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

[Ben Stanley]

Check whether you have dma turned on - check the MythTV documentation in
the troubleshooting page.

Ben.

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:12, john roberts wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> Frontend/Backend combo:
> - P4 2.6G HT (512M)
> - nVidia FX5500
> - PVR-250
> - pcHDTV
> - Latest CK's IVTV driver
> - Latest CVS of MythTV
> - 100Mbps NIC
> 
> Frontend:
> - P3 933M (256M)
> - some old nVidia card (AGP card)
> - Latest CVS of MythTV)
> - 100Mbps NIC
> 
> Network:
> - 100M switch
> 
> -John