Hi Wilfred, On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:03:08AM -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > > If gtkpod works fine, so should libgpod (and in turn > > python-gpod). Maybe > > there really is a problem with track length detection. > > Maybe you could > > try uninstalling eyeD3 or Python Imaging and see if this > > helps? You > > could also try removing mplayer and see if this fixes the > > problem. > > Aha, this is were the problems are! I installed mplayer recently. I > uninstalled it, and tada! gpodder works as before :-)) So indeed, > there is some interaction between mplayer and gpodder (?). If so, how > can I assist in debugging?
Yes, gPodder tries to use mplayer (and parse its output) to get the length of the file. Please try running the following in a xterm and see if it outputs anything that starts with ID_LENGTH: mplayer -msglevel all=-1 -identify -vo null -ao null -frames 0 $FILE (where $FILE is the path to a file you have tried to sync) If everything works correctly, this will simply output some info about the file and then quit. Chances are that it doesn't quit for you, and this is where you see the hanging. Can you confirm that this is the case? If so, what is the output? > By the way, when syncing I get messages like: > [...] > ** (gpodder:29543): CRITICAL **: itdb_splr_validate: assertion `at != > ITDB_SPLAT_UNKNOWN' failed > > ** (gpodder:29543): WARNING **: Unknown action type 1 > [...] Seems like debugging output from libgpod. Can you file a bug report with them, mentioning gPodder and the version of the Python bindings to libgpod? See http://www.gtkpod.org/ for more information. > > try to > > convert the OGG files to MP3? Maybe this is taking a bit > > long? > > No, when mplayer is present, the little wait bar appears that says > "Syncing episode 1 of Y". Subsequently, CPU activity goes to zero. > "top" does not mention any gpodder activity. When I drag the wait bar > window across gpodder, the screen is no longer updated. It really > shows all the signs of simply not responding. I can click on the X in > the window corner, and then I get a dialog that says that the > application is not responding and do I want to shut it down by force > (yes). Is there a mplayer process in "ps ax" output? Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
