[mythtv-users] ivtv0, MPEG buffers full. Dropping Data (Help please)

[Joe Ripley]

On Dec 27, 2007 8:50 AM, Daniel Arfsten <darfsten at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I just went to look at dmesg for some other reason and found these errors.
>
>  [108715.863315] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping
> data.
> [108715.863320] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [187845.748109] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping
> data.
> [187845.748115] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.

I get these every once in a while.  It's not anything to worry about
unless you're getting a constant stream of them during every
recording.  It's difficult to diagnose just based on these messages.
What was the load of the machine while the recording was in progress?
How much I/O activity was there?

I get these in the rare instances where my backend is transcoding,
commercial flagging, mythfilldatabase is running and both tuners are
recording at the same time.

The impact on my recordings is minimal... maybe some garbled/missing
frames for a few seconds.

-- 
Joe Ripley
vitaminjoe at gmail.com