[mythtv-users] Cant watch live tv

[RYM002 at netscape.net]

After watching tv for 10 - 20 minutes the backend reports "Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15 seconds.  Game over, man.". In my log (/var/log/messages) it reports "kernel: ivtv: ivtv_enc_timeout: Running encoder tasklet...". I am able to record and watch the recordings without any issue. If I watch a recording in progress the recording stops, the file size stops growing and I have to restart the backend. I ran a test to see if the ivtv driver is having a problem by running "mplayer /dev/video0" on the backend, this produced video of live tv from the card. I left it running overnight and received no errors (about 10 hours). Based on that test the ivtv driver is working properly.

My system
Backend:
FC2 upgraded from FC1 via apt.
pvr250 using ivtv rpms kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.8-1.521-0.1.10-48.1_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
640 MB ram
P4 1.3GHZ
 
Frontend:
Xbox - Xebian 1.0.3

Any sugestions/comments would be great. BTW I had the same problem with FC1.

Thanks in advance
Ray 


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