[mythtv-users] Re: Choppy Video Problems

<SB> Childe Roland rolandchilde at gmail.com
Sun May 22 21:28:40 UTC 2005


BTW - I am currently using IVTV 0.3.4z,  if that makes a difference

On 5/22/05, <SB> Childe Roland <rolandchilde at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a problem with my new KnoppMyth box.
> 
> 1. Everytime I change the channel the video and sound skip some.
> Sometimes this continues, but can be fixed by pausing the video and
> waiting a few seconds
> 2. Both Live tv and recorded seem to have extremely low frame rates.
> The video is much more choppy than it should be
> 
> I don't think it is my system (see specs below) and the TV Tuner
> should have hardware encoding.
> 
> I think these problems are both related to the HDD. When I run the
> "hdparm -Tt" test I get a cached read in the 400's (MB/sec), but the
> timing buffered disk reads only gives me between 9 and 20 MB/sec.
> The drive is extremely old and only supports ATA 33.
> 
> Could this be the problem?? I'd like to upgrade to get more space, but
> it won't be worth it if it's not going to give me a full 30 fps. Also,
> is it perhaps a setting in MythTV that I have missed?
> 
> 
> My specs -
> Athlon Sempron 2400+
> 512 MB DDR 333
> 20 GB ATA-33 HDD
> Hauppauge PVR-150 (non MCE)
> 
> Machine Status:
> Load: 1.30, 0.61, 0.23
> RAM: 501MB, 396 MB used, 105 MB (20%) free
> Swap: 490 MB, 0 used
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> <SB> Childe Roland
> "I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans."
> 


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<SB> Childe Roland
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