On Friday 15 June 2007 20:40, Cyrus A wrote:
> 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?
It's almost certainly a driver issue given the impossible byte size that
is reported. I'll see if I can find out why they are happening.
Regards,
Hans
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