[linux-dvb] Re: 16:9-signalling?

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

Marcus Kuba wrote:
> 
> Am 22.07.2001, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> ...
> 
> > Try the latest CVS driver version.
> > According to Ralph this one should do the Wide Screen Signalling (WSS)
> > via line 23. You do need to set VDR's VideoFormat Setup parameter to
> "16:9",
> > though, so that it tells the driver to actually deliver 16:9 signals.
> 
> I tried and it worked. But with the new VDR/driver I get other problems:
> 
> When I try to watch encrypted channels, the transfer-mode is somewhat
> broken. The picture of the previuos channel freezes and I can only hear
> the sound of the encrypted one, which has lots of disturbances. When I
> switch my AV-Receiver to the TV-Out of the 2nd card with the CAM,
> everything looks fine. The data which is recorded/transferred is corrupt.
> I had the same problem with the old 0.8-driver and VDR 0.7x, but only
> with channels with a symbol-rate of 22000 (C+1/2 NL), not with 27500
> (Premiere). With VDR-0.83 and the 06-22-CVS-driver, all was OK, even with
> 22000-channels. Now, with VDR0.84 and the latest CVS from today, it
> sometimes works with Premiereworld, but in most cases it is broken. When
> I switch back to 0.83 and CVS0622, it is OK... except for the well-known
> channel-switching-problems.
> I also tried VDR0.84 with the old driver from 06/22 and the
> transfer-mode-stuff is working then (of course, the new OSD is not
> working correctly with this old driver), so i'm quite sure it must be a
> driver problem.

I have also observed that and couldn't find a solution so far.
Interestingly recording always works immediately, but transfer mode
sometimes only works after a few switches between encrypted channels.
I'm not yet totally convinced that it is a driver problem, there may
still be some timing problem withing VDR's transfer mode.

Klaus
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