[mythtv] Playback Problems

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:38:24PM +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> Yes, but if you have a 60 or 72Hz refresh rate on the output device then 
> myth appears to get completely confused.  If you have 50Hz then I think 
> it will sync nicely and perhaps drop a couple of frames per hour when 
> the clocks diverge.

That's for PAL, right? I assume that for NTSC you need to run 60 Hz.

> >Too bad I can't lock my video and audio playback to the television
> >station's transmit clock, because they usually use very accurate
> >references.
> 
> Well if you used DVB or perhaps ATSC then there is a clock broadcast in 
> the stream on the PCR pid (often the same as the video pid).  You could 
> write some code to sync against this if you wanted. 

I was thinking of a hardware frequency lock specifically.

Hamish
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