total kernel lockup with a fifo and mplayer

[Julian Oliver]

i'm trying an adapted example from 'NOTES', using a fifo and mplayer and experiencing a total lockup.

i:

modprobe -r uvcvideo <-- to disable the onboard webcam

modprobe v4l2vd pipes=1

mkfifo /tmp/videoPipe

transcode -i /path/to/mpeg/file -x mpeg2 -y raw  -F I420 -o /tmp/videoPipe -m /dev/null

cd /path/to/v4l2vd/v4l2vdSource

./v4l2vdSource -d /dev/video0 -r 352x240 -p 29.97 -f i420 -s /tmp/videoPipe

when i execute the next line, i get a total kernel lockup:

mplayer /dev/video1 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=i420:w=352:h=240:fps=25

not even SysReq will save it. any ideas?

system info:

Debian Lenny, 2.6.27-1-686, 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo.

cheers and thanks,

julian

[jmbouffard]

It seems that you encounter the same issue that was underlined in this other thread:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2238646&forum_id=579262

To my knowledge, no fix was found for his issue yet.

J-M