<span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm running Myth 0.23 on fc12, and I use the HDMI-out on a GT 240 for both audio and video. I followed these instructions:</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210,_GT220,_or_GT240" target="_blank">http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210,_GT220,_or_GT240</a></span><div>
<span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">VDPAU High Quality profile is enabled, and that seems to be working OK. CPU utilization is low. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Until recently, all I was using to capture was my HDHR. HD looked pretty good. 5.1 surround sound was good too. No stuttering that I could see. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">T</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">hen I picked up an HD-PVR and got that all set up and working pretty well. Or so I thought. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I started to notice that the playback was stuttering slightly, enough to be distracting. So, I turned on verbose logging (mythfrontend -v audio,playback), and discovered that playback of recorded content from BOTH devices (not just the HD-PVR, but, surprisingly, the HDHR too) is causing dropped frames:</span></div>
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<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.078 NVP(3): Video is 3.04058 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.178 NVP(3): Video is 3.02236 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.278 NVP(3): Video is 3.01912 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.378 NVP(3): Video is 3.00731 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.498 NVP(3): Video is 3.11125 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.578 NVP(3): Video is 3.0564 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.698 NVP(3): Video is 3.12905 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.778 NVP(3): Video is 3.07217 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.878 NVP(3): Video is 3.00563 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">2010-07-30 19:18:42.998 NVP(3): Video is 3.08638 frames behind audio (too slow), dropping frame to catch up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">So, in the span of 1 second, my system dropped something like 30 frames. These messages continue for as long as I playback a recording.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">My dropped frame issue seems to be different from the well-documented prebuffering pause, as seen here:</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:Prebuffering_pause">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:Prebuffering_pause</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>At least I think it is. I only see a handful of prebuffering pause messages in the log as compared to the dropped frames. grep | wc shows 70 vs. 34,000, respectively, in the last 2 days.</div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">If I go into mythfrontend setup and set the default audio device to NULL, I get no sound, of course, but the dropped frame messages stop. To me, this means that the cause of the issue is the audio, not the video. I think. FWIW, if I switch from VDPAU to SLIM or some other playback profile, I still get the dropped frames. Makes me think this issue is not VDPAU-related.<br>
<br></span></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have no /etc/asound.conf (I've tried a variety of things here, but ended up going with nothing in the end), and my </font>/etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf has this:</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><div><div>options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=0 probe_mask=0xffff,0xfff2</div></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><div><font face="verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Here is my driver version, which I installed from the rpmfusion repos:</span></div>
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<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">rpm -qa | grep nvidia</span></div></div></div></div>
<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.31-2.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-195.36.31-2.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686-195.36.24-1.fc12.3.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">kmod-nvidia-195.36.31-1.fc12.1.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.16-141.fc12.i686-195.36.31-1.fc12.1.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">nvidia-settings-1.0-4.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">This I got from atrpms:</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">rpm -qa | grep alsa</span></div></div></div></div><div>
<div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-kmdl-2.6.32.14-127.fc12-1.0.23-84.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-lib-devel-1.0.23-1.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-kmdl-2.6.32.16-141.fc12-1.0.23-84.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-driver-1.0.23-84.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">report-plugin-localsave-0.14-1.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-utils-1.0.22-1.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">report-config-localsave-0.14-1.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc12.i686</span></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">This also from atrpms:</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">rpm -qa | grep mythtv</span></div></div></div></div>
<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">mythtv-0.23-235.fc12.i686</span></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sound card devices:</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">aplay -L</span><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
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<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">null</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div>
<span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">hdmi:CARD=NVidia</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">HDA NVidia, NVIDIA HDMI</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">HDMI Audio Output</span></div></div></div>
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<div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevices: 0/1</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevice #0: subdevice #0</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevices: 1/1</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevice #0: subdevice #0</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevices: 1/1</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevice #0: subdevice #0</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]</span></div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevices: 1/1</span></div></div>
</div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subdevice #0: subdevice #0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">I disabled my onboard 8200 sound and video in the BIOS so that only the GT 240 is seen.</span></div>
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00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad8 (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ca3 (rev a2)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be4 (rev a1)</div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403</div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
<br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Temps on the GPU are like 64 under load, as displayed by "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp|grep Attribute" So, I am not overheating.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><br></div><div>I can post more of my mythfrontend log as appropriate.</div></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Can anyone give me some pointers on how to address this? Is this truly an audio issue, as I suspect? Will I forever be stuck with these dropped frames?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Larry</span></div></div></div></div>
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