[HOWTO] HDTV with Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) using VDR, Xine or Xineliboutput

Posted on by acme

Tips

  • If you want to grep all existing HD channels from your channels.conf you can do the following on your command line:

    cat channels.conf | grep C23M5O35S1

  • if you want only FTA and VPID != 0 channels, do this:

    cat channels.conf | egrep -iv "(test|service|radio|arab)" | awk -F":" '{ if ( $09 == 0 ) print $0 }' | awk -F":" '{ if ( $6 != 0 ) print $0 }'

    Here I also filter test, service, radio and arab stuff.

  • If you should be asked to teach in lirc command on VDR's start, add this to your /etc/default/vdr

    OPTIONS="-w 60 --lirc=/dev/null"

Known issues

  • Glitches running with windows manger. Use "xinit -e vdr-sxfe ... or xinit -e xine -f -V vdapu ... instead. Shut down your window manager first. See section Launching
  • No sound. Be sure using alsa, and the xine-ui and lib from the hotzenplotz5 PPA repository. Your installed files should look like this.
  • Video and sound stutter
    Set your CPU governor to performance, and not ondemand. Perform this on your command line:

    echo performance > $(find /sys -name "scaling_governor" )
  • Jerky pans and Tearing
    Jerky pans, or pans that are bumpy and not smooth (not frame drops or pauses). This occurs, if TV-set frequency doesn't match the actual frequency. Use a modified modline for it (Experts only!).
    Tearing. You can avoid tearing, by running xinit (see above). Search this Blog for tearing, it has useful tips in here.

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11 thoughts on “[HOWTO] HDTV with Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) using VDR, Xine or Xineliboutput”

  1. Hello acmelab68,
    Really nice Howto. I used it myself and it works great. Could you please refresh the Repositorys cause Hotzenplotz merged his Repositorys with the-vdr-team together these one are depreciated.

  3. Hello,

    I added each ppa you described, but I get always these messages:

    Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »libxine1-vdpau-plugins« passt.
    Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »nvidia-190-libvdpau« passt.
    Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »libxine1-vdpau-plugins« passt.
    Konnte kein Paket finden, dessen Name oder Beschreibung auf »nvidia-190-libvdpau« passt.

    These packages couldn’t be found. What can I do?

  4. @herman
    1) You’ve got to use now the repo from the vdr-team, like Diable mentioned. Look up here the repo you are interested in: http://www.henningpingel.de/vdrstuff/vdr_trendy_features_matrix.html

    2) If you should decide to take https://launchpad.net/~the-vdr-team/+archive/vdr-ubuntu-karmic , then there won’t be libxine1 any longer. It’s libxine2. And libvdpau is 195+ meanwhile.

    Simply perform a
    aptitude search libxine
    aptitude search libvdpau

    and install the appropriate packages.

    Good Luck

  6. @herman
    you are right. One cannot mix the versions of libxine – but the dependencies should be resolved automatically – if I remember correctly.

  7. hi
    thanz for HOWTO
    I received this error
    Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “libxine1-vdpau-plugins”
    Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “libxine1-vdpau-plugins”
    which repo should I use?

  9. I’m using on Lucid this PPA-repo:
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yavdr/testing-vdr/ubuntu lucid main
    and this is what dpkg -l | grep yavdr returns:

    root@server:~# dpkg -l | grep yavdr
ii  liblircclient-dev                    0.8.6-0yavdr6                                    infra-red remote control support - client library development fi
ii  liblircclient0                       0.8.6-0yavdr6                                    infra-red remote control support - client library
ii  libxine-dev                          1.2.0~hg20100615-0yavdr1                         the xine video player library, development packages
ii  libxine1-xvdr                        1.0.6+cvs20100602.1715-2yavdr1                   Xine input plugin for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput streams
ii  libxine2                             1.2.0~hg20100615-0yavdr1                         the xine video/media player library, binary files
ii  lirc                                 0.8.6-0yavdr6                                    infra-red remote control support
ii  vdr                                  1.7.14-8yavdr1                                   Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
ii  vdr-dev                              1.7.14-8yavdr1                                   Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
rc  vdr-plugin-burn                      0.1.0~pre22-ff1-11yavdr1                         Plugin for vdr that implements dvd conversion and writing
ii  vdr-plugin-femon                     1.7.7-3yavdr1                                    DVB frontend status monitor plugin for VDR
ii  vdr-plugin-fritzbox                  1.3.3-0yavdr1                                    VDR plugin to access certain functions of an AVM Fritz!Box
ii  vdr-plugin-skinenigmang              0.1.1-2yavdr1                                    Skin plugin for VDR
ii  vdr-plugin-skinsoppalusikka          1.7.1-3yavdr1                                    Skin plugin for vdr
ii  vdr-plugin-text2skin                 1.3.1-0yavdr1                                    Plugin to vdr that loads and views skins
rc  vdr-plugin-xine                      0.9.3-7yavdr1                                    Plugin for "software only" playback using xine
ii  vdr-plugin-xineliboutput             1.0.6+cvs20100602.1715-2yavdr1                   VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontends
ii  vdr-plugin-yaepghd                   0.0.2~beta-1yavdr2                               Rewrite for Yaepg
ii  vdr-skin-anthra-1920-os              080510-0yavdr1                                   Anthra 1920-overscan Skin for VDR's text2skin plugin
ii  vdr-skin-blackandblue-os             0.0.1-2yavdr1                                    Black and Blue Overscan Skin for VDR's text2skin plugin
ii  vdradmin-am                          3.6.7-1yavdr2                                    Web-based administration tool for vdr
ii  xineliboutput-sxfe                   1.0.6+cvs20100602.1715-2yavdr1                   Remote X-Server frontend for vdr-plugin-xineliboutput

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