[mythtv-users] MythTV and HDTV?

[jack]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried extra audio buffering multiple
times... it usually makes the problem worse. My cpu is never maxed while
watching hdtv, AMD64 3200 1gig ram usually hovers at 40% usage. PCI
transactions are something I have never tried, will give that a shot,
thanks. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Beattie
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:09 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV and HDTV?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:05:16PM -0700, jack wrote:
> > My biggest problem with HDTV in MythTV is it's intolerance of a less
> than
> > pristine signal. Other players like VLC/mplayer/xine will play the
> stream
> > fine but MythTV will frequently start machine gun repeating the audio or
> > just plain old crashing to the desktop. I rarely even bother trying to
> play
> > it in MythtTV anymore, usually just load up VLC or xine.
> >
> 
> The audio going in and out is most likely related to your CPU load or
> PCI latency.  To fix it do the following:
> 
> Make sure you select extra audio buffering (Fixes the problem 60% of the
> time)
> 
> Go into your bios and turn the size of pci transactions from 32 to 256
> 
> Make sure your CPU isn't maxed.
> 
> --Brandon