Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2008-03-17 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:12:49PM +0100, Halim Sahin wrote: Hi Werner and List, On Mi, Mär 07, 2007 at 04:36:12 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: Beside a small problem of Video underruns during change from AC3 to Mpeg-Audio and at the start of a replay, I see no problems. At least the

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2008-03-15 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi Werner and List, On Mi, Mär 07, 2007 at 04:36:12 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: Beside a small problem of Video underruns during change from AC3 to Mpeg-Audio and at the start of a replay, I see no problems. At least the problem with broken Mpeg-Audio frames are gone. Hopefully I've

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-03-07 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:42:11PM +, Morfsta wrote: Hi Werner, Were there problems? Beside a small problem of Video underruns during change from AC3 to Mpeg-Audio and at the start of a replay, I see no problems. At least the problem with broken Mpeg-Audio frames are gone. Hopefully

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-03-07 Thread VDR User
On 3/7/07, Dr. Werner Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AC3 loop through sound card http://bitstreamout.sourceforge.net/ Howto http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=1958 German language howtos are useless to all us english-speaking vdr users (and there are a LOT of us!). Perhaps

[vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-03-04 Thread Morfsta
Hi Werner, Were there problems? Morfsta On 2/23/07, Dr. Werner Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:18:11PM +, Morfsta wrote: Hi Werner, Any idea when you will be able to release the new firmware for testing? I'm just testing the stuff in real live on my

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-23 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:18:11PM +, Morfsta wrote: Hi Werner, Any idea when you will be able to release the new firmware for testing? I'm just testing the stuff in real live on my productions system ;) Knock on wood that this stays stable ... Werner -- Having a smoking

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-22 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:12:43PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Actually, I don't know how this is done in the case of a FF card and what the firmware has to do in this regard. A guess -- which could explain the issues you see -- would be that sync is not maintained continuously. So after

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-22 Thread Kartsa
Halim Sahin kirjoitti: This has been very illuminating. Maybe I made some mistake with the logging because there really is no TS continuity error in the log. I definitely have -l 3 on commandline (just checked with ps -ef). And I Under debian Systems you must look in to /var/log/syslog

[vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-22 Thread Morfsta
Hi Werner, Any idea when you will be able to release the new firmware for testing? Kind Regards, Morfsta On 2/22/07, Dr. Werner Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the next firmware I've added a dectection of such an unrecoverable audio decoder error to restart the audio decoder as fast as

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-22 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:12:43PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Actually, I don't know how this is done in the case of a FF card and what the firmware has to do in this regard. A guess -- which could explain the issues you see -- would be that sync is not

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-20 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Reinhard Nissl wrote: Please provide me some of these files which were dumped in the middle of a recording. If size matters, you may reduce the number of packets to 100. I had a look into the files you've provided me. It looks like some TS packets get lost. You can simply check this on

[vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-20 Thread Morfsta
OK, so Karsta and I are suffering dropped TS packets. I know for sure that my DVB-T signal is not perfect so it is likely to occasionally lose some TS packets (freeview in the UK is susceptible to all sorts of interference from cars, motorbikes, DECT, etc) however, saying there is nothing that we

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-20 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Morfsta wrote: OK, so Karsta and I are suffering dropped TS packets. I know for sure that my DVB-T signal is not perfect so it is likely to occasionally lose some TS packets (freeview in the UK is susceptible to all sorts of interference from cars, motorbikes, DECT, etc) however, saying

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-19 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: Hi, Kartsa wrote: So I would like to raise this one up again. After applying the two changes (dsyslog(TS continuity error (%d), ccCounter) and { *FrameSize = 0; dsyslog(cAudioRepacker: FrameSize == 0); } in remux.c) I still get these lines in log (and -l 3 in vdr

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-19 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: My log is actually full of these. The attached patch adds a TS packet logger to cAudioRepacker, which stores the last 1000 TS packets that led to synchronization of cAudioRepacker into a file to /video. In your logfile you'll then find lines like the following: Feb 19

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-19 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: My log is actually full of these. The attached patch adds a TS packet logger to cAudioRepacker, which stores the last 1000 TS packets that led to synchronization of cAudioRepacker into a file to /video. In your logfile you'll then find lines like the following: Feb 19

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-18 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: So I would like to raise this one up again. After applying the two changes (dsyslog(TS continuity error (%d), ccCounter) and { *FrameSize = 0; dsyslog(cAudioRepacker: FrameSize == 0); } in remux.c) I still get these lines in log (and -l 3 in vdr startup) vdr: [3600]

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-04 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Kartsa wrote: I also applied both of those changes and have not yet seen either of the errors in the log. I do have thosa same log entrys as morfsta especially if I have more than two recordings going on while I am watching a previous recording. \\Kartsa Morfsta kirjoitti: I

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-04 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: I also applied both of those changes and have not yet seen either of the errors in the log. I do have thosa same log entrys as morfsta especially if I have more than two recordings going on while I am watching a previous recording. \\Kartsa Morfsta kirjoitti:

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-03 Thread Kartsa
I also applied both of those changes and have not yet seen either of the errors in the log. I do have thosa same log entrys as morfsta especially if I have more than two recordings going on while I am watching a previous recording. \\Kartsa Morfsta kirjoitti: I lose sync on live tv as well

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: Hi! The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync problems for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? Oh, well. Turns out that I had somehow failed to install the new firmware properly.

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Ville Rannikko kirjoitti: Hi! The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync problems for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? I was just watching an Idols Extra recorded today and there were multiple out of

Re: [vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-02-01 Thread Kartsa
Reinhard Nissl kirjoitti: If you can reproduce this behaviour, would you please activate the following line in remux.c: dsyslog(TS continuity error (%d), ccCounter); I will try with the recording if the problem reappears and then activate that line. The cRepacker messages might be a

[vdr] FF card AV sync problems, possible fix to VDR (fwd)

2007-01-31 Thread Ville Rannikko
Hi! The newest firmware for FF cards did not completely fix the AV desync problems for me. Can you provide a sample recording where A/V sync fails with the current firmware? Oh, well. Turns out that I had somehow failed to install the new firmware properly. My test patch is possibly