[mythtv] mythbackend/lame crashing

[swan-1 at ziplip.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 02:22:35 -0700
> From: Reza Naima <reza at reza.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] mythbackend/lame crashing
> To: swan-1 at ziplip.com, Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> 
> I have the exact same problem, and posted about it, but I don't think I 
> got a response.  It's the mp3 encoding that's breaking and my guess from 
> looking at the code (as well as the lame code) is that mythbackend is 
> not properly initializing lame.  I turned off mp3 compression, and it 
> works fine. 
> 
> What version do you have?  If it's from CVS, when did you grab it?
> 
> -Reza
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:33:28 +0200
> From: Stefan Frank <sfr+lists at 6913304088794.gnuu.de>
> Subject: [mythtv] Re: mythbackend/lame crashing
> To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> from lame.h:
> 
>      exitcode -3:  lame_init_params() not called
> 
> but this is called in NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp (line 554). Debug the lame
> setup around that line to see what happens. And iirc, i copied the way
> lame is setup here for the mp3 encoding in mythmusic, so try if that
> also fails for you.
> 
> If it worked in the past, did you upgrade any related software?
> I'm using liblame Version: 3.93.1-0.1 (a Debian package)
> 
> HTH, Stefan

Thanks for the input, switching to uncompressed stops mythfrontend
from crashing.

As for what version of things I'm running, I'm using the
precompiled rpm meta-package pointed to from the links page
for Red Hat.  Using apt-get it brings in all the dependencies
and after several hours of compiling seems to give me a
(mostly) working system.  So, I have mythtv 0.11 and Lame
3.93 MMX.

Although I'm an embedded software engineer, and have run
gdb in the past, I just don't have time right now to do much
to track down/debug the issue as I'd have to learn the tools
as well.

There seem to be other issues like so menu response and problems
going into edit mode or jumping around in a video (frontend
locks up giving tones of "rebuffering" messages) that I'll
have to search the archives to see if this is a known probem.
If not, maybe I'll go for cvs and see if that works any
better.

Greg