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

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg-Oliver_Todamm?= writes:
 > 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?

No, as I have explained several times before, the hardware (AV7110)
only accepts PCM data and adds the SPDIF headers by itself.
Since we had the same kind of questions you have we asked TI and 
they confirmed to us that AC3 output is not possible unless you
add hardware which changes the headers.


Ralph


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