[linux-dvb] Re: popen for ac3 and thread (ringbuffer) problem

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andreas Vitting wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> do you know about the problem with the popen function ? You opened it into a
> new Thread, so the thread is the main process for the ac3 decoder (-shell).
> All standard outputs going to the pipe, isn't it ??
> Here is my problem:
> if i open the osd menu (with and w/o ac3 data), vdr crashes and after a
> while the dvb driver too (after 10-20 seconds). I have changed for
> experimental purposes the popen command to the cDvbApi init routine (near to
> OstOpen) and know, you don't believe this,no crashes anymore.
> This behavior is as soon as we start the vdr with the -a switch (it doesn't
> matter, if the recordings were with or w/o ac3 data)

Can anybody else confirm this behaviour?

I like the idea that the AC3 decoder ist started only when an actual
replay is performed, and not running all the time, so I would like
to be very certain about the necessity of this change.

Klaus
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