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On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:45, Michael wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>> I cannot even watch TV because it
> is jumpy, jittery, and the video falls behind the audio.</I></FONT></PRE>
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Try setting the experimental a/v sync option in the playback settings - and also there is another option about the jittery'ness (need a certain CPU though).
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> I have no problems watching TV using xawtv, TV Time, mplayer, etc.</I></FONT></PRE>
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The catch with MythTV is the liveTV (pausing,rewind,ff,etc...) - the others simply dish out what the card gives....
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I forgot to mention that it is also EXTREMELY slow and jumpy just moving
through the program guide without doing any TV watching or recording.</I></FONT></PRE>
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This tells me that 1) either your box is not powerfull enough to handle everything, or 2) something else is hogging up the CPU - run 'top' to see what is hogging what while running MythTV, and also issue 'uptime' to see what the load average is. As a note - I had a stick of bad ram (128mg) that would cause the system load to sky rocket, i guess that the kernel was trying to compensate for it all the time...
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Michael
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