On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 07:07 -0800, Erik G. Burrows wrote: > > 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. > > One might argue that ivtv's behavior of locking up if the reader > application is to slow is a design flaw also. Is this something that can > be corrected?
Interesting point. My hd3000 is generating 4x the amount of data and never freezes out Myth. This tells me it might be the HP DMA functions (whether it is IVTV or firmware doesn't matter). Is it possible to set the card to not use DMA? I use an AMD x2 and have a whole other processor available if needed. Preet > > -Erik G. Burrows > > > -- > > 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 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
