[linux-dvb] Re: Antwort: VDR and AC3 out via SB live

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> Okay, that was it :-)
> 
> Now it begins to become clearer...
> 
> First i like to say, that it seems to me that NOT ALWAYS the DD audio is
> Recorded :-(
> e.g. yesterdays "Fled - Flucht...." or something sould have had DD5.1 or at
> least the "normal" DD2.0, but the recorded files contain no "dolby"
> according to xlist !
> Other recordings from yesterday contain DD2.0 - which in fact can be
> extracted by -a 'cat > test.ac3'
> However the play-ac3 from the emu10k1 driver kit won't work with this :-( if
> i do this with the cat command and later on use play-ac3 test.ac3 ist works
> !
> but using "play-ac3 -" to make play-ac3 read from stdin doesnt work :-(
> Okay, i'll check the ALSA drivers these days...
> 
> But why isn't the DD stream not recorded all the time ?
> 
> My /var/log/messages says:
> Jul 14 22:18:34 linux vdr[657]: switching to channel 7
> Jul 14 22:19:34 linux vdr[657]: timer 4 start
> Jul 14 22:19:34 linux vdr[657]: switching to channel 7
> Jul 14 22:19:34 linux vdr[657]: record
> /video0/@Pro-7/2001-07-14.22:19.50.50.rec
> Jul 14 22:19:34 linux vdr[657]: creating directory
> /video0/@Pro-7/2001-07-14.22:19
> Jul 14 22:19:34 linux vdr[657]: recording to
> '/video0/@Pro-7/2001-07-14.22:19.50.5
> Jul 14 22:19:35 linux vdr[657]: ERROR (dvbapi.c,2085): Device or resource
> busy
> Jul 14 22:19:35 linux vdr[1037]: output thread started (pid=1037)
> Jul 14 22:19:35 linux vdr[1038]: input thread started (pid=1038)
> 
> I think it's the seventh line showing the error causing this ?
> What has happened ?

VDR takes its best efforts to set the PIDs, but apparently sometimes the
driver has problems here. When starting a recording, VDR needs to set all
PIDs again with DMX_OUT_TS_TAP mode. Maybe there's still a driver bug in
there somewhere...

Klaus
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