It seems my mythtv always freezes when fast forwarding and I get like 20 of these:
kernel: ivtv: Decoder VBI RE-Insert start 0x0019ac00 size 0x0000be00 type 0 before getting firmware timeout errors. Would this patch fix this? I am using 3.7c but ivtvctl -W and -B show a mode of 0.. On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:38 , Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >If you setup ivtv to capture and passthrough CC or WSS data (ivtvctl -w wss -b >wss -x 1), then the passthrough (i.e. the captured CC or WSS data is passed >on to the TV-out signal) fails after a skip forward or backward. > >I finally had the time to setup MythTV and to do tests. It turns out that the >MPEG decoder expects that the MPEG data arrives nicely aligned at four bytes. >MythTV however will jump to a file position that's not four byte aligned. I >see no effect on video or audio, but the VBI reinsertion is seriously messed >up. > >The attached patch for MythTV-0.18.1 makes sure that the seeks are always to a >4-byte aligned position. With this patch I can no longer make the VBI >reinsertion fail. However, fast forward or backward (i.e. not skipping but >just faster playback) can still give problems. But this is unstable for me >anyway: in most cases I get no good output at all. > >Please test this patch and see if this fixes the problem! In the meantime I'll >see if something can be done with the VBI reinsertion to fix it there rather >then in MythTV. It's a bit stupid that video and audio are OK, but VBI isn't. > > Hans ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
