[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.0.2 plugin

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Simeon Walker wrote:

> Occasionally I saw a strange reduction in the frame rate to what
> looked like a couple of frames per second. It seemed to go back
> to normal after a while or when I changed channels.
This is really an issue of xine. From time to time, a buffer underrun happens, 
especially when switching channels, because xine plays the new stream as 
continuation of the previous stream.

Occationally, xine tries to skip some frames as they have old timestamps 
(timestamps are not unique across channels), but as the stream is broadcast at 
a fixed rate, the input buffer runs empty and xine stops a few moments to have 
the buffer filled again. But when it continues playing, it detects old 
timestamps and we are back again at the beginning of this paragraph.

There has been a discussion on xine ML to improve xine's live stream playback, 
 because the above mentioned method works only for media like DVD.

Since release 0.0.2, I pause for about 0.5 seconds on a channel switch to 
realize a little buffer, and it works a lot better than in release 0.0.1. 
Other software or even set top boxes pause about 2 seconds to have a large 
buffer, but that's not what I like.

> I have to figure out how to use Xine on the FB or DirectFB
> effectively - I had it running on the FB by having Xvfb running
> so that Xine didn't complain about having no display for its GUI!
> Even then text on the console would be appearing behind the
> picture, very strange!
Have you tried fbxine yet?

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@gmx.de




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