Any suggestions by anyone? Just curious if this is something I need to
live with, or if there is a workaround or would changing the motherboard
to another chipset and CPU to AMD help?
-Bennett
Bennett Leve wrote:
All,
I am experiencing the issues described in the list archives:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/19002?nohighlight=1
Recently I built a box just to use for MythTV. It has the following
hardware:
ABIT IS7-V2 motherboard
Hauppauge PVR-350 using the mpeg video out option
Pentium IV 3.0 processor
512mb of ram
The Myth install is the latest Knoppmyth release and I have been very
happy with it except for two things.
The freezes when hitting the FF or REW button really fast several
times and when I turn on hyper threading it freezes after only a few
minutes of displaying video.
Reading the above thread it seems the hardware decoder that Hauppauge
puts on these cards is rather whimpie. What I would like to know if
anyone has a workaround? Is there anyway to throttle the throughput
or some other hack other than just being sure to not be too aggressive
hitting the buttons? I know there must be lots of setups hitting this
problem.
I would be interested to know of a motherboard/processor combo that
does not have this problem as well. I have a X86_64 box running Suse,
but I use that for work and would rather keep it that way, but if it
would be more stable than the new P4 box I may switch them around.
Sep 15 22:55:13 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for
firmware
Sep 15 22:55:13 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Failed api call 0x00000015 with
result 0xfffffff0
Sep 15 22:55:13 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: DEC: couldnt read clock
Sep 15 22:55:23 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for
firmware
Sep 15 22:55:23 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Failed api call 0x0000000d with
result 0xfffffff0
Sep 15 22:55:23 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: DEC: error pausing
Sep 15 22:55:26 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: No Free Mailbox for cmd
0x00000015 after 100 tries!
Sep 15 22:55:26 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Mailbox[0] 0x00000053 flags
0x00000003
Sep 15 22:55:26 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Mailbox[1] 0x00000053 flags
0x00000003
Sep 15 22:55:26 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Firmware UNRESPONSIVE when
trying cmd 0x00000015!!!
Sep 15 22:55:26 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: DEC: couldnt read clock
Sep 15 22:55:36 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for
firmware
Sep 15 22:55:36 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Failed api call 0x0000000d with
result 0xfffffff0
Sep 15 22:55:36 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: DEC: error pausing
Sep 15 22:55:46 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for
firmware
Sep 15 22:55:46 mythtvbe kernel: ivtv: Failed api call 0x00000003 with
result 0xfffffff0
Thanks for any help.
-Bennett
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