<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/26/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Burt</b> <<a href="mailto:genecide@comcast.net">genecide@comcast.net</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;">
Mary Strimel wrote:<br> <br> > And when I play my HD test file, the CPU Mhz goes up to 2000.000. So I<br> > guess that means my machine is capable of 2 Ghz.<br> ><br> > So, this machine "should" be able to display 720p using xvmc and bob<br>
> de-interlacing, if I am reading the chart on the wiki correctly (thank you<br> > to the person who pointed me to that)!<br> ><br> > But, I am stll confused as to why it won't play the output from the HDTV<br>
> card. It looks like my HD test file, which as I mentioned plays<br> > beautifully, is 1080 (again, assuming I'm interpreting this right). Here is<br> > the relevant-looking part of what mplayer says when I play it:<br>
><br> > Playing Elephants_Dream_HD.avi.<br> <br> <br>*snip*<br> <br><br> > So why does mplayer do great with this, but Myth croaks on the QAM feed?<br> ><br> > Thanks again, in advance,<br> > Mary<br> <br>
<br>Mary,<br> <br> Does the HDTV playback just look slow/not smooth or does the playback<br> look corrupted, made up of lots of little squares of random colors? I'm<br> not certain by your description of the problem in your original post,<br>
but it sounds to me more like you are having signal problems. If it's<br> not the signal, I've also found sometimes Myth seems to incorrectly<br> guess at whether the video is interlaced or progressive (either that or<br>
the format actually does change like crazy), and can result in a similar<br> appearing picture, although a little more rhythmic. Setting the Video<br> Scan to either Interlaced or Progressive, as opposed to Automatic,<br>
usually fixes this for me.<br> <br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br>Jesse Burt<br> <br>_______________________________________________<br> mythtv-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
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Jesse,<br>
My problem is indeed the blocks random of colors in the middle of the
screen that cover the picture, plus pausing and hesitating. It
does not happen when playing the signal through my cable box, so I
assumed it's not a signal problem, BUT ... my cable provider did tell
me at one point that my signal was "less than perfect" so ... is it
possible that the HDTV-5500 requires a better signal than what the
cable box does? <br>
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Anyway, I will try to tweak the other settings, and see if that helps. <br>
<br>
Let me take this opportunity to say **thanks*** to everyone on this
board for your willingness to share your knowledge ... I must have
solved dozens of issues by searching the mailing list archives (even if
many messages are about hardware and technically "off topic" viz.
mythtv itself, they are still incredibly helpful) and y'all are
great.<br>
<br>
Mary<br>
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