Recent events

This blog has now a wider audience, as it's URL got public yesterday. I hope it's interesting for you. Perhaps everyone doing any related development will benefit from this, at least I hope so.

Even Yellowtab noticed this blog, and I got the email address of a contact person for media kit related questions. They really do want to support developers, and they are also working on a more developer friendly website. Thats encouraging, and I'll keep you updated on the progress.

Furthermore, I had a few telephone calls with Pascal today, clarifying his problems. When he tries to use the DVB media add-on, his media_server does crash. I never have seen this problem before. An older version of the DVB media add-on was working well for him, but this was last tested in April and May.

I'm still using Zeta neo for DVB-T development, while Pascal is already using Zeta 1.0 for DVB-S driver development. He hasn't tested the recent add-on version with Zeta neo, and I haven't tested it with Zeta 1.0 so far. While I can't imagine whats going wrong, I'll have to run some tests using Zeta 1.0 at the weekend. However, whatever the add-on is doing, I don't think that is should be able to crash a system server process. If you are curious, here's the debugger output:

loading symbols
Buffer being recycled, but it is not in use!
_debugger:
_debugger:
+0007 e80635a7: * c3 retn
media_server:sc
frame retaddr
f8ffba80 90020890 MBufferManager::ReclaimBuffers(long const *, long, long, long) + 0000027c
f8ffbae8 90017258 _ServerApp::MReclaimOutputBuffers(BMessage *) + 000001a4
f8ffbdc0 90014e3c _ServerApp::MessageReceived(BMessage *) + 0000044c
f8ffbe40 e8170c96 BLooper::DispatchMessage(BMessage *, BHandler *) + 00000076
f8ffbe58 e8168218 BApplication::DispatchMessage(BMessage *, BHandler *) + 000007d0
f8ffc07c e81707ba BLooper::task_looper(void) + 000002a6
f8ffc31c e816617c BApplication::Run(void) + 00000068
f8ffc330 9001a7b4 main + 00000158
f8ffc4bc 900141e4 _start + 00000060
f8ffc4e8 f8ffc523 _end + 106cae73
media_server: