[mythtv] [PATCH] More PVR-350 Commerial Stuff

[Brett Lucey]

From: "Isaac Richards" <ijr at po.cwru.edu>
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 04:59 am, Brett Lucey wrote:
> > After tracing through a lot of the code, I found the original source of
the
> > NULLs into the commercial skipping code, when using a PVR350 for
decoding.
> > It appears that when the commercial flagging has not yet run, and the
> > player tries to do it "on the fly", the ivtv decoder basically just gets
a
> > NULL frame whenever the frame is requested, since the decoding is done
in
> > hardware.
>
> What's wrong with just bailing out of the on the fly commercial detection
like
> it is currently when it doesn't have the frame data to play with?
>

The "current" way does solve the problem of the core dumping, however, it
seems to periodically result in the player getting itself into a state where
it"s "waited too long for pause".

-Brett