Per Jessen wrote:
Peter Suetterlin wrote:
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?
might well be. In OS packman libs are mandatory, or it wouldn't work.
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.
Oh, one can live with many shortcomings. Usually until you get exposed to the better solutions :D
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.
Maybe sloppy wording on my side. Everything in the channels config is 'active', but I only keep interesting ones and remove the rest... On top of that, there's a plugin to mute epg and only allow it for selected channels. That helps a lot both for overviews, even more for timer programming...
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 :-)
Hmm, probably not. An openELEC Pi would do though (with kodi and VDR plugin vnsiserver). VDR itself also supports streaming and display-only clients (streamdev).
So all just on one box?
If you want, yes. I only have one TV and one coax anyhow. But:
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.
Sure, no issue for VDR. Headless server somewhere and clients wherever you want. I just have no experience with that myself.
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.
yes, you do need very recent libs for that to work properly. That's why my new VDR runs Tumbleweed, it's Geminilake based....
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.
Uh, nasty. No idea how to handle it right away (other than manually editing timers), but maybe there is in the more sophisticated plugins. I do remember times (from German TV) when they stopped the VPS signal for Star Trek episodes during the commercial break (it was also sent in two chunks), so my VDR (in that case, a real analog VHS unit) would stop, and continue after the break. Good old times.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org