2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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This is a DVB Frontend Status Monitor plugin for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).
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Written by: R o l f . A h r e n b e r g @ s c i . f i
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Project's homepage: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/
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Latest version available at: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/femon/
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See the file COPYING for license information.
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Requirements:
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2004-06-11 03:20:00 +02:00
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VDR & DVB. BMW & Ph.D.. BEER. YARRR!
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2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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Description:
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2004-03-03 03:20:00 +01:00
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DVB Frontend Status Monitor is a plugin that displays some signal information
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parameters of the current tuned channel on OSD. You can zap through all your
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channels and the plugin should be monitoring always the right frontend. The
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2004-05-31 03:20:00 +02:00
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transponder and stream information are also available in advanced display modes.
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User can switch between different display modes by pressing 'OK' key.
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2004-03-03 03:20:00 +01:00
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2004-06-06 03:20:00 +02:00
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The plugin is based on a neat console frontend status monitor application
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called 'femon' by Johannes Stezenbach (see DVB-apps/szap/femon.c for further
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information). The other parts of plugin code are borrowed from the excellent
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'OSD Picture-In-Picture' plugin by Sascha Volkenandt and Andreas Regel. The
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bitrate calculation algorithm originates from the 'dvbstream' application by
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2004-05-31 03:20:00 +02:00
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Dave Chapman and the stream information routines from the 'libdvb' library by
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Metzler Brothers.
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2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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2004-06-11 03:20:00 +02:00
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Terminology:
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--------------------------------------------------------------
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|## Channel Name ############################# DD 16:9 PAL ##|
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|[=====Signal Strength in % =============|=================]|
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|[=====Signal-to-Noise Ratio in % ========|=================]|
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| STR: #0000 (0%) BER: #00000000 Video: 0 Mbit/s |
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| SNR: #0000 (0%) UNC: #00000000 Audio: 0 kbit/s |
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| [LOCK] [SIGNAL] [CARRIER] [VITERBI] [SYNC] |
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--------------------------------------------------------------
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STR - Signal strength
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SNR - Signal-to-noise ratio
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BER - Bit error rate
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UNC - Uncorrected blocks
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Video - Calculated video bitrate in Mbit/s
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Audio - Calculated audio / AC-3 bitrate in kbit/s (only first PID)
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LOCK - Everything's working...
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SIGNAL - Found something above the noise level
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CARRIER - Found a DVB signal
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VITERBI - FEC (forward error correction) is stable
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SYNC - Found sync bytes
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Installation:
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cd /put/your/path/here/VDR/PLUGINS/src
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tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-femon-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
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ln -s femon-X.Y.Z femon
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cd /put/your/path/here/VDR
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make
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make plugins
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./vdr -Pfemon
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Notes:
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2004-03-03 03:20:00 +01:00
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- The plugin supports only those DVB cards with _one_ frontend (do any cards
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with multiple frontends even exist?), because I haven't yet figured howto do
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it without patching the VDR core.
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2004-02-15 03:20:00 +01:00
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- Sometimes (read always) ttxtsubs plugin messes up the OSD - user should disable
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2004-03-03 03:20:00 +01:00
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ttxtsubs, but closing and reopening the femon plugin might help temporarily as
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well. Btw., this same thing happens with OSDTeletext plugin too :)
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2004-05-31 03:20:00 +02:00
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- Disable the stream analyze to speed up heavy zapping sessions.
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