<br><br><b><i>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 06/19/2008 08:02 PM, Shawn Hamzee wrote:<br>> "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com> wrote:<br>>> On 06/18/2008 07:29 AM, Shawn Hamzee wrote:<br>>>> I have had mythtv running on my ubuntu 7.10 machine for a while. i get<br>>>> great hd pictures on nbc, public tv station, cw and cbs; however, fox<br>>>> and abc are not perfect. it appears the pictures is somewhat of a slow<br>>>> motion and then it stutters every 2 or 3 seconds also. <br>>> Are you running X at 1920x1080? If so, it's probably a scaling issue<br>>> (i.e. you're not using Xv because you have a) a broken video driver, or<br>>> b) a broken video driver installation, or c) a broken video driver<br>>> configuration.<br>> I am running the X at
1920x1080 perfectly.<br><br>And your 1920x1080 channels display without issue, but the channels<br>whose video must be scaled play back as "slow motion" (i.e. each frame<br>is taking so long to be handled that many frames have to be skipped).<br><br>> I don't think there's a problem in X; otherwise, it would've notified me, wouldn't it?<br>> <br><br>:) X actually tell you that there's a problem? (Actually, if I'm<br>right, as far as X is concerned, there's no problem. Your drivers just<br>make it think that your hardware doesn't handle scaling, so scaling gets<br>done in hardware. It works, but it takes forever, in comparison.)<br><br>> I am using ATI's latest proprietary drivers as I said before and everything else looks awesome on my HDMI LCD monitor except the two channels which by the way is said to be broadcasting at 720p.<br><br>Yep. That's why my theory.<br><br>> What I'd like to know is what can I do to help X to overcome this? I'd imagine
there's a xorg.conf setting or option that can help me out. <br><br>Fix your drivers/driver installation/driver configuration, as required.<br><br>Try playing back video in xine (without deinterlacing). I'll bet the<br>1080i plays without issue, but the 720p results in a dialog saying<br>something about, "Warning. Taking too long to render frames..."<br><br>If so, that's proof positive that the problem isn't Myth.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></mtdean@thirdcontact.com></blockquote><br><br>good idea! i downloaded several 720p clips and they all played well in both xine and mplayer. i do not get any warnings in either of the players, just a perfect picture. i also checked my x logs and there is absolutely no errors being reported in there. <br><br>i am open to all suggestions.<br><BR><BR>;o)