[mythtv-users] More HD problems

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Apr 8 01:13:22 UTC 2008


On 04/07/2008 08:31 PM, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> OK. So I reinstalled my whole system under AMD 64 linux. Still having 
> unreasonable problems playing HD.
>
> For those who missed my last email - system stats are plenty good enough 
> for HD. Athlon 64 X2 6400 CPU, 2 GB RAM.
>
> When I play HD content, I get one of two things. I either get 
> "prebuffering pause" over and over again, with the video jerking each 
> time, or I get "not enough time forr prebuffering pause", in which case 
> the pictture is constantly laggy.
>
> In either of these situations, my CPU is well below 20% in usage. I 
> don't have a network setup - the box reading is the same one playing, so 
> I don't know why it is haing a laggy time playing the video. My sources 
> are two DVB-S cards.

Either a) broken audio configuration or b) broken playback profile group
configuration.

Mike



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