[mythtv-users] MythTV and HDTV?

[Brandon Beattie]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:05:16PM -0700, jack wrote:
> My biggest problem with HDTV in MythTV is it's intolerance of a less than
> pristine signal. Other players like VLC/mplayer/xine will play the stream
> fine but MythTV will frequently start machine gun repeating the audio or
> just plain old crashing to the desktop. I rarely even bother trying to play
> it in MythtTV anymore, usually just load up VLC or xine.
> 

The audio going in and out is most likely related to your CPU load or
PCI latency.  To fix it do the following:

Make sure you select extra audio buffering (Fixes the problem 60% of the
time)

Go into your bios and turn the size of pci transactions from 32 to 256

Make sure your CPU isn't maxed.

--Brandon