cliver;611241 Wrote: > I also don't know how DVB-t should behave but I would imagine any system > designed for ota transmission should be designed to cope with signal > dropouts. This is the behaviour that VLC is demonstrating as it seems > quite happy to carry on. > Is it possible that the problem is with sbs not dealing effectivly with > the errors/drop outs and closing the playing stream down when it sees > these errors? Since this is a broadcast system - a proper DVB player has to continue when it gets errors in a stream. However if the DVB player gets no signal I would expect it to shutdown after a reasonable time. I expect VLC's handling of DVB to be reasonable as it has been around for about 4-5 years and in use around the world.
You could actively test to see if DVB errors can interrupt VLC. Start by playing a DVB station through speakers and then test by removing and reinserting the aerial connection. Initially - remove the connection and see how long before VLC stops or takes some other action (e.g. crash, hang). Then trying removing and replace aerial within a few seconds. Do this repeatedly (say 3-5 times) as this will create errors that should exercise the VLC and then leave cable in to see if VLC recovers and plays streams. IF VLC is OK with above tested then try to get/make a dodgy cable so that by wiggling the cable - the breaks in signal will be fractions of a secs. Again do lots of this and leave signal connected and then repeat. See whether VLC play stations OK at the end. You could compare the behaviour and handling of faults by VLC with a proper DVB player which came with Hauppauge card or perhaps MCE. This sort of testing can be very wearing as for all your efforts it can seem that you are not making progress and you get frustrated. In which case I would advise taking a break from testing for a few days and perhaps make do with the http/MP3 solution in the interim. BTW - I retested VLC 0.9.6 and logfile gets all the debug message but only if there is a "--extraintf logger" which means it still does not work when called from VLCPlay/SBS. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21804 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
