[mythtv-users] Choppiness w/ transcoded digital broadcast

[Yan Seiner]

Chris Pinkham wrote:

>Sounds like the stream or the file was corrupt.  You probabl see
>these errors while playing back the original file also.  The new
>MPEG2 -> MPEG2 "lossless" transcoding code in 0.19 might be able
>to fix this up, then you could transcode again from MPEG2 -> MPEG4.
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Chris:

based on your comment, I bumped the priority of mythbackend from its 
default 15 to -19, and cxx-dvb (or whatever it is) to -15.  I recorded 
another episode of Nova.  I only got to watch about 20 minutes of it so 
far between kids pizza and wine, but so far, no choppiness.

It may have been my backend....  It's an old PIII 1 GHz SMP box that 
works as a web server, myth backend, MySQL server for the website 
(pretty heavy load), commercial rsync, imap, etc., as well as 
mythbacked. It's not unusual for it to peg both CPUs at 60-90% for 
extended periods of time.  (Yes I should upgrade, but I have other 
things to spend $$$ money on....)

So I don't know (yet) if it was file corruption on capture or 
playback.... More testing to follow.

--Yan