[vdr] Re: Playing DVD ?

[Andreas Kool <akool@akool.de>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:51:24PM +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> 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.

Good point. Yes, that's the way to go!

> 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.

See your PM.

> > 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.

Urgs, yes you are right. Forget about that!

> Oliver

Ciao,
Andreas
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