[vdr] Re: New firmware fixes memory sharing with OSD

["Christian Jacobsen" <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>]

Hallo,

> There have been several reports that the firmware version 2615, which
> introduced SDRAM sharing between OSD and TT re-insertion (to make more
> SDRAM available to the video buffer) broke some plugins that use rather
> large OSD areas, and even VDR's own menus didn't work with 'width'
> and/or 'height' larger than the default.
>
> There is now a new firmware version 2616 in the driver CVS which
> should fix this. Those who had problems should please try this one
> and report whether it works.

JFYI, with the New Firmware the VDRC plugin works again, but the Bitstream
plugin is kind of "broken". The sound is interrupted very offen every second
so that it is sort of bibbering. Only if I use hw_sections=1 it works again.
But as I had serveral restarts and even crashes using the Newer Drivers
(08.06.03 from klaus and 09.06.03 from CVS) and hw_sections=1. I have
returned to 24.05.2003 (from Klaus's Website) here all plugins Work and I
did not notice anything that I need from never Drivers so that I will Stay
here until a better driver comes out or it is needed for a future Version ;)
btw. with the 1.0.0pre3 and CVS 02.06.03 Bitstreamout works with
hw_sections=0 but VDRC is "broken".

I must say I did not use a Vanilla VDR for this (shame on me). But as I
would like to keep on using these Patches / Plugins and as I used exactly
the Same VDR version/patches/Plugins for all DVB versions it I belive it is
a DVB problem.

If it is needed I can redo the tests under Vanilla VDR.

VDR 1.2.1
DVB 24.05.03  (hw_sections=0)
DVB 02.06.03  (hw_sections=0)
DVB 1.0.0pre3 (hw_sections=0)
DVB 08.06.03  (hw_sections=1)
DVB 09.06.03  (hw_sections=1)

PATCHES :
ElchiAIO3a
Bitstreamout-0.42d

PLUGINS:
Bitstreamout
tvtv
mplayer
dvd
streamdev (only http streaming)
vdrc

Greetings
Christian



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