[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-xine-0.4.2 plugin

[Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Luca Olivetti wrote:

> > - New feature for Live-TV mode: "soft-start" replays the stream in slow
> >   motion while buffering. Useful for zapping, where you'll see an image of 
> >   the current program quite early. The stream speed starts now at 50 %,
> >   slows down to 25 % and then speeds up to 100 %. This happens within the
> >   prebuffer time, so you should increase it (e. g. to 50) if you experience
> >   problems.
> I don't know if this feature is causing the problem, but with this 
> release of the plugin xine "freezes" after changing channels (not always 
> but quite frequently), it seems just after doing this trick (i.e when 
> speed has supposedly reached 100%). Sometimes if I wait long enough (a 
> minute or so) it will start working again, sometimes pressing "q" will 
> unlock video but no audio and xine won't respond to any keypress. 
> Sometimes pressing "q" would end xine. Most of the times though I have 
> to kill xine and run it again (vdr itself is still working). I took the 
> xine snapshot from the plugin home page, and I tried increasing the 
> prebuffer time with no success.
I'm sorry for causing such troubles.

So the freeze happens just after VDR stops writing '.' to console, right?
Are there any 'P' characters or even 'Clear'?

Does 'xine --verbose=2' provide any useful information?

The (almost) last output should be 'set_speed 4' to prove your observations.

Please tell a little bit about your hardware. It's likely that I don't run 
into your troubles using a Pentium 4 HT 2.8 GHz.

Bye.
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@gmx.de