[mythtv-users] video skips

[William Powers]

Although it doesn't sound exactly like your problem, I've been fighting 
occasional dropped frames on my setup for quite some time now and I 
think I have finally traced it to deleting (multiple) myth files while 
recording others.  That appears to load up the hard drive sufficiently 
to cause ivtv buffer overruns and results in dropped frames.  I'm still 
testing to see if other types of disk activity (eg., ftp'ing files) can 
cause the same symptoms.  You might try upping the number of gbuffers 
you give bttv and see if that helps the problem, or even if it changes 
the symptoms.

Just a thought.

Bill Warner wrote:

> Ahh, yea I found it and I had already checked it.  I just don't
> understand what this could be.  using xawtv and the audio wire i would
> get perfect video and audio but with mythtv and the btaudio driver I
> have this skipping going on.  It has been several weeks and I can't seem
> to find anything on the errors in google or anything.