[vdr] Re: vdr 1.3.18 cCondWait::SleepMs

[Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:53 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 15:07 +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > All that needs to be done is to wait a little while at this point,
> > making sure the time slice will be given up. It doesn't really matter
> > whether we wait 1, 2 or 3 milliseconds - even 10 would be ok here.
> > 
> > I'll change the time to 3ms, which, according to what I've seen in other
> > postings, should not cause a busy wait.
> 
> Dunno if related or not, but 1.3.18 never returns from pause mode for
> me, nor in time shifting or when watching recordings.  It just consumes
> 100% CPU and "killall -9 vdr" is the only way out.  While time shifting,
> the recording continues in the background so it's not completely hung
> though.  Bumping that SleepMs to 3 or removing the SleepMs altogether
> does not have any effect.
> 
> I don't remember seeing this problem in any < 1.3.18 versions.  This is
> Fedora Core 3, one budget card, and DXR3 output.  I already downgraded
> to threading-patched 1.3.17, which works actually pretty well here.

This is exactly what I'm seeing with a dxr3 and vdr-1.3.18. I'm not sure
what's causing it either. Still trying to work that one out!

Cheers,

Laz