[vdr] Re: vdr-dvd-0.3.4-rc4 (surround)

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

Karsten Petersen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Sven Goethel wrote:
> > > I am experiencing some problems with this plugin. Menu aspect ratio
> > > isn't correct when returning to menu after watching Das Boot
> > > Directors Cut widescreen movie
> I have not seen this problem with my DVDs yet, sorry.
> (Oh - just an idea - does resetting the dxr3-hardware helps?)
> 
> > > and also other menu entries than play movie doesn't work.
> This is because of the DeviceStillPicture usage.  Please apply the
> following workaround to the vdr-dvd sources, it made most menus of my
> DVDs work together with the DXR3.
> 
> --- player-dvd.c.orig   Tue Oct 14 10:18:11 2003
> +++ player-dvd.c        Tue Oct 14 10:18:26 2003
> @@ -415,6 +415,7 @@
>           DeviceStillPicture(IframeAssembler.Get(),
> IframeAssembler.Used());
>           IframeAssembler.Clear();
>           IframeCnt = 0;
> +         DevicePlay();
>            if (blk_size <= 0 && !skipPlayVideo)
>               sleept = 1000;   // 1ms
>           continue;
> 
> But it is just a workaround - I am still waiting for Klaus to clarify
> the way of how to use the StillPicture function.  (Wrote private mail.)
> 
> BTW:  Some menues still will not work, but that is because of a
> libdvdnav/vdr-dvd problem.  vdr-dvd sometimes just does not go into
> "Menu-Mode", a simple workaround for now is Sven's "Force Menu" mode
> found in RC4.  (Allthough in one menu I had to press "up" about 70 times
> just to get the highlight visible...)
> 
> > > Subtitles are also shown only few microseconds :),
> Yes, I have noticed that yesterday, until now I have no idea why that
> is.  But subtitles are pretty low on my wishlist, so I will probably not
> look into it too soon.
> 
> > > this could be related to dxr3.
> > yep .. there _are_ issues with dvd and dxr3 ..
> > i cannot test it due to the lack of a card ..
> >
> > somebody is working on it .. ping .. ping ..
> Pong.  I need more info about how plugins should use DeviceStillPicture
> and how the devices should implement them.  It is just not clear to me,
> if this is a bug in vdr-dvd or in vdr-dxr3.

VDR/device.h:

  virtual void Play(void);
       ///< Sets the device into play mode (after a previous trick
       ///< mode).

Play() is called from DevicePlay(), so after DeviceStillPicture()
(which can be considered a "trick mode") a DevicePlay() must be
called to continue normal replay.

Klaus


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