VCube HD2k - AES output not functionning

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VCube HD2k - AES output not functionning

Postby Steven1145 » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:36

Hello Laurent,

I'm still having problems with the AES audio output of the Xena2k card. It seems that whatever setting I use I cannot get clean audio out of the AES outputs. It sounds like a bad clock problem (audio is sort of looped and totally glitched).

The audio is referenced to the video input clocks.

Any ideas?


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Postby Laurent Sevestre » Tue Sep 11, 2007 16:04

Hello Steven,

What is the HD format you use? Do you use a tri-level video ref?
What happens when the video card is in free run?

Laurent

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Postby Steven1145 » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:45

HD format is 1080 24psf. Actually the audio output works with some clips but not all. Imported WMV HD clips sometimes work: could it be a codec issue, or is the CPU struggling to decode the picture and not taking care of the audiio?

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Postby Laurent Sevestre » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:35

For sure WMV HD stresses CPUs. This file format uses long GOP and is HD. So when seeking into the media files, the CPUs may be overloaded.
Do you also experiment audio clicks when this file is converted to a CPU frendly format such . cube with MJPEG compression codec?

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Postby Steven1145 » Wed Sep 12, 2007 13:41

Once converted (like I do with H264) I still get occasionnal hiccups and loops. Still a bit weird. And while I'm bothering you when I try to import H264 movies (like Quicktime film trailers to demo our system) the movie appears in the upper left corner of the screen, and all the rest of the screen is green. Once converted to MJPEG it stays that way, but can read without picture slowdowns or hiccups.

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Postby Laurent Sevestre » Wed Sep 12, 2007 13:57

H.264 is just another variety of MPEG long GOP codec. So that doesn't reduce CPU requirement. Long GOP codec, especially in HD, should be avoided for post production purpose because of the poor seeking they allow and the CPU horse power they need.
DVC-PRO HD, MJPEG or YUY2 must be prefered since those codec use intra-frame compression that is CPU friendly.

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Postby Steven1145 » Wed Sep 12, 2007 15:13

I understand the GOP weighing on the CPU. However, what's happening with the small picture in a green screen? (this only concerns H264 playback).

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Postby Laurent Sevestre » Wed Sep 12, 2007 15:31

Which VCube version do you use?
I can't reproduce the problem using VCube 1.3.0.53 with HD trailers downloaded from the Apple web site.
Could you drop me a link to the problematic file?

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Postby gabriel » Sat Dec 01, 2007 19:27

Dear all,

Maybe a similar issue here: I obtained problems with embedded audio playback of native, uncompressed audio and video files. It seems related to the audio disk playback performance, which showed bad values (in playback monitor) during first run of a loop. If a loop is replayed again, it works without problems. Since HD video 720p50 is played ok, it's probably not related to the disk itself.

To me it's very strange, Merging having troubles with audio...

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