[mythtv-users] select timeout - ivtv driver has stopped responding

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, arjuna <arjuna at on-rope.net> wrote:
> hello.
>
>  got a strange problem with my PVR-150 and mythtv.  i can watch live TV
>  without issue, but unattended recordings always fail.  meaning, if you're
>  watching TV and a schedule recording pops up, you select to allow
>  recording and watch it, then it records fine without any issues.  but if
>  the mythtv is idle before the recording starts then it fails.
>
>  i've seen this error listed in many places, usually with older versions,
>  but i have yet to see a solid solution.
>
>  here's my mythbackend logs...
>
>  2008-02-20 14:24:24.674 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>  2008-02-20 14:24:24.809 Finished recording SpongeBob SquarePants
>  "Graveyard Shift; Krusty Love": channel 1047
>  2008-02-20 14:30:02.694 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
>  2008-02-20 14:30:02.701 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
>  2008-02-20 14:30:02.893 Started recording: The Colbert Report: channel
>  1063 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
>  2008-02-20 14:30:02.906 MPEGRec(/dev/v4l/video0) Error: Error getting
>  codec params using old IVTV ioctl
>                         eno: Bad address (14)
>  2008-02-20 14:30:08.068 MPEGRec(/dev/v4l/video0) Error: select timeout -
>  ivtv driver has stopped responding
>
>  ...that last error keeps repeating every ~5s.
>
>  i'm running gentoo, i've tried these things in various combinations...
>  mythtv-0.20.2_p14972, 0.20.2_p15634, 0.21_pre15718
>  kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r4, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 and 2.6.23-gentoo-r6
>  ivtv 1.0.3-r1 and r2, 10.6, vanilla 1.0.3
>  several different firmwares for ivtv
>
>  live TV works fine and 'cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg' works fine _before_
>  the first scheduled unattended recording but fails after (0 byte files).
>

I am using gentoo x86_64.
I had that frequently in the past but then I switched DMA off on the
ivtv drvier and all was well. Since then I have installed the bleeding
edge ivtv-drivers and I have not seen the problem with them with DMA
on.

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download