Re: Softhddevice, 10 dupes per second

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Any hope for yavdr 0.6 soon? I presume not supporting multiple
recording directories out of the box would warrant a new version
number.

On 26 October 2015 at 17:36, Alexander Grothe
<alexander.grothe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> softhddevice does not work terribly well if you use it with a compositor
> (like compiz) for your desktop environment.
> In yaVDR a slim window manager (openbox) is used and compositing is disabled
> by default in the x-server configuration:
>
> Section "Extensions"
>   Option         "Composite"    Disabled
> EndSection
>
> If you want to use vdr 2.2.0 with yaVDR 0.5, all you have to do is to use
> the packages from yaVDR's testing PPAs (we won't copy them to stable because
> the support for multiple video directories has been dropped):
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-vdr
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-xbmc
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yavdr/testing-yavdr
>
> Create a file for apt to prefer installation of packages from these PPAs:
> --- cut ---
> # /etc/apt/preferences.d/yavdr-testing
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-vdr
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-xbmc
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-yavdr-testing-yavdr
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> --- cut ---
>
> And finally run the upgrade:
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgradeAm 26.10.2015 um 00:19
> schrieb Teemu Suikki:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was recently using Yavdr with no real problems, but now I decided to
>> build my own VDR system on top of Linux Mint. Main reason was that
>> Yavdr stable still doesn't have vdr 2.2.0..
>>
>> I've got everything working nicely, but I have weird "duped frames"
>> problem with softhhddevice. Video and audio are fine and nicely in
>> sync, and usually you can't see anything wrong. But fast moving
>> objects sometimes have "tearing" and jerky movement.
>>
>> Also if I open Softhddevice stats from the VDR main menu, I see that
>> "duped" field increases steadily maybe 9-10 per second! "dropped" and
>> "missed" stays at zero usually.
>>
>> There is nothing special on the log. Sometimes I get logs like this:
>>
>> Oct 26 01:09:42 puucee vdr: video: slow down video, duping frame
>> Oct 26 01:09:42 puucee vdr: video: 22:17:22.060  +55  311   0/\ms  23+7
>> v-buf
>> Oct 26 01:10:29 puucee vdr: video: slow down video, duping frame
>> Oct 26 01:10:29 puucee vdr: video: 22:18:09.380  +53  285   0/\ms  26+7
>> v-buf
>>
>> But as you can see, these are almost a minute apart, and the actual
>> "duped" count increased by several hundreds already during that time.
>> So this logged "duping" is normal a/v sync, what I see is something
>> different.
>>
>>
>> This is VDR 2.2.0, and quite recent softhddevice from yavdr ppa:
>> 1:0.6.1rc1.git20150924.1231-0yavdr0~trusty
>>
>> And the very same hardware worked just nicely with full yavdr install,
>> with vdr 2.0.x and some old version of softhddevice. Oh, and I have
>> nvidia GT210.
>>
>>
>
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