[mythtv-users] Choppy action scenes

[Fred Squires]

On 10/23/07, lanas <lanas at securenet.net> wrote:
> Folks,
>
>   The video captures are choppy when there's action on the
> screen.  By this I mean the following.  When people are standing
> and talking, only with some small movements, the image flow is
> smooth.  But when they start to walk around then frames are
> seemingly dropped at about each two seconds.  This has the effect
> of 'jumps' in the image flow.  Has anyone noticed something like
> this ?  And what would be the fix to always get smoothly-flowing
> images ?
>
>   Capture card is PVR-500, mobo is ASUS P4SP-MX with Celeron CPU
> and 1 MB RAM.  Hard disk is standard and DMA is turned on.  The
> video output is currently VGA out of the mobo fed to a 22' inch
> flat screen.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al

What type of onboard video are you using?  I ran into this problem
using an onboard Geforce 4 mx even after I enabled the highest amount
of ram my mobo would allow (64 I think, 128 maybe).  My fix was to buy
a cheap ($33) geforce 6200, which works great.

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