[vdr] Re: dvd-plugin (rc11) problem

[Patrick Cernko <errror@ps.uni-sb.de>]

Also sprach tero.knuth@iki.fi zu "02.06.2004 13:20" Anno Domini:
> I've got my VDR 1.3.8 up and running with Femon, subtitles and dvd plugins.
>
> I'm having weird problems with my dvd plugin (rc11). I start my VDR with 
> rc.local and everything else works but when I try to play a dvd, VDR restarts. 
> This far everything is quite understandable but after I killall runvdr 
> and ./runvdr and try to play a dvd I get "No accelerated IMDCT transform 
> found". If I now hit Ctrl + C, VDR restarts. The weird part is that after this 
> I can play DVDs with VDR. The problem is that now when I want to watch DVDs, I 
> first have to kill vdr, then rerun it and do the other tricks before I can. 
> What might be the problem with my setup?
I had a similar problem, which I finally got debuged to:

libdvdnav requests the $HOME environment variable and makes a assertion 
affterwarts that it exists. In my debian system, it does NOT exists for 
boottime init scripts which lead to a segfault ("asserting failed"). If 
I started vdr from a comand shell afterwards it exists of course so the 
problem always disapeared! The simple solution is to set $HOME before 
starting vdr, to make sure it is set for it. Just put a

export HOME=/root

directly before the point where you start vdr in rc.local!

CU
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