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<div class=Section1><pre><span style='color:black'>On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:47:05 Doug Haber wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> Hi All,<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> I've been recording shows using my HD-PVR (with Myth SVN trunk) and on a<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> relatively powerful box the playback is fine. However, when I try to<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> playback the files on a Mac Mini I get a lot of stuttering and prebuffering<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> pause messages in the logs. However, if I play the file back on the Mac<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> Mini using Xine then the playback is pretty smooth. Is there anything I<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> can do to get Myth to use the same playback as Xine? If not, is there any<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> way to use the regular recordings list but then have it play the file in<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>>><i> Xine instead of directly in Myth?<o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> Myth does more than just playback the file, which is why you need more <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> horsepower.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> You would lose things like commercial skip, the ability to play at different <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> speeds and other nice features of Myth if you were to use a different <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> playback program.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> I guess having smooth playback is a higher priority than skipping commercials, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> I just wanted to point out the drawbacks to using a non-Myth playback engine.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> Have you tried different playback profiles? Some are more demanding than <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>> others.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>Hi Brian,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>Thanks for the quick response. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. While I love all of the great features of Myth like skipping commercials, in this case smooth playback trumps everything. I could write a nasty script to read from the db, get a list of shows pick one and display it in Xine, but I was hoping that I could reuse the frontend and just open a new media player when it came time to play (ideally only the certain files that are slow). I’ve tried all of the playback profiles and even created a dummy one with no de-interlacers or filters, but all to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>Anything else I can do?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='color:black'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:
black'>Doug<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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