-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mia Via wrote: >>>I still use with "at" to schedule recordings, but it has the nasty effect >>>that it only works once, i.e. it hangs something and I can't get anything >>>out of my 350, until I reboot (or unload all the modules.) > > >>I never ran it under "at" but used cron to schedule my recordings.Have you >>turned on debugging output and if so, could you send me the output that it >>generates? > > > James post lead me to investigate this further and search the ivtv-devel list > as this ivtv-users is not. The reason I asked about record-v4l2.pl was that > I can start and stop mplayer /dev/video0 as often as I care to and the driver > never hangs, but I could only run record-v4l2.pl once. > > If I tried to run it twice I had to reboot, as /dev/video0 remained opened by > a zombie perl/record-v4l2.pl process that couldn't be killed. If I run > modprobe -r ivtv immediately after record-v4l2.pl everything seemed to work > fine, though. > > Under syslog some suspicious warning messages showed up: > > ivtv0 warning: ENC: EOS interrupt not received! stopping anyway. > > ivtv0 warning: ENC: waited 1000 ms. > > In the devel list reasons for this run from bad VIA chipsets to bad encoder > firmware. I have ATrpms ivtv stuff and thus I've been loading the 0x02040024 > encoder version that Axel supplies and generates the "firmware can be buggy" > warning. I thus downloaded the latest firmware version 0x02050032, and my > problem went away. The only syslog warning now reads: > > ivtv0 warning: ENC: EOS took 196 ms to occur > > Back to regular programming.
Glad you got it figured out. The reason you probably didn't see it with mplayer is that the record-v4l2.pl script is trying to setup all possible settings and revert them (as directed) to previous settings when it gets done, which could overstress a bad firmware version. :) - -- James A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer Xperience, Inc. http://www.pcxperience.org/ GPG Key Available at http://www.pcxperience.com/gpgkeys/james.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFjebtUXjwPIRLVERAmBTAKCQSISlB5owgkcauY4ot2UzjzaP2gCePN98 U7Rd92Z4mPKtXUSGmkfNqz0= =aCSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
