[linux-dvb] Re: [vdr] Re: dxr3/vdr problem

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de>]

Malcolm Caldwell writes:
 > (Kai - I home you don't mind - I think this discussion might receive
 > better response on the dvb email list.)
 > 
 > This thread started when I wrote that I was having problems trying to
 > run vdr with a budget card using a dxr3 as the output.  I don't think I
 > am the only one.
 > 
 > The problem is I have a poor quality signal (due to various factors
 > including weather).
 > 
 > These errors get through the dvb driver to vdr and on to the the dxr3. 
 > The dxr3 device crashes - sometimes requiring a restart of vdr to reopen
 > the device etc, sometimes requiring a reboot.  Others have reported
 > having to reload the dxr3 drivers.  (although reloading the dxr3 drivers
 > has never worked for me - but thats OT)  My system only ever runs a few
 > hours before crashing.
 > 
 > Kai argues that the dvb drivers should not be passing frames with errors
 > through to applications.  Given that there is FEC etc in the dvb spec
 > this may be so - I don't know.  I also don't know if a budget card is
 > capable of doing this.
 > 

All the error correction required and possible for the DVB
signal is already done by the frontend. Any remaining errors cannot be
fixed on the transport stream level.
It would not make sense to check the MPEG stream on the ES level
inside the driver. It is the task of the MPEG decoder to fix or ignore
these problems. E.g. the hardware MPEG decoder of the av7110 already does
these things which are often necessary for MPEG streams received from a
error prone source. The dxr3 decoder is probably a little more picky
because it was not developed for decoding a broken stream.

Marcus

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