[mythtv-users] IRQ ENC errors

Cecil Watson cwatson at linkline.com
Wed Jan 19 02:03:43 EST 2005


Brady wrote:

>I am getting all sorts of weird IRQ errors when using ivtv with
>Mythtv. When watching live TV I get "ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #153436
>Stealing a Buffer, 256 currently allocate" over and over again. The
>video is unstable and gets fragmented every so often. The audio also
>cuts out every so often. When I fast forward it takes 30 to 60 seconds
>to skip. The total length of the recording jumps around for a while
>then it finally actually jumps. Everything was working fine a while
>ago, then when I upgraded to ivtv 0.2 it started giving the message
>but left no visible errors. Now I can't get the visible errors to go
>away. Nothing else was changed that I know of. It also seems to only
>happen with live tv.
>
>Anybody seen this error?
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Yes, I have.  Drove me to drink for a day.  Turned out to be a corrupt 
partition.  fsck your drive to make sure it is ok.

Regards,

Cecil


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