[linux-dvb] Re: New CVS Driver and OSD crashes with vdr -a (was: popen.....)

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

Robert Schneider wrote:
> 
> >> DVB driver 14.08.2001 (no modifications except for loading with
> vidmode=2)
> >> VDR 0.92 (I tried the original and my patched version with MP3,
> trickmode
> >> and showmode, both behave the same)
> >
> >Funktionieren _beide_, oder haben beide den Fehler?
> 
> both versions of VDR hang up at replaying recordings when the OSD is up and
> the -a parameter has been specified and the command specified there is
> available.
> 
> The hangup has some connection to the pipe used for AC3. What I do to avoid
> hangups, I rename my ac3dec before I replay recordings that I know have no
> AC3 data. The hangup does not occur if the ac3dec command cannot be found
> by VDR when it starts replaying.

Since you wrote that you are using kernel 2.4.0 (same as I do) it makes sense that
I try to reproduce such a hangup here on my system.

Does the hangup also occur if you use some other program?
For example

   vdr -a"cat > /dev/null"

or does it _have_ to be ac3dec?

Klaus
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