Re: DVD Video w/ AC3 audio

Sujal has mentioned he has CinemaSix "hard-wired" for stereo and will be 
fixing it.  For the most part it has been playing VOB's for me pretty 
good.  On the ones where the audio just doesn't want to sync I have come 
up with some tricks that seem to be working.  It's a combination of 
rotate-pause-play.  After you hit the rotate button and play resumes hit 
the pause button.  I find that the video pauses and the audio will 
continue for a second or two before pausing.  Sometimes you can just hit 
play and all is is good.  Other times I find that hitting pause then 
play after less than a second gets everything lined up.  Usually jumps 
again when a file change occurs.  Rotate-pause-play, good to go.

I haven't played with the PS to TS stuff since Sujal released MpegPSPlay 
but I was just wondering if balazer's recently released tools might help 
this process.  The only problem I was left with previously was that 
sound would go awry at a file change.  Ultimately the time involved in 
converting everything over just doesn't seem worth it.

Patiently awaiting the program stream secrets due some time this summer.

- Travis

Derek Taubert wrote:

>I've tried a number of different ways to play DVD material on the HD1000
>with only a little success.
>
>1) DVD -> VOB files
>I used DVDDecrypter (http://www.dvddecrypter.com/) in stream editing mode to
>create VOB files (MPEG2 Program Streams) with only the MPEG-2 video and AC3
>audio:
>    Found stream id 0xBF  = Private Stream 2
>    Found stream id 0xE0  = Video Stream 0
>    Found stream id 0xBE  = Padding Stream
>    Found stream id 0xBD  = Private Stream 1, substream 0x80, AC3 Audio
>stream 0
>
>These play back with CinemaSix 0.9, but:
>    -) Audio is stereo PCM, not AC3 5.1
>    -) Audio is pretty much always out of sync (even after hitting rotate)
>
>
>2) DVD -> MPEG2 Transport Stream
>VLC (http://www.videolan.org) does this pretty cleanly, but I can't figure
>out how it chooses the audio program.  A sample file looks like:
>    Found PID 0x0000, Program Association Table Stream
>    Found PID 0x0042, Other Stream
>    Found PID 0x0044, stream id 0xE0 = Video Stream 0
>    Found PID 0x0045, stream id 0xBD = Private Stream 1
>
>These play with StreamPlayer, but:
>    -) No audio at all
>
>With CinemaSix 0.9:
>    -) Audio is Stereo PCM, not AC3
>
>
>3) DVD -> MPEG2 Transport Stream -> ATSC compatible MPEG2 Transport Stream
>Use VLC as above, then use the TStoATSC tool found at
>http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~balazer/atsc/ to perform the last step.
>I used the -c option.  Note that it NULL pads the output, so the files (and
>bit rates) get a log bigger.
>    Found PID 0x0011, stream id 0xE0 = Video Stream 0
>    Found PID 0x0000, Program Association Table Stream
>    Found PID 0x0010, Other Stream
>    Found PID 0x1FFF, Null Packet Stream
>    Found PID 0x0014, stream id 0xBD = Private Stream 1
>
>StreamPlayer:
>    -) AC3 5.1 audio with good sync (!!!)
>
>CinemaSix 0.9:
>    -) Audio is still Stereo PCM, not AC3
>    -) Video/audio is choppy and audio will stop after a while
>    -) Remote stops responding (running out of CPU?)
>
>
>Thoughts/comments?
>
>Derek
>
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