On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:28:53 +0200
Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 July 2006 12:42, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:28:43 +0200
> >
> > Benjamin Zores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:00:17 +0200
> > >
> > > Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > The sound on the audio out of the PVR350 is output by the MPEG
> > > > decoder of the card. There is no way of feeding it a separate
> > > > audio uncompressed (or compressed for that matter) stream. You
> > > > give it a MPEG program stream (I'm not even sure if it can handle
> > > > a transport stream) and it will demultiplex and uncompress it and
> > > > put the audio on the audio out connector.
> > >
> > > Ok, btw, which formats are supported by the decoder ?
> > > MPEG PES only ?
> > >
> > > What about AC3, MPEG1 audio, MPEG2 audio or LPCM ?
> >
> > Sorry to insist but same question again.
> > My ao/vo driver for MPlayer are almost working (fine for vo, ao needs
> > a bit more tweaking). Does the card supports h/w decoding of AC3/LPCM
> > ?
> 
> I've never tested it but I'm 99% certain that it isn't supported. Only 
> MPEG1/2 audio is supported.

That's also what i've feared.
I've tried sending nearly any combination of AC3/LPCM packets but none seemed 
to be readable.
I now need to write an MPEG audio transcoder then.

> > Can someone point me to decoder's specifications or properties ?
> 
> The cx23415/6 driver is reversed engineered, no official datasheets are 
> available. The reversed engineered documentation is available in the 
> doc directory of the driver (you probably want the fw-decoder-api.txt 
> file).

Well i wasn't looking for datasheet, just information on what the chip is 
supposed to handle.
Anyhow, thanks a lot.

Ben

-- 
"My life, and by extension everyone else's is meaningless."
Bender, Futurama

_______________________________________________
ivtv-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel

Reply via email to