[mythtv-users] Strange recording and playback issues after crash

William Powers wepprop at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 5 01:13:41 UTC 2006


I presume you completely unpowered the box, preferably by removing the 
power cord for 30 seconds or so.  If you didn't, there's a chance some 
device on the motherboard got upset during the power glitch and hasn't 
been reset since.  Other than that, I dunno, unless something was 
permanently damaged.  Wish I could be more helpful.

Bill

Bruce J Keeler wrote:

>A few days ago, my myth system suffered a power loss.  Ever since, it
>has been suffering from two problems.  Recorded programs have chunks
>dropped, and lots of the following errors get logged:
>
>        Jan  2 16:01:19 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #0
>        Stealing a Buffer, 2048 currently allocated
>
>List archives suggest that this is due to mythbackend not reading the
>data from the PVR250 fast enough, but don't suggest any reason why that
>would be the case, though one suggested fscking the recordings partition
>which I did to no avail.  A SMART self-test ran without errors.  A
>bonnie++ run seemed to indicate reasonable disk performance.
>
>When playing back programs (even programs that recorded prior to the
>power loss event), I get some odd behavior while skipping ahead and
>back.  The total program time varies, sometimes by a few seconds,
>sometimes by outrageous amounts (e.g. something like 768:45:22 might be
>displayed for program length).  The skip takes a second or two to
>complete, and the picture stutters and goes all pixelly.  Pre-crash,
>skips were always instantaneous.
>
>Recording is via a PVR250, playback is through X on an FX5200.  Hardware
>and software configuration has not been touched for ages.
>
>Linux mythbox 2.6.12-20050717 #3 Thu Sep 1 18:53:47 PDT 2005 i686
>GNU/Linux
>Jan  1 14:15:06 localhost kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 00
>512MB memory.
>
>Can anyone suggest what to look for here?
>
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