[vdr] Re: segmentation fault with xlist

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

johannes.schoeller@gmx.at wrote:
> 
> hi klaus!
> 
> i downloaded xlist.c, comiled it, but after starting it with
> xlist ./filename it just "returns" -> "segmentation fault".
> i don.t think that that.s what it.s supposed to do. ;)
> 
> am i doing something wrong?
> 
> pls. open my eyes. :)
> 
> servus hannes!

The xlist.c is just a tiny tool that I rapidly hacked together.
I can't guarantee that it is working under all circumstances.

How much RAM does your system have? xlist.c allocates a 20MB
buffer and does *no* error checking on this, so if it is out
of RAM it might just die...

You could try setting the BUFSIZ macro in xlist.c to a smaller value.

Klaus

> 
> > > i just downloaded dolby digital trailers which are ntsc.
> > > i built an index file with genindex.c (posted on the list
> > > sometime ago).
> > > now i was able to replay the files with vdr. (put the file
> > > in a subdirectory (named 2001-01...blabla) and renamed it
> > > to 001.vdr).
> > > now i can easily replay it with vdr. of course the picture
> > > is to large for the screen (in height) but it works.
> > > my problem: i get no sound.
> > > my question: the soundtrack is dolby digital. by now i don.t
> > > own a seperat sound card to enjoy dd sound. i know that i
> > > can.t get 5.1 sound but NO SOUND ? is this ok?
> > > or did genindex possibly "destroy" the sound track?
> > > sound should be sound. pal or ntsc - right?
> >
> > I don't know the details of genindex.c, but I would assume that it
> > just reads the MPEG file and writes an index file, not modifying
> > the MPEG data in any way.
> >
> > Do you get any sound from your tv set?
> >
> > Maybe the DD data is not packed the way VDR expects it to be.
> > You might want to try my xlist.c tool to take a look into the
> > data and see whether there are "dolby" packets that VDR would recognize.
> > See ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/xlist.c
> >
> > Klaus
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