[Pianod] Pianod2 hangs on network stall

[Chris Greenman]

Can pianod not be compiled without libav support and just use ffmpeg or
libav required for other things?  Is it possible to use a libav from before
the API change in the interim?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Perette Barella <perette at barella.org>
wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> I’m looking into the mailing list search.
>
>     I've got a Raspberry Pi 3 that I'm setting up as an on-board boat
> computer and media server.  Typically when I go out I use my phone as a
> wifi hotspot for Internet.  As such the network can come and go but what
> I'm seeing is that *Pianod2 seems to hang on network loss and will not
> restart when the network returns*.  *The only way to get piand running
> again is to totally kill it and restart*.  A HUP does nothing and it will
> not start when play is pushed or a different playlist is selected.  I know
> the audio still works because I have another process that speaks speed and
> time to the same audio sink.
>
>
> This is symptomatic of libav brokenness, indicating (unfortunately) that
> the troubles have made it to the Pi.  libav changed their api, so it
> doesn't correctly handle connection timeouts.  If you’re feeling motivated,
> you could compile and use ffmpeg, but it’ll fight with libav so it’s
> probably a lot of trouble.
>
> gstreamer is in the works to drop libav support.  That support will be
> coming soon, maybe a week or two.
>
> Perette
>
>
>
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