Hi there,
well, I haven't used softdevice anymore for a long time, because I had some
strange video issues (only black screen with OSD, no video), and after I
decided to start with a fresh new system on my VDR machine, now I'm giving
vdr-1.7.7 a try, with the plugins that work already with it, softdevice
being one of them.
I tried this with softdevice-0.5.0.20090218 (as packaged in gentoo) and
CVS,
and my problem is that my external amplifier hooked up via optical SPDIF
detects no signal when …
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recordings. This works however when playing a video file with an AC3 track
in fbxine for example. I mostly copied over the settings from my old
system,
where even this ac3 passtrhrough with softdevice used to work. Here are
some
settings and outputs that might be relevant:
In /etc/vdr/setup.conf, I have:
CurrentDolby = 1
DolbyTransferFix = 0 # don't know what this does, there is no difference
UseDolbyDigital = 1
UseDolbyInRecordings = 1
softdevice.AC3Mode = 1 # should be passthrough, right?
'aplay -l' shows:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 0: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
DAC/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 1: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI 2nd
DAC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CMI8738 [C-Media CMI8738], device 2: CMI8738-MC6 [C-Media PCI
IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
'aplay -L' shows:
front:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
Front speakers
rear:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
Rear speakers
surround40:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI 2nd DAC
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
iec958:CARD=CMI8738,DEV=0
C-Media CMI8738, C-Media PCI DAC/ADC
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
And the most important, the parameters given to the softdevice plugin:
'--plugin=softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv -ao alsa:pcm=default#ac3=hw:0,2#'
I have to mention that normal mpeg audio is decoded and sent as PCM to the
SPDIF, only AC3 and only with vdr softdevice is the problem. I tried hw:0,0
and hw:0,1 as well, but no sound. How to deal with this, did I miss
something?
Lucian
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Hello,
i recently built a vdr-1.7.6 + reelbox pluging, following the vdr-wiki
for VDR DVB-S2 on OpenSuse.
Everything was build properly, but unfortunately the eHD freezes after a
few Minutes (not only when replaying recordings, but also with live TV).
I know that there are some problems concerning the new TS format of
VDR.
Does anyone have a solution for this problem? I don't like the idea to
use VDR 1.7.0 or an even older version.
Any help is greatly appreceated.
--
Falk Spitzberg
Tel: +…
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E-Mail: post(a)spitzberg.de
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