On 10/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com">adeffs.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/6/06, James D <<a href="mailto:jamesdtrance@yahoo.com">jamesdtrance@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have a VIA SP13000 based system, 512MB RAM, and using the onboard video.<br>> When I try to watch live TV on HD stations the sound is very choppy, the
<br>> video isn't perfect but is very watchable. However, if I schedule a<br>> recording and then start watching the recording with mplayer, it plays just<br>> fine - same video quality, but perfect audio. I'm thinking myth's internal
<br>> player just isn't as good, the difference I've noticed when monitoring the<br>> system during playback is that when watching live TV there is a lot of CPU<br>> being used under "wa" on the CPU line in top, whereas watching a recording
<br>> in progress with mplayer there is almost none.<br>><br>> Has anyone else experienced this?<br>> Has anyone been successful with HDTV on an SP13000 / CN400 system?<br>> Is there a way to hack mythtv to use mplayer for live TV?
<br>><br>> Incedently, on that last point playing live tv from an xterm with something<br>> like "mplayer dvb://WOFL-DT" also yields bad quality and it crashes after<br>> ~30s, it's only when i play a recorded file that it works.
<br><br>I too have noticed that trying to watch an HDTV show while being<br>recorded hiccups quite a bit, once the show is done recording it plays<br>fine.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>Before you ask, read the FAQ!<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions">
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