[mythtv-users] Re: Re:mplayer, ivtv, pvr-350, mpeg2/nuv files are out of sync

[Dan Boger]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:48:02PM -0500, gabe at mustbethemoney.com wrote:
> Well I am not sure I would say the frame drop is not noticable, but
> this does fix the sync issue, and given the choice of audio/video sync
> or some degraded quality from the framedrop, I choose the latter!
> Thanks for pointing this trick out to me. Incidently, I can play any
> format through the PVR-350 (MPEG-4 and MPEG-2) and they all roughly
> have the same quality, which while not superb, is acceptable. 

Cool!

> I am still wondering why the nuv file (renamed to .mpg) looks inferior
> when played from mplayer via mythvideo than however mythtv plays it.

Probably because mythvideo isn't trying to play the video via
/dev/video16 (the hardware decoder), so it's using the CPU to decode it.
I bet if you gave mplayer some other flags (something that will tell it
to use video16) it would play just as perfectly as via mythtv.

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