I am having the same "buffers are full" issue, yesterday I installed IVTV
trunk (0.8.3, 3715) and increased buffers to 16. It seems better but I'm
still getting the errors. I wonder if increasing buffers even more would
help.

I think this is a mythtv 0.20 issue, looking at my logs most of these buffer
errors seem to happen at the start/end of recordings and only with
simultaneous recordings:

- at 20:00:00 started recording Australian Open and Heroes
- at 21:00 Heroes ends, Futurama starts
Jan 22 21:01:04 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 21:01:04 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 22 21:01:09 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 21:01:09 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- continued recording Tennis, started NBC news and Daily Show
Jan 22 22:00:12 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:00:12 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 22 22:00:12 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:00:12 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- continued Tennis and Daily Show, starts Futurama
Jan 22 22:30:06 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:30:06 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 22 22:30:11 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:30:11 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 22 22:30:11 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:30:11 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- continued Tennis, Daily show and Futurama, NBC News ends
Jan 22 22:35:04 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 22 22:35:04 masterbe kernel: ivtv2: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- Start of Tennis
Jan 23 02:30:09 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 02:30:09 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- Starts recording in slave backend connected to dish network
Jan 23 03:33:49 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 03:33:49 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

- Slave backend recording ends, Sportscenter starts
Jan 23 05:00:10 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 05:00:10 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 23 05:03:55 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 05:03:55 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 23 05:03:58 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 05:03:58 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 23 05:04:43 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 05:04:43 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.
Jan 23 05:04:43 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 05:04:43 masterbe kernel: ivtv1: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

Tennis ends
Jan 23 07:04:51 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are
full. Dropping data.
Jan 23 07:04:51 masterbe kernel: ivtv0: Cause: the application is not
reading fast enough.

I have 1 PVR-150 and a PVR-500 in master backend, I also have a PVR-350 in
slave backend/frontend.



On 1/22/07, Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 22 January 2007 00:46, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>
> I tried setting:
>
> option ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16
>
> and I'm still getting a bunch of errors about MPEG and VBI buffers
> being full.
>

Please upgrade to the latest trunk version: I found a bug this weekend
that might be the cause of the problems. It certainly affected vdr, so
it might affect MythTV in the same way.


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