[mythtv-users] Ivtv dies when recording at 1am

[Endaf Jones]

Jon Vanderwoude wrote:

>I've not been able to track down any other cron jobs happening at the
>same time, there are none scheduled, and I find nothing in the logs
>for cron indicating it starting any jobs.
>
>using version 0.3.7b
>
>Turned off the automatic transcoding just now, and removed all the
>jobs from the queue so I'll see if it still has the issue tommorow
>morning.
>
>On 9/30/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On 30/09/05, Jon Vanderwoude <jvanderw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>has any one seen a problem like this where ivtv will just stop sending
>>>information to myth?
>>>
>>>I've got a pvr 250 and any time I try to record a program that is on
>>>around 1am it dies out.  1am is also when my pvr does it's
>>>transcodeing of all the shows recorded that day...
>>>
>>>Myth seems to think that it is still recording, but there is nothing
>>>more being recorded, and I get messages like below in my
>>>/var/log/messages
>>>
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
>>>bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture
>>>bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost last message repeated 3 times
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder set size
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG
>>>stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI API header
>>>0x0000bd0d pkts 1 buffs 4 ln 24 sz 1456
>>>Sep 29 01:00:02 localhost kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI start 0x0018ea04
>>>frames 4 fpi 1 lines 0x000000f1
>>>Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output
>>>Sep 29 01:00:03 localhost kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output
>>>Sep 29 01:06:48 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC: REG_DMAXFER 2 wait failed
>>>
>>>
>>>now I don't think that transcoding video's is going to suck up enough
>>>of my hard drive bandwidth to cause any problems (segate 200 GB sata
>>>drives software raid 0)  but I can't seem to track down why this is
>>>happening.
>>>
>>>Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
>>>      
>>>
>>What version of the ivtv drivers are you using?
>>
>>Do you have any big cron jobs running at the same time in addition to
>>the MythTV transcoding?
>>
>>If you do not run any transcoding jobs, do you see the same problems?
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>    
>>

Is this when your nightly mythfilldatabase runs by chance?

# Endaf