[mythtv-users] PVR-350, ivtv-osd application sending too much data /var/log/messages

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 26 November 2004 11:17 pm, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Every once in a while I get some ivtv-osd related messages in my
> /var/log/messages, after which I have to reboot the machine because my
> PVR-350 output isn't responding any more:
>
> mythtv kernel: ivtv-osd: OSD: Your Application is sending too much data
> 1382400
>
> ...and according to the log, that message is being repeated hundreds
> of times per second; about 14498 times per minute, give or take.
>
> This was during the day, when no one was using the machine, so it was
> idle on one of the regular MythTV frontend menus (no visible
> thumbnails working in the background or anything like that.  The
> backend continued to record without any issues, so this looks like
> it's strictly a PVR-350 output issue.
>
> Any clues as to what might be causing this and how I might be able to
> fix or workaround the problem some other way than a full reboot?

It's a bug in the ivtv X driver, if myth wasn't playing anything back with the 
OSD on.

Isaac