On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Manuel Reimer <manuel.rei...@gmx.de> wrote: > Another question: Wouldn't it be possible to make the current VDR work with > "old" firmwares? Maybe with a switch to the kernel driver, which toggles > between "real" TS mode and PES/TS transcoding on the CPU? > > The FF card works well, if PES is used. It seems to be the switch to TS which > makes FF cards fail. So if the card only works well with PES in unmodded > form, then the users should have a chance to keep with PES on this card. > Maybe it would even be better to use some kind of transcoding by default and > only switch to "real" TS if the full-TS mod is detected. > > IMHO it is not good to force users to mod their cards, if they want to switch > to the future VDR 1.8 (or 2.0 or whatever version number Klaus plans for the > future release). Most users will fail to mod the card, as the Full TS mod is > by far the most complicated mod for the FF card. I'm pretty good at > soldering, but I don't think I would manage to successfully do a full-TS mod.
The problem is with the design (lack of adequate bandwidth) of your card, not VDR. I don't think it makes much sense to force/limit VDR in any way just to accommodate design flaws with that FF card (which I own as well btw). I agree that users experiencing this problem should consider the hw mod or adding another adapter. Also, the switch to ts was prompted by a few factors, one of which being many users requesting it. VDR is finally getting away from the limitations of being based around FF cards, let's not take any steps backwards! _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
