C.Y.M wrote: >>>My theory is that since audio is typically 600ms ahead of video, maybe >>>the audio buffers run over. Strange thing is why this happens >>>reproducible on blackness. Maybe due to extremely low bit rate in this >>>situation, more frames get packed into one data block, causing data flow >>>to be disturbed beyond some limit. It cant be too high data rate, ATV+ >>>has just 2mbit avg, 4mbit max data rate. >>> >>> >>Does it also occur with the latest test firmware? >> http://www.suse.de/~werner/test_av-f22623.tar.bz2 >> >>If yes, please provide short sample clips. >>Please verify that the clips are not damaged, i.e. they play fine with >>mplayer or xine. >> >> >> > >Yes, it still happens on every firmware revision. But, I really dont think this >is a firmware issue as much as it is a VDR one. There must be several ways to >approach this problem but the best way would be an open source solution IMHO. If >mplayer can successfully forward the video every time straight to the FF card >w/o any transcoding, then why cant VDR do the same thing? Im sure someone can >post links to problematic recordings if you need some to test with. > >Best Regards. > >_______________________________________________ >vdr mailing list >vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > > > It can't be a firmware issue at all if Mplayer and VDR are both using the same firmware, and 1 works and the other doesn't, to me that completely rules out the firmware.