[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] bitstreamout plugin 0.61 (sound loop throughsound card)

[nschmidt-nrw@t-online.de (Norbert Schmidt)]

Dr. Werner Fink wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Norbert Schmidt wrote:
>  
> > Hello Werner,
> >
> > back again I changed channel.c and replay.c as suggested. Additionally I
> > started vdr with LD_ASSUME... but the problem is still there. It always
> > hangs with the same tid (114696), even after a reboot. But I have no idea
> > wether this means something or not ;-).
> >
> > Following your hint about NTPL I did some investigations on gentoo and
> > it seems as if glibc is installed without ntpl-support by default.
> >
> > This is the output of /lib/libc.so.6:
> >
> > GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.3, by Roland McGrath et al.
> > Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> > PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.3 20040217 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3, 
> > propolice-3.3-7).
> > Compiled on a Linux 2.4.21 system on 2004-06-10.
> > Available extensions:
> >       GNU libio by Per Bothner
> >       crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
> >       linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
> >       BIND-8.2.3-T5B
> >       libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
> >       NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
> > For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> > <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
> >
> > As you can see, no ntpl-support is shown.
> >    
> Hmmm ... in other words, if you do
>
>          ps aux | grep vdr
>  
Hi Werner,

yes, I can see several lines of vdr threads ...

> you'll several lines of vdr threads? If not you may
> use
>
>          ps -um --pid `pidof vdr`
>
> to see NPTL thread list.
>  
... and no, I can't see anything with this one.

> Nevertheless, the Forwarding thread of the bitstreamout plugin
> is never woken up and the ringbuffer isn't readed.  Or
> the Forwarding thread is simply not running.
>
> You may try the patch for bitstreamout attached to this
> mail.
>  
Tested this with clean vdr-1.3.9 and bitstreamout archive-extracts,
but unfortunately still with no affect.

In times, when I didn't test bitstreamout, I run vdr-1.3.9 with
osdteletext, femon, mailbox and text2skin plugins without any
bufferoverflow or vdr-hangup.

Thanx anyway and CU
Norbert