[bjames]

Hi everyone,

For some reason I cannot for the life of me record video to hard drive using Media Recorder. I have the Octane Digital video option installed and trying to capture video from input 1 from a Sony DSR-1800 playing a DVcam tape. The video displays inside Media recorder just fine and on my NTSC monitor. No matter what setting I use (uncompressed, RGB, SGI video, Movie etc) 5 seconds after I click on the red record button I get this error "MVR VL error for Source 1" and fails to create a file. I have tried recording to my RAID drives, default tmp directory, home directory and even logged into the other accounts (including root) and still get the exact same error. In the system conole, I get the following message;

WARNING: srvVgiIDMA: FAILED to get lowmen pool 13
WARNING: dms lomem: DMA page 0x29e97 too high - set SRV_LOMEM_POOL

The system console returned the message above every time I try to capture video after the error message appears in Media recorder.

Any help would be great.. thanks

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OK.. after some research I found there may be an issue with too much RAM ( greater than 1.5gigs). So to test the theory, I removed 3gigs from memory to olny leave 1 gig of ram (2 x 512mb sticks in bank 1). What do you know, all the erros went away and I can record directly to my RAID drive uncompressed without a single dropper frame.

So now my question is, am I stuck with only using 1 gig ram or is there an environment setting that will allow me to have Media record only 'see' 1 gig RAM out of my 4 gigs?