[mythtv-users] Myth freezes after kernel/ivtv upgrade - ivtv works fine [SOLVED]

[Khanh Tran]

On 3/30/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> MythTV is not so impervious to ketnel changes. I rebuilt MYthTV from
> scratch and now it works fine.
>
> cheers,
> Mark
>
> On 3/29/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    One of my mythbackend servers, up and running Gentoo and using a
> > PVR-150 for over a year, went through an upgrade cycle recently. It
> > has a new 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 kernel and the latest version of ivtv from
> > portage. Everything builds correctly and mythfrontend is able to play
> > videos that are already recorded. However if I try to record anything
> > new I get nothing and if I try to watch TV I get the typical 1 second
> > of TV and then it freezes. In dmesg I see these messages:
> >
> > ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> > ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> > ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> > ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> > ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> >
> >    I've already tried the thing where you delete your cards in
> > mythsetup and make a new card with new connections but that didn't
> > help.
> >
> >    Is there something else I can try? Very soon I'm likely to try
> > rebuilding all of the major Mythtv components.
> >
> >    I am able to cat the output of the ivtv driver into a file and play
> > it fine using these commands:
> >
> > cat /dev/v4l/video0 >test.mpg
> > mplayer test.mpg
> >
> > so it appears to be strictly a MythTV problem and not an ivtv or kernel issue.
> >
> >    Because we have a number of remote frontend machines this system is
> > still running mythtv-0.18 and I'd prefer not to try upgrading to 0.19
> > as it's likely to take too much time.
> >
> >    I'm here visiting for one more day so I need to solve this tonight
> > or tomorrow at the latest, so thanks in advance for any help you can
> > give.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
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What version of ivtv are you running?  I've recompiled MythTV from
scratch several times and I can't remedy this problem.  I'm not so
convinced that it's solely MythTV...