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

[Palko Jukka <jpalko@ipi.fi>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:30:06PM -0800, C.Y.M wrote:
> Palko Jukka wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
> My system is a single FF DVB-S card with vdr-1.3.20.  Perhaps having a 
> dvb-t is not the same? Also, you mention using 1.3.18.. are you testing 
> with 1.3.20 as well?

Haven't yet tried out the newest version, but I was intending to.

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