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Thread: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    This is the recipe:

    a) Nvidia drivers 185.8.4
    a) ffmpeg as per in this thread
    b) xine-lib-1.2 from svn + vdpau patch for xine-lib-1.2
    in configure do use --prefix=/usr and --enable-external-ffmpeg

    voila, vdpau!

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Quote Originally Posted by art2003 View Post
    This is the recipe:

    a) Nvidia drivers 185.8.4
    a) ffmpeg as per in this thread
    b) xine-lib-1.2 from svn + vdpau patch for xine-lib-1.2
    in configure do use --prefix=/usr and --enable-external-ffmpeg

    voila, vdpau!
    As Mr. Burns always says, excellent!

    I tried with xine-ui and it works perfectly. Now I'll give a shot to oxine.

    By the way, I don't undertstand this:
    sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools ffmpeg flac mount
    ffmpeg is installed before. Could be dangerous reinstalling it from apt?

    My steps in addition to your how-to are:

    for ffmpeg
    sudo -s
    apt-get install libx264-dev libmp3lame-dev # these dependencies are missing in your tutorial
    ./configure --enable-shared --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-swscale --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libxvid
    for xinelib
    cd /usr/local/src
    apt-get install libcdio-dev libvcdinfo-dev
    hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib-1.2
    wget http://www.jusst.de/vdpau/files/xine...-r261.diff.bz2
    bunzip2 xine-lib-1.2-vdpau-r261.diff.bz2
    cd xine-lib-1.2
    patch -p1 < ../xine-lib-1.2-vdpau-r261.diff
    cd ..
    wget http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...071007.tar.bz2
    tar xivf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
    mv essential-20071007 /usr/local/lib/win32
    ln -s /usr/local/lib/win32 /usr/local/lib/codecs
    cd xine-lib
    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-dxr3 --enable-w32dll --with-w32-path=/usr/local/lib/win32
    make -j6
    checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=libxine2-dev --pkgversion "1.2.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3"
    ldconfig -v
    I used checkinstall, because it builds a deb package, so everything could be easly uninstalled.

    @everyone
    Don't download the vdpau patch for xinelib directly from the link above.
    The manteiner keeps the patch update with the xinelib main version. Just have a look to his page:
    http://www.jusst.de/vdpau/files/xine-lib-1.2/?C=M;O=D
    and download the latest patch.
    Last edited by Sav; May 3rd, 2009 at 07:10 PM. Reason: missing text

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Quote Originally Posted by boba23 View Post
    hey art,

    thanks for the reply.
    I got vdr now basically up and running. I got trouble compiling ca.c though. I am on Jaunty, and get the following error when trying to compile:

    $ gcc -O -fbuiltin -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -shared -o ca.so ca.c -ldl
    ca.c:106: error: expected â,â or â;â before â{â token
    ca.c: In function âcactlâ:
    ca.c:233: error: expected expression before â<â token

    any ideas?

    boba
    try

    gcc -march=pentium -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -funroll-loops -fPIC -shared -o ca.so ca.c -ldl

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Thanks for your input, I have added your contributions to the first page

    Yes, no point in installing ffmpeg, that was a typo.

    As a front-end I found near perfection using mms and oxine

    The main menu is oxine
    The entries are:
    Play TV (replaced internal viewer with external script for vdpau)
    DVD Menu->
    1) Use Internal DVD player (no volume control in OSS)
    2) Use MPLAYER as external DVD player (no subtitles)
    Play Movie-> External script calling on MMS
    Other
    System
    Shutdown

    Quote Originally Posted by Sav View Post
    As Mr. Burns always says, excellent!

    I tried with xine-ui and it works perfectly. Now I'll give a shot to oxine.

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Hello!

    Very good post, I hope I can complete it by the weekend.

    I've already started and found some problems with lirc.
    With the button mapping shown in first post, I have several dead keys:

    Go, Pictures, Back/Exit, Ok, Prev.Ch, FFwd, FRew, * and #

    If I use the configuration file found at linuxtv.org for HVR-4000, every button works.

    Here how it looks:

    PHP Code:

    begin remote

      name  Hauppauge
    -HVR4000-Remote
      bits           16
      eps            30
      aeps          100

      one             0     0
      zero            0     0
      pre_data_bits   16
      pre_data       0x8001
      gap          133325
      toggle_bit_mask 0x8001001C

          begin codes
              Power                    0x0074
              Go                       0x0161
              TV                       0x0179
              Video                    0x0189
              Music                    0x0188
              Pictures                 0x016F
              Guide                    0x016D
              Radio                    0x0181
              Up                       0x0067
              Down                     0x006C
              Left                     0x0069
              Right                    0x006A
              OK                       0x001C
              Back
    /Exit                0x00AE
              Menu                     0x008B
              PrevCh                   0x019C
              Mute                     0x0071
              Vol
    +                     0x0073
              Vol
    -                     0x0072
              Ch
    +                      0x0192
              Ch
    -                      0x0193
              Rec                      0x00A7
              Stop                     0x0080
              Play                     0x00CF
              Pause                    0x0077
              Rewind                   0x00A8
              Forward                  0x00D0
              Replay                   0x00A5
              Skip                     0x00A3
              1                        0x0002
              2                        0x0003
              3                        0x0004
              4                        0x0005
              5                        0x0006
              6                        0x0007
              7                        0x0008
              8                        0x0009
              9                        0x000A
              0                        0x000B
              Text                     0x0184
              Sub
    /CC                   0x0172
              Red                      0x018E
              Green                    0x018F
              Yellow                   0x0190
              Blue                     0x0191
          end codes

    end remote 

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Thank you Caladeira for your contribution! That's the spirit, to share your findings so together we make a cracking howto that helps others

    I have added your lircd.conf after changing the name of the buttons to preserve the naming I had employed so the name of the buttons match those used in the lirc application config files

    Indeed I had experience odd behaviour with * and # and now I see why and should be working fine.

    Quote Originally Posted by caladeira View Post
    Hello!

    Very good post, I hope I can complete it by the weekend.

    I've already started and found some problems with lirc.
    With the button mapping shown in first post, I have several dead keys:

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Follow the guide, compile your own ffmpeg, xine-lib and xine-ui staying away for this from debian packages...


    Quote Originally Posted by phjr View Post
    when I try to build vdr (i.e. run make in /usr/local/src/vdr) I get the error below; note that I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit - anybody has i
    [/code]EDIT: seems that this is a known bug in a debian package, see http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-k.../msg44521.html

    I don't know how to solve it though

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    I'm glad to help.

    I've had only a few moments to test this setup, but one thing I noticed was that the speed of key repeating.
    If you press a key for more than a little touch, you get multiple key presses.

    I'm testing with xubuntu 9.04 that already have drivers for the nova-hd-s2.
    My motherboard is a Giga-Byte GA-MA78GM-DS2H with the onboard graphics disabled and added a nvidia pcix GIGABYTE GF 8400 GS 512MB GDDR2 (GV-NX84S512HP).
    CPU is an Athlon BE-2400 and 2GB DDR2 800.
    As capture card, I only have a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-HD-S2.

    In the first post, you mention "wierbel".
    Is this scan utility already available?

    You have chose Oxine as front end.
    I didn't know it, neither MMS.
    But for what I've seen, MMS looks better and have been updated more recently.
    Have you tested MMS?

    Another difference from my setup to yours is related to the softcam.
    I'm planning to use MBOX instead of CCCam.
    I just haven't found yet a good tutorial.

    I'll post my progress here.

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    1)try my updated lircd.conf
    No multiple key presses and all keys working...

    2)wierbelscan is available, it is attached to my first post, though it scans only a handful of satellites (astra1, astra2, hotbird, sirius, 23e)
    and not dvb-s2 channels. It is mainly a DVB-S and DVB-T scanner but it supports same satellites as well as per above.

    Best scanner is w_scan by the same author, but for now from the command line

    Here you can find some channels lists produced by w_scan:
    http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.ph...nels.conf_DVBS

    I tried ubuntu 9.04 64bits and the native drivers for the nova-hd-s2 were a complete disaster, everything compiled ok but no data ever communicated between applications (vdr, w_scan) and the drivers.

    The sc plugin should help you with mbox but I think you will need to edit a config file for that purpose, but sorry, never used mbox although I have heard about it.

    Oxine or MMS?
    I use both
    Oxine as a frontend is more flexible, you can make it run any command you like, including a script that kills oxine and launches MMS for a particular task (I like MMS for playing movies from the hard drive)

    Keep us updated on your progress, it is a wonderful adventure! (and a brave thing to buy hardware you don´t know it works for certain, but hopefully it will all have a happy ending)

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    Re: HTPC DVB-S2 VDR 1.7.5 CCcam Howto

    Quote Originally Posted by art2003 View Post
    Thanks for your input, I have added your contributions to the first page

    Yes, no point in installing ffmpeg, that was a typo.

    As a front-end I found near perfection using mms and oxine

    The main menu is oxine
    The entries are:
    Play TV (replaced internal viewer with external script for vdpau)
    DVD Menu->
    1) Use Internal DVD player (no volume control in OSS)
    2) Use MPLAYER as external DVD player (no subtitles)
    Play Movie-> External script calling on MMS
    Other
    System
    Shutdown
    Using the internal player, are subtitles enabled?

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