[vls-devel] Re: AW: Re: latest vls won't work with DVB 0.9.4 on kernel 2.4.20 anymore?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Harf Zatschler wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Kai Thost wrote:
>>
>>>hi jean-paul,
>>>
>>>you mean with the new kernel-drivers vls will do?
>>>i am in contact with hard zatschler from the uk.
>>>he has experienced (as i did with some version do the DVB-module)
>>>a simple shutdown after starting vls.
>>>will this be fixed with the kernel-dvb?
>>>
>>
>>Looks like a bug in the driver. Ask Markus Metzler about the problem he
>>is the author of the driver.
>>
>>I have not used the kernel-DVB driver for v4l2 api together with the
>>latest vls CVS, so I can not really tell what my experience with it is.
>>At work we are going to test this in the near future. Actually when I
>>can spare some time for it ;-)
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Jean-Paul Saman
> 
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> Doesn't look like a driver problem to me (but then again I'm not a
> developer I guess)
> 
> I have found a really simple work-around for the immediate shutdown
> though:
> 
> in src/server/vls.cpp I inserted one line (316) into the code:
> 
>     if (!iRc)
>       iRc = cApplication.Run();
>     sleep(1000);
>     // Safe stop executed by the main thread
>     iRc |= cApplication.SafeStop();
> 
> this will make the server work just fine... for exactly 1000 seconds.
> Using while(1) sleep(1000); works even better obviously :-)
> anyway seems like a bug in cApplication.Run() to me.
> 
> regards
> harf
> 
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> Harf Zatschler <hz3 at doc.ic.ac.uk>
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What do you mean with immediate shutdown then ?

Greetings,
Jean-Paul

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