[vdr] Re: MP3 Patch and VDR/Driver shutdown ?

[Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de>]

Hi - hast du in unten angeführter Angelegenheit schon was gefunden ?




> On 25 Oct 2001 Axel Gruber <axelgruber3@gmx.de> wrote:

>> Also MP3 works. But sometimes (sometimes often) i want to play
>> a song then i don´t hear anything - the Playback don´t start and
>> i see TV-Screen.

> I know that sometimes the mp3 decoder thread (which in fact is
> mpg123) is started and decoding, but VDR doesn't receives data
> through the pipe (in most cases VDR hangs until the watchdog
> hits). What I don't know how this happens...

>> If this happen i´m not able to unload the DRIVER.
>> Then i have to reboot the Machine....

> You don't have to reboot. In the case of the fault, the mpg123
> process is still running after VDR has exited (and mpg123 has
> inherit some filehandles from VDR). This is why you can't unload
> the driver. Do a

> ps -ax | grep mpg123

> and kill the left behind task. Now you can unload the driver.

> I hope I'll sone have some time to look into this problem.

> --
> Stefan Huelswitt
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