[vdr] xinelibout sxfe freeze

[Malcolm Caldwell]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:23 +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote:
> Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
> > Is sxfe freezing a known issue?  Any fix? 
> 
> It freezes eventually with every software combination i have used (very 
> infrequently at best).

I used softdevice for years and honestly do not think freezing was a
problem.

> Workaround is to kill frontend with remote and irexec. I run frontend in 
> loop, so it starts again in 2 sec.

I have setup a key on the physical keyboard to do such.

Thanks for pointing out that I can check the return values, that could
be useful.

One thing that I notice is that when vdr-sxfe freezes I can no longer do
a svdrp GRAB.  So, perhaps a cron job can be setup to try a grab, and if
that fails restart vdr-sxfe.  Or, xineliboutput could implement a PING
command.  A hack, yes, but it still might be better than frozen video!

> 
> /etc/lircrc:
> begin
> 	remote = origen
> 	button = Record
> 	prog   = irexec
> 	repeat = 0
> 	config = killall -9 vdr-sxfe
> end
> 
> vdr-sxfe.sh:
> #!/bin/bash
> while true; do
> 	vdr-sxfe --options..
> 	if test $? -eq 0 -o $? -eq 2; then
> 		exit
> 	fi
> 	/bin/sleep 2
> done
> 
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