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[vdr] Re: hardware
DVD-Video uses a multiplexed MPEG-2 Stream with the max data rate of 9.8 MBit/second. That includes all: video, all audio tracks and subtitle data.
Maybe, the ones that are working are not using the full data rate.
CU,
Christian.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Valentin [mailto:Thomas.Valentin@astrum.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:30 AM
> To: 'vdr@linuxtv.org'
> Subject: [vdr] AW: Re: AW: Re: hardware
>
>
> my dvd drive is dma enabled (hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd)
>
> some dvds work perfectly some work in the beginning and after
> 1 minute the
> playback is bucking ...
>
> i thought that those dvds that work are not encrypted (vdr is
> about < 20 %)
> and the others are encrypted
> and decss library eats up all the cpu (vdr is 99%)....
>
> i really dont know why some work ...
>
> cu
> tom
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Andreas Schultz [mailto:aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 10:56
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] Re: AW: Re: hardware
>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Thursday 04 April 2002 10:39, Thomas Valentin wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > as the offer says the mp has a Celeron 433Mhz ...
> >
> > is that enough for divx and decss?
> >
> > because i currently run my vdr on a pII 350 and i cant
> watch divx and
> decss
> > dvds because its too slow...
>
> Even your old box should be able to play DVD's without much
> problems. I have
>
> even had reports from people with slower system being able to
> play dvd's.
> DeCSS during playback does not take much, only the key cracking needed
> before
> the playback can start requires some time and even that can
> be avoided by
> using proper player keys. Read the ML archive on how to do
> this and get the
> dvdinstall.tar.gz archive.
> The AC3 decoding needed for most dvd's is a bit more resource
> hungry, but
> still a PII 350 should have no problems. It can be improved
> by building
> liba52 with the djbfft library, again check the ML on how to do this.
> Also, most dvd speed problems come from dma not being enabled
> for the drive,
>
> even my 1.1GHz AMD chockes without the dma setting (hint: man hdparm).
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
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