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hzeller / gmrender-resurrect

Resource efficient UPnP/DLNA renderer, optimal for Raspberry Pi, CuBox or a general MediaServer. Fork of GMediaRenderer to add some features to make it usable.
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killing process freezes Raspberry Pi #4

Closed gearhead closed 11 years ago

gearhead commented 11 years ago

I have been having periodic clicking and popping of audio. When I have this issue, I restart the pulseaudio and gmediarender. There is not a service called gmediarender, so I use the command "sudo killall gmediarender" When I do, the pi freezes requiring a power cycle to return.

It would be awesome if there was a service or such. The way I start it is to run (gmediarender -f "Raspberry Pi" &> /dev/null &)

I have also noted this behavior when I kill the running process from a terminal window. I run this headless, so I am SSH'd in and running it from putty under windows, mostly.

hzeller commented 11 years ago

On Nov 16, 2012 3:20 PM, "gearhead" notifications@github.com wrote:

I have been having periodic clicking and popping of audio. When I have this issue, I restart the pulseaudio and gmediarender. There is not a service called gmediarender, so I use the command "sudo killall gmediarender" When I do, the pi freezes requiring a power cycle to return.

Mmh, not sure what is happening here.

It would be awesome if there was a service or such. The way I start it is to run (gmediarender -f "Raspberry Pi" &> /dev/null &)

There is a -d option to run as a daemon and also an option to write a pid file which helps to write an init script.

I have also noted this behavior when I kill the running process from a terminal window. I run this headless, so I am SSH'd in and running it from putty under windows, mostly.

The daemon option should help to run this properly in the background.

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hzeller commented 11 years ago

Did this go away ? I know there has been some updates in the meantime in the audio drivers for the Raspberry kernel that improved sound quality.

gearhead commented 11 years ago

I must confess, I have not checked on this lately. Once with the current update, I had a reboot which had scratchy audio. I rebooted again and it was 'better'. I cannot comment more than that. Once it works, it generally works. Once rebooted, it may appear.

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Henner Zeller notifications@github.comwrote:

Did this go away ? I know there has been some updates in the meantime in the audio drivers for the Raspberry kernel that improved sound quality.

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hzeller commented 11 years ago

So sounds like this can be closed now.