[linux-dvb] Re: VDR 0.80pre4

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

Dave Chapman wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 05 May 2001  2:46 pm, you wrote:
> > - There are still occasional segfaults, especially when recording on
> >   one DVB card and changing channels on another card, or in transfer
> >   mode. These segfaults apparently occur in the 'poll()', 'select()' or
> >   'ioctl()' functions. My current assumption is that there is either
> >   some fundamental error in VDR, or the driver does something wrong
> >   in the poll or ioctl functions. Or maybe its only on my system - I am
> >   using SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.4 as it comes with SuSE.
> 
> I haven't checked your code, but I've found that the poll command only works
> if you open the device in non-blocking mode.

All the devices that do data transfers _are- opened in non-blocking mode.

> > - Sometimes video and audio are out of sync, even if a channel is viewed
> >   'live'. I have no idea where this could come from, must be a driver
> >   problem!?
> 
> There is an  option to turn on AV_SYNC - I think it's part of the
> /dev/ost/audio device.  I haven't tried it, as I have never had sync problems.

I wouldn't have thought that this would be necessary in live viewing, but
I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Klaus
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