[mythtv-users] Viewing Live TV

[Brian Foddy]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:51 pm, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Ok, Ive been reading and reading and searching and reading... I still
> cannot watch live TV.
>
> According to the documentation on the mythtv page, a PIII 500 should be
> enough to watch live tv.
>
> Here are some specs:
> Intel Board with 950 celeron
> 1GB of ram
> NVidia GeForce 3 64mb video card
> Ensoniq 1371 sound card
>
> I am able to record and watch shows in playback fine. I can run xawtv
> and see the channels. When I test audio via the ALSA drivers (run xawtv,
> mute line in, run aplay /dev/dsp), I hear the audio a second after the
> video as expected.
>
> When I try to watch Live TV, I get terrible freezes. It will play video
> and sound for 1 second, Freeze for 2-3 seconds, video/sound 1 second,
> freeze 2-3, video/sound 1 sec. freeze, video, freeze continually. If I
> try to pause the live tv for 30 seconds and watch, It still will not
> 'catch up'.

What are your live TV profile settings?  How do they compare to
the profile used for recording (default, low/high quality)?
What's your CPU load?