[mythtv-users] XvMC with SVN revision 7738 and nvidia driver 6629

[Curtis Stanford]

On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:

> On 09/11/05, Curtis Stanford <curtis at stanfordcomputing.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you using firewire? I'm finding that my DCT-6200 box spits out
>> some pretty bad mpeg streams. I get a lot of errors like you are
>> seeing on HD channels. The weird thing is, some channels are better
>> than others. The HD movie channel and PBS are almost flawless. The
>> network HD channels are full of crap, it seems. I get jumpy audio and
>> lots of errors and prebuffering pauses on these channels.
>>
>> Curtis
>
> I had a problem with flaky firewire streams from a DCT-6200, only on
> certain channels, just like you describe.  It turned out to be the
> coax cable to the cable box.  I replaced it with a new one and the
> flakiness vanished.  The flakiness was only on a couple of channels,
> the rest were totally fine.  Don't know if that's your problem, but
> swapping out a cable is an easy things to check.
>
> -Jerry

Ahh, thanks Jerry! I will try that. Mine's going through a splitter,  
too. Do you have any suggestions for cable type or do you think you  
just had a bad cable?

Curtis