[mythtv-users] Ivtv dies when recording at 1am

Jon Vanderwoude jvanderw at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 23:58:59 UTC 2005


I've not been able to track down any other cron jobs happening at the
same time, there are none scheduled, and I find nothing in the logs
for cron indicating it starting any jobs.

using version 0.3.7b

Turned off the automatic transcoding just now, and removed all the
jobs from the queue so I'll see if it still has the issue tommorow
morning.

On 9/30/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/09/05, Jon Vanderwoude <jvanderw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > has any one seen a problem like this where ivtv will just stop sending
> > information to myth?
> >
> > I've got a pvr 250 and any time I try to record a program that is on
> > around 1am it dies out.  1am is also when my pvr does it's
> > transcodeing of all the shows recorded that day...
> >
> > Myth seems to think that it is still recording, but there is nothing
> > more being recorded, and I get messages like below in my
> > /var/log/messages
> >
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
> > bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
> > bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG
> > stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI API header
> > 0x0000bd0d pkts 1 buffs 4 ln 24 sz 1456
> > Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI start 0x0018ea04
> > frames 4 fpi 1 lines 0x000000f1
> > Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
> > Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
> > Sep 29 01:06:48 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
> >
> >
> > now I don't think that transcoding video's is going to suck up enough
> > of my hard drive bandwidth to cause any problems (segate 200 GB sata
> > drives software raid 0)  but I can't seem to track down why this is
> > happening.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
>
> What version of the ivtv drivers are you using?
>
> Do you have any big cron jobs running at the same time in addition to
> the MythTV transcoding?
>
> If you do not run any transcoding jobs, do you see the same problems?
>
> Nick
>


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