On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:15 +0200, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > > I have also got an LCD module attached and that reacts almost instantly > > to keypresses for the menu, etc. but I see no OSD on either my TV or > > monitor. With version 0.7.2, the OSD appears after maybe 2-4 s after a > > keypress (even thought the LCD module updates much quicker). > > Should this be a nptl issue? > Did you turn off nptl (export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1)? I am already doing so to disable NPTL for vdr. Is it worth trying it for xine as well? > > I have been messing about with various xine options trying to improve my > > TV-out quality and I'm sure that the OSD was much more responsive when I > > first tried 0.7.2! > > Do you get messages like: > > vdr: osdflush: n: 1, 7.5 > > when you run xine with --verbose=2? I haven't really had a chance to do any proper testing yet but I'll check it out later, hopefully. > > Are there any major changes in drawing the OSD between the two versions > > that I may be affecting? I've seen mentions that the new version if more > > stable for some and that it is much more responsive to keypresses. > > I've changed the implementation of osd_flush in input_vdr to not cause > high CPU load. There is now a xine_usleep() of 5000 ms in the wait loop. > The above numbers indicate 1 loop interation and a total wait time of > 7.5 ms until the OSD got flushed by xine. > > > On another point, is it possible to get xine to reconnect to vdr if it > > restarts? At the moment, I have a loop which runs xine continuously but > > I have to poke 'q' to restart xine if vdr restarts! > > Try xine's -pq option. This makes xine exit when the stream is done, e. > g. when VDR shuts down. Then wait a little bit until VDR is up again and > then start xine again. Ahhh...that sounds like what I want. I'll give that a go... > A working solution is to have too scripts that restart each programme. > > For VDR one should remove /tmp/vdr-xine in runvdr when VDR exits. Then > wait 2 seconds and kill xine too in the case it hasn't exited by itself. > > The script for xine waits 5 seconds and tests whether > /tmp/vdr-xine/stream exists and starts xine then. Otherwise it goes on > with waiting and testing. ...in combination with this. I never thought of getting my vdr script to remove the directory. Cheers, Laz
