Forwarding for now (no time to answer). If no one answers these questions I will try to get back to you later.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Arfsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 7, 2008 10:52 AM Subject: RE: [ivtv-users] Still getting MPEG stream buffers full To: John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:07:14 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Still getting MPEG stream buffers full > > On Feb 7, 2008 8:26 AM, Daniel Arfsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > I am using ivtv 0.10.1 with Ubuntu Feisty MythTV 0.20.2-fixes. I run a > > PVR-350 with s-video IN from a SA3250HD STB using a ir-blaster to change the > > channels. I am getting dropping frames. I have tried all the solutions that > > I could find on the internet but it still hasn't solved the issue. > > > > Hardware: > > AsRock 775duel-VSTA > > C2D 1.8ghz > > 2GB DDRII (533mhz, i think) > > GeForce 6200 8X AGP 128mg ram > > PCI Firewire card (don't even use it) > > > > dmesg shows this error whenever a recording occurs and the only other thing > > that I am doing is running 2 torrents. > > > Does this happen if you shut these off? well the torrents are only uploading which means it's not writing to disk but I can turn them off for troubleshooting purposes. > > > > > [540732.313149] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping > > data. > > [540732.313153] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough. > > > > I have checked all hard drives, according to dmesg, they have DMA set. > > > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 > > > > I have set the PCI latency on the hard drive controllers to 176 per a > > suggestion I found. lspci shows: > > > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller > > (rev 80) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) > > Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Unknown device 0591 > > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 176, IRQ 21 > > > > I changed the ivtv parameters to increase the buffers. I use this in > > /etc/modprobe.conf: > > > > options ivtv enc_yuv_buffers=32 enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_vbi_buffers=16 > > enc_pcm_buffers=16 > > > > it appears that the parameters are being used by looking at dmesg | grep > > ivtv: > > > > [ 19.223220] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (16 MB) > > > > The only other thing that sticks out is this message in dmesg: > > [ 18.779434] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > > [ 18.779438] ivtv0: Recommended firmware version is 0x02060039. > > > > Could that be the problem? > Not likely. > > > How would I go about changing the firmware for > > the PVR-350? > The firmware is here: > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download#Firmware > > You probably need to extract it to /lib/firmware I already downloaded the firmware but there's nothing in /lib/firmware/. my ssh server just went down for whatever reason so I can't tell you where the firmware is kept. I could just do a search for v4l-cx* right, then where ever that is is where I need to put the new firmware? > > > If someone could point me to an exact guide I would appreciate > > it. Also, ivtv was "just installed" automagically in ubuntu so I never had > > to compile it or anything like that. Would something mess up if I only > > change out the firmware? > No. ok, sounds good. > > > Excuse the questions but I am new to firmware and > > what not. Is firmware just like drivers or modules? > > > > So I can't think of what else to do to solve this. Can anyone suggest > > anything??? > > > Are you using mythtv? Are you using ext3? Is the hard drive thrashing > when this error occurs? Is any other application writing data to the > disks when this occurs? > > John I am using mythtv (.20.2-fixes) I am using ext3. How can I tell if the hard drive is thrashing? what log could I find that out? there's no other app writing data to the drives when recording in mythtv. the torrents as I said are only uploading. -- John M. Drescher _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
