<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 9:58 PM, Tony Lill <<a href="mailto:ajlill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca">ajlill@ajlc.waterloo.on.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Daniel Arfsten <<a href="mailto:darfsten@hotmail.com">darfsten@hotmail.com</a>> writes:<br>> I am seeing the error a lot now. I can't think of what I have done to the machine to cause this? I have only 1 PVR-350 in the main backend/frontend and a PVR-500 on a Secondary Backend/Frontend. I do all my watching of my recordings on my xbox thru xbmcmythtv though. It may because I was transcoding downloading avi files to mpeg compliant files for burning to DVD using devede? BUt I can't be sure because I can't read the time through dmesg? Here are some more of the errors at the end of the dmesg which I just ran now. I can't speak for the recordings as I am way behind and haven't watched any recent recordings. I'll check them out tonight after work to see if there are missing frames and whatnot. Thanks for the reply. Happy New Year
<br><br></div>If you are using 0.20, it has a design flaw in that the same thread<br>that reads data from your capture card also inserts data into the<br>seek table for every frame. One of the things that seem to affect this
<br>is the size of the database, and the other seems to be which kernel<br>version you are running.<br><br>Since you say you are way behind in watching recordings, I'd guess<br>your database is getting large enough so that you start hitting the
<br>problem.<br><br>If this is the problem then you can either upgrade to the latest SVN<br>version, or apply the patch in <a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1660" target="_blank">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1660
</a><br>to your 0.20 source.<br><br>The other thing you can try it to upgrade your kernel. When I switch<br>from the 2.4 series of kernels to 2.6, I found that the new kernels<br>really sucked at sharing resources. It was very easy for one process
<br>(especially one that does a lot of I/O) to mess up watching and/or<br>recording programs. 2.6.23 is the first kernel I've tried that worked<br>as well as the 2.4 kernels in this regard. YMMV<br>--<br>Tony Lill,
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