[mythtv-users] Live TV is jumpy until any option is selected fom the 'Video Scan' menu

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/06/2008 07:53 AM, Edd Grant wrote:
> I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Gutsy to Ibex, the upgrade tool 
> trashed my system so I crossed my fingers, formatted the necessary 
> partitions and did a clean install of Intrepid Ibex (AMD64 desktop 
> version). Once up and running I then reinstalled and configured 
> MythTv, got it to pick up my old files and mythconverg database 
> content and thought everything was peachy. I then noticed that LiveTV 
> mode is always jumpy when initially entered - bizarrely I can fix this 
> by opening the 'Video Scan' menu and then selecting ANY of the options 
> (Detect/Progressive/Interlaced etc). The really annoying thing is that 
> I have to do this every time I enter LiveTV mode.

Change your playback profile group to the (default configuration of) 
Slim.  See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles .

Mike