[vdr] Re: error using mplayer and dxr3

[Stefan Schluenss <dxr3_osd@schluenss.de>]

Hi,

On Sunday 06 April 2003 23:33, you wrote:
> On 06 Apr 2003 Stefan Schluenss <stefan.schluenss@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Is it a good idea to close the device without notifying the dxr3
> >> plugin? VDR surely would crash if someone closed it's device
> >> silently. Any comments from the dxr3 developers?
> >
> > The listener on the other end of this socket is the DXR3-plugin ;-) It
> > releases the dxr3 under full control.
> > Normaly vdr should set the DXR3 playmode to
> > "pmExtern_THIS_SHOULD_BE_AVOIDED"  (see device.h) which results
> > in the same release-behavior.
>
> Well, the mplayer plugin actually uses pmExtern. This playmode was
> introduced only to make the mplayer playback possible (damn hard
> to convince Klaus of this ;).
>
> So at the first look the dxr3-mplayer playback should work out of
> the box, right?
> Seems to be a bug somewhere...
>
> The mplayer playback is constructed with:
>
> cMPlayerPlayer::cMPlayerPlayer(const char *FileName)
>
> :cPlayer(pmExtern_THIS_SHOULD_BE_AVOIDED)
Although vdr couldn't find the mplayer.sh file (i'm too lazy to install the 
mplayer-plugin correctly - didn't need it) it releases the dxr3 ("DXR3 
releasing device" message on tv-out) when starting the mplayer-plugin. 
Maybe it doesn't work correctly because of a race-condition between mplayer 
trying to open  the dxr3 and the dxr3-plugin releasing it.



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