[mythtv-users] Help, after 1 month perfection, system now stutters

[Alex Hazlewood]

I had the same thing, mine was caused by the fact I had stopped but not
disabled atrmd [sound ] and this was interfering with the recordings after
the reboot .. stopping [and disabling it ] made all the difference .

alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kuhn" <kuhn at razorsys.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help, after 1 month perfection, system now
stutters


did you lose power due to a storm?.. is it possible the card was damaged
via a surge thru the cable line?..

just throwing you an idea.. i've had cable boxes fry/break from storms
and surges..

--John

>About 1-2 months ago our VCR died and I refused to buy a new one so my wife
had no choice but to use MythTV.
>
>She is now very happy with it and would like to keep using it but ever
since Tuesday night all recordings having missed frames and audio this
happens about every 10-30 seconds throughout the recording. It appears to
have started 30 minutes into a 2 hour show on Tuesday night. All shows since
then have the same stuttering.
>
>My system is a Gentoo EPIA 10000N with a M179 (ivtv 0.1.9 ebuild from
alterself). To debug I have copied some recordings over to a windows
computer and found that they contain the same stuttering in the same places
as when played on the EPIA, thus concluding it is the recording and not the
playback. I have a 7200 RPM drive and have recording profile set to Mpeg PS
with 4.5 mbit ave and 6 mbit max (I have a small TV). All of this was
working great without stuttering for over a month. I did not upgrade or
change the system in anyway on Tuesday night (or in the last week for that
matter) when the problem seems to have randomly started in the middle of
recording. The only recent event was a power outage a day before on Monday.
On which I had to force clean the JFS partition holding the recordings. But
the file system is fixed and I am still having the problem. Right now, I am
thinking the worst that maybe the encoding card is damaged.
>
>I have also tried increasing the mpg_buffers parameter of ivtv and setting
the debug mode to 1 and turning on extra buffer, jitter reduction in
playback. None of this has had any effect.
>
>Since turning on ivtv debug=1 I have seen the following new messages,
however it is still recording but with the stuttering….
>ivtv: loaded
>ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
>ivtv: api call 0x000000d2
>ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
>ivtv: api call 0x000000c3
>ivtv: stop_fw error 3. Code -16
>i2c-core.o: adapter unregistered: ivtv i2c driver #0
>ivtv: You've not seen the last of willy!
>
>Anyone have an idea of what might have gone wrong and how to fix it, or do
I have to buy my wife a VCR???
>
>-Brad
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>




----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----


_______________________________________________
mythtv-users mailing list
mythtv-users at mythtv.org
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users