Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> Hi, this later patch now corrects problems when un/replugging the A/V feeds. I
> found that it would frequently lose audio sync, or acquire strange buzzing
> noises. Oh, and my test decoder program (kaffeine, based on xine) tended to
> lock up when the video went missing as well - so the encoder must have been
> outputting rubbish.
>
> It's really annoying: the SAA6752hs encoder chip has all these funky commands
> like "START", "STOP", "PAUSE" etc - problem is they don't work properly!
>
> To fix that, if you unplug the video it will now hard reset the encoder. When
> you plug it back, it will reconfigure and restart it with the last settings
> used. It means you won't get any data at all if the video signal is missing,
> but theres no other way to be 100% reliable with this chip.
Well, this will not be weird since you didn't get anything if you load
the module when the video signal was not plugged. Seems a good solution
for me.
I'm eager to check all these improvements.
--
Samuel
