I'm trying to get DVD playback on the TV-out of a PVR-350 model 993 (PAL) working in combination with digital output of sound to my AV receiver.
If I use this: mencoder -ovc copy -oac lavc \ -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=128 \ -af volume=30 -of mpeg -o /dev/video16 dvd://1 I get a great picture, with no tearing or funny effects, but surround sound is converted to stereo (poorly, I might add), and is output through the PVR-350. The sound is in sync, however. This is workable for stereo DVDs, but not for surround sound DVDs. If I use: mplayer -noaspect -framedrop -delay -2.15 \ -vo ivtv:/dev/video16 \ -ao alsa:device=hw#0.2 -ac hwac3, \ -alang en dvd://1 I get great sound, but the picture has tearing, freezes the image for a few seconds sometimes, drops frames sometimes, and sometimes produces strange effects where colored blocks are sprayed across the image like fireworks (I guess because it drops frames in the middle of MPEG blocks, so the aggregate gets corrupted). The A/V is out of sync, and the delay differs per DVD. Mplayer complains a lot about being too slow while playing this, but the CPU load isn't that high. Some DVDs play somewhat OK, but others are just unwatchable. I use the patched mplayer. I have had this problem on all ivtv versions I have tried. Right now I am at ivtv-0.2.0-rc3d and kernel 2.6.10. I don't care about subtitles or OSD, so the image can be copied to the PVR-350 without any processing. It seems all I need is to tell mplayer to copy the MPEG stream to /dev/video16, and not do any processing, or I need to tell mencoder to output the sound through ALSA (with a delay, I suspect). Does anybody know how to do that? Or have another way to get both great picture and sound? Thanks, Gwendolyn. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
