[mythtv-users] Zero byte recordings... sometimes.

[James S. White]

I removed my second card from the database to see whic card is
giving me problems.  Apperently the pattern is record one show
fine, record one 0 byte file, crash mythbackend.

I updated mythtv to the latest cvs last night.

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James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
james at jameswhite.org                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, James S. White wrote:

> > I find that this happens to me when I boot from a 2.4.22x kernel I've got
> > installed; compiling the ivtv driver against that kernel's v4l2 headers
> > rather than the v4l headers of earlier kernels leads to periodic 0-byte
> > recordings.
>
> I didn't patch the 2.4.22 kernel for v4l. I used the header file from
> the utils dir of the ivtv source. I understood that was more reliable.
>
> > There is some discussion of this on the ivtv mailing list, and, according to
> > that list, the problem might finally be solved in the latest version of the
> > driver:
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/ivtv/
>
> Are these snapshots more recent than using CVS checkout? I checked out the
> cvs a few minutes ago and there was no changes to the code I currently have.
> I'm still getting 0 byte files.
>
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> James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
> james at jameswhite.org                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
> http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
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> "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David A. Mason wrote:
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