The advice I have seen on the dev list is to disable VBI in myth. You need to run mythtv-setup to do this.
This prevented these messages for me. I am still having trouble with "rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz." messages. Stephen. On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 15:27 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > hello, > > i'm using ivtv 0.3.3x (latest release) with a 2.6.11 kernel on my > debian/unstable amd64 box, and i got it running the way that mythtv > shows tv streams. > > anyhow the streams are rather fractured and broken, sometimes i get a > clean tv stream for some seconds, but at least every minute it breaks, > and therefore is not really usable. > > on my console i get thousands of these messages: > ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #70: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently > allocated > ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #71: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently > allocated > ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #72: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently > allocated > ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #73: Stealing a Buffer, 8388770 currently > allocated > > > my modprobe.d/ivtv contains: > ---SNIP--- > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1 tuner=38 > options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=0x03 > options tuner pal=1 > > install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; \ > /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe saa7127; \ > /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; \ > /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0x3000; \ > /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0xff; \ > /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -p 4; \ > /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=576; > ---/SNIP--- > > do you have any suggestions where to start debugging? > > my system is an amd athlon64 cpu on a VIA chipset: > # lspci > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host > Bridge (rev 01) > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 > South] > 0000:00:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 > MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > [...] > 0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge > 0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge > 0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge > 0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP > (rev 04) > > > did i forget to mention any important information? > > bye > jonas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
