[vdr] Re: Help! DVD-Problems with Patterson and Findus

[Thomas Mohr <tom23@web.de>]

Andreas Schultz wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 22:21, Thomas Mohr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just a normal emergency call: My kids have given me time until saturday
> > to let them view the new "Patterson und Findus" DVD. But it's
> > stubborn....
> >
> > This afternoon i spent upgrading to latest 1.0.4 with AIO and driver
> > from Klaus page. Still no chance.
> >
> > This is what happens: The DVD starts and plays the intro. When it comes
> > to the menu, the menu is drawn, then a grey frame of approx 80x80. It is
> > possible to enter ONE navigation key, then everything freezes. After a
> > few seconds, the DVB driver restarts, but vdr remains locked and frozen.
> > I need to press reset.
> 
> Aside from the completly frozen thing sounds this like an OSD related firmware
> crash. There might be nothing that can be done about it. Then again, you
> could just have hit one of two most resilent bugs in the dvd stuff.
> I have be chasing a random memory corruption for the last few days. One i have
> found, but the other is still remaining. Both cause vdr to segault very early
> during dvd playback.
> You can try if the following patch helps. It fixes a sizing problem with the
> IframeAssembler. But as i said, there is a second problem still pending.
> 
> ===== dvd.c 1.22 vs edited =====
> --- 1.22/dvd.c  Wed May  8 16:07:06 2002
> +++ edited/dvd.c        Tue Jul  9 13:14:34 2002
> @@ -382,6 +382,7 @@
>  cIframeAssembler::cIframeAssembler(void)
>  {
>    iframe = (uchar *)malloc(CIF_MINSIZE * 1024);
> +  size = CIF_MINSIZE * 1024;
>    Clear();
>  }
> 

Hi Andreas,

sorry, no change. The grey translucent square still shows up at the
bottom of the picture, instead of one of the animated menu icons. The
next key freezes.

If it helps, i am ready to try more patches. Just tell me which
combinations to install. 

Let's fix it :-)

P.S. ogle does have no problem at all.

 - Thomas

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