[mythtv-users] Backend stuffed up in RequestRingBufferBlock

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 06 June 2003 07:52 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
> I'm getting the error:
> Backend stuffed up in RequestRingBufferBlock
>
> It happens a few seconds into watching live TV.
> I'm running RedHat linux 9.0, with the latest CVS as of 6/6/2003 at
> 6:30PM eastern.
> I have a WinTV PVR 250 card using Tuner 0.
>
> With an older version, it wasn't able to change channels.
> But after I wiped the database, did a distclean, and upgraded to the
> latest, now I can change channels all I want.
> It's just that I can't actually watch TV, because I get that error message.
>
> Running mythbackend in verbose mode does not yield any better results.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Generally, this means that the recording process isn't getting any data from 
the tuner card.  I'm assuming you can do stuff like 'cat /dev/video0 > 
file.mpg' for arbitrarily long periods of time?

Isaac