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

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 23:26:41 UTC 2006


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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