[mythtv-users] This is odd...

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sun Sep 19 22:29:12 EDT 2004


On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:37 pm, James L. Mayhugh wrote:
> I've been trying to get MythTV running for about two weeks now. I've
> been follwing the FC2 install HOWTO at Myth(TV)ology and am slowly but
> surely getting closer to what I want.
>
> I'm running on a Sempron at 1.2Ghz, 2g of RAM with an nVidia card and
> PVR350, and two 200GB harddrives for my video capture.
>
> I can capture video off the cable just fine, but I get "prebuffering
> pause" about every .45 sec when trying to watch live tv. I also was
> getting the stutter when playing captured video back, but discovered
> that if I pause the playback for a second or two with my IR remote,
> and then resume, the playback starts running at normal speed.
>
> I've been trying to read and absorb as much of this as possible, but
> it's all pretty new to me, and I'm just stumped at his point.
>
> Can anyone point me in th eright direction??

Make sure 'Extra audio buffering' is turned on in the playback settings.  If 
that doesn't help, the output of 'mythfrontend -v playback' may help a bit.

Isaac


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