[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Decoder Waiting For Pause -- Solved

John Harvey john.p.harvey at btinternet.com
Wed May 4 14:48:04 UTC 2005


Make sure any vbi/CC stuff is turned off in myth.
Chris believes that being enabled is the cause of the
buffere problem.

John
--- Andy Cedilnik <andy at x0.org> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I have not watched any show, but having live tv
> running for about an 
> hour it made it freeze. This is using 0.3.4a.
> 
> Also, now I am getting the following error on
> console:
> 
> ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111031: Stealing a
> Buffer, 8388770 
> currently allocated
> ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111032: Stealing a
> Buffer, 8388770 
> currently allocated
> ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111033: Stealing a
> Buffer, 8388770 
> currently allocated
> ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111034: Stealing a
> Buffer, 8388770 
> currently allocated
> ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #111035: Stealing a
> Buffer, 8388770 
> currently allocated
> ...
> 
> Some other problems include:
> 
> * Switching of channels takes about 10-15 seconds
> * Picture seems to be worse than before, but that
> could be flaky cable
> * Still no mplayer. I wish mythvideo would use the
> same frontend as mythtv.
> 
>        Andy
> 
> Andrew Kreps wrote:
> 
> >I just wanted to send out an update on the PVR-350
> Decoder Waited too
> >long for pause error I was getting when jumping
> around in a stream
> >quickly (i.e. commercial skipping or replay).  I
> updated to ivtv
> >3.3.3z last night which advertised a fix for that
> particular error.  I
> >turned the auto commercial skipping back on, and
> used it with no
> >lockups for a couple of hours.  It's the first time
> I've used MythTV
> >the way it was intended, and I no longer have to
> use edit mode to skip
> >the commercials!  I just wanted to share, because I
> know a few people
> >out there have had this problem.
> >
> >FYI, as of the time of this writing, ivtv 3.3.4 has
> been released that
> >contains a fix for the decoder fix that fixed me. 
> So, while I haven't
> >tried it, I'd recommend the latest version.
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