[mythtv-users] Live TV Pauses

[Kevin Stussman]

> I just saw some commonality in symptoms and (in this case) filesystem.
> It looks like we're also both using ALSA sound, as I'm running kernel
> 2.6 (where ALSA seems better supported).

I am definitely going to try to get OSS going instead of alsa to see if
it makes a difference. I am also using a 2.6 kernel..



> Is there any way to (easily) check this (eg output to logs, command, etc)?
> 
> I'm pretty sure my captures are fine (low CPU) but when I try to view
> them in mythfrontend the CPU loading goes through the roof and it
> jitters.

Yeah, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something like that). It usually
gives a pretty good rundown of what is going on w/ X11.

K.