[vdr] Re: VDR-1.3.19 : DD-Audio stuttering when switchingbetween Pro7 and Sat1

[Mikko Salo <mikko.salo@ppe.inet.fi>]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:37 +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>> Hi Werner!
>> 
>> Yes 'No lights' means also no audio. This is odd because DD2.0 and DD5.1
>> did work just fine when I was using vdr 1.3.18. Now with 1.3.20 I only
>> get it work with DD5.1 after the vdr-1.3.20-ac3-transfer.diff patch.
>
>
>Does this mean that with VDR-1.3.18 the firmware has played DD2.0 and
>DD5.1?  If 1.3.19 and 1.3.20 can not do so I'd like to suppose that
>the re-assembling code for the AC3 frames of the payload of the PS1
>PES stream is broken ... at least for DD2.0.

Yes, vdr 1.3.18 played DD2.0 and DD5.1 in Live mode, 1.3.19 and 1.3.20
not. I just confirmed this for switching back to 1.3.18 and it is still
working at both DD2.0 and DD5.1. I have many patches applied to 1.3.18
and that doesn't broke audio playback in any way, so I must say there's
something broken in the AC3 re-assembling code in newer vdr versions.

>> I'll still keep testing different solutions, hopefully it's just some my
>> mistake that I have made :)

...and I haven't find any fix :(
AC3 playback is still working in DD5.1, DD2.0 doesn't. Now I noticed
that even DD5.1 isn't rock solid every time, so I have to switch
channels back and forth when receiver doesn't go to DD5.1 mode.
My receiver is Pioneer VSX-C300 and that it is in AC3overDVB supported
list. http://www.muempf.de/down/DD-receiver-status.txt

>Maybe Reinhard knows more about.
>Nevertheless, which channel has this problem for you?

We have only 2 channels (at the moment) in Finland that has DD5.1 audio,
Canal+ Film1 and Canal+ Film2 and I'm connected to cable tv with TT
Premium 2.1 DVB-C card. A friend of mine is just getting ready his DVB-S
vdr and I can 'borrow' his machine for testing more different channels
with DD5.1, but I'm not sure when he gets it ready, not for a while
though.

-Mikko