<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:34 PM, George Mari <<a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org">george_mythusers@mari1938.org</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">Kelly Shutt wrote:<br>
> BUMP... noone has any ideas on this one? I'd rather not have to<br>
> downgrade, which I don't even think is possible. Right now it's not<br>
> usable at all, due to the fact that it's loosing like 25% of the<br>
> recording per hour from these errors.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Kelly Shutt<br>
><br>
><br>
> Kelly Shutt wrote:<br>
>> I've been getting "All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping<br>
>> data." for the last week or so and it's causing jitters in my<br>
>> recording. My machine has been running mythtv fine for over a year now<br>
>> and started doing this after I updated to 2.6.24 kernel and the latest<br>
>> 0.21 mythtv release. It worked fine with 2.6.23 kernel and 0.20<br>
>> release, but not the updates. I have started running the database<br>
>> optimization script nightly, but that has not helped. I have also added<br>
>> "options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16" to make sure it's using the maximum<br>
>> buffer size for the PVR-350 card, which did not help either. I've been<br>
>> looking at load, etc. and don't see any issues there. The machine is<br>
>> dedicated to MythTV only, so there's not really anything else running<br>
>> that could interfere. I've even discontinued all my transcoding for the<br>
>> moment to eliminate that as a possible CPU hog. Anyone have any other<br>
>> suggestions?<br>
>><br>
<br>
</div>PCI latency? <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency</a><br>
<br>
Shared interrupts? What is the output of "cat /proc/interrupts", or the<br>
equivalent for your distro?<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>The database optimizations script might be the culprit. Have you checked /var/log/messages to see when these errors happen to see if they coincide with any database optimizations or backups? I know that was the culprit in my system.<br>
<br>Chris<br>