Re: madplay watchdog signals?

Matthew Rubenstein <[email protected]> wrote: 
>
> But every 10-30 minutes or so, I get a net/Inet hiccup that
> interrupts the stream connection. wget hangs, and no data gets
> to madplay.

Is it really wget causing the trouble ?? Sounds more like a problem
with the ethernet driver... ?? What's the chipset ??

> I just want any technique that keeps my wget | madplay pipeline
> restarted all the time, with a minimum of restarts, which make an
> audible "clunk". Short of recoding (and cross-compiling) libmad
> with extra status hooks, is there any way to keep this little
> engine churning?

If madplay is the only thing writing to /dev/dsp, you could detect
hangups by polling `grep $AUDIO_DEVICE /proc/interrupts`

Andre
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