[mythtv-users] HD-PVR polling errors -- possible solution

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:15 PM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christopher Neufeld has been trying to track down a serious reliability
> issue with his HD-PVR.  After much research, he discovered that his problems
> were due to a bug in the driver.  This bug was fixed in the 3.2.11, but he
> runs LinHES which is based on Arch Linux, which has an older kernel.
>
> So, if you are having problems with your HD-PVR, and your kernel predates
> 3.2.11, you probably want to upgrade.
>
> Christopher is not a member of this mailing list, and he asked me to forward
> this:
>
> -------------------------------
>
> I've been having some HD-PVR discussions on IRC, and it was suggested that
> I post some stuff to the mailing list as it's of general interest.
>
> First, I have been having terrible reliability problems with my HD-PVR, it
> would get caught in a polling loop and fail to start up.  I tracked this
> down to a race condition in the hdpvr module for the kernel I was using
> (2.6.39).  While this race condition has been fixed in recent kernels, if
> you find yourself with failed HD-PVR recordings on an older kernel, and log
> messages that look like this:
>
> 2012-09-17T00:00:19.945718-04:00 mythtv mythbackend[23351]: E RecThread
> mpegrecorder.cpp:1010 (run) MPEGRec(/dev/hdpvr): Device error detected
> 2012-09-17T00:00:23.347878-04:00 mythtv mythbackend[23351]: E
> DeviceReadBuffer DeviceReadBuffer.cpp:513 (Poll) DevRdB(/dev/hdpvr): Poll
> giving up 2
>
> repeating every 3 or 4 seconds, check your module.  In hdpvr-video.c, the
> function hdpvr_start_streaming(), dev->status must be set to
> STATUS_STREAMING before INIT_WORK sets up hdpvr_transmit_buffers.  If the
> order is reversed, fix it and recompile.
>
> The second note is informational.  If you have a free encoder on your
> system, it is now possible to make recordings with the HD-PVR with
> closed-captions available, capable of being toggled at playback time,
> subject to certain conditions.  See
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Captions_With_HD_PVR
> for details.
>
> Thank you.

Interesting.
Some more info on exactly what change to hdpvr-video.c needs to be
made would be helpful.

thanks for the info!

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