[mythtv-users] XF4.3.0 too slow for HDTV? (was BadAlloc)

[David Bakker]

What audio card are you using?

Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Sunday 05 December 2004 18:56, John Goerzen wrote:
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>>On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:29:48PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 05 December 2004 12:30, nate s wrote:
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>>>>Yeah, onboard gfx suck, you'd be much better getting an AGP card (if
>>>>your mobo has an agp slot that is.)  I'd just spend the the $40 on an
>>>>nvidia 5200, avoiding two evils in one (onboard gfx, and ati drivers)
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>>>However, I was able to play back HDTV adequately using an onboard gf4mx
>>>w/the same processor. My current setup w/an FX 5200 is a bit smoother,
>>>but the gf4mx wasn't anywhere near as bad as that once I got it working.
>>>I did see similar behavior (fine for the first second or two, then
>>>choppy), but that was actually an ALSA problem. ALSA 1.0.6 caused major
>>>issues for me, which all went away both when downgrading to 1.0.5a and
>>>bumping up to
>>>1.0.7.
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>>Weird.  I am running 2.6.7 stock, and thus have ALSA 1.0.4.  2.6.9 has
>>1.0.6, which sounds problematic.
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>I'm running a patched up 2.6.9 kernel with alsa 1.0.7 right now, I believe. I 
>started out on a pretty stock 2.6.7 though.
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>>I suppose I could try disabling 
>>sound and see what the picture does.  Do you have any more info on
>>what the specific problem was?
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>On one of my 1080i stations, I got audio that sounded like it was underwater, 
>unless I changed channels away from it then back to it, which of course, 
>can't be done when watching a recording. I worked around this one by 
>switching to native ALSA output and passing raw AC3 to my amp. Both my 720p 
>stations behaved similarly to what you describe, a/v is fine for the first 
>second, then went to hell. There were slight differences between running OSS 
>eum and native ALSA (the audio chop was a bit different, but seemed to be the 
>same problem). I fixed this one by changing ALSA versions. Both 1.0.5a on a 
>2.6.7 kernel and 1.0.7 on a 2.6.9 kernel have behaved for me (or am I running 
>1.0.6 on the 2.6.9 kernel now?...).
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>>Could it be related to sample rates or something like that?
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>*shrug* Beats me.
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>>Thanks AGAIN,
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>No problem again. ;-)
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