[linux-dvb] Re: popen for ac3 and thread (ringbuffer)problem

[Dieter Bloms <dbloms@suse.de>]

Hi Klaus,

On Sun, Aug 19, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> I tried this several times now with two different DVDs (both with AC3 sound)
> and was able to switch the OSD on and off until my thumb began to hurt ;-)
> 
> Since I don't have actual AC3 hardware I have started VDR with
> 
>   vdr -a'cat > filename'
> 
> to simulate VDR's Dolby Digital output. Maybe those of you who get these
> hangups could try this, too: don't use the '-a...' option you usually use,
> but use one similar to mine, thus leaving out the actual external AC3
> processing. Do the hangups still happen then (with the original VDR version)?

I've tried it with unencrypted and encrypted DVDs.
The encrypted DVDs make trouble, with ac3play and with "cat > filename".
After some switching the OSD and the film freeze and I've to restart my
box, because I can't kill the dvd_mon process to reload the driver.
I can't produce this error with a unencrypted DVD.


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Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

	Dieter Bloms (Dieter.Bloms@suse.de)

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