Re: [Kaffeine-user] [Kaffeine-devel] 0.8.6 coming soon

[Christophe T. <hf...@fr...>]

Le vendredi 21 d=E9cembre 2007 21:55, Andrea a =E9crit=A0:
> Christophe Thommeret wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm going to release 0.8.6 next monday.
> > Last chance for simple and working patches.
>
> Have you had a chance to check the patch that had been posted to avoid the
> freeze on channel change, removing QThread::terminate?

I had, and it doesn't work:=20
If, for any reason (like system load), the dvbout thread doesn't write data=
=20
fast enought, xine will see an eof and finish playback when reading from a=
=20
nonblocking fifo.

=46urthermore, i still can't see any reason why to not use QThread::termina=
te in=20
this particular situation since we absolutely don't care where the code is=
=20
stopped.
I've never seen the freeze you are talking about, even in stress tests.
I would suggest to investigate some system libs. (i'm on gentoo, x86, no sm=
p).
(You could also increase QThread::wait() timeout to give the thread some ti=
me=20
to finish normally.)


> It was posted on the devel mailing list on 27-11-2007.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3DPine.LNX.4.64.=
0711
>260059280.31523%40hallikari.cs.helsinki.fi&forum_name=3Dkaffeine-devel


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Christophe Thommeret