[mythtv-users] mythfrontend with vmplayer

[martyn at wol.es]

   Hello!

   I'm a new mythtv user. My system runs fine on an IBM Netvista with 
Mythbuntu 7.1 alpha 4. But very strange things happen when I try to execute a 
frontend with vmplayer under Vista: video is very choppy.

   Strange because "mplayer" plays perfectly smooth video and audio full 
screen: the same recorded show (recorded with the remote backend) is ok with 
"mplayer" but choppy with the frontend.

   This means that the system is powerful enough for software scaling with 
vmplayer. In fact, CPU usage in Vista is always under 30%.

   And network throughput is not an issue: "scp" running in the same virtual 
machine can copy a 25 MB file in less than 3 seconds...

   I tried playing video with no audio too. Same results. (Well, video with 
audio but with no souncard.)

   So, what's happening? Why mplayer can cope with the video but mythfrontend 
cannot? Any ideas?

   Cheers!

        Martín