On 28/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Open Media Support</b> <<a href="mailto:support@openmedia.co.nz">support@openmedia.co.nz</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;">
Phill Edwards wrote:<br>>> I have configured the card correctly, unloaded (removed) the<br>>> cx88-blackbird<br>>> drivers, done all the scandvb and tzap procedures and I can watch BBC<br>>> One<br>
>> Scotland using mplayer dvb://"BBC ONE Scot" (I am in Scotland). However,<br>>> the<br>>> audio and video are often way out of sync; I get regular "Your system is<br>>> too<br>>> slow to play this" messages from mplayer; and changing channel can take
<br>>> a<br>>> *very* long time with some channels. (Although I have noticed that it<br>>> seems<br>>> to be radio stations that mainly take a long time to tune.)<br>>><br>>> I am concerned that no matter how much more time I put into configuring
<br>>> the<br>>> box I will never resolve these issues. I suppose I have only one<br>>> question:<br>>><br>>> Are these issues limitations of the card or can I resolve them using a<br>>> different TV viewer such as XaWTV or TVTime?
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<br>>> goal.<br>><br>> I have 2 of these cards and they work beautifully on my Fedora Core 5<br>> system. They worked straight out of the box for me. However, I was<br>> using them with MythTV only - I haven't tried them with XaWTV or
<br>> TVTime or mplayer or anything like that so I can't comment on those.<br><br>Have you tries Xine rather than mplayer. Also you don't say which version<br>of mplayer you are using. There are a lot of MPEG-TS fixes in the most
<br>recent release that might fix some of your playback issues.<br><br>Lastly what method is MPLayer using for video out? If you can't use XV or<br>some similar accelerated playback then that might explain your problems.
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<br><br>I've got the latest MPlayer rpm build (46) from Livna. I know there are more recent builds that I will defo install instead.<br><br>I'll also have a look at the video o/p. Can you tell me which are the most relevant o/p methods for the above system with an nVidia (GeForce) card?
<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Richard<br><br>