[vdr] Re: Problems playing DVD

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
>>When I try to play a DVD with vdr-0.99 the movie stops every 5 seconds
>>for about 2 seconds.
>>Since the PC is a good old P133 my first thought was that either CPU
>>or IDE controller are not fast enough.
>>
> 
> same here! i use even a pentium 100 for vdr and dvd. some dvds work,
> some partly and some don't. i've experenced 2 types of failer: either
> the dvd stutters about every second, or it behalfs like yours and replay
> stops after some seconds.
> 
> sombody here with a low end cpu that hasn't got these problems?

AC3 software decoding probably takes too long. Since decoding happens in 
the input thread, the output ringbuffer could underflow causing the stops.
You could try the -nav10 patch with liba52, it might or might not be 
faster than the old ac3dec.


Have fun

     Andreas