Re: flashing display problem

Chris,

Can you send me an example file?
Sean



On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Chris Maresca wrote:

>
> Yeah, it happened to me.  I had a wierd m3u file in the root dir and I
> also switched to another server for good measure.
>
> I think it was the bad m3u, generated from winamp, which contained
> shoutcast streams (I think they work okay in a pls). It might have also
> been a funky Perl installation, however.
>
> Sorry I can't be more precise...
>
> Chris.
>
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, robertlbrown wrote:
>
> > Just hooked up my slimp3 from under the tree and brought up the
> > server on a Red Hat system, running 2.2.14.  The IR remote works fine
> > but when I start it playing, say, a single MP3 file, something odd
> > starts happening.  Through the first playing, the display works
> > fine.  During the second playing, the display flashes on and off.
> > Then during the third playing, the "off" time increases to where the
> > track title merely flashes briefly.
> >
> > Turning on the debugging flags on server.pl, during the third
> > playing, I see this being sent to the display, over and over:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > |Now playing (1 of 1):                   |
> > |0. Aspen (Piano Solo)                   |
> > ----------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------------------
> > |                                        |
> > |                                        |
> > ----------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------------------
> > |                                        |
> > |                                        |
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> > During the second playing, there was only one blank panel each cycle.
> > During the fourth, three blank panels, and so on.
> >
> > Then, if I bring up a web brower on port 9000 of the server, the
> > display adds the root of my MP3 tree to the list of panels sent to
> > the display on each cycle, which creates quite a mess.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any clues as to
> > what's going on?
> >
> > I'm running perl 5.6.1.  I suspect there is something amiss with
> > timers or select() in there somewhere.  I had to fetch Time::HiRes
> > from CPAN to get server.pl to run.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > -- Bob Brown
> >
> >
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> chris maresca
>       internet systems architect -- www.chrismaresca.com
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