[mythtv-users] Backend drops frames at start of recording; add RAM?

[Tom Lichti]

kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
>> Nope, last activity on that ticket was the less-than-totaly-successful
>> alternate patch, and that was targeted for 0.20. Even if accepted, it
>> might not get applied to the 0.19-fixes branch if it's not considered
>> serious enough or affect enough people.
>>
>> If it solved your problem, you can always add a comment to the ticket,
>> it might move things along.
>>     
>
> So I finally got around to recompiling my MythTV-0.19 and adding your
> speedup.patch file into the code.  It worked like a charm.  All my
> kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping
> data. kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough
> error messages have stopped showing up and I'm not getting huge drops
> in frames now.
>
> I added a comment onto the ticket so that (hopefully) it will help to
> push your changes into the code.  It looks like, from the ticket, that
> one of the devs wanted you to break up the patch so that he could
> implement parts of it.  You should try that.
>   
I tried applying the patch to SVN head, but there were about 5 segments 
that didn't apply. I tried to manually apply them but there was one that 
I couldn't figure out. You might want to update the patch to SVN head, 
or it's quite likely that it will not get applied.

Tom