[vdr] Re: DVD frozen every 2 seconds

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 18:28, Christoph Rieder wrote:
> 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?

can't check right now, but with AC3=1, vdr should not try to decode AC3.
But it certainly sound, as if the problem is related to the LiveAC3 patch.
I'll check it later.

Andreas