[mythtv-users] Remote mythfrontend displays no video

[David Won]

The latest CVS. (Last night) fixed this problem for me. I saw the
message from Bruce saying that it was in CVS and lo and behold it is...
and works... Keep up the great work guys.

Thanks
David


On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 14:12, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Saturday 03 May 2003 04:05 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> > This patch is a workaround that prevents WriteBlock from
> > returning until the write queue is below a threshold. I'm
> > still trying to find the exact cause of the file header not
> > being read correctly before applying a fix for the specific
> > problem.
> >
> > Please let me know if this patch fixes your problem.
> 
> Does reverting to the old code fix things for you?  I just replaced it because 
> bytesToWrite() was always 0 for me after the flush, so I figured it was silly 
> to have the loop there in the first place..  Could always replace it with 
> something like:
> 
>   while (socket->bytesToWrite() > 0)
>   {
>       socket->flush();
>       if (socket->bytesToWrite() > 0)
>          usleep(1000);
>   }
> 
> Really, though, the QSocket stuff should be replaced with normal sockets for 
> the mass data transfer connections, at least..  It's kind of nice to have the 
> Qt callbacks for the communication protocol, but that's not really needed for 
> sending video around.  Also wouldn't have to invoke the global qApp lock, 
> it'd allow easier mods to use unix domain sockets instead of tcp for local 
> transfers, etc.
> 
> Isaac
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