[mythtv-users] ivtv Maximum bitrate

[James Crow]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:27 AM, George Mari
<george_mythusers at mari1938.org> wrote:
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>
> Increase the size of your buffers for the ivtv driver.  I have the following
> line in the equivalent of modprobe.conf:
>
> options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16 enc_vbi_buffers=8
>
> This increases the encoder mpeg buffer size to 16MB from a default of 4MB,
> and the VBI buffer size to 8MB from a default of 1MB.
>
> Type "modinfo ivtv" to see all the options you can pass to the driver.
>
> I would gradually increase the buffer size until the errors go away.

I had already increased the mpeg buffers, but forgot about the vbi
buffers. I now have this:
options ivtv ivtv_first_minor=0 enc_mpg_buffers=32 enc_vbi_buffers=8
enc_pcm_buffers=1280
It multiplies the mpeg, vbi, and pcm default buffers by 4 .

Thanks,
James