[mythtv-users] MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout - ivtv driver has stopped responding

[scram69]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Fernando Gomes <f.m.gomes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:39 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Fernando Gomes <f.m.gomes at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with MythTV and a Haupauge PVR150 TV card, and
>> > recently all the recordings stopped working (I suppose live tv also
>> > stopped
>> > working, but I'm not able to test live tv functionality now). In the
>> > muthbackend.log I see these messages when a recording starts:
>> >
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:02.869 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:02.874 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:03.014 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: Audio sample rate
>> > 32000 Hz
>> >                         is not supported by ivtv driver, using 48000 Hz
>> > instead.
>> >  *********************** WARNING ***********************
>> >  ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when
>> >  reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not  2008-08-29
>> > 20:00:03.111 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required$
>> >
>> >  properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards.
>> >
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:03.116 Started recording: 3 (SIC) "Fri Aug 29 20:00:00
>> > 2008": channel 1002 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:08.546 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:14.098 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:19.650 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:25.198 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:30.750 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:36.303 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > 2008-08-29 20:00:41.850 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: select timeout -
>> > ivtv
>> > driver has stopped responding
>> > ....
>> > last lines repeated during the length of the recording.
>> >
>> > I didn't change anything in this PC, except the 'normal' ubuntu updates,
>> > but
>> > I'm not able to correlate the updates with this problem, because I don't
>> > use
>> > mythtv everyday.
>> > Any idea on what might be wrong?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Fernando
>> >
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>> >
>> Fernando,
>>
>> From the ivtv list, this is apparently a common problem with ivtv
>> drivers 0.10.x and the pvr-150.  Currently, I am also running Ubuntu
>> 8.04, but my distro came with kernel 2.6.24-19 and ivtv 1.1.0
>>
>> I had these errors from my pvr-150 all the time with Feisty and the
>> 0.10.1 ivtv driver, but since I upgraded, they have gone away.  So my
>> recommendation would be to use the 1.1.0 ivtv driver.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have no idea how to upgrade the ivtv driver.  I made
>> a number of attempts, but was never able to figure it out (other than
>> starting from scratch and building a new system with 8.04).  All I
>> could find to download was some ivtv utilities, not the driver itself
>> :(
>
> Hi scram69
>
> Thanks for your help. In my case it seems I'm using ivtv version 1.1.0 also,
> as I saw with dmesg output:
>
> administrator at media-server:/var/log/apt$ dmesg |grep ivtv
> [   26.707822] ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.1.0
> [   26.997193] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
> [   26.997198] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
> [   27.000386] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> [   27.151564] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
> [   27.151566] ivtv0: Reopen i2c bus for IR-blaster support
> [   27.410663] tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [   27.438715] tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [   27.704071] cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [   27.723352] wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> [   27.731484] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
> [   27.731498] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
> [   27.731512] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
> [   27.731526] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
> [   27.731528] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
> [   27.731561] ivtv:  End initialization
> [  232.756288] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> [  232.954106] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> [  244.895066] [<f8bc6740>] (ivtv_irq_handler+0x0/0x1000 [ivtv])
>
> I don't know exactly what was changed, because it was working very well
> after the installation and now it never works. I will try to remove and
> re-add the TV card to see if it has some impact on this problem
>
> Best regards
>
> Fernando
>
Sorry, I saw the versions quoted in the warning above and jumped to
the wrong conclusion.  Do you see ivtv errors in your
/var/log/messages, in particular, stuff about "DMA timeout"?  If not,
then perhaps my problem was a different issue.