[mythtv] Ringbuffer: fsync thread may equal corruption
John Patrick Poet
john at BlueSkyTours.com
Mon Dec 20 20:38:10 UTC 2004
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> ]It is very weird. A show can become corrupt within minutes of it starting, or
> ]not until it is over 2 hours into it, or not at all. Most of the time, once a
> ]show is corrupt, it continues to be corrupt until the recording is over.
> ]Sometimes, however, it will recover after several minutes and be okay until the
> ]end.
>
> The corruption I can't explain, but I've seen corruption cause problems
> for the rest of the recording before all our brave new patches. ffmpeg
> and the audio decoder can both get into funky states they can't
> extricate themselves from because of one transient glitch.
>
> -- Daniel
Interesting.
I never noticed this problem until sometime after December 6th.
So, if I go back an look, I might find that Isaac has merged a new version
of ffmpeg sometime after December 6th....
John
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