I'm having a few problems with my mythtv setup and I'm looking for a little help. <br><br>First, I can't seem to get live TV to play properly. That's not to say that my WinTV PVR-250 isn't working. I can re-direct output from /dev/video into a file and play it just fine under mplayer (/dev/video > /tmp/video ; mplayer /tmp/video) - it just doesn't play directly as live tv under mythtv.
<br><br>Second, I tried encoding a DVD as a "perfect" image. It seemed to work just fine, but when I played it back the audio was skipping all over the place. I copied the vob file over to my main desktop (a dual-core Pentium D w/2G RAM) and it played just fine, so its not the vob file. Is there any sort of tuning that I can do to improve the playback performance?
<br><br>Third, in an attempt to working around the transcoded image problem mentioned above, I tried making an ISO image for playback. About 1/4 of the way into ripping, the mtd rip progress screen just closes and returns back to the main rip menu. Looking through the logs, I'm getting a TON of buffer I/O errors coming from my DVD drive. I've used this DVD drive for a few years, so its possible that its going bad, but it seems rather out of the blue. Has anyone else run into similar situations?
<br><br>I've got the following system configuration for my backend:
<br>Ubuntu 6.10<br>Athlon XP 2200+<br>1GB DDR3200<br>2x80G HDD<br>1x160G HDD<br>WinTV PVR-250<br>GeForce FX5200<br>