[mythtv-users] Choppy Video in mythfrontend, but not in xawtv

[Kevin Kuphal]

Tom Williams wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to MythTv, but I have setup a RH9 box the details are below. 
> Here is what I am dealing with when I launch xawtv it seems fine the 
> video is smooth no big issues there, when I fire up mythfrontend, and 
> try to watch the video it seems very choppy, audio is out of sync…any 
> ideas?
>
> 2GHz AMD CPU
>
> RH 9
>
> ATI Wonder VE – Comp. Input
>
> ATI Radeon AGP (installed with the ati drivers from their site)
>
> 100Gig Drive,
>
> 500Meg Ram
>
> Any thoughts or things I can look at, when I look at ‘top’ the CPU is 
> just getting nailed when mythfront is running I have even tried things 
> like renice -20 on the front end but still no luck…any help would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
Your CPU shouldn't be getting pegged playing back much of anything. Can 
you run mythfrontend with --verbose all and report back the results? Are 
your video drivers Xv accelerated?

Kevin