[mythtv-users] ivtv0, MPEG buffers full. Dropping Data

[Daniel Arfsten]

> 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
 
John,
The myth database is on a different drive. To the best of my knowledge the database is kept on my / partition (which is /dev/hdc2) and my recordings are kept in /media/400gb/mythtv (which is /dev/sda1).
 
I am seeing the error a lot now. I can't think of what I have done to the machine to cause this? I have only 1 PVR-350 in the main backend/frontend and a PVR-500 on a Secondary Backend/Frontend. I do all my watching of my recordings on my xbox thru xbmcmythtv though. It may because I was transcoding downloading avi files to mpeg compliant files for burning to DVD using devede? BUt I can't be sure because I can't read the time through dmesg? Here are some more of the errors at the end of the dmesg which I just ran now. I can't speak for the recordings as I am way behind and haven't watched any recent recordings. I'll check them out tonight after work to see if there are missing frames and whatnot. Thanks for the reply. Happy New Year
 
[792096.714833] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[792096.714838] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.[792141.596604] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[792141.596609] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.[793889.292823] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[793889.292828] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.[799288.185257] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[799288.185262] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.[799338.687229] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[799338.687234] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.[802933.937204] ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.[802933.937210] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.  
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