<br><br>On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Brian Long <<a href="mailto:briandlong@gmail.com">briandlong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Scott <<a href="mailto:list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc">list-mythtv@bluecamel.eml.cc</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> This is a general query to help me with my troubleshooting of a playback<br>>> problem on my FE.<br>>><br>>> I have an ASRock 330 ION loaded with Mythbuntu 10.04 and the 0.23-fixes<br>
>> SVN 24572. The system uses the VDPAU Normal profile and is configured for<br>>> 512MB of GPU RAM in BIOS.<br>>><br>>> Playback with both recorded 720p and 1080i (OTA ATSC from a HDHR) shows<br>>> seems to run into a glitch. The show starts off fine and pausing, FF/RW, and<br>
>> commercial skip all work fine. At some point, usually 12-30 minutes, the<br>>> video starts jumping and sometimes the audio too. I see "prebuffering pause"<br>>> messages logged in mythfrontend.log.<br>
><br>> Are you sure the ASRock is not overheating? I had problems on my Zotac<br>> ION-ITX Atom 230 board with passive cooling. Any time I ran 1080i content<br>> with a deinterlacer, it appears the GPU would scale back due to heat. This<br>
> would cause the image to jerk, etc.<br>><br>> I ended up installing a small 40mm fan in the Mini-Box M350 case I am using<br>> and I've not had jerky video since. FYI, to my knowledge, only kernel<br>> 2.6.32 has the needed modules to check ION GPU and/or CPU temperature with<br>
> lm-sensors.<br>><br>> /Brian/<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>><br><br><div>I've have the same issue. With 3 separate Zotac atom dual core 330. The response I got from the list was to try custom filters. Didn't help. When I use "High Quality" all problems go away. This is specifically for OTA HD recordings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Interesting to note when viewing ripped DVD's using handbrake the VDPAU settings are good.</div><div><br></div><div>I have wondered if CPU starving could be the issue. Top shows very low cpu usage 3-4% when using VDPAU settings. I think all the reading I have done in regards to cpu throttling are for AMD. </div>
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