[mythtv-users] Live TV stutter
Mike Bibbings
mike.bibbings at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 13:20:33 UTC 2018
On 30/01/18 12:10, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> 90% of my Mythtv viewing has been recorded tv so I could skip over
> commercials. However, in the morning I sometimes watch the local and
> national news live with mythtv. I've noticed that if I select Watch
> TV it will come up on the last station viewed and there is a stutter
> in the picture. It's very noticeable particularly if they have a text
> scroll at the bottom of the screen. I've fixed this by using the left
> arrow to backup 10 seconds. At that point it's a perfect picture. To
> me this is understandable and it sort of explains why DirecTV's
> picture is always delayed when view live tv using their DVR versus a
> standard receiver.
>
> However, I noticed today which playing with mythtv live that if I
> switch to a new channel I do NOT get the stuttering and do not need to
> backup a few seconds.
>
> Is this behavior normal? Does the stuttering point to a setting I
> should change?
>
> Jim A
I guess you are running mythtv 29.
A patch for this problem has been incorporated into mythtv master
(30-pre), which I am running and has fixed it for me, see
https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12318
As the ticket has been closed, it looks like no backport to mythtv 29.
Mike
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