[vdr] Re: [PATCH] DXR3 Plugin v.0.2.0 External Player Mode

[Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Jarkko Santala wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Kai Moeller wrote:
>
> > On Friday 13 June 2003 23:12, Jarkko Santala wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kai Moeller wrote:
> > > So in other words, if the DXR3 card is put to "AC3-mode" by mplayer, the
> > > plugin doesn't turn it back to whatever mode it was in before playing the
> > > DVD.
> > >
> >
> > Ok, know it makes sense (never tested such a thing). The problem is that
> > switching between AC3 and PCM-Mode makes it necessary to reload the firmware
> > (don't know why).
> > The attached patch should fix that (I can't test it because I have no AC3
> > material to play with mplayer).
> >
> > Hope that helps,
>
> It did help indeed! After applying your patch DVB audio works nicely again
> after playing AC3 from DVD. Thanks!

I didn't test to make sure if your patch was what cause this, but now
even changing channels takes quite a long time and it seems the microcode
gets uploaded quite a lot:

Jun 21 22:31:13 zem vdr[124]: switching to channel 2
Jun 21 22:31:13 zem vdr[1449]: transfer thread ended (pid=1449)
Jun 21 22:31:13 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Device failure
detected
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Micro code
upload successfully
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem kernel: adv717x.o: Configuring for PAL
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem kernel: em8300_audio.o: Analog audio enabled
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem kernel: em8300: Microcode version 0x29 loaded
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Reopening
devices took 1
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem kernel: em8300_audio.o: Digital PCM audio enabled
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem vdr[124]: buffer stats: 231428 (22%) used
Jun 21 22:31:14 zem vdr[1468]: transfer thread started (pid=1468)
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem vdr[124]: buffer stats: 9588 (4%) used
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Device failure
detected
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Micro code
upload successfully
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem kernel: adv717x.o: Configuring for PAL
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem kernel: em8300_audio.o: Analog audio enabled
Jun 21 22:31:15 zem kernel: em8300: Microcode version 0x29 loaded
Jun 21 22:31:16 zem vdr[124]: cDxr3AbsDevice::Resuscitation Reopening
devices took 1
Jun 21 22:31:16 zem kernel: em8300_audio.o: Digital PCM audio enabled

And sorry for not reporting this right away. ;)

	-jake

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Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>            http://www.iki.fi/~jake/
System Administrator                    2001:670:83:f08::/64


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