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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ivtv-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
