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

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

Dieter Bloms wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
> 
>         Dieter Bloms (Dieter.Bloms@suse.de)

Both DVDs I tried this with were encrypted.

Klaus
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