[mythtv-users] Backend stuffed up in RequestRingBufferBlock

[Robert Schultz]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Friday 06 June 2003 07:52 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
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>>I'm getting the error:
>>Backend stuffed up in RequestRingBufferBlock
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>>It happens a few seconds into watching live TV.
>>I'm running RedHat linux 9.0, with the latest CVS as of 6/6/2003 at
>>6:30PM eastern.
>>I have a WinTV PVR 250 card using Tuner 0.
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>>With an older version, it wasn't able to change channels.
>>But after I wiped the database, did a distclean, and upgraded to the
>>latest, now I can change channels all I want.
>>It's just that I can't actually watch TV, because I get that error message.
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>>Running mythbackend in verbose mode does not yield any better results.
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>>Anyone have any ideas?
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>Generally, this means that the recording process isn't getting any data from 
>the tuner card.  I'm assuming you can do stuff like 'cat /dev/video0 > 
>file.mpg' for arbitrarily long periods of time?
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>Isaac
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I was able to do 'cat /dev/video0' just fine.
I let it run about 31 minutes.
Then watched the video, sound and video just fine the entire length.


Live TV won't go longer than a few seconds.
What else could be the problem?

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