hi Hans,

you are absolutely right.  My dmesg has the following warning:

[ 2660.797178] ivtv0: All encoder YUV stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
[ 2660.797185] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
[ 2661.678946] ivtv1: All encoder YUV stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
[ 2661.678952] ivtv1: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.


Do you have a suggestion on how to fix this problem?  I suppose I can upgrade 
my kernel, but I wonder if there is an alternative way to read videos from 
these tuners.  I'm very new to V4L2.

Thanks in advance,

Elvis


> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:15:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Possible to grab images repeatitively from 2        
> pvr-150? *code attached*
> 
> 
> There is a bug in the ivtv driver that was only fixed in kernel 2.6.24. 
> What happens is that if the application cannot quite keep up with the 
> video stream the internal buffers will become full. At that moment 
> buffers will be dropped (you probably get some message about that in 
> the kernel log) and in kernels < 2.6.24 the YUV frames would become 
> misaligned. This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.24.
> 
> I suspect this is what your problem is. Check your kernel log: if you 
> capture from two video3x devices then you probably see "Dropping data" 
> messages.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
>          Hans
> 
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