[mythtv-users] Choppy video until paused

[paulsykes at totalise.co.uk]

I'm afraid this happens all the time, so sounds like a different problem.


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:11 , wishbone at h4b.org sent:

>Do you notice this when the TV is fading to black or it's all white?  If so you
>may be experiencing the same thing that many of us are.  Currently the only
>workaround I've found is to adjust contrast and brightness on every channel
>higher.  I'm currently testing 52/52 (34078/34078 in the db) and it seems to
>have helped quite a bit.  I know this sounds crazy, but at least two of us on
>the list have noticed that this helps.  Again keeping in mind this is related
>to the all black fade outs or frames with lots of white.  If that isn't what
>you're experiencing your issue may be different.
>
>Other places I've seen this include certain motherboards that seem to have
>problems with the ivtv drivers.  (They don't seem to be able to handle the
>bandwidth of writing to the disk and reading from the card at the same time).
>Until I switched to a non via 133 based motherboard I had similar problems.
>The reason pausing may help is because you're prebuffering more of the show and
>not experiencing underruns.  Just another possibility.
>
>goodluck
>joshua
>


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