[vdr] Re: Quality Of VDR - DVD w/ AC-3 Out

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Don, 2002-07-18 um 23.44 schrieb Christian Vogt:
> >
> > Same here, no difference between my APEX AD-600, PS2 or VDR machine
> > (on a sony
> > 29" 4:3 tv set).
> >
> > > There's no difference between playing DVDs with my VDR and either my
> > > Pioneer DVD-Player or my Yamakawa 860 DVD-Player.
> > >
> 
> 
> What about the time for starting the DVD playback on the VDR machine?
> 
> I have a Samsung SD-616 DVD-drive in a Celeron 700 system and after
> inserting the DVD and selecting DVD in VDR's menu, it takes about 45 seconds
> before i can watch the intro. I always thought this was caused by handling
> (cracking) the CSS scrambling of the DVD and is normal behaviour. If this is
> right, it may be more convenient to play the DVDs with a standalone player.
> 

Seems you're using wrong libraries. There are patched libdvdcss and
libdvdread available which have DVD-keys patched in from old libcss
(search the ML). As they know most keys and don't have to retrieve them
from the DVD-drive, nearly any DVD plays instantly.

The other possibility are libdvdcss and libdvdread from mpdvdkit
(MPlayer). They store the keys in the home-directory, so you get a nice
collection of them. If you have a DVD with new keys they need to
retrieve them only once.

Rene

P.S.: Retrieving keys can last up to 5 minutes with the original
libraries ...