On 03.09.2009 12:10, Falk Spitzberg wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 08:49 -0700 schrieb VDR User: >> Sounds like your question is more appropriate for the vendors customer >> support of that product. > > Definitly not, because my question ist only about the VDR core. I am > just trying to find out what VDR does different when it transfers data > to a device in live TV compared to replay from disk. That's completely > independent from any device that's in use. > > Maybe that the eHD card is the only output device that crashes on VDR TS > replays. The following is related to recent developer versions of VDR 1.7.x. In live mode (i.e. "Transfer Mode", since the eHD has no tuner) the TS data stream is written into a ring buffer by the receiving device (e.g. a DVB-S(2) card) and from there it is sent to the output device (the eHD plugin) through a call to PlayTs(). In this case every TS packet is sent to the output device separately. During replay data is read from disk and stored in a ring buffer that holds entire "frames", which are just a sequence of TS packets that make up one video frame (including audio). The output device's PlayTs() is called with an entire frame. The only real difference between live mode and replay I can see is that in live mode TS packets are sent individually to the output device, while in replay mode larger blocks of data are sent. However, I don't see why this would cause the problems you observe. AFAIK the Reel plugin requires several patches to the core VDR code, so there may well be things I simply don't know of, because I haven't looked into the Reel code (yet). Maybe it's ok if I use this opportunity to ask if somebody could point me to a "complete idiot's guide to installing the eHD software" (meaning the necessary software that goes into the eHD itself, as well as the latest version of their plugin). I know, I could search for this myself, but I'm sure there's somebody out there who knows exactly where to find these ;-) Maybe I'll find the time to actually bring up my eHD and adapt the plugin to the latest developer version of VDR... Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
