[mythtv-users] Ivtv dies when recording at 1am

[Jon Vanderwoude]

I think I got it fixed, I rolled back one version of firmware (one
version back from what the ivtv wiki recommends) and now it seems to
be working stably, I watched 4 hours of TV with out any issues so
far... so maybe it was just the card not likeing the firmware I
provided...

On 10/1/05, Jon Vanderwoude <jvanderw at gmail.com> wrote:
> nope that runs shortly after midnight...
>
>
> Strangly enough it did it at 8:30 just now... I restarted the machine
> at 6:50 (ish) and it was recording from that point until it hung up...
>
> Just for the sake of curiusity I did "cat /var/log/messages|grep DMAXFER"
>
> It is happening once aday cause I only tend to reboot it once a day
> (tv tuner won't capture until I reboot)  But the times seem scattered
> out more then I thought.
>
> Sep 25 22:09:37 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> Sep 26 00:13:23 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> Sep 27 01:41:17 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> Sep 28 01:43:33 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> Sep 29 01:06:48 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> Sep 30 20:30:44 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
>
>
> On 9/30/05, Endaf Jones <jonese at zener.com> wrote:
> > Jon Vanderwoude wrote:
> >
> > >I've not been able to track down any other cron jobs happening at the
> > >same time, there are none scheduled, and I find nothing in the logs
> > >for cron indicating it starting any jobs.
> > >
> > >using version 0.3.7b
> > >
> > >Turned off the automatic transcoding just now, and removed all the
> > >jobs from the queue so I'll see if it still has the issue tommorow
> > >morning.
> > >
> > >On 9/30/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On 30/09/05, Jon Vanderwoude <jvanderw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>has any one seen a problem like this where ivtv will just stop sending
> > >>>information to myth?
> > >>>
> > >>>I've got a pvr 250 and any time I try to record a program that is on
> > >>>around 1am it dies out.  1am is also when my pvr does it's
> > >>>transcodeing of all the shows recorded that day...
> > >>>
> > >>>Myth seems to think that it is still recording, but there is nothing
> > >>>more being recorded, and I get messages like below in my
> > >>>/var/log/messages
> > >>>
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
> > >>>bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
> > >>>bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG
> > >>>stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI API header
> > >>>0x0000bd0d pkts 1 buffs 4 ln 24 sz 1456
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI start 0x0018ea04
> > >>>frames 4 fpi 1 lines 0x000000f1
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
> > >>>Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
> > >>>Sep 29 01:06:48 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>now I don't think that transcoding video's is going to suck up enough
> > >>>of my hard drive bandwidth to cause any problems (segate 200 GB sata
> > >>>drives software raid 0)  but I can't seem to track down why this is
> > >>>happening.
> > >>>
> > >>>Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>What version of the ivtv drivers are you using?
> > >>
> > >>Do you have any big cron jobs running at the same time in addition to
> > >>the MythTV transcoding?
> > >>
> > >>If you do not run any transcoding jobs, do you see the same problems?
> > >>
> > >>Nick
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> > Is this when your nightly mythfilldatabase runs by chance?
> >
> > # Endaf
> >
>