[mythtv-users] Terrible LiveTV performance

[Curtis Stanford]

I'm using an EPIA M10000 Nehemiah board with on-board audio. I'm already using 
ALSA and it had worked for many weeks. Somethings changed to break this thing 
lately.

Thanks for the suggestions.

On August 14, 2003 12:29 pm, Jason Schloer wrote:
> What hardware are you using for sound. I was having a similar problem
> for a while. I have an Asus A7N8X mobo, which is an nforce2 and has
> onboard 5.1 audio with spdif out. I really wanted to use the digital out
> so I setup the nvaudio driver and it worked fine for a couple days I
> think, but then I started noticing that sometimes when I would start
> watching TV it would go for a second or two and then grind to a halt
> showing things in slow mo with no sound. I could sometimes change the
> channel and would lose my sound. I found out that if I changed channels
> really quickly when I first started or hit rewind really quick it was
> sometimes okay, but not always. Anyway, it got extremely annoying and as
> much as I'd like the digital connection the analog is working fine now.
> I switched over to the ALSA drivers, which I haven't been able to get to
> use my digital out, but are working great for analog. Haven't crashed
> once since the change, which is much nicer. Anyway, hope this gives you
> a direction to take. I'd say try switching to ALSA if you haven't
> already. Oh and btw I saw the same things using the experimental AV
> sync, it would play just fine, but lose the audio. Good luck with your
> problem, hope this helps,
>
> Jason Schloer