[mythtv-users] Stuttering with HD but no prebuffering pause

Taylor Ralph tralph11 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 22 23:30:39 UTC 2009


--- On Tue, 12/22/09, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:

> From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Stuttering with HD but no prebuffering pause
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 1:16 PM
> Hi,
> 
> I recently tried HD content again, the first time after
> upgrading to Mythbuntu 9.10 and MythTV 0.22.
> But the video keeps stuttering. Some weird kind of
> stuttering though, not just pausing, but the video snaps
> back a frame or two each stutter. Looks very funny.
> 
> I tried all the usual suspects: with and without VDPAU,
> with and without vblank syncs, performance govenor, refresh
> rates, etc., composite extension is disabled. Not even a
> tiny change in behavior, be it for the worse or the better.
> This only happens with HD content (720p) and in both LiveTV
> and recordings. Even though there is no sign of this being a
> prebuffering issue, I nonetheless went through the
> troubleshooting page, to no avail either.
> 
> Since I'm running out of ideas, and the HD channels of my
> provider finally start to show real content, not only test
> data, I would really like to fix this now. Any suggestions
> are appreciated.
> 
> Jan.
> 

Is this a constant problem with 720p playback or does it happenly randomly? Is it just a particular station? Does 1080i broadcasts playback correctly?

--
Taylor


      


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