Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 15:09 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: > On 03.09.2009 12:10, Falk Spitzberg wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 08:49 -0700 schrieb VDR User: > >> Sounds like your question is more appropriate for the vendors customer > >> support of that product. > > > > Definitly not, because my question ist only about the VDR core. I am > > just trying to find out what VDR does different when it transfers data > > to a device in live TV compared to replay from disk. That's completely > > independent from any device that's in use. > > > > Maybe that the eHD card is the only output device that crashes on VDR TS > > replays. > > The following is related to recent developer versions of VDR 1.7.x. > > In live mode (i.e. "Transfer Mode", since the eHD has no tuner) > the TS data stream is written into a ring buffer by the receiving > device (e.g. a DVB-S(2) card) and from there it is sent to the > output device (the eHD plugin) through a call to PlayTs(). > In this case every TS packet is sent to the output device separately. > > During replay data is read from disk and stored in a ring buffer > that holds entire "frames", which are just a sequence of TS packets > that make up one video frame (including audio). The output device's > PlayTs() is called with an entire frame. > > The only real difference between live mode and replay I can see > is that in live mode TS packets are sent individually to the > output device, while in replay mode larger blocks of data are > sent. However, I don't see why this would cause the problems you > observe. > > AFAIK the Reel plugin requires several patches to the core VDR > code, so there may well be things I simply don't know of, because > I haven't looked into the Reel code (yet). > > Maybe it's ok if I use this opportunity to ask if somebody could > point me to a "complete idiot's guide to installing the eHD software"
I've sent some stuff with private mail. Should help you to bring it up within a few minutes. > (meaning the necessary software that goes into the eHD itself, as > well as the latest version of their plugin). I know, I could search > for this myself, but I'm sure there's somebody out there who knows > exactly where to find these ;-) Maybe I'll find the time to actually > bring up my eHD and adapt the plugin to the latest developer version > of VDR... > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Falk Spitzberg Tel: +49 5242 901626 E-Mail: p...@spitzberg.de _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
