Re: [xine-devel] xine stalls when time changes

[John M. <tt...@te...>]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 15:10 -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> John McCutchan wrote:
> > If I am watching something when this happens xine stalls until the time
> > is past the previous time. Is this fixable? There must be a way to get
> > the time from the system that isn't dependent on the date, but on the
> > system uptime?
> 
> 	Hmm, thought about this a little more. The localtime() services are all 
> supposed to be standard across Unix flavors. The system uptime sounds 
> highly platform-dependent. I see that on Linux, /proc/uptime gives some 
> incrementing numbers to millisecond resolution. Not sure if it would be 
> plausible for the engine to open that file and keep reading (and 
> converting) the numbers inside. But it is almost certain to only work on 
> Linux.
> 

There are plenty of platform-dependent sections of the xine code. Why
not add one more, and keep the current code as a general solution?


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John McCutchan <tt...@te...>