[vdr] Re: DVD plugin with DXR3

[Christian Gmeiner <christian@visual-page.de>]

Robert Sturrock schrieb:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:59:41PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
>  
> > I just tried to watch a DVD with vdr-dvd-0.3.5b06 on VDR 1.3.17 with
> > DXR3 and it was fairly unwatchable: jerky with loss of A/V sync. I think
> > the problem may be because my system is set up for PAL but it's an NTSC
> > DVD.
> >
> > I hacked mplayer.sh so I could play it with MPlayer setting the DXR3 to
> > NTSC mode, and it plays perfectly. So would it be possible for vdr-dvd
> > to switch to NTSC output for NTSC DVDs?
> >    
> I have the same problem with vdr-dvd and my DXR3, and I'm trying to
> watch PAL DVDs with my system setup for PAL, so I'm not sure if that
> is really the problem.  Mplayer and XINE work fine though.
>
> Since I prefer Xine for DVD viewing (menu support etc..) I would like
> to setup VDR to simply launch Xine with the right parameters when I
> want to watch a DVD.  Is there any easy way to do this or would it
> be necessary to write a plugin?
>
>  
I hope we can get everything working. The pre3 release of the dxr3 
plugin will all possibilities of the DXR3 - a dvd watching card :)
For instance, the whole menu stuff of a dvd will be now proecced in 
hardware. So we should get a very fast and error-free menu of
a dvd.

Greets

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Christian Gmeiner
Maintainer of the DXR3-Plugin for VDR: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxr3plugin/
Maintainer of VDR-Ebuilds at Gentoo.de