The details of the Kernel Panic shows that it happens down in the audio subsystem. Others on the Mac HTPC forum on avsforums have experienced it under the same conditions.
We have, and "com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily" is always in the panic logs.
Just wondering if elgato's fixed this yet or not.
They haven't. Since installing Leopard and EyeTV3, and now that I'm watching and recording more network high def QAM, I get them about 10-20% of the time I "interact" with my EyeTV 500s. That means when watching 1 out of every 5 or 10 recordings.
This problem has been around forever
Well, maybe not forever but at least 2 years.
it's not necessarily associated with recording a program. it has definitely happened often while skipping commercials, but can even happen doing nothing but watching a program.
Right, when we first started tracking this in our little Mac home theater group at AVS, I, too, thought it was brought on by using the Apple remote, fast forward scanning, and also when watching one program while recording one or two others. When I was naive about this, I used to think that we could narrow down what sequence(s) causes the panic--and then simply avoid that behavior. But the first time you get the kernel panic when merely watching a recorded program you realize the issue isn't that simple.
Unfortunately, El Gato says it's an Apple problem
Do they still? If participation on this thread, or over at AVS, is any indication, it seems that the "digital audio kernel panic" is an issue El Gato would prefer just goes away, i.e. that its users just stop documenting and just stop complaining about. I've had it for so long I know I feel beaten down by it--frankly it's the only issue where I feel let down by El Gato, and otherwise I'm an enthusiastic supporter. At one time I think there was a FAQ about it on the El Gato support site, with the "helpful" suggestion just not to use digital audio out, but last I looked I couldn't find it.
Does anyone have the link to where this is addressed publicly on the El Gato support site?
So, my thoughts echo many of those already expressed:
1) It's frustrating for this to have lingered, unresolved, for so long; and
2) it's disappointing that this issue isn't explained and confronted more openly by El Gato; and
3) there are a couple of AVS users who report that they've NEVER had a single digital audio kernel panic, which keeps a glimmer of hope alive.
I just got a 250+ and next on my list is to hook that up to see if there's any difference between firewire and USB and this kernel panic. The other approach I've been meaning to try is playing back all EyeTV recordings in VLC--to see if that makes a difference w/r/t the digital audio panic. I've done it for the odd test, but never on a sustained basis.
Suspecting bad RAM, as Mike did above, does nothing but deflect a serious ongoing problem for those of us who already are advanced users.
