[vdr] Re: AC3overDVB patch for vdr-1.3.13?

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

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> christian jacobsen wrote:
> >
> > Hallo,
> >
> > > >>> What prevents you from using the (old) latest patch?
> > > >>
> > > > I have created a patched AC3overDVB diff for vdr-1.3.13.
> > > Seems to work ok.
> > >
> > > Well, I take back what I said.  When I turn of Force Transfermode
> > > (LiveAC3), the buffer in VDR fills up and than dies.  Turning on
> > > Multichannel audio does not trigger this bug though, only the LiveAC3.
> > >
> > > Oct 18 13:00:56 poseidon vdr[2541]: TS buffer on device 1
> > > thread started
> > > (pid=2541, tid=278538)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:03 poseidon vdr[2539]: clearing transfer buffer to avoid
> > > overflows
> > > Oct 18 13:01:07 poseidon vdr[2539]: clearing transfer buffer to avoid
> > > overflows
> > > Oct 18 13:01:13 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 70% (tid=245768)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:14 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 80% (tid=245768)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 90% (tid=245768)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: buffer usage: 100% (tid=245768)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:15 poseidon vdr[2540]: ERROR: 1 ring buffer
> > > overflow (177
> > > bytes dropped)
> > > Oct 18 13:01:17 poseidon vdr[1911]: switching to channel 10342
> > > Oct 18 13:01:17 poseidon vdr[2539]: transfer thread ended (pid=2539,
> > > tid=245768)
> >
> > I tried yesterday to see if 4 recordings works better with 1.3.13 and
> > found the same.
> >
> > A strange thing is that the channels that are recorded mostly can't be
> > Live viewed, the screen stays black.
> > What I did :
> > I started a recrding on Pro7 and one on Sat1 - there are running on the
> > Second card, I still can watch all channels on card 1. Now I start
> > recodring RTL and the Picture on RTL goeds black. RTL2 I can still see.
> > The I starte recording RTL2 and the Picture goes black on RTL2 too. Now
> > most of the channels are "black".
> >
> > Using a 2 card FF DVB-s System with Suse 9.1 dvb-kernel-05.09.2004
> >
> > All testing done with VDR 1.3.13 and AC3overDVB 0.2.6 (for 1.3.10). I
> > have Force Transfermode off and LiveAC3 automatic.
> > With Vanila VDR 1.3.13 everything works fine :) (with 1.3.12 too)
>        ***************************************
> 
> Ah, so may I assume that all these problems are related to some
> patches/plugins? If so, I won't bother looking into this ;-)
> Besides, 5 recordings plus Transfer Mode (even of the recorded
> channels) works fine here :-)
> 
> Klaus

Oops, sorry - I thought this was a reply to the other thread,
regarding "Buffer Overflows in vdr-1.3.13".

Klaus