On Thu, 2006-14-12 at 18:50 -0500, Tony Lill wrote: > Preet Khalsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ever since I upgraded to FC6 and the 2.6.18 kernel, this problem is > > plaguing me. > > > > In the past, my PVR150 would freeze the firmware if you changed channels > > when watching live TV in Myth. Since then the 150 is a prerecorded only > > tuner. However now I get the above error on my 150 and 250. The 250 is > > on an s-video input and the 150 on tuner 1. > > > > I have a 150, 250 and an HD3000 in my machine. It is an x86_64 x2 so > > there is lots of horsepower. All was fine in previous releases (except > > what is mentioned about). > > > > I changed the mythtv disk from reiserfs to xfs. No change. > > > > Mythtv has a design flaw in that it does lots of database inserts in > the same thread that is reading from the encoder. These can pause > mythtv long enought for all your buffers to fill. Since it doesn't > bother many people, they don't seem too keen to fix it. > > If you don't mind compiling your own mythtv, there's a patch at > http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1660 that fixes the defect. It may > fix your problem.
Well it is good to know the source of the error. It is not IVTV but rather Myth being inefficient. Is there any hope of this patch being accepted into the mainline Myth? I do not roll my own but rather depend on Axel's RPMs. Maybe we can talk about this offline since it is proven that this is not an IVTV problem. Cheers Preet > -- > Tony Lill, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > President, A. J. Lill Consultants fax/data (519) 650 3571 > 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. N3H 2S2 (519) 241 2461 > --------------- http://www.ajlc.waterloo.on.ca/ ---------------- > "Welcome to All Things UNIX, where if it's not UNIX, it's CRAP!" > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
