diff -r 73b910014d07 util/gnutv/gnutv_data.c
--- a/util/gnutv/gnutv_data.c	Sat Jul 05 16:38:32 2008 +0200
+++ b/util/gnutv/gnutv_data.c	Thu Jul 10 23:19:48 2008 +0100
@@ -222,19 +238,26 @@
 	while(!outputthread_shutdown) {
 		if (poll(&pollfd, 1, 1000) != 1)
 			continue;
+
+		// in case of read error, we should not abort in order to minimize the loss of data.
+
 		if (pollfd.revents & POLLERR) {
 			if (errno == EINTR)
 				continue;
-			fprintf(stderr, "DVR device read failure\n");
-			return 0;
+			fprintf(stderr, "DVR device poll failure\n");
+
+			// This is tipically EOVERFLOW, i.e. dvb internal buffer run out of space
+
+			// The next read will fail too, but it will also clear the error flag in the driver
+			// so that following reads will succeed
 		}
 
 		int size = read(dvrfd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 		if (size < 0) {
 			if (errno == EINTR)
 				continue;
-			fprintf(stderr, "DVR device read failure\n");
-			return 0;
+			fprintf(stderr, "DVR device read failure. Possible loss of data.\n");
+			// The error flag has been cleared, next read should succeed.
 		}
 
 		written = 0;
@@ -243,6 +266,7 @@
 			if (tmp == -1) {
 				if (errno != EINTR) {
 					fprintf(stderr, "Write error: %m\n");
+					// abort loop
 					break;
 				}
 			} else {