[vdr] Re: Fifo Full - Problem while OSD active (with DXR3)

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:44, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Am Montag, 16. Februar 2004 21:32 schrieb Seppo Ingalsuo:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ma, 2004-02-16 kello 13:26, Qwasi kirjoitti:
> > > While showing the OSD the DXR3 got stuck (freeze) and a „Fifo still
> > > full“ message appears in /var/log/messages
> >
> > I get these too but fortunately the OSD garbage and jamming gets usually
> > corrected automatically in a couple of seconds. The unstable OSD
> > behavior is most annoying in video editing mode.
> >
> > I get also messages such as
> >
> > em8300.o: FIFO sync timeout during blocking write, n = 1832, copy_size =
> > 0, total = 4096, free slots = 0
> >
> > and also
> >
> > em8300_video.o: Video sync rdptr is stuck at 0x00027036, wrptr
> > 0x00027130, left 250
> > em8300_video.o: Video sync timeout
> >
> > One other thing which I have observed is that recent CVS em8300 is
> > rather unstable (vdr crashes, slow live-tv zapping, slow skipping in
> > recordings). CVS from ~ October 2003 operates much better with my
> > adv7171 based dxr3 clone and vdr 1.2.6.
> >
> 
> 
> I haven't checked the logs, yet - but since upgrading from ct'vdr 1.2.2 to 
> 1.2.6 I often had DXR3 crashes when using the OSD. This happens reproduceable 
> when I call the OSD within the first minutes after starting VDR. While use it 
> happens sporadically, especially when switching between OSD table fastly 
> (e.g. being in Timer-menu and pressing the macro key for Recordings-menu, 
> which means the OSD is closed and reopened very fast).

I have always had OSD problems.  As far as I know it is a 'feature' of
the dxr3.

For me it is particularly noticeable using the mp3 plugin when the
progress bar is displayed - sooner or later the display will reset and
there will be an interruption to the music.

> I thougt I broke something myself, but as it seems you have such problems, 
> too. The interesting is that VDR doesn't recover from such a crash. It seems 
> VDR doesn't detect it.

For me, most of the time vdr recovers.  Occasionally it does not. 
(Thats why I have a 'restart vdr' key defined on my remote that calls a
script via irexec!)

dxr3 is usable as it is, but it does have annoying problems.  I am
watching with great interest the development of softmpeg and softdevice
plugins.

> Rene
> 
> 



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