[vdr] Re: vdr[3330]: ERROR: can't record MPEG1! - possible cause

[Andreas Schultz <andreas@aschultz.net>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Andreas Schultz wrote:
> 
>>Andreas Schultz wrote:
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>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>> [...]

>>
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>>>An untested patch for the problem.is attached.
>>>
>>attachements don't work :-(, so here it is again:
>>


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> I like this idea a lot - but apparently this doesn't compile under Linux :-(


stupid me, i copied it from one my other projects and forgot a define. A 
fixed patch is at 
<http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/dvd/mt-test.patch>

I have still not verified that it works, but it compiles at least.

 
> The function pthread_mutexattr_settype() is only available if __USE_UNIX98
> is defined in /usr/include/pthread.h, which apparently is not the case.
> Simply declaring this function in VDR's thread.c doesn't help, either, because
> then the linker doesn't find it.
> 
> Do you have any futher idea how this can be used?


just add -D_GNU_SOURCE to the Makefile

> BTW: there are in fact cases where the mutexes are used recursively, for instance
> when switching channels, so we do need this functionality...


Solaris doesn't have recursive Posix Mutex's, do you need Solaris 
support too? :-]

Andreas

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> Klaus
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