<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Friday, June 25, 2010 09:29:16 am James Orr wrote:<br>
> I think this is a hardware problem ...<br>
><br>
> About a month ago I started getting stutters on 1080i recordings. 720p is<br>
> fine. Sometimes it would start about 10 minutes into a show, other times<br>
> not for 30 or 40 minutes. If I stopped playback for a few minutes and then<br>
> came back it would be ok but after a short while would start stuttering<br>
> again. The recording would play back fine through my PS3 via mythtv's upnp<br>
> media server, so the original file is ok.<br>
><br>
> Checking the frontend load I was only showing about 0.2 during the<br>
> stuttering.<br>
><br>
> I also updated the nvidia drivers from 190 to 195 but still happening.<br>
><br>
> So, time for a new video card?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Perhaps thermal?<br>
<br>
Is the video card being well-cooled? Check the fan is working (if you have one), and also check for any dust buildup that<br>
might impede airflow.<br>
<br>
The nVidia setting application lets you check the temperature of the GPU.<br>
<br>
If you're using VDPAU you won't push the CPU much, which explains the low load, but you are pushing the GPU, and it will<br>
throttle itself back if it gets too hot.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Yeah, that's it. I opened the case and graphics card fan isn't moving at all.<br><br>There was a loud fan noise a few months back, but I thought it was the CPU fan and changed that and it seemed to stop making the noise after that too, but I guess that was just because it must have given up entirely!<br>
<br>Time for a new card then!<br>