[mythtv-users] Pundit-R & HDTV

[Scott]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Blastzone wrote:
> Playing an HD stream (1080i) through myth shows:
> processor at 100%  (split between Mythfrontend and X)
> pink bar covering right side of screen (I know this was discussed  
> earlier, but I haven't looked for it yet)

The pink bar is an ATI xvideo issue. You might try to work around it  
with the binary ATI drivers instead. 720p video won't have a problem,  
just any xvideo playback larger than 1280x720 (from memory) doesn't  
scale right so you see pink.

> audio skips, and stutters
> video running at horrible framerate 5-10 fps
>
> I haven't been able to look at 720p streams yet, at least, not that  
> i know of.
>
> My question is, are there others out there successfully using a  
> pundit-r to watch HD streams, and if so, what should I be looking  
> at fixing?

I've got the other version of the pundit running a 2.8GHz Northwood.  
I quickly came the conclusion via testing various 1080i and 720p  
clips with both the onboard SIS and a ATI PCI adapter that HDTV  
playback on the pundit wasn't going to be great without going down  
the Nvidia + XVMC road. After considering XVMC and looking at the  
video deinterlace quality and pundit box itself I've decided to avoid  
HDTV for now and plan for it when I can build the 'killer box".

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Scott <catfather at donpoo.net>
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