On Fri, 2007-12-01 at 02:42 -0700, Mike wrote: > I have noticed that I can hard lock my system if I start seeing these and the > drive doesn't come back quick enough. > > ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data. > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough. > > Basically, all I have to do to make it happen is run something hard drive > intensive like updatedb and hit a tuner at the same time. I understand the > message and the methodology and logic seems totally reasonable, it has to go > somewhere. But it shouldn't result in a frozen kernel should it? Anybody have > any idea's what I can do to basically save the kernel from this? >
This has been answered before. It is particularly a problem in Myth where one thread handles database work and reading from IVTV. My answer was to increase the MPG buffers to the maximum. Throw this in the equivalent of modprobe.conf (I run Fedora). options ivtv mpg_buffers=16 No problems since. Good luck. Preet _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
