[mythtv-users] What do I have to do to get HD working?
Marco Nelissen
marcone at xs4all.nl
Fri Apr 14 23:43:55 UTC 2006
>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?
Forget about getting it to work with a PCI video card. The PCI bus doesn't
have the bandwidth for HD video.
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