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

[Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>]

Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
>
> > > Isn't that strange: it was working perfectly for almost two weeks 
> > > now, but yesterday evening I realized the same behaviour.
>
> But I couldn't reproduce it anymore.
>
> A first try to solve the issue might be the following patch:
>
>     http://home.vr-web.de/~rnissl/vdr-xine-0.4.2-1.patch.gz
>
> It reduces the number of dots written to console to only two (the first 
> and the last one). Furthermore, it sends no more than 20 speed changes 
> to xine. These fixes should reduce CPU load dramatically.
No luck, it still does the same.

> Please check, how many frames get dropped now. In my case it were 
> typically 3 to 5 before and after the patch, so I have no idea, if it 
> works now.
Around 150

> If you find time to experiment, you might want to replace the cos() 
> function by some other function, that issues even fewer speed changes, 
> e. g. just the discreate values 25 %, 50 %, 75 %, 100 %, each after a 
> quarter of the slow start period.

Tried that, no luck. Now, I'm starting to suspect a local
configuration/compile/whatever problem: I took xineDevice.c from 0.4.1
and it hangs too from time to time:

VDR: flush buffers (vb: 0, ab: 0, vf: 0, af: 0) done.
prebuffer=108000 pts
video discontinuity #30, type is 0, disc_off 0
waiting for audio discontinuity #30
audio discontinuity #30, type is 0, disc_off 0
waiting for in_discontinuity update #30
vpts adjusted with prebuffer to 3215220
load_plugins: plugin mad will be used for audio streamtype 01.
audio_oss_out: ao_open rate=48000, mode=8, dev=/dev/dsp
audio_oss_out: audio rate : 48000 requested, 48000 provided by device
audio_oss_out: 2 channels output
output sample rate 48000
audio jump, diff=-7049052693
inserting 3758624895 0-frames to fill a gap of 7049142661 pts
video discontinuity #31, type is 0, disc_off 0
waiting for audio discontinuity #31
ao_close
no streams left, closing driver


(then after a couple minutes resumed playing).
Tried rebuilding the whole 0.4.1 (instead of using only xineDevice.c) 
and it still does the same (even with the old version of xine).


Bye.


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