Seppo Ingalsuo wrote: > Hi, Hi ! > > I've noticed that dxr3 cvs has become more unstable than so time ago > (about that time when yellow OSD garbage in e.g. STTNG skin was fixed in > dxr3 plugin) so I gave this a try. > I think have seen these lockups when switching to non-active satellite > channales or to satellite channels with corrupted data (there are many > on Hotbird). Now the watchdog doesn't kill VDR as often and it is > possible to manage interactively satellite channel list. This patch is > an improvement to current plugin state. > The plugin still cannot manage broken datastreams gracefully. This is surely the case here. > However the problem where OSD graphics start to jump and flicker for a > while and VDR gets stuck for quite long time is still present. It > happens repeatably also in mp3 plugin or muggle plugin usage where > playback of a song gets interrupted every now and then for a couple of > seconds which is pretty annoying. Mp3 plugin worked better due to more > stable OSD with the earlier dxr3 plugin version I mentioned. Have other > dxr3 users seen this? > Sure. But concerning the OSD going beserk, you can try playing around with the value DEFINES+=-DFLUSHRATE=40 in the Makefile. I might help a little. But this is still an open issue. > This is a bit off-topic, not related to this patch: I also tried to > activate mp3 background image display but that seems to fail. According > to logs my cover.jpg's get converted to mpg format but nothing is shown. > Playback doesn't start without pressing jump keys. > AFAIR there's a stillpicture generated, which is not supported and should make the plugin crash. -- --- Regards, Martin Cap
