[mythtv-users] vbi streams are full

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Thu Feb 21 03:05:14 UTC 2008


I am running a PVR150, and I keep getting this error.  Can anyone shed 
some light on this error?

Basically, at some point, it causes my system to become completely
unresponsive.  The following message is repeated on the console with
amazing speed.

Feb 20 16:02:51 selene kernel: ivtv0: All encoder VBI stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Feb 20 16:02:51 selene kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

I downloaded the latest 1.0 from dvb today.  I am running myth and I
have only one other tuner.

log status says nothing:

selene:# v4l2-ctl --log-status
selene:#

selene:/lib/modules/2.6.24# uname -a
Linux selene 2.6.24 #1 SMP Fri Jan 25 14:59:10 PST 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Feb 20 18:03:11 selene kernel: ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.2.0
Feb 20 18:03:11 selene kernel: ivtv0: Initializing card #0
Feb 20 18:03:11 selene kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
(cx23416 based)
Feb 20 18:03:11 selene kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88
(ivtv i2c driver #0)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c
driver #0)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv
i2c driver #0)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv0: Registered device video1 for
encoder MPG (4096 kB)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv0: Registered device video33 for
encoder YUV (2048 kB)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv0: Registered device vbi1 for encoder
VBI (1024 kB)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv0: Registered device video25 for
encoder PCM (320 kB)
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge
WinTV PVR-150
Feb 20 18:03:12 selene kernel: ivtv:  End initialization
Feb 20 18:03:22 selene kernel: ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware
(376836 bytes)
Feb 20 18:03:22 selene kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
Feb 20 18:04:56 selene kernel: ivtv0: All encoder VBI stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Feb 20 18:04:56 selene kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Feb 20 18:04:56 selene kernel: ivtv0: All encoder VBI stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Feb 20 18:04:56 selene kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.




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