Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040607111707.031fdbc8@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:17:59 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: 1.5.9.1: MPEG2 SSG mpeg2v12 reports "zero file size" In-Reply-To: <20040607151546.GA15531@coe.casa.cgf.cx> References: <002701c44c9e$f5ddbcf0$5473cd89 AT fvuvpgkv5i> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040607105743 DOT 03200820 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <20040607151546 DOT GA15531 AT coe DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:15 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote: >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 . Oh *that*. Nobody uses that anymore. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/