[vdr] Re: AC3overDVB patch for vdr-1.3.13?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

christian jacobsen wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> > >>> What prevents you from using the (old) latest patch?
> > >>
> > > I have created a patched AC3overDVB diff for vdr-1.3.13.
> > Seems to work ok.
> >
> > Well, I take back what I said.  When I turn of Force Transfermode
> > (LiveAC3), the buffer in VDR fills up and than dies.  Turning on
> > Multichannel audio does not trigger this bug though, only the LiveAC3.
> >
> > Oct 18 13:00:56 poseidon vdr[2541]: TS buffer on device 1
> > thread started
> > (pid=2541, tid=278538)
> > Oct 18 13:01:03 poseidon vdr[2539]: clearing transfer buffer to avoid
> > overflows
> > Oct 18 13:01:07 poseidon vdr[2539]: clearing transfer buffer to avoid
> > overflows
> > Oct 18 13:01:13 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=245768)
> > Oct 18 13:01:14 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 80% (tid=245768)
> > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 90% (tid=245768)
> > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 100% (tid=245768)
> > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: ERROR: 1 ring buffer
> > overflow (177
> > bytes dropped)
> > Oct 18 13:01:17 poseidon vdr[1911]: switching to channel 10342
> > Oct 18 13:01:17 poseidon vdr[2539]: transfer thread ended (pid=2539,
> > tid=245768)
> 
> I tried yesterday to see if 4 recordings works better with 1.3.13 and
> found the same.
> 
> A strange thing is that the channels that are recorded mostly can't be
> Live viewed, the screen stays black.
> What I did :
> I started a recrding on Pro7 and one on Sat1 - there are running on the
> Second card, I still can watch all channels on card 1. Now I start
> recodring RTL and the Picture on RTL goeds black. RTL2 I can still see.
> The I starte recording RTL2 and the Picture goes black on RTL2 too. Now
> most of the channels are "black".
> 
> Using a 2 card FF DVB-s System with Suse 9.1 dvb-kernel-05.09.2004
> 
> All testing done with VDR 1.3.13 and AC3overDVB 0.2.6 (for 1.3.10). I
> have Force Transfermode off and LiveAC3 automatic.
> With Vanila VDR 1.3.13 everything works fine :) (with 1.3.12 too)
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Ah, so may I assume that all these problems are related to some
patches/plugins? If so, I won't bother looking into this ;-)
Besides, 5 recordings plus Transfer Mode (even of the recorded
channels) works fine here :-)

Klaus