[vdr] Re: Green screen problem with vdr-dxr3 and vdr-streamdev

[hm@seneca.muc.de]

Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk> wrote:

> Remove the Elchi patch. I would be very surprised if it works, given how 
> limited the OSD of the Dxr3 is (it's implemented as DVD subpictures / 
> subtitles)

That did the trick - sort of. Thanks for the hint. 

I am now getting the infamous "Video sync rdptr is stuck" message whenever
I try to switch channels:

Sep 27 20:43:24 linvdr vdr[4104]: switching to channel 6
Sep 27 20:43:24 linvdr vdr[4130]: transfer thread ended (pid=4130)
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr kernel: em8300_video.o: Video sync rdptr is stuck at 0x0001b8fc, wrptr 0x0001b9f6, left 250
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr kernel: em8300_video.o: Video sync timeout
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr vdr[4131]: receiver thread ended on device 6 (pid=4131)
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr vdr[4104]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr vdr[4135]: transfer thread started (pid=4135)
Sep 27 20:43:25 linvdr vdr[4136]: receiver thread started on device 6 (pid=4136)

The server appears to do things right:

Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28640]: Streamdev: Pid streamer thread stopped
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28641]: receiver thread ended on device 2 (pid=28641)
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: Streamdev: Detaching streamer for device selection
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: Streamdev: Reattaching transceiver after device selection
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: Streamdev: Setting data connection to 192.168.20.20:1516
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: Streamdev: Detaching streamer for device selection
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28632]: Streamdev: Reattaching transceiver after device selection
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28644]: Streamdev: Pid streamer thread started (pid=28644)
Sep 27 20:43:25 seneca vdr[28645]: receiver thread started on device 2 (pid=28645)


I found various references to this error using Google but none of them
gave me any useful hint. 

And by the way - I get no green screens but the screen stays grey. The OSD
messages can be seen just fine when switching channels.  

Here's my setup.conf settings for now: 

server:
streamdev-server.StartServer = 1

client:
streamdev-client.RemoteIp = 192.168.20.1
streamdev-client.StartClient = 1
streamdev-client.SyncEPG = 1

Am I missing something? 

I also tried to use the current em8300-0.15.0-cvs but I can't compile it.
em8300.h from em8300 is incompatible with the em8300.h in the SUSE 9.0
kernel -- struct em8300_s has a new member nr_card to support multiple DXR3
cards. ... and I don't want to hack the thing too much. 

Any hint is appreciated ... 


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