[mythtv-users] ivtv0, MPEG buffers full. Dropping Data (Help please)

[John Drescher]

On Dec 27, 2007 10:50 AM, Daniel Arfsten <darfsten at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I just went to look at dmesg for some other reason and found these errors.
>
>  [108715.863315] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping
> data.
> [108715.863320] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [187845.748109] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping
> data.
> [187845.748115] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
>

This means that during a recording that your system got so bogged down
that it could not keep up with the capture card's data rate. Usually
in myth you can fix this by putting the database on a drive that does
not contain the videos you are recording.

John