[vdr] Re: what's the newest vdr-1.3.x working with bitstreamout-0.61x ?

["christian jacobsen" <Christian.Jacobsen@stageholding.de>]

Hallo, 

> I have a budget card and working ALSA SPDIF (CMI 8738) and was hoping 
> that bitstreamout would give me AC3 playback in my external 
> decoder. I'm 
> using softdevice/DirectFB for now, which doesn't do 
> passthrough yet. I 
> think if I could only use df_xine with vdr-xine I would have SPDIF 
> passthrough, but unfortunately I get inverted colours on my 
> TV-out with 
> df_xine, so that one isn't an option for me yet either, so I 
> thought and 
> hoped bitsreamout would be.
> 
> I tried to compile bitsreamout-0.61f with vdr-1.3.20 and am 
> getting an 
> error which suggests that they are totally incompatible, I 
> looked in the 
> source of cDevice and things have really changed:
> 
> g++ -march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -DPIC -c 
> -DPLUGIN_NAME_I18N='"bitstreamout"' -D_GNU_SOURCE  -I/usr/include/ 
> -I/usr/include bitstreamout.c
> bitstreamout.c: In member function `virtual void 
> cDisplayMainMenu::Store()':
> bitstreamout.c:446: error: `SetAudioTrack' undeclared (first use this 
> function)
> 
> Are there other alternatives with this setup? Is bitstreamout 
> unmaintained at the moment?

It should work with 1.3.17. With 1.3.18 the new AC3 Firmware was used.

Greetings
Christian Jacobsen