kaffeine (version 0.8.5) + digital tv -> freeze [?solved?]

anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

Hello,
I've got some weird behavior of kaffeine:
starting "digital tv" from the kaffeine menue, results in a black screen - it seems, that kaffeine cannot scan after a channel.
After killing the "stalled" programme and restarting it, I choose anything except "digital tv" from the kaffeine menue (f.e. "Play Playlist") and than choose "digital tv", watching tv works ...

Here the output when starting kaffeine from the console (with ends with a freeze):

paddlaren · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:36 am Post subject:

I have the same problem and fighting it now.
In periods it works nice and suddenly it stop working and hangs all the time.

So you say that there is a package somewhere that need to be re-emerged but you cannot remember which?

Regards,
Erik

paddlaren · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

After several attempts with a hanging kaffeine it start working after I re-emerge xine-lib.

The complete procedure I followed was:
* Look into gentoo-portage.com to examine the dependencies for Kaffeine.
* emerge kaffeine itself, no improvements.
* emerge xine-lib while waiting for a hanging kaffeine.
* Killed kaffeine and started it again and it worked.

One thing, one of the tries I made today where during a timed recording. The recording started and the number of available channel decreased as it should. When I tried to watch the same channel as I recorded from the GUI hang.

I will give this a chance and hopefully it is not a coincident that it works. Can some one else try the same to verify?

Regards,
Erik

anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

Dear Erik,
thank you very much - I will re-emere xine-lib and post the results (I hope there will be better results than Austrian songs at the Eurovision Songcontest - Austria zero points)... :wink:

Here "my" emerge-settings of xine-lib:

paddlaren · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:17 am Post subject:

Well, it worked for me. Or it looked like it.

What is the output from dmesg?
My dmesg reports:

anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

Yupp - revdep-rebuild did not find any broken library/link.

>Does the timed recording work?
Yes

here the dmesg output:

paddlaren · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

I used another DVB-decoder before this one and when the signal was weak the xine engine crashed. I have asociated it with decoding-problems due to missing frames in the stream. When I play a recorded stream that contains drops Kaffeine often crach.

Regards,
Erik

paddlaren · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

And yes, normally kaffeine is using the xine engine. But yoou can chose to use the kaffeine-built in instead.

anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

Dear Erik,

I 've reemerged xine-lib, qt-3.3*, kdelibs and unmerged/emerged kaffeine - same result (Austria: zero points).

But if the "amplified signal function" is enabled, kaffeine does not crash so often:

anz · Apprentice Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Vienna

seems to be a "simple" problem with the xine engine setting:
in Settings -> xine Engine parameters -> video
the option "opengl" was chosen...
... changing it to "auto" (it seems, that xine takes xv)
and the freeze is gone ...
... I am still testing out ... and it looks good ...

--- Update ---
after using the "auto" parameter in the xine Engine - video settings (see above) kaffeine starts viewing dvb-t channels without chrashing.
But during recording - when the dvb-t signal gets weak or lost, the cpu charge goes up to 100% and kaffeine stalls (only a kill helps).

(Sorry for that bad english...)
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Greetings from Vienna