On 02 Mar 2007 Stone <syphyr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have noticed that when I mount a samba drive on my vdr box and play mp3's
> with vdr from it, vdr will often lockup and require a restart.  But, the
> strange thing about this is that this only happens when using the mpeg
> decoder on the FF card.  If I use vdr-xine as the playback method with my FF
> card, then vdr never locks up when playing mp3's over the samba drive.
> Would there happen to be a buffer that needs to be increased?  The lockup
> always occurs when a new mp3 is just about to start.

Which background mode does you use?
If it's "image", try to use "black".
There is still some bug in firmware which causes the stillpicture
ioctl to look up.