[mythtv] VBI patch crashes mythbackend with ivtv 0.3.2

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 11 February 2005 02:36 am, mythdev wrote:
> I am using the CVS version for quite some time now and it suddenly stop
> working after the patches on februari 4 or 5.
>
> When I try to watch liveTV or record something, the nuv file created will
> only be a few KB in size and the backend will start using 100% CPU usage.
> Only killing it will make the system respond again.
>
> I narrowed it down to the mpegrecorder.cpp and to this line:
>
> (ioctl(chanfd, IVTV_IOC_S_VBI_EMBED, &vbifmt) <, 0)
>
> I have defined the USE_IVTV_HEADER in settings.pro, but even without this
> define it will not work. When I remove the line above it works as normal
> again.
>
> I tried it with ivtv-0.3.2a and ivtv-0.3.2d, but that makes no difference
> at all.
>
> Is the above line really neccessary? And what can I do to prevent this from
> happening?

Disable the CC support in the general section of the setup program.  Or, get 
the ivtv people to fix their driver. =)

Isaac