[vdr] Re: bistreamout, SB live and 2.6?

[Gregoire Favre <Gregoire.Favre@freesurf.ch>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:12:26PM +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> > I have a problem with bitstreamout under 2.6 with channels that don't
> > boradcast in ac3: my decoder goes in Dolby Digital and I don't hear
> > anything at all (the spdif out of the DVB isn't connected to the SPDIF
> > in of my SBlive). Under 2.4 the receiver stays in Prologic and I can
> > hear the sound, it only goes to Dolby Digital with Dolby Digital
> > channels.
> > 
> > (I have to use a soundcard because my receiver don't recognize the SPDIF
> > out of the DVB card)
> > 
> > Could someone explains me what to change to have the behaviour of the
> > 2.4 kernel?
> > 
> > Should I connect the SPDIF of the soundcard o the DVB card, which
> > advantage?
> 
>  ... IMHO the problem is within the thread handling of VDR.
> Threads with 2.6 do not have a own pid but only a unique thread
> id.  An you need an uptodate thread lib to have the correct
> interface to the new linux thread interface.
> 
> Maybe the attached patch helps a bit (untested!!)

I have retested with 2.4.22-ac1: it also goes directly to Dolby Digital
on all channels???
In fact, it's even worse: as soon as I load the alsa modules, the
receiver goes to DD?
I don't know what have changed???

Anyone got an idea?

Thank you very much,

	Grégoire
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