[mythtv-users] Can mythtv handle two dumb capture cards?

Shay - MythTV mythtv at highstyleweb.com
Wed Jul 21 11:39:32 EDT 2004


I have 2 pvr 250s running on my system and it's only got a 1.33 
cpu..  sounds like you have a software problem somewhere..

At 09:05 AM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>My system is an athlon XP 3000 w/ two bt878 capture cards.
>I'm getting tons of "ran out of free AUDIO buffers :-(" errors on the
>backend and tons of "Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!" on the
>frontend.  About 1 in 10 recordings will have hiccups where the video
>will have trouble spots -- "black holes" in the recording where the
>recording can't rewind/fastforward past the trouble spot and the trouble
>spot will cause video to pause, lose sync with the audio, or simply
>crash the frontend.
>
>Last time I posted about the errors, somebody said that it was because I
>might be running a resource hogging operation like filldatabase or a
>compile.  Could simply running a second capture be causing the problems?
>
>I'm getting very frustrated -- I have yet to see the system make it a
>week without the backend crashing or 10 programs without the frontend
>crashing.
>
>
>--
>Adam Felson <a.f.5 at pobox.com>
>
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