[mythtv-users] EXTREMELY choppy video

Mark L. Cukier mark at pemicro.com
Mon Mar 14 19:13:23 UTC 2005


Chris:

THAT'S pretty interesting, since the whole purpose of that option is to 
(supposedly) make Video smoother! I guess I'll have to give that a try 
when I get home! (Before I undertake the first-time-compile of MythTV to 
enable XvMC... :-) ).

- Mark

Christopher Ruppel wrote:

>--- "Mark L. Cukier" <mark at pemicro.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Tom:
>>
>>Yes, I do see the prebuffering pause message in my
>>Xterm.. I'm *pretty* 
>>sure that it's just video and not audio, but I'd
>>have to confirm that 
>>when I get home from work. I tried switching on the
>>"use Video as time 
>>base" option, but it didn't seem to help...
>>
>>I am using Kernel 2.6.10... has this been confirmed
>>as the cause of 
>>heartache? (I saw discussion of it in the
>>archives)...
>>
>>- Mark
>>    
>>
>
>
>I don't know if my problem was the same as yours but
>0.17 was real choppy for me and turning off the option
>about something to do with increased priority for
>threads (I'm at work and I don't remember the exact
>name of the option) in the playback setup fixed it for
>me.  I believe that option requires mythfrontend to be
>set suid root which it was but for some reason that
>option was giving me problems.  I'm running a 2.6.10
>kernel.
>
>Chris
>
>
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