[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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