Re: [Dxr3plugin-users] vdr with vdr-dxr3 sometimes jump a few seconds forward

[Nicolas B. <nbo...@de...>]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Friday 26 February 2010, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When playing a recording, it sometimes happen that vdr jumps forward a
> > few seconds. If I rewind and play the same sequence again, then
> > everything's fine, which seems to mean that the recording itself is
> > correct. Roughly, I'd say that this happen about once every 2 hours.
> > 
> > I think that this might be related to a race condition in the em8300
> > module. But before I investigate any further, I'd like to know:
> >  * if others than me experience the same problem,
> >  * if anyone already has tried to investigate this.
> 
> I *think* I've seen that sometimes, but very rarely and I've always shrugged 
> it off thinking it might have been a glitch in the actual recording, never 
> bothered to try again to see.

As far as I am concerned, I've experienced both problems.
Just to compare, do you play many recordings? As far as I am concerned, 
I play about 2 hours of recordings every day.
And how powerful is your vdr machine? Does it have several CPU or cores?


> > Note: I'm using vdr-dxr3 0.2.9a.
> 
> Hm, what's that, and how does it compare to 0.2.9 and 0.2.10?

Hmmm.... that's a pretty good question. I have no idea where my 
1-year-old vdr-dxr3-0.2.9a.tar.gz tarball comes from...
If I compare it with vdr-dxr3-0.2.9.tgz from SF, there are a few 
differences. The HISTORY file shows:

diff -ruN dxr3-0.2.9/HISTORY dxr3-0.2.9a/HISTORY
--- dxr3-0.2.9/HISTORY	2009-01-01 23:52:12.000000000 +0100
+++ dxr3-0.2.9a/HISTORY	2009-02-24 00:21:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -349,3 +349,9 @@
   brightness/contrast/saturation (Krzysztof Parma, Ville Skyttä)
 - Switch to VDR 1.6's i18n system (Ville Skyttä)
 - Drop support for VDR < 1.6.0 (Ville Skyttä)
+
+200x-xx-xx: Version x.x.x
+
+- Apply brightness/contrast/saturation configuration settings when configuring
+  the device, e.g. on VDR startup (Ville Skyttä)
+- Error handling improvements (Ville Skyttä)

I guess this 0.2.9a was a CVS snapshot I made, perhaps slightly patched 
by me...


Cheers,

Nicolas