Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:15:46 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.9.1: MPEG2 SSG mpeg2v12 reports "zero file size" Message-ID: <20040607151546.GA15531@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <002701c44c9e$f5ddbcf0$5473cd89@fvuvpgkv5i> <6.1.0.6.0.20040607105743.03200820@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040607105743.03200820@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:01:44AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 06:02 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote: >>The mpeg2 codec (mpeg2v12 from MPEG2 SSG >>http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/MSSG/#source used to work fine on cygwin 1.5.5 >>. But when I upgrade to cygwin1.dll 1.5.9.1, the program always report >>something like "zero file size". >> >>After spending a lot of time tracing the source, I found that it goes >>wrong when it rewind the video bitstream the 3rd time in main(). If I >>fix the rewind problem, things go wrong in other part of the program. >> >>Since it works well in 1.5.5, I wonder there's something wrong with >>cygwin kernel. Could anybody tell me why or how to fix the problem on >>newer kernels? > > >You mean beyond the obvious course of action (i.e. debugging)? Well, >I'd recommend checking 1.5.10 since it's the current release. If that >doesn't resolve the issue, I suppose you could try a snapshot to see if >the problem has been caught and resolved after the release (though you >may see other problems since snapshots at this point are the result of >active and ongoing development, with very little testing). Otherwise, >your best bet is to build the Cygwin DLL and debug into it as needed. And, there's always the "old reliable" http://cygwin.com/problems.html . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/