Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread C.Y.M
Udo Richter wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> Utilizing mpegpes is really the best of >> both worlds. We would still be using the video output on the FF card >> but having >> software to process the actual mpeg decoding. There would be no >> transcoding >> involved because obviously the recording would al

Re: [vdr] How to record H.264 stream in VDR?

2006-10-21 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, dvb wrote: No luck with this patch (1.4.1 & 1.4.3) :( they(tv company) use MPEG2 ID in H.264 stream PID found: 512 (0x0200) [PES: ITU-T Rec. H.262 | ISO/IEC 13818-2 or ISO/IEC 11172-2 video stream] Oct 20 18:40:09 testbox vdr: [17201] switching to channel 11 Oct 20 18:40:39 testbox v

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
C.Y.M wrote: ... [ problem with A/V desync ] I would have to say that this is exactly the same thing I have been experiencing for years and years. But, this never happens with budget cards.. only FF cards. I'm not sure what you mean here. Budget cards can't replay, so it's clear that this prob

Re: [vdr] vdr 1.4.1 can't play old recordings???

2006-10-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Harald Milz wrote: Harald Milz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been upgrading to 1.4.1 last May, then rebuilt my VDR lately. It seems it can't playback older recordings (pre-1.4.1) any more. The sound is stuttering heavily, and it looks as if audio were entirely out of sync. The ... and way t

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread C.Y.M
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> ... [ problem with A/V desync ] >> I would have to say that this is exactly the same thing I have been >> experiencing >> for years and years. But, this never happens with budget cards.. only >> FF cards. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Budget cards

[vdr] Re: FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Morfsta
> If the answer to this question could be discovered, then problem solved.  So,> what you are suggesting is VDR is not doing something that mplayer is doing that> fixes the problem.  Hmm... so then it is not a driver or firmware issue > after all?? Could we agree that much? :) This has been bac

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
C.Y.M wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: C.Y.M wrote: ... [ problem with A/V desync ] I would have to say that this is exactly the same thing I have been experiencing for years and years. But, this never happens with budget cards.. only FF cards. I'm not sure what you mean here. Budget cards can

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread C.Y.M
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>> C.Y.M wrote: ... [ problem with A/V desync ] I would have to say that this is exactly the same thing I have been experiencing for years and years. But, this never happens with budget cards.. only FF ca

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Oct 2006, at 11:36, C.Y.M wrote: I think that Udo has brought up a very good point about why mplayer is "immune" to the a/v desync problem when just using mpegpes to forward the video to the FF dvb card. What VDR sends to the FF DVB card *is* MPEG-PES. I wouldn't know what to do

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Oliver Endriss
Udo Richter wrote: > Tero Siironen wrote: > > However, like Pasi Juppo told earlier in other thread, in last weeks episode > > of Lost there was many fadeout-fadeins between scenes and a/v desync > > happened on every one of these. > > I've 'heard of such problems' on ATV+ and Lost. Whenever there

[vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-21 Thread Glyn Edwards
Hi, I've got VDR (1.4.3) running on a machine by my TV and have just been playing with the xineliboutput plugin to stream vdr over the network. Everything works well on its own but I'd like to be able to have someone watching TV on one channel via the dxr3 and someone else watching a recording on

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Glyn Edwards ha escrit: > Hi, > > I've got VDR (1.4.3) running on a machine by my TV and have just been > playing with the xineliboutput plugin to stream vdr over the network. > Everything works well on its own but I'd like to be able to have someone > watching TV on one channel via the dxr3

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-21 Thread Glyn Edwards
> I don't know how xineliboutput works, but I'm currently using a dxr3 and > xine (with the network patches). When xine is used (i.e. the client > connects) it becomes the primary device and there's no more output on > the dxr3, when xine disconnects output resumes on the dxr3. > If you want to se

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Udo Richter
C.Y.M wrote: If the answer to this question could be discovered, then problem solved. So, what you are suggesting is VDR is not doing something that mplayer is doing that fixes the problem. Hmm... so then it is not a driver or firmware issue after all?? Could we agree that much? :) I wou

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Glyn Edwards ha escrit: > Streamdev isn't quite what I want since you need a whole vdr install on > the client as well. I suppose you could run both instances (one with streamdev-server and the other with streamdev-client) on the server. Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Pa

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Pasi Juppo
Udo Richter wrote: > C.Y.M wrote: >> If the answer to this question could be discovered, then problem >> solved. So, >> what you are suggesting is VDR is not doing something that mplayer is >> doing that >> fixes the problem. Hmm... so then it is not a driver or firmware >> issue >> after all

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Chad Flynt
I will chime in again and also state this has nothing to do with 1 particular channel. This, at least in North America, happens no matter what channel it is on. I can't recall any live TV ever being affected, but every recording I have has desync issues if I play straight through VDR on a FF

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Udo Richter
Pasi Juppo wrote: How come you make the conclusion that this is limited to one specific channel? To my understanding there are multiple channels where this problem occurs. Just talking about the case that I've reported. I experience such issues only very rarely, and mostly related to bad recep

Re: [vdr] Can xineliboutput and dxr3 coexist?

2006-10-21 Thread Udo Richter
Glyn Edwards wrote: I've got VDR (1.4.3) running on a machine by my TV and have just been playing with the xineliboutput plugin to stream vdr over the network. Everything works well on its own but I'd like to be able to have someone watching TV on one channel via the dxr3 and someone else watchin

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread C.Y.M
>> My theory is that since audio is typically 600ms ahead of video, maybe >> the audio buffers run over. Strange thing is why this happens >> reproducible on blackness. Maybe due to extremely low bit rate in this >> situation, more frames get packed into one data block, causing data flow >> to

[vdr] xinelibout Overscan doesn't work with local frontend

2006-10-21 Thread Jussi A
Seems that when runnin xinelibout with local frontend Overscan crop doesn't work. If I run remote frontend vdr-sxfe it crops just right. I'm running vdr-1.4.3-2 and xineliboutput-1.0.0pre6 -P"xineliboutput --local=sxfe --video=xv --remote=37890" -- Jussi

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 Oct 2006, at 20:22, C.Y.M wrote: Yes, it still happens on every firmware revision. But, I really dont think this is a firmware issue as much as it is a VDR one. There must be several ways to approach this problem but the best way would be an open source solution IMHO. If mplayer

Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-21 Thread Chad Flynt
C.Y.M wrote: My theory is that since audio is typically 600ms ahead of video, maybe the audio buffers run over. Strange thing is why this happens reproducible on blackness. Maybe due to extremely low bit rate in this situation, more frames get packed into one data block, causing data flow to