[linux-dvb] VDR suggestion - record to TS?

[Jörg-Oliver Todamm <jtodamm@itc-consult.de>]

So the card has be tested in its "targeted" enviroment (-> Windows) to
check wehter there are new functions implemented? Ok, I will give it a
try.

There are some very simple and cheap soundcards available that (seem to)
simply pass the bitstream to the connector. Is there anything that has
to be processed to get a "raw output"? Maybe the current firmware grabs
the bits from the hardware decoding and pushes it to the SPDIF. If it is
only possible for the ARM to pull and push the data from there, this
would be a limitation. But isn't it possible to communicate with the ARM
direct (via a new device /dev/dvbac3) and it pushes the bitstream to the
output?

I am not clear how the card works, but what I read so far it sounds like
many things are not possible due to its design limitations.

> Unless they added extra hardware for this, you still will not be able
> to output an AC3 stream with this card.
> The AV7110 just cannot output anything but PCM via SPDIF.
> 
> In any case, this is not supported by the driver. I never saw the new
> card. If anybody who has it sees any "AC3 enhancements" (no, just the
> output connector does not count) please let us know.

So long,

J.-O. Todamm


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