[mythtv] Ticket 9177 / HD-PVR channel change
Daniel Kristjansson
danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Dec 31 22:23:29 UTC 2010
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 17:13 -0500, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> All,
>
> Has there been any thought as to what is causing the problem in ticket
> 9177 ( "Error opening jump program file buffer" when changing channels
> in live TV" )? The poster has an HD Homerun, but I'm seeing the same
> type of problem with an HD-PVR. This problem exhibited itself fairly
> recently - I think it's even post-v24. It has shown up in the .24-fixes
> branch which is extremely unfortunate as I was hoping to stabilize for a
> while and figured fixes ought to be safe.
It looks like this is a deadlock of sorts caused by a change in the
video player threading model for 0.24. It isn't a true deadlock because
MythTV can break out of it. It is also non-deterministic, it looks like
this will only occur if the frontend attempts to read a file before the
backend has written the first 2048 bytes of the file to disk. As a
result some people will see this quite a lot and others will never
see it, depending on the particulars of their setup.
I believe Mark Kendall and I are on the same page as to how to fix it,
change the RingBuffer::safe_read() API so that we pass errors (temporary
and permanent) to higher levels and handle them there. It's a matter
of finding the time to work in it.
-- Daniel
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