Took some time to do some more tests. 0.3.2h seems as stable as 0.3.2f for me. No freezes, no jumpiness...
Please note, I was not getting any DMA errors at all, not on f either, only the freezes in Myth when skipping/jumping when using a version higher than 0.3.2h. Also tried the pcitweak settings, but I don't see any difference (but hey, I wasn't getting DMA errors anyway). This is all on an ASUS P4P800 board with an Intel P4 and 2 PVR350's. Thanks, Stanley. On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:36:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well, I'm afraid I spoke too soon... > > When watching some more recorded shows yesterday evening, I had the same > hangs on 0.3.2k too. Went back one version again, now running with j, > but that too has the 'freeze problem'... > > Now I only have i, h and g left to try, but didn't manage those > yesterday as Myth was recording again. > > Installing 0.3.2i now before I go to work, I'll see this evening how > that holds out. > > Stanley. > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:57:24PM -0500, Chris Kennedy wrote: > > > > Try this with the version that works, run pcitweak, first do this... > > pcitweak -l > > that will list the devices, use the pci id of the card your output is > > on. > > > > Then run this... > > pcitweak -w (PCI_ID) 0x40 0xffff > > > > > > Let me know what the results of that test are, it's really the only diff > > between version k to l. The results will be interesting because that > > increases the pci transfer timeout, which fixes DMA errors. So if that's > > causing a timeout in Myth, would be interesting, and at the same time > > fixing DMA errors for the chip. Before the chip would give up on xfers > > a little early, which was dangerous to the pci xfers and could lock up > > the pci bus. Some motherboards show this very frequently, some rarely, > > hence our mixed results in the past. So an interesting thing to see, I'm > > finding wonderful results here decoding and encoding, using the OSD, > > computer > > would lock up very frequently before the change, now it hasn't since. > > Is there possibly debugging which someone can do in Myth to point to exactly > > were things are hanging in the frontend waiting for the driver, so I can > > have more details on where to fix this if a driver bug, otherwise hard to > > have anything to work with. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:14:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm one of "the other people on the Myth mailing lists" that also has > > > this problem ;-) > > > > > > I have managed to narrow it down to changes done from version k to > > > version l. Version 0.3.2k is working fine, tried a large number of skips > > > forward/backward without a single freeze. > > > version 0.3.2l does freeze maybe 3 or 4 out of ten skips, which seems > > > less than version 0.3.2m/n/o/p, but not quite sure about that... > > > > > > I'm also prepared to try any patch you throw at me ;-) > > > > > > Hope this helps... > > > > > > Regards, > > > Stanley. > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:29:58PM -0800, Louie Ilievski wrote: > > > > On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:59 am, Chris Kennedy wrote: > > > > > This should be fixed in 0.3.2p now, try that to see if it really fixes > > > > > it for you too. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > Chris, > > > > > > > > I've tried 0.3.2.p and q, and both have fixed my DMA errors, which was > > > > very > > > > exciting. However, these drivers cause another playback issue, in > > > > MythTV at > > > > least. I'm running CVS Myth and when playing videos back, when I skip > > > > commercials or perform some kind of jump, about 80%-90% of the time > > > > it'll > > > > jump to the new point, but freeze. Sometimes I can just press pause > > > > and then > > > > play again and it'll continue, but most of the time it becomes > > > > unresponsive > > > > and I need to SSH into the box and restart the frontend. I noticed a > > > > couple > > > > other people on the Myth mailing lists had this problem too. So, for > > > > now, I > > > > need to stick with something older (running 0.3.2f right now, which > > > > plays > > > > back properly, but still gives some DMA errors). > > > > > > > > So, it seems something in the new changes is doing this, but I'm not > > > > sure if > > > > it's the DMA code or what. Also, note that there is not a single error > > > > message that pops up in dmesg or anything else when the video does > > > > freeze. > > > > > > > > I'm running a PVR-350 with framebuffer on an Intel mobo. (forgot to > > > > mention > > > > that) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ivtv-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > > -- > > --- > > Chris Kennedy / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Engineer KMOS-TV/KTBG-FM > > Broadcasting Services Department > > Central Missouri State University > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
