[vdr] Re: Playing DVD ?

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 21:21, Andreas Kool wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > >
> > > On Saturday 30 August 2003 03:31, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:13, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > > > > I'll take this issue to the dvb mailing list. But first we should have
> > > > > a solution which makes vdr happy. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Update:
> > > > My driver patch will probably not be accepted, since the API does not
> > > > allow PES data in VIDEO_STILLPICTURE ioctl calls.
> > > >
> > > > So I created a patch which fixes the problem in vdr:
> > > > ...
> >
> > Looks pretty good!
> >
> > Normal still pictures from VDR's recordings appear to work fine
> > (e.g. when moving or jumping between editing marks), and also
> > DVD navigation works a lot better, at least for the DVDs I have
> > been able to test with. There are still cases where a still menu
> > picture isn't displayed correctly, but the vast majority works
> > now :-)
> >
> > I've taken the liberty to format the patch to the VDR coding style,
> > so here it is again, in the way I'll adopt it in VDR 1.2.5 (I hope
> > I didn't break anything in the process):
> 
> Sorry Klaus, sorry Oliver, but i vote *against* this patch!
> It's ok for the upcoming developer-version, but _not_ for the *stable*
> version.

Well, it's easy to disable
#define VIDEO_STILLPICTURE_WORKS_WITH_VDR_FRAMES
Or Klaus could ship 1.1.25 with this feature disabled.
But let's try to fix the problem.

> Reasons:
> 
> 1. Using this patch i'm unable to cut MPEG-1 material (like vdr-analogTV
>    recordings) - the first still image never changes while hitting
>    [4] or [6] several times.

Could you please upload a sample MPEG-1 recording somewhere?
I think this can be fixed.
 
> 2. I have an impression that a/v sync is gone after viewing a still image
>    in the cutting process (using MPEG-2 material).

IMHO this problem is not new and has nothing to do with this patch.

Oliver


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