Out of curiosity, how did you determine that this was the problem?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Vanderwoude</b> <<a href="mailto:jvanderw@gmail.com">jvanderw@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 10/13/06, Nick <<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> On 12/10/06, McNally <<a href="mailto:mcnallychris@pobox.com">mcnallychris@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> ><br>> > I'm using mythtv 0.20. When I watch recording in progress, such as a
<br>> > baseball game, I begin watching about 40 minutes after the start, fast<br>> > forward through commercials and other junk, and find that the actual<br>> > recording seems to have stopped soon after i started watching. This has
<br>> > happened twice already to me. I see from the logs that there seems to be<br>> > a DMA error and it may be IVTV related. Other recordings have ended much<br>> > sooner than scheduled and there is an error in the Myth log.
<br>> ><br>> > I am using an ASUS A8N-VM CSM mainboard with an AMD Sempron which has<br>> > NVIDIA nforce and gforce chipsets. The backend and frontend are the same<br>> > box. I am using ext3. The CPU from top is around 90% when watching
<br>> > recordings. I have sections of the logs below. Thanks in advance.<br>> ><br>> > ivtv version<br>> > ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading<br>> > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS<br>> > gcc-4.0<br>><br>> Try upgrading to ivtv 0.7.1 which has a fix for DMA problems like this<br>> - from the ivtv changelog:<br>><br>> IVTV changes:<br>><br>>
0.7.1 stable release<br>> - Add getopt support to test/vbi. Add new timeout option.<br>> - Fix South African broadcast frequency table.<br>> - Detect and workaround DMA offsets that can be introduced by
<br>> a DMA error.<br>> - Sliced VBI always uses PIO, never DMA.<br>><br>><br>> Nick<br><br><br>I was having this issue even after installing the new firmware, turns<br>out the 3.3v line on my power supply was bad and the memory chip on
<br>the PVR-250 wasn't getting the juice it needed to keep it going,<br>replacing the power supply resolved the issue.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
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