[mythtv-users] What do I have to do to get HD working?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 21:44:05 UTC 2006


On 4/14/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > I'm about at my wits end.  I just purchased a P4 3.2ghz HT to do HDTV
> > playback in software but no matter what I do, I get continual studdering
> > and "Video X frames ahead of audio" on my HD playback material.  This
> > happens on my MX4000 PCI video card system, my ATI 9100 IGP video card
> > system, and my Unichrome Pro video card system.
> >
> > Everything I read said that a P4 3.2 is enough to do HD but nothing I do
> > can get it to work.  I'm running the 2.6.15 smp kernel but that almost
> > seems to make it worse.  With the non-smp on my Unichrome system it
> > plays back but only at about 17-20 fps.  With the smp kernel, it does
> > the 29-30 but jumps and skips complaining about the video ahead of audio.
> >
> > Please, anyone have any help?
> >
> >
> And a little more, I can duplicate the 17-20fps setting when I set my
> audio device to something wrong or if I disable audio in the BIOS.  Is
> this possible some kind of ALSA problem maybe?

what does playback with mplayer give you?

can you post your nvidia related options from your xorg.conf?

--
Steve


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