[mythtv-users] new stuttering on HDPVR's

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2014-09-10 5:51 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> On 2014-09-10 5:49 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>> I just started getting these errors yesterday, and recording have 
>> failed as well as livetv stuttering:
>>
>> Sep 10 17:31:46 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[3809]: E 
>> DeviceReadBuffer recorders/DeviceReadBuffer.cpp:543 (Poll) 
>> DevRdB(/dev/hdpvr2): Poll giving up 2
>> Sep 10 17:31:46 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[3809]: E 
>> RecThread recorders/mpegrecorder.cpp:1044 (run) 
>> MPEGRec[2](/dev/hdpvr2): Device error detected
>> Sep 10 17:31:47 mythserver mythbackend: mythbackend[3809]: W 
>> ProcessRequest ringbuffer.cpp:1453 (ReadPriv) 
>> RingBuf(/livetv/1209_20140910223111.mpg): ReadPriv(..262144, normal) 
>> -- waited 2957 ms for avail(130848) > count(262144)
>>
>> I swapped power supplies on my two HDPVRS, both are new(ish)m ordered 
>> from Hauppauge when the originals failed.
>>
>> I've been running this box for years with no serious issues. I'm 
>> currently running 0.27 fixes.
>>
>> Any ideas what happened here?
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
> I forgot to add, I'm seeing this in syslog at the same time:
>
> Sep 10 17:50:20 mythserver kernel: [ 2954.159270] hdpvr 2-5:1.0: 
> config call request for value 0x800 returned 1
> Sep 10 17:50:20 mythserver kernel: [ 2954.159283] hdpvr 2-5:1.0: 
> transmit worker exited
> Sep 10 17:50:21 mythserver kernel: [ 2954.870933] hdpvr 2-5:1.0: 
> config call request for value 0x700 returned 1
>
>
> Gerald
>
>

I upgraded the HDPVR firmware to 1.7 (0x1e) from 1.6 (0x17), and so far 
so good.  No issues in the last hour.  I'll keep it running longer to 
see if it's working.

Since I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, I did get hit by the color/saturation 
issue, but that was an easy fix.

Gerald

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Gerald Brandt
Majentis Technologies
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gbr at majentis.com