Re: vdr atsc support

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Hi all.

В Пт, 25/03/2016 в 13:39 -0700, Timothy D. Lenz пишет:
> 
> On 3/25/2016 11:55 AM, Joerg Bornkessel wrote:
> > 
> > Am 24.03.2016 um 07:35 schrieb Mika Laitio:
> > > 
> > > Does anybody know whether there is a working ATSC vdr-plugin
> > > available somewhere?
> > > 
> > > I found some old discussions from the some ATSC plug-in from the
> > > mailing list pointing to http://www.fepg.org/ but from those I
> > > got
> > > an impression that plug-in is not actively maintained?
> > > 
> > > So fat I have tested that I can scan and look the channels fine
> > > with the Kaffeine and WinTV-HVR-950Q, but in the long run I would
> > > be more interested on running the VDR in normal way on background
> > > server.
> > > 
> > > Mika
> > > 
> > ATSC is supported in the Core VDR.
> > Iam kontakted the Maintainer Alex Lasnier a lot of month ago for an
> > update for the
> > vdr-plugin-atscepg
> > This plugin is definitely dead on upstream since 2010 and is not
> > supported by the Maintainer anymore.
> > Anyway...
> > The maintainer has give me access to his privat git for some local
> > fixes by him self.
> > I dont remeber for this link.
> > You can download the latest version atscepg-0.3.0 from fepg.org
> > and you need an aditional patch from my dev webspace to get the
> > latest
> > fixes from him.
> > 
> > https://dev.gentoo.org/~hd_brummy/distfiles/atscepg-0.3.0_vdr-1.7.1
> > 3.tbz
> > 
> > also you have to disable -std=c++11 support on latest gcc versions
> > to
> > fix c++11 issues on compiletime.
> > 
> > I have this tested only for compile as i dont have access to atsc
> > conten
> > t.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > /dev/joerg
> > _______________________________________________
> I have been using this plugin for years. Haven't touched the computer
> in 
> years as far as updating kernal or vdr. It says the version for ATSC 
> 0.3.0hg. I think the main use of the plugin is channel scanning to
> find 
> what channels are active. But For me it segfaults 95% of the time.
> Seems 
> like maybe something in the stream. Because every so often, It works 
> just fine. I can scan over and over no problem. But most of the time
> it 
> segfaults as soon as you tell it to scan.

For channels scan you can try my fork of reelchannelscan plugin, I use
it with vdr-2.2.0. I can't receive ATSC, so it's not tested. See on
russian forum:
http://linuxdvb.org.ru/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=27266#post27266


> 
> Another problem I have here in Tucson is the broadcasters don't know 
> what a standard is. There is some flag the don't set to tell vdr
> there 
> is guide data, so it's not collected even though a cheap converter
> box 
> has no problem with it. But then they are doing good to put up more
> then 
> a day or 2 of data anyway and PBS for awhile put in stream what was 
> posted at all the web sites, but then made up their own guide and
> you 
> had to go to a local web site to get the real guide.
> 
> Also, several of our channels are broadcast from 2 locations on 
> different frequencys, but carry the same data. VDR doesn't know how
> to 
> handle that, so you have to delete one of the entries. My old sony
> tv 
> and others have the same problem. They see the second copy and pick
> some 
> new number based on the frequancy number instead of the assigned
> number. 
> A bit of a pain. Looks like it might be fixed in newer high end tv's 
> (and the old cheap converter box also had no problem with dupe
> channel 
> numbers.)
> 

For channels with same pids you can try my patch, see
http://linuxdvb.org.ru/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=26833#post2683



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