[mythtv] strange problem..
Matt Zimmerman
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:11:58 -0400
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:03:53AM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> So, recorded a show tonight. Went to play it back, and it crashed the
> player. Investigated, and found out that there were the status messages
> that should've been printed to the console _in_ the file. Bad data in the
> file = some bad reads = boom, dead player. I've added more checks to the
> stream parser, so that it seems to fix playing on this file, but the error
> itself is what's weird -- anyone know how the stdout/err could get
> redirected to a file, without me calling dup or dup2?
Various kinds of memory corruption could cause this, but I'd be surprised if
it didn't crash the recorder at the same time.
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- mdz