[mythtv-users] Using Boxee or Firefox to play video hoses Mythtv playback?

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 19:34:18 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Scott Traurig wrote:
>>
>> Environment: Ubuntu 8.04, Mythtv 0.21, Nvidia 6xxx video
>>
>> I've got the strangest problem. If I leave mythfrontend to play video in
>> Boxee or Firefox, either by jumping to the second desktop or by means of
>> menu entries I've provided in mythfrontend, when I go back to Myth and
>> playback some recorded video the playback becomes jumpy.
>>
>
> Are you sure Boxee or a Firefox plugin isn't still running in the
> background?  I've noticed both have a tendency to crash and leave a process
> behind that still consumes CPU.
>
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Perhaps related.  I find that on my aux frontend machines, 2.4GHz P4s,
that if I skip ahead the playback sometimes gets jumpy.  To fix this I
exit with a bookmark and re-enter. Then it is fine.  Works every time.

Allen


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