<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thom Paine</b> <<a href="mailto:painethom@gmail.com">painethom@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just finally got my first front end working with my myth network.<br>This frontend has a very small but noticable stuttering problem on the<br>video. It doesn't bother the audio though. About once every two<br>seconds, the video pauses for about 1/4 of a second and then catches
<br>back up. It's almost like it's waiting for data from the backend. I've<br>tried everything in the lists about stutterint or choppy video, but<br>nothing seems to smooth it out.<br><br>Hardware is a PIII-800 with 256M ram.
<br>Video card is an Nvidia 6200.<br>Hard Drive is an 80G.<br><br>I have mythfrontend running chmod +s.<br>I ried with and without the opengl thingy in the video setup. One post<br>said that enabling this might smooth it out.
<br><br>I have the latest myth from Axel as of a few days ago. I'm running<br>kernel 2096 on Fedora Core 4 and I have nvidia drivers 8756.<br><br>Can someone offer some suggestions as to what to try to maybe smooth this out?
</blockquote><div><br><br>If you're running a newish linux chmod +s won't help. You'll need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf - I think this is documented on the wiki somewhere. <br><br>You could try tuning your nfs setup - this is documented on the wiki. If your system supports it, try using xvmc as the playback method; if it doesn't, I got the best results from libmpeg2 rather than standard (this on a via epia m10k) - I haven't eliminated stuttering, but it's now occasional rather than all the time.
<br><br>Other than that, you may be running out of ram - use top to find out.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Chris<br></div></div>