[vdr] Re: AC3-playback didn't work

[Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>]

16.12.2001 20:36:04, "Jens Dorstewitz" <dorstewitz@gmx.de> wrote:

>But with -C or -P the process runs in a neverending loop.
>An abort with Ctrl+C doesn't work. Following error message
>is displayed:
>
>htpc:/ # /usr/bin/ac3dec /tmp/ac3file -C
>AC3 Stream 48.0 KHz 448 kbps
>Aborted...
>ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:278:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed:
>Input/output error
>ac3dec: pcm.c:210: snd_pcm_hw_free: Assertion `snd_pcm_state(pcm) ==
>SND_PCM_STATE_SETUP || snd_pcm_
>state(pcm) == SND_PCM_STATE_PREPARED' failed.
>Aborted...
>ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:278:(snd_pcm_hw_drain) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_DRAIN failed:
>Input/output error
>ac3dec: pcm.c:210: snd_pcm_hw_free: Assertion `snd_pcm_state(pcm) ==
>SND_PCM_STATE_SETUP || snd_pcm_
>state(pcm) == SND_PCM_STATE_PREPARED' failed.
>Aborted

You are not alone.. I have exact the same situation here. I can see on the DD-Receiver 
that it switches to the optical input (so somehow the output of the card gets activated), 
but no sound is coming and ac3dec consumes 99% of the CPU must be killed with "killall 
-9 ac3dec".

Greetings,  Marcus