[vdr] Re: AC3overDVB DTS Dropouts

[Gerald Raaf <graaf@attglobal.net>]

Stefan Huelswitt schrieb:

> On 16 Nov 2003 Morfsta <morfsta@irmplc.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone else experience regular DTS dropouts on DVDs with the
> > AC3overDVB patch? Its the first time I have tried it, so I can't compare
> > it with previous versions.
>
> >From my expirience this is most probably not an AC3overDVB
> problem but rather a DVD drive problem.
>
> Some drives (my drive, a LG DRD-8120B, too) seems to delay some
> data transfers and so the data stream is interrupted for a short
> time. The problem increases if there is a HD connected to the
> same IDE channel as the DVD drive.
>
> I can get nearly perfect replay by using:
>
> hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 -a0 -X66 /dev/hdc
>
> -d1  enable DMA
> -c1  32bit IO
> -u1  unmask IRQ
> -a0  disable read-ahead
> -X66 enable UDMA2 (my drive can't do a faster mode, 68=UDMA4
>      69=UDMA5)
>
> I'm using -u1 for all harddisk too.
>
> And for me it's the best to set the read-ahead in the DVD plugin
> setup menu to 0 as well.
>
> > I am using: -
> >
> > vdr-1.2.6
> > AC3overDVB-0.2.2a
> > dvd-0.3.4-rc10
>
> Same here. Kernel 2.4.22.

it must be a plugin problem.
You can use dvd-0.3.4-rc6 this version play's dvd's Ok with DTS and/or AC3, in
dvd-0.3.4-rc10, i got dropouts in AC3 and DTS.

dvd-0.3.4-rc7 ...-rc9 don't compile with vdr-1.2.6 on my machine.

cheers
Gerald

>
>
> Regards.
>
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