[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] make teletext (vbi read) work with EINTR

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Mon Oct 15 23:55:17 CEST 2007


Hi!

Oldrich Jedlicka <oldium.pro <at> seznam.cz> writes:

> I figured out that mplayer 1.0_rc2 (installed from Gentoo ebuild) fails 
> reading from /dev/vbi0 (teletext) with message:
> 
> vbi: expecting bytes: 65536, got: -1
> 
> so I extended the error report by strerror(errno) and the cause of the problem 
> is an unhandled EINTR (affected files are stream/tvi_v4l.c, 
> stream/tvi_v4l2.c). The patch (attached) is so trivial that I thing no more 
> description is necessary - it handles EINTR in a while loop.
> 
> It works for me, finally I can enjoy the teletext feature.

I can confirm that I also need this patch to watch teletext.

Sorry for not reporting earlier, Carl Eugen





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