[vdr] Re: ERROR: can't record MPEG1

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

Rainer Zocholl wrote:
> 
> Still the same old song, sorry, but some news ;-)
> 
> Got an other Hauppauge Nova DVB_s card
> (same 1.1 series, only some dozen numbers ahead):
> 
> The result is much better...that indicates a hardware dependend
> problem with that "budget" cards
> 
> But there are still problems with a/v sync and artefacts
> with the "new" card too.
> 
> Could it be that this is a nova spcific problem?
> There were other reports complaining about
> a/v async
> Is there a problem with the saa7146a?
> 
> Just managed to place a version 1.5 (sky1) in the MS-6215 box
> as second card: Currently no drops...
> or better: no obvious drops...
> (CPU is going a little bit hotter now)
> 
> Because vdr tries to resync a/v it may be hard to discover
> if frames are dropped.
> @Klaus:
> Is there a way to log such resyncs?

VDR itself doesn't do anything to "resync" audio and video.
It just repacks the data that comes from the Transport Stream.
The _driver_ must keep a/v in sync when replaying (provided the
data is delivered in a way suitable to keep it in sync, which 
apparently is the case with VDR's recordings).

Klaus
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