[mythtv-users] MythTV performance optimisation - live TV watching?

[Jeff Monks]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ruskii Kapitan wrote:

> The problem: live TV is not completely in sync with the sound and it's 
> loosing frames. Watching the show pre-recorded is fine. The problem is 
> there while using both GATOS and standard XWindow ATI drivers, 
> although with GATOS ones it seems to be a bit better (I am not sure if 
> this is the case).
> 
> At first I thought it's HDDs, but the indicator on the front pannel 
> does not seem to show to much activity. Processor seems to be fast 
> enough, besides I've read people reporting even weeker then mine 
> hardware working with MythTV fine. What can be my problem?

What are your capture settings?  Codec, resolution, bitrate, etc?  Have 
you tried lowering the resolution and/or bitrate for Live TV to see 
if that fixes it?  What is your CPU utilization while watching live TV?