On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Jeff Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying a number of different things as I get familiar with the process. > Ultimately we'll be using an internal application that processes and routes > mpeg packets. At the moment though I just want to find a stable and > reliable way to read the stream from the cli. dvbstream likes to buffer > overflow on me, and I haven't checked in to why yet. I've gotten streams 5 > minutes to 5 hours in length, but it always exits with a buffer overflow. I > suspect we'll end up accessing the device directly, I just haven't gotten > that far yet.
The -EOVERFLOW return for reading a DVB stream means that the application did not read the DVB device fast/often enough, and as a result the DVB core dropped some packets. It's safe to continue reading, but bear in mind that your stream will have an interruption in it. You might need to increase the priority of the dvbstream process to ensure that it doesn't get interrupted by other things going on in the machine. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
