[vdr] Re: DVD Playback

[Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>]

Hi Andreas,

while I am a big fan of and a small contributor to VDR,
I have not yet used any of the "non-standard" vdr patches
available.

It seems that my Yamakawa DVD player, which costs little
more than a DVD ROM for my VDR PC, still does many things
that VDR does not. The Yamakawa plays back

*  NTSC DVDs on PAL TVs.
*  PAL DVDs on NTSC TVs.
*  VCDs.
*  SVCDs.
*  audio CDs.
*  data CDs with MP3 files on them.
*  DVDs with any region code.
*  DVDs with full menu support (including the frog game
   in the Raumpatrouille Orion DVD).
*  Subtitles.
*  All sound/language combinations avaliable on the DVD.
*  All viewing angles avaliable on the DVD.

The Yamakawa also has S-Video output and both optical and
coax SPDIF sound.

Anyway, I believe VDR is on its way to do all that and to do
it even better in some ways, so I am not at all complaining.
But I will wait until it does before I put a DVD ROM into my
VDR PC.
I believe Klaus and all contributors have done a great job!

However, if a 400 DM Yamakawa can do NTSC playback on PAL TVs,
it cannot be impossible. I believe it would be OK to drop every
6th frame. Does the driver support that? 


Carsten.



Andreas Schultz wrote:
> 
> Hi Lutz,
> 
> Die Maillinglist ist in Englisch!
> 
> Lutz Feldgen wrote:
> 
> > Hallo Leute,
> >
> > ich bin seit einiger Zeit user der vdr-soft. Grossasrtige Sache, muss
> > ich schon sagen. Ich habe es auch geschafft, das DVD-Playback zu
> > integrieren, nur habe ich leider das Problem, dass vdr die NTSC-DVDs
> > in NTSC auch wiedergibt. Leider kann mein Fernseher kein NTSC, also
> > hätte ich gerne, dass vdr sie als PAL ausgibt. Gibt es da eine
> > Möglichkeit zu ? Im listenarchiv habe ich dazu leider nichts gefunden.
> 
> Unlikely. The DVB card supports only PAL and NTSC. PAL60 is not
> supported. The only way to convert 30fps DVD's into 25fps would be to
> drop frames. I have no idea how to do that in a sensible way.
> I could of course, simply leave out every n-th frame, but this would
> probably not get you a smooth playback.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> > Danke im Voraus,
> >
> >  Lutz                            mailto:lfeldgen@gmx.net