[mythtv-users] Stutter with a P3 933Mhz! Gezzz - more STUTTER!

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi john,


* john roberts <homepagez at lycos.com>, Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 4:12:46 PM:


> Well - after upgrading my P3 500Mhz CPU to a P3 933Mhz the
> stutter is better while playing live NTSC TV - but it's still there
> during live-tv.  I have to hit "p" (pause) and then un-pause it to
> remove all stutter.

> What is the min footprint for a MythTV frontend????  My other
> myth box is a front/backend combo with a PVR-250 and a pcHDTV card
> and I don't seem to have a stutter problem with it (P4 2.6G HT CPU).

> I've tweaked everything I can think of:

> - I've re-niced the mythtv process and the X process like others have done
> - I've checked with TOP and it's not a memory issue (running 256M and not using SWAP at all)
> - I've compiled with -march=pentium3

> Have I missed anything?  Is a P3 just not capabile of being a frontend?

I have a p3-933 with 512mb and two pvr350s running output over a
matrox g550s dvi-port.
I have no problems recording two channels at 720*576 pal and playing
one (live/recording, doesn't matter). I do get problems when I try to
enable deinterlacing AND commercial detection.


 Timo