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<pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig"><div class="moz-txt-sig">On 10/28/07, Daryl <a
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Hockey is an issue for me as well. Recording SD over cable with PVR 150.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Mythbuntu running trunk. I can't find any errors in mythbackend.log while
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>recording or watching. I've been tweaking recording profiles and I think it
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>is looking slightly better now but still almost unwatchable. The only good
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>thing about this is that it doesn't hurt the WAF at all...
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What bitrate are you using? SD hockey pretty much requires a higher
bitrate than normal recordings. My "Default" profile (SD pvr350) uses
bitrate=3000, maxbitrate=4000. For hockey I use bitrate=6000,
maxbitrate=8000. That has worked great for me.
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That solution seems to make sense to me - I think hockey simply
overwhelms the normal settings since there are so many areas of the
screen moving at very high speed. I was watching Casino Royale in HD
last night and noticed the same thing in a shot showing the ocean -
there were tons of small waves all in motion and the system was having
trouble keeping up - it's the only time I've seeen that happen other
than hockey. I posted a quasi-solution a few days ago, in that if I hit
rewind for a few seconds, then play, it seems much better. It's
definitely not a disk-throughput issue - I'm running a RAID 0 with 2 X
320GB Sata II for recordings, with myth on a separate 320GB Sata II
drive.<br>
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Since I'm using firewire, should I increase the speed to 800 from 400?
Or should I drop it down to 200 on the basis I'm overwhelming it at 400?<br>
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Ian: yes, am in paradise...er...Vancouver and the firewire worked right
away from the Shaw HD box - didn't need to contact Shaw at all. I used
to use a PVR-350 but the resolution is limited so switched to firewire
and wish I'd done so sooner. The only thing which happens once in a
blue moon is the node switches (ie from 0 to 1 or 2 to 0 etc). That
used to be an occasional inconvenience in that you'd need to run
plugreport then go into mythtv-setup and change the node, however since
I switched to the SVN it appears to change nodes automatically. Some of
the channels are encrypted - the time-shifted US superstations in
particular - but that doesn't bother me since I very rarely watch
live-TV since building my myth setup 9 months ago. On principle, tho,
I've complained to the CRTC since it strikes me as a restraint of
trade, ie it hinders competition in PVRs since only the cable company's
PVR works with the blocked channels...<br>
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And please no comments on my lowly Canucks...<br>
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