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Aight bud UPDATE

That did the trick.  Thanks for the quick notice on CVS!

Works great!  Will see how others do with it.  Updated my site with the info!  Next FULL EPG!   LMAO ok ok I will chill hehe!

Hehe didn't think it updated anything so I deleted the old files and redownloaded lmao but obviously it didn't update period hehe!  K will give that a try and report back.  Thanks Chris.  And yes the channel listing is very nice thanks, wasn't gonna complain bout it hehe!  After all the work ya did for me in the first place!

Thanks Chris for the update!  Just giving my North American 2 cents hehe!

Channel List is DEFINATLEY Faster thanks! 
I see the implementation you are doing for the guide data.  My question is how you are doing it.  Are you just syncing with the VDR EPG or how are you going about it?  Reason I ask is I am just showing NULL's for the info, and if i hit the RED button to show the 24 hour, it crashes the client.


Is it possibly a size thing again?  I know my EPG is about 15mb in size!   I don't think that is it, cuz I deleted my epg.data and let it rebuild and tried while it was small and still shows NULL. 

Thanks as always.

Ya, mine is long on the channel list too, but I wasn't gonna complain after you had to mod the gui to show it in the first place!  

As far as the DHCP thing, I will be trying the MVPLOADER this afternoon, but basically as you said the MVP has to know where to get its Firmware from, the original software for the MVP setup a Broadcast server that the MVP knew to look for to get the firmware.  The Standalone MVP Server has an MVPLOADER that does essentially the same thing, resulting in not needing a seperate DHCP server.  But the MVP Plugin and Vomp Plugin as default require some sort of Broadcast server to send out the info or do as we have been by building a standalone DHCP server for the process.  I am guessing someone was able to take the MVPLoader part out of the standalone server and make it where it will run by itself.  Which is great!  That way people don't have to do away with their router/dhcp servers! 

Thanks AronSira, will look into it!

[VFAT = 1]

Can anybody guess how difficult it would be to change the handling on the server's side to UTF-8 if and only if the utf8-patch to the vdr is used, which keeps the names of the recordings under linux itself readable. Probably one can change the encoding of strings in the vompserver-plugin to the iso8859-1 enconding if the patch has been found.

Not quite sure what you mean bout not being readable.  If you are referring to being able to access the Files via Windows or something, due to the default naming scheme by VDR you can start VDR with the option VFAT = 1 or add it to your Make.config and it will name the directories etc as such with supported characters. 

Jpegs, Gifs etc would be nice, considering the MVP originally was designed to do such and play AVI's etc I think the capability will be there someday.  I am sure Chris is just trying to do each option in steps to make sure there aren't too many problems to diagnose at once continuing in a never ending loop!   I am not sure how much memory the MVP actually has in its capability to run some sort of Xine Client etc to connect to VDR for full VDR functionality, but that is what I am hoping for to in the end game.  I currently use either a Laptop or an XBOX to act as a VDR Client and have full functionality with VDR OSD etc.  The Xine over Network might be the answer to this.  I honsestly have only played with it in the early stages, and haven't had time to get back to it since.  I use full VDR in Client mode with Streamdev and XINE currently.  As where the Xine over Network doesn't need VDR on the client side at all.  So being as such it might be possible to someday have it be part of the MVP OS being as I understand it being a mini linux afterall! 

I only have the one MVP currently since I ordered it for testing, but now plan on ordering a couple of more, but definately want multiple MVP capability without having to run multiple VDR threads.  Being as you can already do this with multiple clients via Streamdev-Client I would think this is attainable but again I am not the programmer!  

I do look forward to somehow letting the MVP attain its IP from a regular router and be able to get the Dongle.bin via multicast or whatever as the MVPServer does, for my testing only so far I had to setup a regular DHCP server and add the MVP to it.  I would like to get away from that so that I can let the router handle that.  But it was easy enuf to do so I am not complaining!  

BTW here are more pics from the Enigma Skin for the rest of the VDR Frontend:

http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins/thumbnails.php?album=41

I don't actually use the theme they use, I use the Dark-Blue theme which makes the window more transparent.  Maybe I will take some screen shots of mine sometime.  But it is a slick skin I think. 

And NOW do you understand why I asked about some sort of GUI when you pause and a timeline etc?  I am spoiled!

Do you run any sort of GUI on your system that runs VDR?  Like Xwindows or Xorg?  You use Debian!   You are using the better of the systems hehe, ok well just my opinion but anyways!   If running gui, just apt-get install tvtime, and ideally you should be able to see your VDR Gui.  Another option that is similar to how you do MVP is setup a VDR Client system.  I use my laptop and install VDR on it with Streamdev-Client and the Xine Plugin.  You get full VDR GUI that way too.  Check out my site, I need to update my Xine Howto but should be straight forward.  My site is designed around Debian and also a lot of my stuff is for NTSC but it shouldn't be anything special for your intentions.  Especially if running on a laptop or whatnot. 

http://www.hoochvdr.info

I try and focus on a ENGLISH Wiki for VDR basically.  Trying to keep info current as possible so that it isn't confusing.  VDRPortal.de is great but there is so much stuff on there it can get confusing.  But be happy to help ya through it.  But that is the Enigma Skin for VDR.  And in my opinion one of the best skins!  Doesn't have to be exactly that way yours is pretty similar just need to incorporate the text!   But it is a very slick skin, but if you have never seen the VDR Frontend you don't know what it is all about anyways!   so get ya a client setup!   Of course you have to run Streamdev-server on the VDR server, but I assume you are anyways!

Let me know your thoughts.

YAEPG is just a GUI that accesses the VDR EPG.  Obviously you wouldn't be able to use it on the MVP but something of sorts on looks would be nice, but I completely understand.  And I use the VDRAdmin all the time so that sounds slick.  Here is a Screenshot of YAEPG.

http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Image:Yaepg-plugin.jpg

Would be nice to be able to setup recordings through the MVP obviously storing them on the VDR System I could see that feasibility.  I don't have widescreen, my parents do and I will be ordering an MVP for them soon, which is why I put that comment in there!   But I personally think OSD and GUIDE functionality is more important.  And you don't have to have a FF card for the VDR GUI, how do you use VDR?  Through TVTime or XAW or something?  You can still run YAEPG etc using all that on your VDR System.  If you need help let me know.  But at best just getting what you have implemented already working with what is on currently would be slick in itself.  Like I said at best would be to go with how most of the VDR Skins work which shows what is on now, and what is on next in that little box. 

http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins/displayimage.php?album=41&pos=1

I will work more on getting one of my buddies that does a lot of patching etc for VDR and understands this way more than I ever could to get a MVP hehe, he is drooling over mine now.  And I can get him to help us out on this.  He would understand it a lot more and understands GUI etc on the stuff.

I understand completely, I don't see the need for a now/next but seeing what is on right now would be nice.  I never have been real fond of the built in EPG for VDR, I of course like YAEPG!   I wouldn't think more than 24 hours would be needed due to the fact you aren't recording on the device.  Even 8 hours would be plenty.  Cuz really why would you need to see what is on all day, it isn't something you can do anything about!   Or even 12 hours max if it uses less memory etc.  Didn't know how things worked, like with Streamdev-Client when it syncs the EPG if it is constantly pulling from the Server or if it pulls down a certain amount.  Just doing a simple well I say simple!   but display on the channel gui like most of the skins do showing a current and next there would be all that I would see beneficial on that when you press OK or whatnot. 

Well if there is anything I can help test or whatnot let me know.  Since I am NTSC!  Obviously I am sure a 16:9 feature would be nice for those that have it.

Thanks for the response.

Most likely it is your network causing the issue.  Keep in mind and Chris correct me if I am wrong, you are streaming a full MPEG 1 stream, which is pretty heft in bandwidth.  Would be very sweet if you could somehow using VLC or whatever compress and rebroadcast the bandwidth down for lower network links.  Would make a sweet set-top box for streaming.  I currently use VLC to stream my live tv to work sometimes when I work late.  Would be cool to have some sort of set-top solution for that.  But I am sure that would be much more involved to control the bandwidth output.  But so far I haven't had any pixelation problems doing livetv or recordings since the fix.  But I am on a 100mb network.

Now that you have accomplished fixing the recording playback etc.  What are you working on next?  How hard would it be to implement OSD or a Timeline for when you Pause etc.  And what would be involved in some sort of Guide implementation to sync with the VDR EPG.  I know you put the OSD in there for a reason.  Just didn't know what was involved in getting the sync to take place. 

Thanks again for all you have done and all your efforts to make it work for everyone.  It works great with VDR 1.3.30 and playback on recordings is now flawless.

Ya I agree totally, in fact using Mplayer all I ever do is the skip stuff.  Would be nice to somehow incorporate the skipping into the arrow keys like Mplayer does.  Left/Right for every 10seconds and Up/Down for 1min or however.  But dunno what is involved in that.  Then definately wouldn't need rewind. 

But ya it is working great so far.  I updated my howto on my site for everything.  Thank you again for your persistance in fixing the issues I was having with it. 

And your tone of voice sounds like you might not have Mplayer by tomorrow?  What's the deal!   Hehe

Sweet bud, yup the channel list shows up properly now, great find!  Also recordings does look much more stable now!  Didn't know that was gonna be a client side fix cool!  Honestly haven't played with volume yet just have it going into the video in of my monitor hehe.  Till I got channels working properly was no reason to hook to tv!  

So yes channels show up now!  Thank you.  Slow to list but that is fine!
Recordings playback without the blotchyness happening.

One thing I noticed though, I can fastforward but can't rewind?  Pause works fine too just no rewind.  I know you have the skip buttons, etc maybe it isn't supposed to work, and that is just fine.  Just noticed FF works so figured RW should!  No biggie.  Other than that, appears to be working great!  Thank you for all the work you put into it! 

Now if we can just get Mplayer working by tomorrow we will be set!  LMAO j/k, I know it will take time hehe.

Thanks again!

Cool will check out the client and see if we can goof with it, thanks a ton for the fix, can't wait to try it.  If your buddy figures out the demuxer on recording playback then we are set.  The only other features I would love to see which is why I was interested in the source, was what we talked about before on the mplayer etc.  The other plugins do it, so if we can get that capability back then we have a full fledged client!  I know you said that it would be tricky so don't expect it to be an overnight thing!   But still think you have the best GUI etc.  Thank you for taking the time and sharing it with us.  If there is anything I can do just let me know.  Will keep an eye out for the new dongle.