[vdr] Re: strange effects in vdr-1.1.20 / recordings cant beviewed

[Dimitrios Dimitrakos <mail@dimitrios.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>Georg Hitsch wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>I have just updated from vdr 1.0.4 to 1.1.20 and I have the following
>>>>effect:
>>>>
>>>>Recordings (old one, recorded with 1.04, but also new one recorded with
>>>>1.1.20) cant be viewed.
>>>>
>>>>The recording itself seems to be ok.
>>>>The files seems to be ok, too.
>>>>
>>>>When I play the recording, vdr plays 1 second the (correct) audio - but
>>>>the screen stays black.
>>>>After hitting play, it does nothing.
>>>>
>>>>When I jump 1 minute in front and back (a few times), sometimes the
>>>>recording can be played - but as soon as i press pause or jump or
>>>>something like that - same procedure (jump front and back a few times)
>>>>
>>>>(It _could_ be, that all recordings are from the RTL group - but I am
>>>>not sure about that)
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone have the same effect?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>There's already a thread about that on this list.
>>>
>>>You can use the old firmware (dated April 15, 2002) together with the new
>>>driver to replay RTL recordings. Make sure you comment out the lines
>>>
>>>#define DO_REC_AND_PLAY_ON_PRIMARY_DEVICE 1
>>>#define DO_MULTIPLE_RECORDINGS 1
>>>
>>>in VDR/dvbdevice.c to avoid problems when recording.
>>>      
>>>
>>If I do this, my VDR gets very instable :(
>>
>>What is exactly the problem with RTL recordings?
>>
>>Georg
>>    
>>
>
>I wish I knew...
>
>Apparently some time last week RTL must have changed something in their
>data format that triggered a bug in the driver/firmware.
>
>I'm afraid we have to wait until the driver developers can come up with
>a solution to this...
>
>Klaus
>  
>
Hi,

replay with mplayer plugin for such files works fine for me.

Greetings
Dimitri



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