[vdr] Re: DVD frozen every 2 seconds

[Christoph Rieder <christoph.rieder@web.de>]

Maxime GUILBOT wrote:
> Maxime GUILBOT
> 
> Hi, everybody,
> First, thank you Klaus for your great work.
> Actually, I'm writing a message to this list because I have a problem while
> reading DVD,
> the image (and sound) is frozen every 2 seconds that make the DVD unusable.
> I'm using a pentium 133, 48 Mo RAM, AC3 out over DVB (works well with JVC),
> LiveAC3, the last vdr-1.0.0 AIO, dvd libs for dvdinstall.tar (with
> DVDCSS_METHOD=key).

I had the same problem. The conclusion was that AC3 conversion takes to 
much cpu for my good old P133. So probably VDR tries to decode AC3 
instead of forwarding it to your external decoder/amplifier?

Christoph