Reproducible MPlayer Crash with dvb-t card

David Maslen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user.dvb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi All,

I think I need a bit of help to know how to report this bug. ie Strace
or other tools.

It may not exactly be a mplayer bug, but I can reproduce it with
mplayer and not with any other program on my system.

I have a Avermedia DVB-T card. It's working on my debian system with a
V2.6.5 kernel. The system is a Celeron 1400, with aprox 380M SDRAM, on
an older Asus P2B-F motherboard.

Below is a cut and paste from a screen session.  It shows me dumping a
stream to disk. It starts to save. Then I jump to another shell (via
the network) and run a disk intensive command like find /

The Mplayer session immediately ends, and won't start again until I
reload the kernel module dvb-bt8xx. (rmmod then modprobe).

I did record a show while watch another last night (at the console not
across the network), which makes me think it might not be disk access
or cpu load. I think it could be related to network access, as running
a P2P file sharing application or transferring a large file across the
network also seems to have the same effect (ie. cause a crash).

dmm@trinity:/opt/dm200g/video/television$ mplayer dvb://Seven
-dumpfile test.ts -dumpstream
MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin 1404 MHz (Family: 6,
Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/dmm/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/dmm/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 61 audio & 169 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/dmm/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
system startup scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Input config file /home/dmm/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 47 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvb://Seven.
code taken from dvbstream for mplayer v0.4pre1 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001
Released under the GPL.
Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/
dvb_tune Freq: 177500000
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 0 when reading 1944
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 6 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 5 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 4 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 3 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 2 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, attempt N. 1 failed with errno 0 when reading 2048
bytes
dvb_streaming_read, return 0 bytes
Core dumped ;)

Exiting... (End of file)
dmm@trinity:/opt/dm200g/video/television$
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