[vdr] Re: AC3 audio handling

[s.huelswitt@gmx.de (Stefan Huelswitt)]

On 04 May 2004 Ondrej Wisniewski <ondrej.wisniewski@ericsson.com> wrote:
> Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
>> Using downmix for recording with AC3 stream seems quite useless to me. I
>> haven't seen a broadcast company which doesn't provides a dolby-surround
>> downmix in parallel to the AC3 stream.
> 
> Yes, for real recordings this is probably true. But I thought of copying vob
> files from a DVD to a VDR recordings folder so I can play it with VDR. This
> works actually just fine apart from the missing sound. Would it be possible to
> use the DVD plugin for downmixing the AC3 sound of these "recording" or would
> VDR actually have to be patched with the downmixing code ?

I don't think that you can use the DVD plugin for this (only use
the source as reference). Probably downmixing could be included
into the AC3overDVB patch without great effort.

-- 
Stefan Huelswitt
s.huelswitt@gmx.de  | http://www.muempf.de/


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