[mythtv-users] Freeview HD NZ - Not having as much success as others....

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 23:34:41 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Kelvin Smith<kelvins at kelhome.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Hey all
>
> With Prime now on Freeview HD, thought that I would start investigating.
> I am running CentOS as the OS.  I have downloaded myth-0.21+fixes from
> SVN, and applied Jeans 20744.  Reading the list, it would appear that
> people in NZ are having quite a bit of success with this, although there
> are legacy apps.  I know what is not supported, but any clues could be
> greate.
>
> Faults I have:
> 1) Unable to get stable playback of HD on any channel with VDPAU profile
> enabled
> 2) Stuttering
> 3) Unable to play TV3 or C4 at all reliably, even with Software decoding.
>
> What I have done (mythtv fixes)
> 1) Downloaded from SVN
> 2) Applied Jeans VDPAU patch
> 3) Applied trac #5400 to get AAC_LATM (Sound) working
> 4) Using 180.60 NVidia driver on 8600GT card
>
> Seen mentioned elsewhere about increasing the HD buffer.  How/where does
> one do this.
>
> Any other ideas?  Also - is it better to go to the 185 driver.  Could this
> be better.  Only want to go up if beneficial.
>
> Also, I get the same issues with Trunk (I know incorrect forum) but I am
> pitching to those that already have been here.

Firstly please feel free to join the mythtvnz mailing list for local
info and help.

http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz

Secondly would you consider using a distro which can use prepackaged
vdpau enabled 0.21-fixes, like mythbuntu?

Thirdly the frontend logs would help in analysing your problem :)


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