[mythtv-users] HD-PVR failure

James Orr james.orr7 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 17:07:10 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, December 04, 2010 08:58:18 am James Orr wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Happened again last night, that's now 3 times in one week with
>> > nothing in the preceding 6 months?  Could it be a temperature thing?
>> >  It's a lot colder now and that's the only thing that's different.
>>
>> Is your HD-PVR located in unconditioned space? Is your indoor
>> temperature really different now?
>>
>> Usually cooler temps are good for electronics, and it's a *change* in
>> temperature that can cause problems with chips migrating out of sockets,
>> PC boards cracking and things like that.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if your problem is temperature related, unless the unit
>> itself is exposed to extreme or repeated wide temperature swings.
>>
>>
> It is in the basement, it's not totally unheated (in fact it's only a few
> feet from the furnace) but it's certainly colder than the rest of the
> house.
>
>
It's now starting to happen pretty much all the time, and within recordings.
 This one failed 8 minutes into an hour long recording ...

2010-12-05 09:08:36.657 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up
2010-12-05 09:08:36.673 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected
2010-12-05 09:08:36.697 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.
2010-12-05 09:08:49.845 [h264 @ 0xb7153fa0]error while decoding MB 95 27,
bytestream (-5)
2010-12-05 09:09:05.559 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: StartEncoding failed
                        eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
2010-12-05 09:09:07.569 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: Unable to set audio
input.
2010-12-05 09:09:17.036 RecBase(7:/dev/video0):
GetKeyframePositions(894,9223372036854775807,#112) out of 120

Is this more than the usual problem?  Is my HD-PVR broken?
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