[vdr] Re: black screen after recording and playing back at same time

[Palko Jukka <jpalko@ipi.fi>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:47PM -0800, C.Y.M wrote:
> While testing vdr-1.3.20, I have started to have a major problem with my 
> kernel crashing (total lockup and forced hard reset). This is how I 
> reproduce the problem:
> 
> 1) Record a show on a timer
> 2) Playback a recording *while* vdr is recording something
> 3) Stop the playback of the recording and instead of vdr returning to 
> live-tv, it just shows a black screen.
> 4) Start and stop the playback of the recording a few more times and I get 
> an irq oops with a full lockup (forcing me to hard reset).

No lockup on my digibox (1 FF dvb-t) using 2.6.9-gentoo-r13, but if I do the
following:
1) Make a timer for a show
2) Playback a recording when vdr is not yet recording
3) When recording starts, the screen goes black, but sound and even
   dvb-subtitles plugin give still output.
4) Stop playback, restart it and no problems unless another recording
   starts during playback again...

Though, this problem I have been having with my current vdr 1.3.18 +
dvb-subtitles 0.3.6:
1) Watch a channel that needs dvb-subtitles
2) recording starts for another channel that is not in the same
   frequency area
3) vdr doesn't switch to the correct channel, but records happily the
   channel that I was watching

> While testing this on a two card system, the black screen was easily 
> reproducible but not the total lockup.  This may be specific to a single FF 
> card setup.  I can not reproduce this to with vdr-1.3.17+safe threading 
> patches.

Sounds like I'm happy that I don't get the lockup, but the black screen
is still annoying...


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