[vdr] Re: second audio PID on Canal+ broadcasters

[Patrick GUENEAU <pgueneau@wanadoo.fr>]

Ok Philippe,

I will try to answer your (many) questions.

> 
> Would it be possible to use both drivers in the same machine for the same
> card (not at the same time, obviously), without too much hassle (using a
> script to unload one and load the other one, thus switching between
> recording-without-OSD and replaying-with-OSD modes).
> 

Yes of course you can unload one driver then load another one. But I am 
having 2 problems with this kind of swicth :

- Using convergence You have to loop load/unload/wait 10se until the CAM 
is detected (ASTON string written in /var/log/message file) If you don"t 
do that CAM is not working. I can be long (10 minutes or more sometimes)

- If you don"t wait for CAM detection driver freeze early and after each 
replay, you have to load/unload.


> Now that there seems to be a working VDR to Video-DVD solution, I think I'm
> gonna set up a VDR machine soon, but I guess I'm going to need the OSD to
> cut my recordings before using the vdr2dvd tools.
> 
> What would be the minimal setup for me (since I don't want to record and
> replay simultaneously, but would want to record CanalSatellite France
> broadcasters). I was thinking:
> - P3@1Ghz
> - one full-featured card with CI and AstonCrypt 1.05 CAM (is the hauppauge
> card the right choice here?)
> - the easiest distro for installing vanilla VDR (ok, no distro war here...
> I'm just a newbie who doesn't mind spending a couple of days or weeks
> setting up his system, but doesn't want to make his life more complicated
> than necessary)
> - Pioneer 04 DVD-R burner
> 

I am using an Athlon with 1 rev 1.3 card with no problem (CPU is allmost 
idle). People have reported working configuration with only a Pentium 
200MMX.

The only problem may be recording and DVD burning at the same time 
depending on IDE setup.



> How can subtitles be recorded? Is there any way to burn them into the
> resulting Video-DVD (possibly using windows)?
> How do I check the MPEG2 resolutions at which the Canalsat channels
> broadcast, so that I can determine whether they are compatible Video-DVD
> resolutions (otherwise, I guess I'll have to transcode)?
> 

Concerning Subtitles, I think there is only my patch to support Teletext 
subtitles (the one used by Canal+). It is working well but is still 
havig a few bugs (PTS reset and conversion don't know why).

MPEG2 resolution is 720x576 on Canal+ and most CineCinemas channels
You can check it using streamtype tool from DVB driver mpegtools or have 
a look at MPlayer output to see what it recognized.

Patrick.



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