[mythtv-users] MPEG stream buffers full?

Daniel Arfsten darfsten at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 3 12:30:01 UTC 2007


I happen to check out /var/log/messages for something totally unrelated to 
Mythtv and this is what I found.

Jun 30 18:11:50 UBUNTU kernel: [178461.428600] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG 
stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
Jun 30 18:11:50 UBUNTU kernel: [178461.428606] ivtv0: Cause: the application 
is not reading fast enough.

Can anyone comment regarding this? It's weird because there was nothing in 
the backend logs that shows this, the only thing that's close to that date 
and time is the mythfilldatabase and it said it was successful. Any comments 
would be appreciated. I know you're probably asking yourself, why does he 
care if it didn't affect anything. Well I want to solve this before it does 
affect something. Thank you.

Hardware/Software Setup

ASRock 775-dual VSTA
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz
2GB OCZ DDRII 667mhz
GeForce 6200 (AGP 8x)
Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Hard drive that Mythtv is saving directly to is a WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 and 
this is what hdparm shows: DMA: *udma6 (hdparm -t returns: Timing buffered 
disk reads: 47.81 MB/sec. a little slow I suppose)
package manager shows mythtv = 0.20-svn20070122-0.0ubuntu6

Daniel




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