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| 20:32 | <Chutt> | hi |
| 20:32 | <gtaylor> | hiya. seen my little two-player mystery report? |
| 20:33 | <Chutt> | nope, not yet |
| 20:33 | <Chutt> | just send it? |
| 20:33 | <gtaylor> | maybe ten minutes ago. maybe the list doesn't like me again? |
| 20:33 | <Chutt> | i haven't gotten an admin mail |
| 20:33 | <Chutt> | one of the servers my email goes through is a tad slow right now |
| 20:34 | <Chutt> | oh, actually |
| 20:34 | <gtaylor> | oh: Connection timed out with relay.snowman.net. |
| 20:34 | <Chutt> | yeah |
| 20:34 | <Chutt> | i was just going to say that =) |
| 20:34 | <Chutt> | his network seems to be having problems at the moment |
| 20:35 | <Chutt> | so what'd you say in the email? |
| 20:35 | <gtaylor> | ok, view thee http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/myth-mail.txt |
| 20:36 | <gtaylor> | i'm examining state transitions in tv.cpp wiht an eye toward extra player starts when recording starts/stops, but it doesn't look wrong. |
| 20:36 | <Chutt> | each distinct thread that needs to talk to the database has its own connection |
| 20:37 | <Chutt> | so that's 3, and one X connection make 4 |
| 20:37 | <Chutt> | not sure about 2 fds on the playback, though |
| 20:37 | <gtaylor> | ah, well, that's the sockets then. socekt leaks don't concern me so much ;) |
| 20:37 | <Chutt> | yeah |
| 20:38 | <Chutt> | heh |
| 20:38 | <gtaylor> | that's what I thought ;) |
| 20:38 | <Chutt> | i've never seen anything like that |
| 20:38 | <gtaylor> | is there exactly one thread telling Tv to "do this" "do that"? |
| 20:39 | <Chutt> | thread break down: |
| 20:39 | <gtaylor> | could be a race between them? |
| 20:39 | <Chutt> | there very well could be a race condition somewhere |
| 20:39 | <Chutt> | but, hmm |
| 20:39 | <gtaylor> | the api appears to be "do this" followed by "state change" call, so it's arguably race-prone if called from two places. |
| 20:39 | <Chutt> | yeah |
| 20:40 | <Chutt> | true |
| 20:40 | <Chutt> | but that'd be more of it not doing something |
| 20:40 | <Chutt> | i suppose i could lock that all down |
| 20:40 | <Chutt> | but i don't think that's it |
| 20:41 | <Chutt> | hum |
| 20:41 | <gtaylor> | yeah, i don't see any path from recording A watching Z -> recording B watching Z that would get you a bonus Z |
| 20:41 | <Chutt> | if you can reproduce that high load average while running in gdb |
| 20:41 | <Chutt> | if you ctl-c it in gdb |
| 20:41 | <Chutt> | and do an 'info threads' |
| 20:42 | <Chutt> | should at least be able to tell which threads are doing what |
| 20:42 | <Chutt> | if you've noted the high cpu% pids |
| 20:43 | <gtaylor> | hmm. why is the deafult build symbol-free? |
| 20:43 | <Chutt> | since it needs to build without MMX and all that turned on for completely proper gdb operation |
| 20:44 | <gtaylor> | oh, gdb doen't mmx? figures... |
| 20:44 | <Chutt> | it was messing up for me, at least |
| 20:45 | <gtaylor> | ok, well, I won't get a chance to gdb the thing until later. and I haven't got that exact version's source anymore, so it'll just be with cvs head. we'll see what we see |
| 20:45 | <Chutt> | ok |
| 20:45 | <gtaylor> | ttyl |
| 20:45 | <Chutt> | later =) |
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| 20:52 | <gtaylor> | c: here's anothe rtheory: perhaps there's a spurious video preview thread getting started from the playbackbox somehow. |
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| 21:24 | <vektor> | Chutt: Around? |
| 21:30 | <vektor> | When you wake up let me know. |
| 21:31 | <Chutt> | i'm around |
| 21:31 | <vektor> | d0000d |
| 21:31 | <vektor> | Ok, I'm playing with text rendering a bit. |
| 21:31 | <vektor> | I noticed that in ttfont.c you set the chroma to b/w. Why is that again? |
| 21:31 | <vektor> | Like, why aren't you compositing colour text? |
| 21:31 | <Chutt> | because i'm only doing b/w text |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | Ah ok. |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | Next question, do you know what the font size really means? |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | Is it height in pixels or what? |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | Like, I know nothing about what '24 pt font' really means. |
| 21:32 | * vektor | stupid. |
| 21:32 | <Chutt> | it's either points or pixels |
| 21:32 | <Chutt> | not really sure which in there |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | Yeah but if it's points what does that means? |
| 21:32 | <vektor> | erm, mean? :) |
| 21:33 | <Chutt> | heh |
| 21:33 | <vektor> | bah I'll figure that out. |
| 21:33 | <vektor> | Anyway, my text compositor does colour and I have nice alpha fades. |
| 21:34 | <vektor> | It's cool. When I change channels in my TV app it shows the channel number and fades it out quickly. ;-) |
| 21:34 | <vektor> | I'm currently trying to figure out how to get better borders cheaply. |
| 21:34 | <Chutt> | i think pointsize is = pixel size on 75 dpi screens |
| 21:34 | <vektor> | Oh. |
| 21:34 | <Chutt> | or something around that |
| 21:34 | <vektor> | Well that's useless. |
| 21:35 | <vektor> | (for this purpose) :) |
| 21:35 | <Chutt> | yeah |
| 21:35 | <vektor> | I'm unimpressed with the alpha values I get from freetype. |
| 21:35 | <vektor> | Do you know if that's just crappy fonts, or what? |
| 21:35 | <vektor> | Like, I'm thinking we should supersample and do a better job. |
| 21:35 | <Chutt> | have you tried the ms fonts? |
| 21:36 | <vektor> | Dunno. I started with 'helr.ttf' and now I'm using Verdana which looks nicer but I haven't checked the alpha values. |
| 21:36 | <vektor> | It's only like 2 bit alpha though which is surprising. |
| 21:36 | <Chutt> | well |
| 21:36 | <Chutt> | the code there _is_ messing with the alpha |
| 21:36 | <vektor> | It is? |
| 21:37 | <Chutt> | that whole alpha_lut, bounded_palette thing |
| 21:37 | <vektor> | Yeah, I export that. |
| 21:37 | <vektor> | But it looks like the font can only give you five values. |
| 21:37 | <vektor> | And so you only get like 5 values of alpha. |
| 21:37 | <vektor> | Instead of like the full 0-255 range. |
| 21:38 | <vektor> | oh waitasec |
| 21:38 | <vektor> | how is 'bounded_palette' used? |
| 21:38 | <Chutt> | to make it only have 5 values of alpha =) |
| 21:38 | <vektor> | Oh damnit. |
| 21:39 | <vektor> | Well how do I get more? :) |
| 21:40 | <vektor> | hrm |
| 21:40 | * vektor | tries something random |
| 21:41 | <vektor> | argh, didn't work :) |
| 21:46 | <vektor> | argh this is annoying |
| 21:46 | <Chutt> | heh |
| 21:47 | <Chutt> | wish i could help ya, but it's really been a few years since i touched that font stuff |
| 21:47 | <Chutt> | and i didn't even write most of it in the first place |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | well did you write this bounded_palette stuff? |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | yeah |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | i'm just wondering |
| 21:47 | <Chutt> | nope |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | do you know what 'iread' and 'ioff' might possibly mean? |
| 21:47 | <Chutt> | nope |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | like, do you know if maybe tt fonts have 10 quantization levels? |
| 21:47 | <Chutt> | i think that's what it is |
| 21:47 | <vektor> | ok |
| 21:48 | <Chutt> | the freetype docs are fairly good |
| 21:48 | <Chutt> | though |
| 21:48 | <vektor> | ok thanks. |
| 21:48 | <vektor> | I'll check them out. |
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