[mpeg2] Re: kfir and linux 2.4.XX

[Lawrence Gold <gold@shell.aros.net>]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:42:02PM -0500, Jason D. Justman wrote:
> Interesting.  I have a spare fan lying around, and will see if that makes any difference.
> 
> I have my doubts tho, because it appears that some of the irq handling code is flakey or
> intermittent.  almost as if in some cases it stops copying from the plx becuase its in the
> section of code called 'irq loop'.  In most cases,  the kfir->recording turns 2, and that
> stops the datastream..  (look at lines 1824)  If i had an API for the kfir, i could
> determine what's causing kfir->recording to change from 1 to 2..

That sounds vaguely like the symptoms I was having.  I recall its behaving
strangely in some IRQ loop..

Anyway, give the fan a try, you might be surprised.  1 fan, 2 rubber
bands, and a bit of heatsink compound did wonders for me.  :-)