[vdr] Problems with the xine plugin (ver 0.7.6)

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Philip Lawatsch wrote:

> I recently decided to upgrade from vdr 1.3.13 + an older xine plugin to 
> 1.3.34 and xine plugin 0.7.6.
> 
> I'm using xine-lib 1.1.0 with the xine plugin.
> 
> Now I've compiled both the same xine-lib and vdr once for x86 and once 
> for x86_64 (so I'm really using the same source) but only the version 
> for x86_64 works.
> 
> If I strace the xine process running on my x86 machine I can see that it 
> closes /tmp/vdr-xine/stream right after a few reads. This does not 
> happen on the x86_64 one.

The below strace extract doesn't contain a close(7).

> Would someone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?
> All pipes in /tmp/vdr-xine are present and have sane permissions. I'm 
> using the same glibc versions and am using non nptl ones in both cases.
> 
> VDR is not patched in any way and I'm not using any CC flags besides the 
> default ones.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

I don't think that it has anything to do with opening the fifos, as they 
open properly just before the call to clone().

Are you sure that your xine-lib get's called in the x86 case and not an 
older version which lacks support for some of vdr-xine's remote 
procedure calls?

> kind regards Philip
> 
>  ---- strace of x86 version ----
> open("/tmp/vdr-xine/stream", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
> poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 300) = 1
> fcntl64(7, F_GETFL)                     = 0x8800 (flags 
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE)
> fcntl64(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> open("/tmp/vdr-xine/stream.control", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 8
> open("/tmp/vdr-xine/stream.result", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9
> open("/tmp/vdr-xine/stream.event", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 10
> clone(child_stack=0xac97a504, 
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID, 
> parent_tidptr=0xac97abf8, {entry_number:6, base_addr:0xac97abb0, 
> limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, 
> limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}, 
> child_tidptr=0xac97abf8) = 22198
> futex(0x873ff38, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> futex(0x873ff34, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> futex(0x873ff1c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> futex(0x8750bf0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> gettimeofday({1129110121, 21324}, NULL) = 0
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1129110121, 21382000}) = 0
> futex(0x873fa24, FUTEX_WAIT, 15, {0, 999942000}) = 0
> gettimeofday({1129110121, 21857}, NULL) = 0
> futex(0x873fa08, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 0
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1129110121, 21958000}) = 0
> futex(0x873fa24, FUTEX_WAIT, 17, {0, 999899000}) = 0
> futex(0x873fa08, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)   = 0
> futex(0x873fa08, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 0
> futex(0x873f344, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> futex(0x8d1c9c8, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 1
> clone(child_stack=0xabfac504, 
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID, 
> parent_tidptr=0xabfacbf8, {entry_number:6, base_addr:0xabfacbb0, 
> limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, 
> limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}, 
> child_tidptr=0xabfacbf8) = 22199
> nanosleep({0, 100000}, {0, 0})          = 0
> open("/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/cetus-24.xinefont.gz", O_RDONLY) = 8
> fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11552, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
> 0) = 0xadc30000
> read(8, "\37\213\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\355}\365\227-\315v\320\351\362"..., 
> 131072) = 11552
> read(8, "", 131072)                     = 0
> _llseek(8, 0, [11552], SEEK_CUR)        = 0
> read(8, "", 131072)                     = 0
> close(8)                                = 0
> 
>  ---- end strace of x86 version ----
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Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
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