Hmm, that's decoder stuff. Unfortunately, that's not my area of
expertise. Perhaps John Harvey can help here?
Anyway, I think it is unrelated to the frequency change fix.
Hans
On Friday 16 June 2006 23:53, Stanley Merkx wrote:
> Well, perhaps the hang-while-watching-recording is not completely
> Myth's fault: It just occured while I was looking for something else
> with dmesg.
>
> I get a large amount of the following messages:
>
> ivtv0 warning: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x0488efe4
> ivtv0 warning: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x00000000 0x0487efe4 0x0487efe4
> 0x0487efe4 ivtv0 warning: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x0488efe4
> ivtv0 warning: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x00000000 0x0487efe4 0x0487efe4
> 0x0487efe4 ivtv0 warning: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x0488efe4
> ivtv0 warning: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x00000000 0x0487efe4 0x0487efe4
> 0x0487efe4 ivtv0 warning: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x0488efe4
> ivtv0 warning: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x00000000 0x0487efe4 0x0487efe4
> 0x0487efe4
>
> Regards,
> Stanley.
>
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > I have been running 0.4.6 from almost the moment you asked us to
> > test it.
> >
> > I'm having no problems at all with a P4, Hyperthreading enabled, on
> > Debian with a self compiled 2.6.15 kernel, 2 PVR350's and MythTV
> > 0.19-fixes. I do occasionally experience a lockup while watching a
> > recording, but this looks like it happens when a Myth recording
> > ends or a new one starts while watching another.
> > This is most likely a Myth problem, as currently I can fix this by
> > pressing Esc and then Enter to carry on playing, Myth 0.18 did a
> > real hard lockup (power cycle required). Do not have sufficient
> > logs to report to the MythTV list(s)...
> >
> > One clear difference I do notice compared to 0.4.5 when changing
> > channels in Myth LiveTV:
> >
> > (sequence of events:)
> > 0.4.5:
> > press key to change channel
> > display freezes for ~2 seconds
> > display runs for ~.5 second
> > display freezes
> > channel changes
> >
> > 0.4.6:
> > press key to change channel
> > display freezes for ~2 seconds
> > display runs for ~.5 seconds
> > display freezes
> > display runs for ~.5 seconds
> > channel changes
> >
> > So with 0.4.6 it seems to take slightly longer to change the
> > channel and the channel actually changes while video is running. In
> > 0.4.5 the channel change only occurs when the video is frozen.
> >
> > I suspect this is (partly?) caused by Myth, as the behaviour
> > experienced in 0.4.5 was introduced by a MythTV update, not by an
> > ivtv update. But perhaps some (subtle) change in ivtv
> > activated/worsened this behaviour in Myth?
> >
> > I do recall a thread not so long ago about not needing to stop the
> > decoder when changing channels... Could this be related??
> >
> > Thanks for the good work! (how's the budget for the new monitor
> > coming along? still need donations? ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stanley.
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'd like people to have a go with the 0.4.6 and 0.6.3 development
> >> snapshots available here:
> >>
> >> 0.4.6:
> >> http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.4.tar.gz?view=tar
> >>
> >> 0.6.3:
> >> http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/branches/0.6.tar.gz?view=tar
> >>
> >> The channel changing problem should be fixed now (and should be a
> >> bit smoother too as the encoder is no longer paused/resumed).
> >> Please let me know if there are still problems with it. Also test
> >> if you didn't have problems before: it's done differently now
> >> (similar to what Hauppauge does) so if I'm unlucky it might break
> >> something that used to work :-(
> >>
> >> There are two pending issues that I'd like to solve before I make
> >> another release: 0.4.6 contains support for cx25840 sliced VBI for
> >> NTSC: I get conflicting reports on whether it works or not.
> >>
> >> The second issue is a problem with the i2c bus and tveeprom. This
> >> is the blocking bug that I'd really like to fix before doing a
> >> release.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Hans
> >>
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