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

[Curtis Stanford]

I'm getting these too. I'm using the latest CVS ivtv driver and it sometimes 
just loses it and I have to rmmod and insmod it again. I wonder which is 
newer, CVS or the files in the directory mentioned below. ivtv is so 
confusing...

On November 18, 2003 07:47 am, James S. White wrote:
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
> james at jameswhite.org                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
> http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "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.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > James S. White                      GAPS Incorporated
> > james at jameswhite.org                Electrical Engineer - Etc.
> > http://www.jameswhite.org           Caffeine is my anti-drug.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, David A. Mason wrote: