Re: First release-candidate for 0.17.2 -- please test!

> Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> > As usual you can get it from
> >   http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/download/em8300-0.17.2-rc1.tar.gz
> >  
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> I installed it on a system with 3 dxr3 cards installed that plays videos
> around the clock on them.
> I experience some random video freezes. This "freezes" seem like very
> slow motion, I have a chunk of sound every second, although video is
> still. A freeze appears on one of the cards at a time, and so far I have
> experienced it on two of the installed cards. In one case, the system
> managed to recover from the freeze by itself after some time (I don't
> know exactly how much, but should be several minutes).
>
> Kernel is 2.6.24-gentoo-r4
> Playback is handled by player.
> All videos are MPEG2 encoded with mencoder.
>
> mplayer options are like this: mplayer -ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-0 -vo
> dxr3:noprebuf:sync:norm=0:0 -framedrop -autosync 30 -cache 16384 movie.mpg
> I have not enabled prebuf because it creates choppy video and randomly
> makes mplayer use 100% of cpu for each video.
>
> I had no such issues with the previous version of the em8300 installed,
> although I didn't use "sync" in mplayer with it. I had to enable it with
> this version though, since I had choppy video without it.
>
> It would be helpful to have the kernel modules print the card identifier
> with its kernel logs.
> Now I have logs like this:
>
> [54555.962317] adjusting scr: 179999
> [54558.887055] adjusting scr: 307800
> [54558.927221] adjusting scr: 179635034
> [54559.896338] em8300_video.c: Video Fifo timeout
> [54559.896776] adjusting scr: 198200346
> [54560.903093] em8300_video.c: Video Fifo timeout
> [54560.903136] adjusting scr: 198220166
> [54561.905848] em8300_video.c: Video Fifo timeout
> [54561.905896] adjusting scr: 198221967
> [[55691.466558] adjusting scr: 46027573
> [55712.294571] adjusting scr: 51620147
> [55717.119620] adjusting scr: 231381518
> [55761.712806] Fifo still full, trying stop
> [55761.820865] adjusting scr: 53758833
> [55761.826320] adjusting scr: 53766040
>
> However, I cannot figure out if something is relevant to the frozen card.