[mythtv-users] Working hard on black screens

[Craig Longman]

Jesse Arnett wrote:

>On Tuesday 03 June 2003 02:53 pm, Craig Longman wrote:
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>>Jesse Arnett wrote:
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>>>I also use a PVR 250, but i am using a p4 2.4GHz with 512MB of RAM.  The
>>>system does not appear busy when this happens, but maybe i'm just not
>>>looking in the right places.
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>>have you also changed your bitrate/bitrate_peak in the ivtv driver?
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>Yes, I noticed a related thread on the dev list and tried some different 
>bitrates.  Concensus seemed to be that 8000 kbps worked best.  It does seem 
>better at higher bitrates, but it's still pretty noticeable.  The lower the 
>bitrate the choppier things get overall.
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hm, so you haven't changed it.  8Mbps/16Mbps seems to work best, 
although i use 8/12 now and it seems to work fine, although the files 
are hardly any smaller.

>Is there a bitrate setting you recommend?
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just whatever works best!  i found 8 good.  its strange though, i'm 
pretty sure its not a proc bottle neck, and the fact that you're on a 
p4 at 2.4 (i'm on an athlon at 1) seems to confirm it.  perhaps the new code 
issac had for syncing will improve things.  i should try out the files 
in mplayer to seem what they do there, if i can pluck up the courage to 
try and compile and install it.

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();