[mythtv-users] Slightly-Slow Live TV

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Mon Sep 29 16:43:25 EDT 2003


Steven J. Finnegan wrote:
> Since I upgraded a couple of days ago, I now find that live TV is 
> running slightly slow. It is also quite jittery, which I presume is an 
> effect of the slowness. Live TV slowly falls behind real-time. After 
> about 10 minutes playing, it will be 50 seconds or so behind. The sound 
> is also shifted toward bass. Any idea what is causing this, or what to 
> do to fix it?

Can I assume you are using a PVR-[23]50? If so, there was a
thread about this over the weekend. Currently, playback runs
5%-10% slow if the audio sample rate is set to 44100. Only
48000 will work correctly and you need to use a bitrate of
192kbps or higher to avoid other audio problems.

--  bjm



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