[mythtv-users] Better quality on knoppmyth Shuttle box with PVR250

[Daniel Walton]

It sure couldn't hurt you to add more memory :)


Daniel

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Jim Valavanis wrote:

>
> Jim Valavanis wrote:
>
> > Hello again everybody,
> > I have knoppmyth R4V2 installed on the Shuttle SN41G2 with a Hauppauge
> > PVR250.  I have 2 main concerns at this point...
> >
> > 1. TV watching from both live and recorded is somewhat jittery (no
> > smooth motion), and the sound is not in sync.  I've tried many of the
> > options in setup->TV settings to improve this, but I'm not getting
> > this any better.  Any suggestions on how to do this?
> >
> > 2. I know this is an XFree issue, but I'm displaying out of the
> > S-Video out and converting to RCA to my Sony 27" TV (I couldn't find
> > my S-Video cable).  Anyway, there is about 1-2" black border outside
> > the X windows display, and was trying to configure X to use the entire
> > screen without success.  Any ideas here?
> > Thanks a lot, mythtv kicks ass!
> >
> > Jim
> >
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> I have only 256MB RAM in this system and think that has a lot to do with
> the motion.  From top, I see that the
> Mem:    224184k total,   219796k used,     4388k free,     3468k buffers
> Swap:  1004052k total,   113668k used,   890384k free,    74308k cached
>
> So the swapping is probably causing the jitter/sound issues.   Do you
> think 512MB will be a big help?
>
> Thanks again
>
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