[mythtv] [Experimental PATCH] BIG DVB PATCH V3.2 Released

[tj]

Taylor Jacob wrote:

> I still don't think its as easy as it should be.. It should be hit a 
> button and
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>it scans the entire TV band.. :)
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Oh well, your're still going to work on improving it right? Personally I 
feel its good enough as it is (Myth as it is already beats every Windows 
htpc software crap hands down. It is the only software I tried that 
actually pauses, rev and ff live TV properly every time).

I think ur docs says enter 1 transponder and it will scan and discover 
other transponders? For my case, I have to enter all the transponder 
freqs in the advanced menu (but maybe I didn't follow your docs properly).

>>Tune to a HD channel and software AC3 decoding doesn't appear to work on
>>my setup....
>>Will test it again later tonite when I have more time....
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>You have to have lib52a installed.. You should check in your backend log
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Doesn't myth refer to it's own a52 decoder in libs/libavcodec/a52dec.c??

There's a option in configure that allows me to link against the liba52 
library, will try that tonite and see if it works.

>(amongst all the debug I have) and see if you get the "AC3 Audio:" lines.  If
>this is the case then the audio is going into the NUV..
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Yup, mythbackend detects AC3 fine, at least the bitstream and freq give 
me a non-zero value. (is it possible to change that line to tell me 
whether I am in 5.1 or in stereo as well?)

My frontend still doesn't like the AC3 audio too much though, it will 
either (a) play sound with alot of breaks and alot of prebuffer pauses 
(not sure which software audio decoder is used), or (b) segfault when 
calling free(), the last msg saying it cannot find a codec registered 
for some codec_id (can't remember the hex value now as I'm at work, will 
post a follow up mail later today)..

I encountered symptom (b)  before when I forced private stream 1 as  
audio (I think I changed something in mpeg.c though I'm not sure whether 
that's still applicable after applying patch dvb 3.1).


Regards.