[Softdevice-devel] Suspending the playback at shutdown

[Nicolas Huillard]

Marko Mäkelä a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:20:16AM +0300, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> 
>>Over the weekend, the nvram-wakeup magic worked, and I recorded a 16:9 film.
>>When I try to edit it (hit 'Pause' and '9' to go to the first edit mark I
>>managed to set), VDR will hang until the -w timeout, and on subsequent runs,
>>VDR will crash every time I press a key on the remote - presumably because
>>DirectFB is not properly uninitialized on the first run.  The remote control
>>is mapped via DirectFB's linux_input.  I'm using only the subtitles and
>>softdevice plugins on VDR 1.3.22.  I'll investigate this further.
> 
> It seems that it's the fine-tuning of the edit marks with '4' and '6' keys
> that will hang VDR.  VDR didn't hang when I let it play those parts of the
> clip where the edit marks were set, or when skipping with 1-minute intervals.
> I'll try with newer versions of VDR and the softdevice plugin later.  Are
> there any hints how to debug VDR, or any documentation on the threads used
> by VDR?

AFAIK, VDR still has deadlock problems when editing marks (particularly 
4 and 6 keys), and using NPTL instead of Linux threads. Try the latter, 
or confirm you're really using it. I had the same behaviour with the 
vdr-xine plugin.

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NH