[vdr] Re: AW: Re: Audio+Video getting out ouf sync while replaying?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

Hi,

I have a 4 DVB system running all time and I have noticed ARM crashes
only very seldom even I use it very intensiv. There was a time from
October till the beginning of january were there was not one crash.
Since january I have about one crash a week. 
The most stable version was the DVB Treiber 20010817 combined with
VDR-0.94.

Emil

Currently I use dvb-20011117 combined with vdr-99pre4.

Emil


On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:21:54 +0100, "Seeberg, Ingo" <iseeberg@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hello people,
> 
> it's really annoying because VDR crashes very often during fast
> switching operations, ie. cutting oder fforward.
> Got the same problem and as far as I know there isn't even a workaround
> is there?
> 
> VDR works great during normal operation and the patches available are
> very usefull.
> 
> I have to apply some patches this weekend - let's wait till then :-)
> 
> 
> Greetz - and thx for so much work (@ Klaus and others...)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Carsten Koch [mailto:Carsten.Koch@icem.de] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2002 21:09
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] Re: Audio+Video getting out ouf sync while replaying?
> 
> 
> Thomas Keil wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >>>The "crash" is like if you fforward, it suddenly stops, then the 
> > >>>"convergence media" thingy appears at the bottom and forwarding 
> > >>>starts again, but vdr won't react to commands anymore....
> > >>>
> > >>I had the same effect when I used the Hauppauge Remote Control and 
> > >>its Receiver. With a serial homebrew LIRC receiver it didn't occur 
> > >>anymore.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Check the /var/log/messages file.
> > >Are there any "ARM crashed!" messages in that file?
> > >
> > >% fgrep ARM /var/log/messages
> > >Feb 14 21:54:56 vdr kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!
> > >Feb 14 23:07:38 vdr kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!
> > >
> > Indeed it does:
> > 
> > Feb 19 21:33:31 sauron vdr[20353]: playing [snip]
> > Feb 19 21:33:32 sauron vdr[20367]: output thread started (pid=20367) 
> > Feb 19 21:33:32 sauron vdr[20368]: input thread started (pid=20368) 
> > Feb 19 21:34:40 sauron kernel: dvb0: ARM crashed!
> > 
> > Does anyone know what it means?
> 
> 
> I believe it means that the firmware in the ARM processor on the card
> has crashed.
> 
> A friend of mine is seeing this very often during normal
> use of vdr.
> I can reproduce that error easily when editing vdr recordings (see the
> list archives). It also happens here when I switch between play, pause,
> fast forward and fast reverse too quickly.
> 
> I tracked the problem down once and found out that a certain OSD ioctl
> is always the last command to the dvb driver before the ARM crashes.
> Unfortunately, the driver developers have little interest in the OSD, so
> it is unlikely that they will fix this.  :-( IMHO, it is the most
> annoying remaining bug.
> 
> Carsten.
> 
>