Laz schrieb: > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 21:56, Martin Wache wrote: > >> Laz, how do you suspend your vdr? Do you use Marko's patch or the >> softdevice suspend method? > > All I'm doing is pressing "pause" whilst I go off and do something (then > get distracted and end up coming back a long time later!), unpausing > playback, and then I get the ca. 1 s of playback before it dies. Offhand,
Is this video only, audio only, or both? > I can't remember whether this is softdevice bombing out with something > like an "invalid address" error (which I still get occasionally) or > whether vdr itself hangs. > > As I said, I could never manage to induce this bug when I tried! It only > ever happens when paused for a long time, though. > > A thought (probably totally off-track and irrelevant!): how long in terms > of playback time do the softdevice buffers hold (can't really check this > now; I think I'm set to "Good seeking")? Hmm, sorry right now I don't now. > I.e., am I seeing the buffers > being flushed over about 1 s and then it dies because there is no more > MPEG stream being fed into them (or no more is requested)? > Not sure what happens. In one of the backtraces Marko sent it looked like the video decoder thread got deadlocked. > I posted something about this problem on the main vdr mailing list a while > back and someone reported that you can pause "forever" with a > full-featured card. > I also never had problems when I closed the ShmClient. The softdevice is then automatically suspended. However I'm not sure if that means anything... I will try some experiments at the weekend. If you, or anyone else experiences could you please try to attach to the vdr with a gdb and post backtraces like Marko did? Maybe we get some hints from them. Bye, Martin _______________________________________________ Softdevice-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/softdevice-devel
