On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:18 -0800, Erik G. Burrows wrote: > I'd appreciate any help I can get diagnosing a strange problem I've been > having with my PVR-150 card using the ivtv driver. > > 1. It worked just fine under my last system incarnation, using the same > card, but different MB/CPU/Linux distro > 2. Some time passed... > 3. Now, the system works, and I get TV through the card using either the > "cat /dev/video0" method, or through mythtv, for a while... > 4. After a few (to several) hours of working just fine, it stops. No > more video from mythtv, and the "cat /dev/video0 > cap.mpeg" just > generates a zero-length file, no matter how long I let it go. > 5. There is no, zero, not any output to the console, syslog in dmesg at > the time of the failure or on subsequent attempts to use it. > 6. Unloading and reloading the ivtv and all other (video related) > drivers does not cure the problem. > 7. A warm reboot fixes it, for a while > 8. A cold reboot fixes it, for a while > 9. A very, very cold (plug out overnight) reboot fixes it, for a while. > > I've tried the last three stable ivtv driver versions with their > required kernel versions. Exact same behavior. > > I'm open to the problem possibly being in the card, but it seems more > likely in the software. > > Any ideas?
This sounds like the same problem I have been having. Please post your dmesg with the ivtv section. Also look in /var/log/messages for the mpg buffers full message and post. Thanks Preet _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
