[mythtv-users] "Videos" Play too fast and choppy

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:00, Nowhere wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a twin PVR-250 system in a 512MB/Athlon XP 2000+/MSI K7N2GL
> system. Recordings made with the PVR-250s playback just fine.
> However, if I transcode to mpeg4, they playback too fast (video and
> audio) and very choppy when there is a lot of motion on the screen. I
> transcode at the same bitrate as the capture (2200 most of the time).
>
> If I copy a plain ole avi (DivX codec) from my windows box and play
> it from the "Videos" function, it also plays too fast.
>
> Anyone have any clue where to start? Let me know if you need more
> info about my system...

What happens if you enable "Use Video As Timebase" ?
(under Setup->TV->Playback)

You also might want to try making the audio sample rate in your 
transcoding profile the same as the sample rate of your original MPEG-2 
recordings.

Just guessing, here.

-JAC