[vdr] Re: vdr + dxr3 + mp3 -> not working properly

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 08:42, Rantanen Teemu wrote:
> > From: Marko Myllymaa [mailto:myllymaa@niksula.hut.fi]
> > 
> > I just tried newest vdr (1.1.25), dxr3 plugin (0.1.5) and mp3 plugin
> > (0.7.10). The dvb driver is
> > the on Klaus recommended (2003.02.16).
> 
> I have the same combination and I'd say this is the best-working combination
> I've tried so far. 

I am running this setup as well - except I am using driver 1.0.0-pre1.

> > With these and default settings for mp3 plugin, I get mp3 playing but the
> > picture freezes. The
> > picture should be 'live'. The osd for the mp3 works. But unfortunately the
> 
> Same for me. 

Me as well.

> Playback works in 'live' mode but the picture does not (OSD
> works though), but in 'black' mode nothing works.

I have not tried 'black' mode yet.
> 
> The problem for me is that I've been experiencing crashes. Picture does
> 'crash' in a weird way (gets distorted and freezes) and VDR stops
> responding. The mp3 playback still continues, but the only way to fix this
> is to restart VDR. Once I had to rmmod/reload dxr3 driver to make it work
> again, but that was only one single time out of approximately ten crashes.

I get similar results as well.

I also get crashes just watching tv.  I think it is due to receiving a
bad signal at the moment as I live in the tropics and we have a lot of
heavy rain about at the moment.

> 
> I'm not sure if this is mp3 problem or something else. This might be related
> to freezes I get every now and then when I'm using OSD. The OSD was active
> every time the mp3 playback (VDR) crashed.

Yes - I once got a OSD freeze but mp3 playback just kept going.

I am running on a PII 233MHz.

> 
> 
> 					Teemu
> 
> 



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