[mythtv] IVTV VBI reading

Robin Gilks g8ecj at gilks.org
Fri Jan 19 00:23:25 UTC 2007


> In a quick test, this doesn't seem to affect the driver.
>
> I stopped the MBE, ran mythtv-setup and set "VBI format:" to
> "None", saved the restarted. I set a record rule with the
> preferred input for my ivtv card which is last because it is
> so lame compared to well tuned bttv recording.
>
> "Top" shows that the ivtv-enc-vbi thread is running (and there
> are still broken frame but I don't yet know if they are related).
> Pressing "T" reports "No captions". I stopped, reset to NTSC
> Closed Caption and restarted the MBE. Now "T" shows the captions
> from the recording made while it was set to "None".

I had the same result - the ivtv-enc-vbi thread is still running during
recording after a restart of the backend having set VBI format to None. I
haven't tried unloading the ivtv driver and starting it fresh though...


-- 
Robin Gilks




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