[mythtv] [patch] Recording HDTV when no signal causes segfault

John Patrick Poet john at BlueSkyTours.com
Thu May 27 18:06:57 EDT 2004


On Wed, 26 May 2004, John Patrick Poet wrote:

>
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Isaac Richards wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 25 May 2004 12:03 am, John Patrick Poet wrote:
> > > With HDTV, the signal strength is checked when tunning to a channel.
> > > When recording, if the signal strength is too low, the encoder thread is
> > > never created, but the pthread_join call was still being made.  This
> > > caused a segfault.
> > >
> > > The attached patch prevents the pthread_join call from being made, if
> > > the encoder thread was not created.
> >
> > I've applied this, but I had to change the signal check stuff on recordings
> > (double channel changes are bad sometimes) -- could you please test to make
> > sure it's still working on hdtv?
> >
> > Isaac
>
>
> Thanks Isaac.  I will try real hard to get this tested tonight, but it may
> not be until Thursday.


This change does not seem to cause any problem that were not already there.

Thanks,

John



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