[mythtv] live TV stuttering
Mike Wilcox
mike at trouble.org.uk
Sun Apr 11 06:34:03 EDT 2004
Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>> I'm having a problem with live TV where Myth will start "stuttering".
>> It'll start within a second or two of changing to a channel, else it
>> will be ok. The audio and picture will pause then resume, over and over.
>>
>> I can always fix it by quitting back to the menu and going straight back
>> to live TV (which goes to the same channel). I can usually fix it by
>> switching to another channel and back again.
>>
>>
>
> This is DVB right. This is a known issue and is probably sound card
> related.
I have seen a similar stuttering, but where the video runs in
half-second jerks, but the audio sounds fine. It can happen on the first
channel selected.
A workaround I have found to this is to pause live TV for a couple of
seconds, then let it continue playing. Things keep going for a while
before the jerky video returns.
When this happens, the overlaid info box that shows how far behind (in
time) you are is gradually getting a larger value - much larger than
explained by the short pauses. The amount of disk space used up does
*not* increase! My current suspicions are on something to do with frame
counting, but see my other mail about that (subject: Frame numbers in
DVB (and perhaps HDTV)).
Cheers,
Mike
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