Hans Nieser wrote: >Hi list, > >Recently, after messing around a bit (changing freqs with ivtv-tune and >catting /dev/video0 to a test file or opening the device directly with >mplayer) with my WinTV PVR150 MCE tv-card, I noticed that my system had >slown down a lot. When I later checked my /var/log/messages file I noticed >that it had grown from 20mb or so to 700+ mb. Inside there were a lot of >these messages, about 40 every second: > >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987658: >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987659: >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated >Dec 28 05:54:56 aphax ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #6987660: >Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated > >I am going to guess that a simple reboot will put the ivtv driver / card >back into a normal state, but I wonder how it got this way, can anyone assist? > >I'm using ivtv-0.4.0-r2 (the -r2 might be the portage revision of Gentoo, >not sure) on Gentoo 2005.1 with the linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r4 kernel. Let me >know of more info is needed. > > Sorry for not including this in my initial message, my ivtv dmesg output:
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 preempt K8 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26559, rev = B257, serial# = 7640325 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1216 ME MK3 (idx = 57, type = 38) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cx25840 0-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== It should also be said that my card does work usually, as I've managed to watch TV with it in mythtv. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
