Michael Cook <[email protected]> writes: > I recently moved my pvr-150 from one computer to another, and after > having done that I found that mythtv would fail recording > occasionally, about once a day or so I would have to reboot. The > error messages that appeared in /var/log were like this: > > ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data. > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough. > > and > > MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - ivtv driver has stopped > responding > > After googling those error messages for a while, it occurred to me > to try moving my pvr-150 card from one pci slot to another. After I > did that, the failures seem to have stopped (after four days, no > failures). > > Is this information interesting? > > Here's the change in the dmesg output from before the failures until > after the slot change.
Here's a little more information. $ dmesg | g -i ivtv [ 11.127102] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.0 [ 11.127366] ivtv0: Initializing card #0 [ 11.127371] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) [ 11.129274] ivtv 0000:01:08.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 11.182851] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ 11.182854] ivtv0: Reopen i2c bus for IR-blaster support [ 11.455020] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) [ 11.467124] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) [ 11.467228] wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) [ 11.729897] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB) [ 11.729968] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB) [ 11.730035] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB) [ 11.730106] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB) [ 11.730110] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 [ 11.730170] ivtv: End initialization [ 38.032018] ivtv 0000:01:08.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw [ 38.111418] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes) [ 38.308138] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
