[mythtv-users] broken transcodes?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Matt Hakim wrote:

> Hi, I recently upgraded mythtv to 0.21 p18314 via gentoo portage.
> Previously mythtv had been working resonably well (I think). I have
> transcoding set to take place five days after a show is recorded.
> Commerical flagging occurs after a show has finished. Lately I've
> noticed that the transcodes don't play smoothly from the start, or
> start jerking part way through. There's something wrong with the file
> as if I do a reboot the jerking starts happening at the same point in
> the file.
> Anyone seen this?

This is probably due to your playback profiles. There's lots of  
information in the archives and the wiki about using playback profiles  
and how to find the one that works best for your hardware/file type  
combination.

-Brad