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I've had this happen several times, sometimes soon after a reboot (to fix the problem). I haven't mentioned it as I was going to investigate but haven't had time. It reminds me of a problem before Chris sorted the widescreen switching (before he had a widescreen TV).

The ability to change sort order may be nice to have but *please* keep ability (preferably as default) to sort alphabetically. I usually know the title of the programme I want to watch (or my wife tells me!) so this is by far the easiest way to find it. Remembering that we recorded Prince Of Darkness on the 20th January 2006 is a bit of a tall order. (We must get round to watching those recordings from last Christmas.)

Fast forward works okay for me but pausing a fast forwarding recording fails.

Navigation of recordings with errors is much better but still fails sometimes. Blue step forward 10 seconds sometimes steps back a random amount. It seems that the first press often steps back but subsequent presses operate correctly. Letting it play a while then pressing blue again often fails again.

I have tried Red Button and was fairly impressed. I was intending to look at porting it to vomp. My kids ask for the Cbeebies games and my wife is interested in some of the channel switching interactive services. But as with everything, it is finding time and prioritising. That nice weather is looking rather nice and it's rather hard to see the screen in bright sun shine...

I replaced

  int MVPClient::processMoveRecording(UCHAR* data, int length)

with a dummy

  return 0;

and the rest compiles fine.

Recordings.Update() must be new in later versions of VDR.

I just tried compiling vompserver-0.2.3 against my VDR 1.2.6 and it fails

mvpclient.c: In member function `int MVPClient::processMoveRecording(UCHAR*,
   int)':
mvpclient.c:500: error: `::Recordings' undeclared (first use here)
make: *** [mvpclient.o] Error 1

Anyone had success with 1.2.6? vompserver-0.2.2 compiles fine.

Walt

More info on the trials:

DTT trials will be on a temporary mux broadcast at low power in London only. This will be receivable within the bounds of the North and South circular roads.

DSat and DCable will Cary HDTV coverage of World Cup and Wimbledon tournament.

Sky are also doing HDTV stuff in the UK so those with a DSat card could investigate. (Not me!)

These are the first public trials of HDTV in the UK. Developers in other countries may be able to look into this earlier.  Broadcasters in Australia were providing HDTV version of their services in July 2005 when I was there for instance.

I am looking forward to investigating the BBC DTT trials in London (if the service reaches me - I am just outside the bounds of the project).

BBC start HDTV trials in the UK mid May 2006. They will be covering the World Cup (football (soccer)). Having just read a lot of MPEG documentation and looked at how the software demuxer used in vompclient works, I will be interested to see what the mvp makes of HDTV. The current software will not handle it but I may spend some time investigating this. First thing is to ensure VDR will record the stream okay.

Welcome to the world of reduced height TV.

Widescreen switching is fine on my setup. I have the MVP straight into one of the TV SCART connectors and leave the TV set to auto mode. The MVP is set to 16:9.

When I feed a video source (like MVP or DVD) to the TV via another device (like my DTT STB which has 2 SCARTs) the TV aspect ratio switching follows what the inserted box says. (Obvious really. I don't have enough SCARTS on the TV though.)

Walt

The Channel 4 EPG problems seem to be coming from the broadcaster. I have observed this on a standalone DTT STB.

The originally reported problem I have traced and fixed but need to test further. I hope to have it ready for Chris's next dongle release.

Walt

This is reported in discussion http://www.loggytronic.com/forum/index.php?topic=111.0

I am looking into this. It should present a grey block saying No programme details available. It used to!

Watch for an update soon (I hope).

Walt

I have observed the false EPG rows also. I don't remember this happening before. Chris - any changes to that?

I had to wipe my PC so do not have a development environment installed currently but will try out Chris's new install script then have a look at the EPG problems (if you want Chris?).

I would like to see if we can speed up scrolling off the page also. I certainly tried to get it sped up during development but may see more optimisation now, months later with fresh eyes.

Walt

Chris

You could mark recordings as protected / limited access by putting entries in a conf file in the plugin directory like you do for resume points though this would need to go in a global conf file, not one per client. You could combine a global and individual client conf files to allow restrictions on which box is allowed to watch certain programmes.

I am concerned on this point myself. I intend to install a mvp in the kids play room but need to restrict the live streams and recorded programmes they can see.

Walt

I use 1.2.6. I had some problems with 1.3 (although those issues wouldn't be a problem now).  1.2.6 is still the stable version so it makes sense to use it where reliability is required. (My wife gives me a hard time if the video fails.)

Walt

I regularly observe sound and vision loosing sync. Pressing PLAY usually resynchronises but sometimes it is necessary to stop and restart playback. (Both recordings and live TV exhibit this fault). Occassionally, the sound jumps many seconds out and can only be re-syncronised by stopping and restarting.

Walt