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

2006-11-12 Thread Petri Hintukainen
I'm afraid my knowledge here is too limited. If somebody can come up with an idea of how additional timing information should be inserted in the PES data, let's hear it. I'm quite sure this is not the point to work witht. Generally I don't think that VDR should have to to anything regarding

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

2006-11-12 Thread Chad Flynt
Thanks for not giving up on this yet guys. Udo Richter wrote: Petri Hintukainen wrote: xine and/or mplayer just re-generates the pes layer. So, it have to be there ? xine has no problems with the provided samples, so I guess it must be in the PES layer re-muxing. Has anyone with the problem

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

2006-11-12 Thread Udo Richter
Udo Richter wrote: Udo Richter wrote: Tero Siironen wrote: Here is a 3 minute clip from the episode of Lost I told earlier. http://kotisivu.suomi.net/izero/lost.tar 80MB file and played ok at least with VLC v 0.8.5. and MPlayer on OS X The only disturbance I've noticed is a slight jitter in

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

2006-11-12 Thread VDR User
First, I too want to express my gratitude appreciation towards the people actively persuing a once for all fix to this problem! So what about this... Copy the mplayer code that does the PES layer and slap it into vdr just to test if the problem persists? It seems that the majority opinion is

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

2006-11-12 Thread Udo Richter
VDR User wrote: about this... Copy the mplayer code that does the PES layer and slap it into vdr just to test if the problem persists? I don't think that it is that easy. Its just educated guessing, but I assume that the mpeg data is going a long way through the mplayer core, through

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

2006-11-06 Thread Steffen Barszus
whoMAN schrieb: I'm not sure if it's been answered yet, but I thought I'd throw this out: mplayer uses either LAVC or FAME [depending on how mplayer was compiled/configured] to convert EVERYTHING to MPEG1 before it is sent to the DVB Device. In essence, it transcodes in realtime. Not too

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

2006-11-03 Thread whoMAN
I'm not sure if it's been answered yet, but I thought I'd throw this out:mplayer uses either LAVC or FAME [depending on how mplayer was compiled/configured] to convert EVERYTHING to MPEG1 before it is sent to the DVB Device. In essence, it transcodes in realtime. Not too efficient, but since

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

2006-11-03 Thread Pertti Kosunen
whoMAN wrote: mplayer uses either LAVC or FAME [depending on how mplayer was compiled/configured] to convert EVERYTHING to MPEG1 before it is sent to the DVB Device. In essence, it transcodes in realtime. It doesn't transcode MPEG2. ___ vdr

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

2006-11-03 Thread Udo Richter
whoMAN wrote: mplayer uses either LAVC or FAME [depending on how mplayer was compiled/configured] to convert EVERYTHING to MPEG1 before it is sent to the DVB Device. In essence, it transcodes in realtime. Not too efficient, but since transcoding to MPEG 1 takes little resources, most people

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

2006-10-31 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 31 Oct 2006, at 13:36, C.Y.M wrote: But I guess they decode the PES stream into two ES streams with additional timing, and re-pack it to a new PES stream. Guessing doesn't really help, maybe you should ask on the mplayer mailing list what they do with recorded vdr files? -- Torgeir

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

2006-10-31 Thread VDR User
If this were a firmware/driver problem then wouldn't the problem exist regardless of the playback software? The fact that vdr has playback sync problems whereas mplayer doesn't when playing back the same file suggests it's a vdr problem... But this has already been covered. On 10/30/06, Oliver

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

2006-10-30 Thread Oliver Endriss
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Udo Richter wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Morfsta wrote: I second that, please don't let it drop again.. Is anyone actually working on this, Klaus, Oliver, ANYONE? I'm not working on this, because ATM I wouldn't know what to do. Any comments on C.Y.M's

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

2006-10-29 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
Udo Richter wrote: Klaus Schmidinger wrote: Morfsta wrote: I second that, please don't let it drop again.. Is anyone actually working on this, Klaus, Oliver, ANYONE? I'm not working on this, because ATM I wouldn't know what to do. Any comments on C.Y.M's point that PCR should be

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

2006-10-24 Thread Joerg Knitter
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually most of what I watch are recordings ;-) and don't even remember

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

2006-10-24 Thread Joerg Knitter
Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 24 Oct 2006, at 12:44, C.Y.M wrote: Somehow, mplayer is able to detect the areas in the VDR recordings that need extra padding to keep the sync. There must be some kind of pattern in the data that the player recognizes and it knows it must insert a null frame. How

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

2006-10-24 Thread Steffen Barszus
Torgeir Veimo schrieb: On 24 Oct 2006, at 12:44, C.Y.M wrote: Somehow, mplayer is able to detect the areas in the VDR recordings that need extra padding to keep the sync. There must be some kind of pattern in the data that the player recognizes and it knows it must insert a null frame.

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

2006-10-23 Thread Guy Roussin
if i make this, the file play fine (vdr ffcard) : mv 001.vdr _001.vdr mv index.vdr _index.vdr mplayer -vo mpegpes:001.vdr -ao mpegpes 001.vdr genindex But now the file 001.vdr is 100Mb ! Am I doing something wrong? I dont seem to have any sound.. also if you move 001.vdr to

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

2006-10-23 Thread Joerg Knitter
Udo Richter wrote: Just talking about the case that I've reported. I experience such issues only very rarely, and mostly related to bad reception. The reported issue related to blackness is very specific to this channel. Do you mean that this is e.g. just related to ATV+? Does Lost on

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

2006-10-23 Thread Mattia Rossi
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:49:38 +0200 Joerg Knitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Udo Richter wrote: Just talking about the case that I've reported. I experience such issues only very rarely, and mostly related to bad reception. The reported issue related to blackness is very specific to this

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

2006-10-23 Thread Lauri Tischler
Richard Scobie wrote: Adding my 2 cents, in the hope that others more knowledgable may be able to reproduce the problem. Using a Nexus S 2.1 with the latest beta firmware, I find I lose audio sync when doing multiple yellow button skips to jump through commercial breaks, where there is a

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

2006-10-23 Thread C.Y.M
Chad Flynt wrote: I am sure this is more widespread than people imagine. I know that everyone I talk to has this issue. But most don't participate on the ML. There are forums that have talked bout it all over. Most of us have just as said, gotten used to it and assumed it will never be

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

2006-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
C.Y.M wrote: mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -framedrop -cache 4096 -slave -nolirc -quiet 001.vdr Notice that -framedrop is added to the command line. I wonder if that is the reason why mplayer is immune to the a/v desync problem. Definitely not just that. My playback issue already

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

2006-10-22 Thread Udo Richter
Morfsta wrote: Certainly I think the problem is that VDR is not properly doing sync, In a way, I agree. VDR does not sync at all. Never. Simplified, here's what the VDR playback really does: - Read data from file in frame-sized chunks into read buffers - If the DVB driver accepts data, read

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

2006-10-22 Thread Tero Siironen
On 21.10.2006 15.58, Oliver Endriss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2006-10-22 Thread Richard Scobie
Adding my 2 cents, in the hope that others more knowledgable may be able to reproduce the problem. Using a Nexus S 2.1 with the latest beta firmware, I find I lose audio sync when doing multiple yellow button skips to jump through commercial breaks, where there is a 30-50% chance the audio

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

2006-10-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
for recording to a dvd. Also mpeg is a lossy compression, so data is lost converting back and forth. - Original Message - From: C.Y.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion Juri Haberland

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

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Udo Richter wrote: C.Y.M wrote: mplayer -vo mpegpes -ao mpegpes -framedrop -cache 4096 -slave -nolirc -quiet 001.vdr Notice that -framedrop is added to the command line. I wonder if that is the reason why mplayer is immune to the a/v desync problem. Definitely not just that. My playback

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

2006-10-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:56, C.Y.M wrote: Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with VDR or mplayer. Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when playing back VDR recordings, and

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

2006-10-22 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, Timothy D. Lenz wrote: The way I understand it, the shows are sent as mpeg2, VDR decodes to raw data and stores as xxx.vdr files Now vdr file are raw data sent by the card : ie mpeg2. Have you an idea of the size of uncompressed video ? Matthieu

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

2006-10-22 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with VDR or mplayer. Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when playing back VDR recordings, and it is not prone to any type or desync, then I vote we all try

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

2006-10-22 Thread C.Y.M
Torgeir Veimo wrote: On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:33, C.Y.M wrote: And just for completeness: No serious CPU load when playing back with VDR or mplayer. Yes, if the extra CPU load by mplayer is not even noticeable when playing back VDR recordings, and it is not prone to any type or desync,

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 already be in

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 can't

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

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

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 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 be

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

2006-10-20 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually most of what I watch are recordings ;-) and don't even remember when was the last time I

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

2006-10-20 Thread Tero Siironen
On 20.10.2006 15.09, Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually most of what I watch

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

2006-10-20 Thread C.Y.M
Tero Siironen wrote: On 20.10.2006 15.09, Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually

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

2006-10-20 Thread C.Y.M
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's a fade

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

2006-10-20 Thread C.Y.M
C.Y.M wrote: 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

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

2006-10-20 Thread Juri Haberland
Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually most of what I watch are recordings ;-) and

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

2006-10-20 Thread C.Y.M
Juri Haberland wrote: Klaus Schmidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C.Y.M wrote: Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings... I'm replaying many recordings (actually most of what I watch

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

2006-10-20 Thread Udo Richter
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 already be in a DVB resolution format.

[vdr] FF card A/V sync suggestion

2006-10-16 Thread C.Y.M
Since it has been several years now and I have never been able to solve the a/v desync issues with my Nexus-S FF card when playing back recordings, I was thinking about what could be done. As of now, I have been using xine with my FF card to fix the problem. But, if I use xine, then even live tv