Re: flashing display problem

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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