[mythtv-users] Stuttery playback

Ben Lancaster lists at benlancaster.co.uk
Fri Apr 20 22:44:34 UTC 2007


> Got a bit of a problem with playing back recordings, my box is a  
> 2.4Ghz
> P4 with a PVR-250 and a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x running Gentoo and myth
> version 0.20 (Gentoo package 0.20_p12172). The problem is that during
> playback CPU usage averages 30% or so but then suddenly it will then
> quickly increase to 100% and start stuttering (half second pauses that
> happen every few seconds - very irritating!). The odd thing is that
> restarting the frontend doesn't sort this out but restarting the  
> backend
> does! (at least for a while anyway).

Are you using XvMC? Check the XvMC page on the wiki towards the  
bottom: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC

Ben



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