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Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to a "console" window
(CTRL/ALT/F7<br>
will switch back to your X display).<br><br>
Log on and type "top" to see who's using the
cpu/memory/etc...<br><br>
I installed my box with some VNC servers set up. I found the<br>
screen savers were running on them sucking up cycles :-)<br><br>
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At 11:40 AM 1/16/2004 -0500, Scott Pouliot wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">Not
sure what the problem could be here, but I setup my Myth box probably 2
weeks ago....and everything has been fine thus far. Now today,
while I'm watching either recordings or Live TV.....it starts skipping
really badly every 2 or 3 minutes. The video and audio both start
going REAAAAALLLLY slow almost like every other frame is being played
with a pause in between. Very odd...</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">I know the PVR-250 doesn't have
a decoder for playback, but no recording is going on in the background at
this point in time (other than the standard live TV buffering).
I've got my Live TV Recording profile set to MPEG2-PS with a bit rate of
2200 (max 4400)...audio set to 48. Pretty low compared to the
defaults (I think?)</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">My hardware:</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">Dell Dimension 4100 - PIII 933
w/ 384MB RAM</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">20GB Boot Drive</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">160GB Video Drive</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">nVidia 32MB Video card (No
TV-OUT)</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">Hauppauge PVR-250 OEM ($88 one
from eBay)</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">If I copy the output files from
recorded shows and view them on my Windows XP box....everything is
fine. So it almost sounds like a CPU issue? Since I'm a
Windows guy at heart (but trying to convert) I'm not up on too much task
troubleshooting in Linux yet....</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">Any ideas?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#0000FF">Scott</font><br>
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