On Sun, 06 May 2018 12:28:29 +0200 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Peter Suetterlin wrote:
It does have nice features (also) for live view (timeshift, epg browsers etc) but I mostly use it for recording, (automatic) detection of advertising blocks and then watching after cutting those out....
Pretty much the same here. 98% recording, 2% live TV - news and such. I don't use the automatic detection of ads, ISTR having problems with it in the beginning. Also, it doesn't work for HD.
Clear 'yes' for VDR. The program (noad) is external though, but called after each recording ends, and it can handle HD (some claim latest version should even handle UHD when compiled with latest ffmpeg).
I think the ad detection does work with HD, it's the cutting that doesn't. Something to do with ffmpeg and h264. I have not looked at in any detail, I could well be mistaken. h264 licensing?
TBH, most of what we watch have very fixed advertising lengths - popular programmes, 4 minutes, then less depending on popularity. Old re-runs in the middle of the night have just 1minute or less :-) When we watch, it's so easy to skip - 4, cursor right.
Yep, that would be fine. Well, it depends, but a more European outlook would be useful. With MythTV, the lack of audio language selection and the minor inability to really cope with thousands of channels is, well, a slight nuisance.
Depends on wether you want to add new channels automatically or not. Channel list is a text file you can edit and sort (or do in running VDR). I only have some 50+ channels (Astra) in my active list...
I do a rescan every so often, the complete list is around 4000, stored in mysql. Most are not used of course, I'm sure the active list is also less than 50. (we watch Swiss, German and British telly mostly). afaik, mythtv does not have a concept of active/inactive channels.
I would like to have a look, but I struggle to find the time to play with it. It's bad enough with mythtv.
That's why I pointed to those two. Especially MLD can be run from a USB stick. So you have a quick way of looking without having to struggle with installation etc.
Aha, interesting. I've got plenty of DVB hardware, although I would have to move a coax. Well, that's still doable. uh wait, I guess I would not be able to use the mythtv frontend :-)
What kind of frontend do you use with VDR? For MythTV, the Raspi seems to be gaining popularity, the H264 decoder is apparently easily fast enough for HD without stutter/jitter. I'm very tempted to try out a Raspi next time (when I finally upgrade).
I'm using VDR 'directly', i.e., with plugins for display.
So all just on one box? It would have been difficult to put all the hardware in the livingroom, so I have two receiver backends down in the basement, only a frontend in the livingroom.
I've been using softhddevice so far (for vdpau/nvidia), but that one is no longer in active development. Now it's vaapidevice (for intel CPU integrated GPUs). That way you have a huge choice of themes for the OSD.
I have tried getting vaapi to work, but because my entire setup is way back-level, I never managed. Yet another reason for upgrading. Soon.
You can run VDR on the Pi directly, too. There's display plugins for this, too (rpihddevice IIRC).
You can also run it as backend for kodi, but are missing a lot of capabilities that way I'm told. Never really tried it. Kodi of course runs on Pi, too.
I have tried Kodi too, but I also miss a lot of functionaity compared to the native MythTV GUI.
I don't know if you have this - on British telly, a couple of years ago, they started adding a 10min break into movies, right in the middle. Some blurb about the latest movie news or whatever. This means a movie will now have two sections, the first and the last. In the EPG, the two sections are the same - title, subtitle, description. This genuinely screws up a lot recordings.
That's what noad is for. I think it should also detect those breaks (it looks for things like station logo vanishing, volume level changes, IIRC also changes of aspect ratio). Or do you really mean two different EPG entries where only one would be recorded?
Yes, it's two separate EPG entries, with a third in the middle. What normally happens is that I get two recordings - #1 on the regular channel, #2 on the +1h channel. Never the 2nd half :-( I am certain it's being done precisely to upset recorders.
It doesn't cause any problem for standard UK DVRs using Youview or whatever. Maybe they have special-case logic or something but ours just records the two halves automatically as separate recordings. AIUI, mythtv uses xmltv for its EPG-related functions? I just installed that and played with it, but tv_grab_uk_bleb doesn't even grab all the freeview channels! It misses pick and some others (probably a whole multiplex, I haven't checked). So does mythtv have some other method of choosing recordings for pick? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org