Dan Wilga wrote: > At 3:15 PM +0200 6/26/06, Duncan Webb wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> Does anybody know why the IVTV X-Driver sometimes crashes or why the >> audio stream disappears? > > Since using the most recent X-Driver with IVTV 0.4.3 (kernel 2.6.14), > I have not had unexplained X Server crashes. For output, I switch > between the 350's framebuffer and the computer's onboard ATI graphics, > depending on which TV I want to watch. I'm using kernel 2.6.15.6 and IVTV 0.4.5, the X server crashes relatively infrequently, certainly less than losing the audio stream. However, I do tend to play in sequence quite a lot of small video files usually 4-5 minutes in length and when a crash occurs it happens when starting to play a video file. > > I'm pretty sure the audio problem starts at times not associated with > using the 350's output, so it's probably unrelated to the X Driver. > Every month or two, one of my cards (I don't recall if it's the 250 or > the 350) will stop passing audio through to MythTV. The result is that > I end up with recordings that contain no audio. Me too, the audio problem must be some problem with the encoder and the X problem with the decoder.
What I would like to know is if the loss of an audio stream is a 350 specific problem or a more general problem. > > Aside from resetting the machine, the other way I found to fix this is > to reset the card's firmware (ivtvctl -H). The next time this happens > I'll check my logs to see if there is anything notable. I did try this once or twice but found that this caused the driver to lock up and then I couldn't reload the drivers. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
