I've had this problem for ages and never found any resolution to it as it's really only a problem with DVDs that have a lot of chapters.
When it get towards the end of a chapter, the sound disappears. The video is still fine, but the sound stops.
Are there any debugs I can run to get more info out of dvd-plugin?
It's been several months - and I never had a reply to this but it's still happening.
I've rebuilt several times - but it's still the same. The dvd plugin works fine, except intermittently the sound disappears for about a second at the end of a scene. With debugging running I get these messages when the sound disappears:
PPPClear(4)! Play Clear(5)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 Clear(6)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 Clear(7)! SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 Clear(8)! SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 Clear(9)! Clear(10)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 Clear(11)! Play SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 P
PSetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 PPPClear(12)! Play
SetDigitalAudioDevice: 0 PPPClear(13)! Play
Each time the sound disappears, I get another 3-lines as per above. If it's relevant, I'm using vdr-1.4.1 with vdr-xine-0.7.9.
Any clues??
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Baxter" linuxtv@nzbaxters.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:30 AM Subject: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky??
Is there any support for the DVD plugin?
The sourceforge site forums seem to be empty as well !
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Baxter" linuxtv@nzbaxters.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky??
Could someone please confirm something for me?
Can you run the DVD plugin with VDR debugging running with various DVDs, and tell me if you're seeing these messages ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Baxter" linuxtv@nzbaxters.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [vdr] DVD plugin - sound jerky??
Hello.
Can anyone help me with where to get support for this plugin?????
It still seems to partially work in VDR-1.4.1 - but I don't know where to turn.
Are people afraid to respond because of CSS or something???
Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Baxter" linuxtv@nzbaxters.com To: "VDR Mailing List" vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] DVD plugin - CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TEST FOR ME?
On Mittwoch 11 Oktober 2006 06:26, Simon Baxter wrote:
I don't think these messages are dvd-plugin related, as I cannot find them via grep (vdr-xine ?). With which dvds did you get these messages?
Clear(5)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0
[snip]
How is "a lot of chapters" defined (10, 50, 100, ..) ?
When it get towards the end of a chapter, the sound disappears. The video is still fine, but the sound stops.
I've mostly noticed this will the Red Dwarf series DVDs, but it seems to happen on most. It doesn't happen if I play the DVD directly in xine.
Clear(5)! SetAudioChannelDevice: 0
I think this might only be happening at chapter marks - which is every 5-10 minutes on some DVDs
Stefan Lucke
Simon
vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org schrieb am 19.10.2006 23:28:52:
messages?
I've mostly noticed this will the Red Dwarf series DVDs, but it seems to
as
5-10
minutes on some DVDs
May be you can analyse the structure of the DVD using IfoEdit ?
Chapters are a misconception.
DVD consist of Domains, TitleSets, Titles, PGCs, PGs and Cells (top to bottom structure). Chapters are in fact only pointer markings optionally attached to PGs. The transitions between structural blocks get larger with higher structural level. E.G on PGC level it's almost like starting a new presentation, e.g. audio and video needs to be completely restarted. May be this were the VDR dvd-plugin has it's problems to play some structural transitions seemless.
May be you can post a copy of the .IFO files on the questionable disc and I can give you some hints or advices (I work with DVD software profecionally and have access to all the specs and tools neccessary).
kind regards Peter
May be you can analyse the structure of the DVD using IfoEdit ?
I'm not familiar with that? Will have a look
Thanks Peter - I have posted the files from a problematic DVD :
http://home.comcast.net/~nzbaxters/video_ts.ifo http://home.comcast.net/~nzbaxters/vts_01_0.ifo http://home.comcast.net/~nzbaxters/vts_02_0.ifo http://home.comcast.net/~nzbaxters/vts_03_0.ifo http://home.comcast.net/~nzbaxters/vts_04_0.ifo
Hi.
I've been googling this PPPClear thing - It looks like it might be to do with the vdr-xine plugin.
http://linvdr.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/11/msg00736.html talks about multiple audio channels & a transfer patch in VDR 1.3.14
There might also be something in toggling the dolby selection in Xine?
I will try these tonight.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:30:44AM -0700, Simon Baxter wrote:
I also had this problem until a applied the following workaround. It seems the call to 'm_xineLib.execFuncResetAudio();' causes a short audio dropout. But it appears the call is not neccessary anyway. At least I noticed no bad sideeffects yet after skipping the call.
--------------------------------------------- --- ../../vdr.org/VDR/PLUGINS/src/xine-0.7.9/xineDevice.c 2006-04-17 20:36:01.000000000 +0200 +++ xine-0.7.9/xineDevice.c 2006-08-26 07:27:39.000000000 +0200 @@ -2969,7 +2969,11 @@ // np = true; }
+#if 0 m_xineLib.execFuncResetAudio(); +#else + xfprintf(stderr, "skipping execFuncResetAudio()\n"); +#endif
if (f) m_xineLib.execFuncSetSpeed(0.0); ---------------------------------------------
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