor toperformance, and notondemand. Perform this on your command line:echo performance > $(find /sys -name "scaling_governor" )
- Jerky pans and Tearing
Jerky pans, or pans that are bumpy and not smooth (not frame drops or pauses). This occurs, if TV-set frequency doesn't match the actual frequency. Use a modified modline for it (Experts only!).
Tearing. You can avoid tearing, by runningxinit(see above). Search this Blog for tearing, it has useful tips in here.
Links
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Hello acmelab68,
Really nice Howto. I used it myself and it works great. Could you please refresh the Repositorys cause Hotzenplotz merged his Repositorys with the-vdr-team together these one are depreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPffvhht2RY
which mediastream mod is it?
i cant add to ‘live tv’ submenu with pvr and vdr-sxfe.
Any idea how do that?
Hello,
I added each ppa you described, but I get always these messages:
Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »libxine1-vdpau-plugins« passt.
Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »nvidia-190-libvdpau« passt.
Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »libxine1-vdpau-plugins« passt.
Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »nvidia-190-libvdpau« passt.
These packages couldn’t be found. What can I do?
@herman
1) You’ve got to use now the repo from the vdr-team, like Diable mentioned. Look up here the repo you are interested in: http://www.henningpingel.de/vdrstuff/vdr_trendy_features_matrix.html
2) If you should decide to take https://launchpad.net/~the-vdr-team/+archive/vdr-ubuntu-karmic , then there won’t be libxine1 any longer. It’s libxine2. And libvdpau is 195+ meanwhile.
Simply perform a
aptitude search libxine
aptitude search libvdpau
and install the appropriate packages.
Good Luck
@acmelabs
Thanks a lot!
I want to use XBMC, therfore I have to use 1) from the vdr-team like here described http://blog.mymediasystem.net/avchd/xbmc-on-karmic-with-vdpau-and-vdr/
Is that correct or is there a XBMC version which works with version 2)?
@herman
you are right. One cannot mix the versions of libxine – but the dependencies should be resolved automatically – if I remember correctly.
hi
thanz for HOWTO
I received this error
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “libxine1-vdpau-plugins”
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “libxine1-vdpau-plugins”
which repo should I use?
my os ubuntu 9.1
my repo list:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/henningpingel/xbmc/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/the-vdr-team/vdr-ubuntu-karmic/ubuntu
I passed all procedure (without libxine1-vdpau-plugins).
when I wanted to run vdr by this command sudo service vdr start I received this
Searching for plugins (VDR 1.7.10/1.7.10) (cache hit): xineliboutput.
and nothing happened just the sound of tuner.
any help pleas?
I’m using on Lucid this PPA-repo:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-vdr/ubuntu lucid mainand this is what dpkg -l | grep yavdr returns:
hi
what is sourcedir to compile plugins as mentioned here
http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Plugin_installation
$SOURCEDIR is where your VDR sources are. In this directory there is a folder called PLUGINS/src. This is your sourcedir.