Re: [Mvpmc-devel] Playing LiveTV update - patch

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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:33:23 +0100, John wrote:
> 2. channel change is now fast, no NFS lags
> 
> >>>Yes, I was very impressed.  Again, I don't feel like we need to optimize
> >>>for NFS, but I'm a little concerned about removing support for it.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>problem here is that there is no way of working out when the file will be
> >>updated for us to start using it, this will depend on the system and
> >>network. The best I can do is place a timeout limit, even that caused me
> >>problems sometimes with video reverting to previous playback occasionally
> >>after changing channel.
> >>
> >>We'll have to live with this, if using NFS
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The simple thing would be to stop live TV between every channel change if
> >you are using NFS.  This (I think) will ensure that the ring buffer file
> >gets deleted and so you won't ever see stale data.
> >  
> >
> 
> I tried this and it worked well for me. I didn't ever get around to 
> reapplying it to the newer versions of mvpmc after jon made all the 
> major structural changes.
> 
> secondary dumb question, how do I apply your patch ? patch -p0 
> <patchname fails completely for me, with no hunks applied.

The two patches apply with -p0 if you are in the correct directory.  In
this case, that is release/mvplib and release/mvpmc/src.

Jon