It seems that this thread just died a couple of months ago. :/

I, and a friend of mine have both been having random dropouts in audio
recording.  Once the dropout occurs, a reboot is required to get
things working again.

Playback on the 350 is generally still fine when this happens.




On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:13:33 +0200
Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've written a small program to display the packets that are contained 
> in a mpeg stream. It is available here: 
> http://www.linuxowl.com/vbiutil.html. The idea is that when the audio is
> 
> lost from the mpeg stream then some action can be taken, such as 
> resetting the firmware or rebooting.
> 
> To use the program the following command will echo failed when there is 
> no audio in the stream.
> if ! mpegcheck -b4 | grep -q AUDIO_STREAM; then
>     echo $? FAILED
> fi
> 
> If the video device is not /dev/video0 then it can be specified with the
> 
> argument -i/dev/videoX. More information can be shown with the argument
> -v.
> 
> A gotcha is that if the device is currently being used then it will 
> report an error and there won't be any packets displayed.
> 
> HTH
> Duncan
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Does anybody know why the IVTV X-Driver sometimes crashes or why the 
> > audio stream disappears?
> >
> > I'm curious if anybody run a system with a PVR-350 all the time 
> > everyday, without any problems?
> >
> > In the kernel log I get the following messages after the systems has 
> > been running for a while. I'm trying to determine what "a while" means
> > 
> > but it is in the order to 2 to 3 days.
> >
> > ivtv0 warning: No Free Mailbox for cmd 0x00000060 after 100 tries!
> > ivtv0 warning: Mailbox[0] 0x00000060 flags 0x00000003
> > ivtv0 warning: Mailbox[1] 0x00000060 flags 0x00000003
> > ivtv0 warning: Firmware UNRESPONSIVE when trying cmd 0x00000060!!!
> > ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust to width 720 src_w 720 dst_w 720
> > src_x  0 dst_x 0
> > ivtv0-osd warning: Need to adjust to height 576 src_h 576 dst_h 576 
> > src_y 0 dst_y 0
> > ivtv0-osd warning: Source video: Interlaced
> > ivtv0 warning: Enable video output
> >
> > Usually a reboot is needed before because the audio signal has been
> > lost  from the mpeg file. When the audio breaks there is nothing
> > reported in  the kernel log.
> >
> > Hardware is a Hauppauge PVR-350
> > Driver: version 0.4.0->0.4.5
> > Firmware encoder revision: 0x02050032
> > Firmware decoder revision: 0x02020023
> >
> >
> > TIA
> > Duncan
> >
> >
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> 
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