[mythtv-users] HD-PVR slow remote

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Jul 30 18:04:12 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Scott Bickford <bic1ster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > cat lirc.conf
>> >
>> > #lirc_module_configuration
>> > alias char-major-61 lirc_zilog
>>
>> Did you put the above in there, or did mythdora? In either case, its
>> *wrong*. :)
>
> That could of been from an HVR-1600, which is now out of the box.
>
>>
>> > ls /dev/lirc* -alh
>> >
>> > crw-rw---- 1 root root 248, 0 2010-07-23 06:22 /dev/lirc0
>>
>> As you can see here, your lirc device has a character device major
>> number of 248, not 61. We use dynamic misc chardev number assignments
>> now (first free number, going backwards from 255, iirc), not a static
>> one.
>
> I commented that out, rm'd /dev/lirc,

The commenting out part was correct, but don't rm /dev/lirc*, that's
supposed to be there, I was just pointing out that what was there has
a device major of 248 (correctly assigned dynamically), not 61.

> did various power downs.  Now it's
> locking up after 2 minutes of recording as well as this in the backend log:
>
> 2010-07-29 09:00:52.170 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client (events:
> 0)
> 2010-07-29 09:00:52.178 RecBase(1:/dev/video0):
> GetKeyframePositions(1022,9223372036854775807,#0) out of 9
> 2010-07-29 09:01:14.836 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up
> 2010-07-29 09:01:14.852 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected
> 2010-07-29 09:01:14.858 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.
> 2010-07-29 09:01:56.967 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: StartEncoding failed
>                         eno: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
> 2010-07-29 09:01:59.979 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: Unable to set audio
> input.
> 2010-07-29 09:03:01.652 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
> 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
> 2010-07-29 09:08:57.033 RecBase(1:/dev/video0):
> GetKeyframePositions(1022,9223372036854775807,#5) out of 14
> 2010-07-29 09:09:11.139 RecBase(1:/dev/video0):
> GetKeyframePositions(1662,9223372036854775807,#0) out of 14
> 2010-07-29 09:09:11.152 Dec: DoFastForward(): desiredFrame(1710) >
> last_frame(1661)
> 2010-07-29 09:09:11.185 Dec: DoFastForward(): Desired frame is way past the
> end of the keyframe map!
>                         Seeking to last keyframe instead.
> 2010-07-29 09:09:14.362 [h264 @ 0x391264a5c0]error while decoding MB 109 36,
> bytestream (-4)
> 2010-07-29 09:09:14.376 [h264 @ 0x391264a5c0]missing picture in access unit
> 2010-07-29 09:09:15.812 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1727_20100729090000.mpg'
>
>
> Also filling messages every second:
>
> Jul 29 13:08:45 localhost kernel: lirc_zilog: i2c_master_send failed with
> -110
> Jul 29 13:08:45 localhost kernel: lirc_zilog: polling the IR receiver chip
> failed, trying reset

What firmware version do you have on your hdpvr? If its not 0x15,
might be worth doing an update (which unfortunately, can only be done
under windows). Looks similar to what others have reported in the
past, and its something still in need of investigation at the driver
level.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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