[mythtv-users] Might seem like a dumb question but have to ask

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 16:02:49 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:01:41AM -0600, Brent Bolin wrote:
>>
>>> Do OTA(Live TV recordings) and Videos use the same playback settings
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> Setup, TV settings, Playback
>>>
>>> slim
>>> high qualtity
>>> vdpu
>>> etc...
>>
>> When the internal player is used for videos yes, the same playback
>> settings are used.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Eloy Paris.-
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>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> I have (3) ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330 1.6GHz Dual-Core Mini ITX Intel
> Motherboard front ends.
>
> The best playback for OTA HD recordings I use is "High Quality"(no
> vdpau).  I have tried the stock vdpau(slim, normal, high quality) with
> bad results.  Also tried some custom playbacks with the same result.
>
> Jerky, slow motion, pixelation etc...
>
> The CPU runs about 30% usage with this.  The playback is very good.
>
> I have just noticed when playing ripped DVD's it works fine.  Even
> using vdpau high quality.  CPU usage goes down to less then 5%.
>
> So I'm beginning to think something else isn't configured correct for
> recording OTA HD.
>
> Currently have all the default settings -
> Recording profile
> Transcoder autodetect
> Recording group default
> Storage group default
> Playback group default
>
> And I have commercial flagging set.
>
> The OTA recordings are very large.
>
> Here is the file size of the David Letterman show -
>
> 7808495588
>
> Here is the size of Casino Royale -
>
> 1696577671 and file type  MPEG v4 system, version 2 ripped with
> Handbrake(high profile)
>
> Is there something I should change when scheduling OTA recordings?
>
> Ubuntu 9.10
> Myth .22
> PCHD 5500
> Dvico FusionHDTV7
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>

Also using the internal player for all.


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