I'm getting lots of VBI errors recently. One particular one that pops up 
frequently is in dmesg is:

ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
ivtv0 warning: Cannot obtain 1690835328 bytes for encoder VBI data transfer
...

I have not been able to discern any rhyme or reason to why it appears. 
All I can tell you is my configuration...

kernel 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6
ivtv 0.10.3
PVR-500 and PVR-150 low profile (3 tuners total)
AMD 64 X2

... and what I'm doing which is recording about 12 hour-long programs 
every day, usually in two simultaneous recordings (i.e. 2 simultaneous 
hour long recordings 6 times a day), as well as saving the closed 
captions for those programs to files using lt-zvbi-ntsc-cc . It doesn't 
happen every time, but it's become a daily (or every other day) routine 
to see those VBI errors appear in the logs and have to reboot the machine.

I have some machines with nearly identical configurations (2.6.18 and 
2.6.17 kernels with varying ivtv versions and a single PVR-250) that 
NEVER get these errors. They have run smoothly for months.

At the very least, can someone answer this question for me: what am I 
dealing with here? Hardware problems or driver issues?

Cyrus



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