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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well, unfortunately, I just tried it with
no success, even though I’m not the writer of this original posting (I do
have the same problem).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the suggestion though! You are
the first and only person to suggest anything regarding this issue!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Jake Thompson
[mailto:jake@jakethompson.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 10, 2006 3:02
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy
video playback</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Well, we just had a discussion on the list about my choppy play back
using FC5 and a VIA Graphics card, I solved the problem with:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>edit /etc/grub.conf<br>
and modify your kernel line adding to the end:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Try it, you never know.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-Jake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 7/10/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Brent
Englehart</span></b> <<a href="mailto:brentje@yahoo.com">brentje@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'>Hi<br>
<br>
I don't know if this is can be solved or if this is<br>
the right place to ask. But I figure that video <br>
problems are common for some MythTV users, and I am<br>
using MythTV as my GUI. I'm having problems with<br>
video playback on my machine.<br>
<br>
To start, here's my equipment:<br>
<br>
Processor:P3 866<br>
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-6PMM <br>
Memory: 256MB PC133<br>
Video Card: Guillemot 3D Prophet II GeForce2 GTS 64MB<br>
HD: 300GB Seagate Ultra-ATA<br>
DVD: Some LG type, can't remember exactly.<br>
<br>
This system is not a PVR. It may become a PVR type<br>
system later, but for now it doesn't have a TV card in <br>
it. All I want to do is play videos that I FTP to it,<br>
play DVDs, and maybe get into some MAME action too<br>
later on. But most importantly, it must play videos.<br>
<br>
<br>
The problem I'm having is that the video jerks about <br>
once a second. This happens on all video: DVDs, DivX,<br>
MPEGs, everything. The player doesn't make a<br>
difference: I've tried Mplayer, VLC, and Xine, all<br>
with the same exact result. It doesn't seem to matter<br>
what distro I try: Fedora Core 4 and Kubuntu gave the<br>
same result. Under Win2K however, video playback is<br>
perfect with VLC and Windows Media Player so the<br>
hardware should be OK. It's not the sound, because<br>
using Mplayer with -nosound gave the same result.<br>
Video drivers don't seem to make a difference: using<br>
the open-source nv drivers and using nVidia's drivers<br>
gives the same result. It's not the DMA settings:<br>
both the HD and the DVD have DMA on. Dropping the AGP <br>
settings to 2X instead of 4X in the BIOS did nothing.<br>
Doing the "echo 1024 > /proc/....I can't remember the<br>
rest off hand" had no effect. Turning off double<br>
buffering with xvattr doesn't seem to do anything. <br>
It's not the video processor (I think that's what it's<br>
called anyways): using xv is the best, but still<br>
chops. Using gl, x11, or any others makes things<br>
worse. It's not the processor being overworked:<br>
looking at CPU usage with top, it's using 20% at the <br>
most during playback. The type of partition doesn't<br>
seem to matter: both ext3 and jfs give the same<br>
result. It's definately not the memory, since it had<br>
PC100 in it before but I decided to buy PC133 to see<br>
if it would help. It didn't. And yes, I did set the<br>
memory speed in the BIOS as well after upgrading.<br>
<br>
I can't remember everything I've tried, but the only<br>
thing that seems to help is adding Option "NvAPG" "1" <br>
to my xorg.conf. The jerk is still there, but at<br>
least the video is somewhat watchable. I can't find<br>
anything else to try by searching online, or think of<br>
any other reasons why this is happening. If anyone <br>
can help me out, I would really appreciate it. I want<br>
my media box...<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Brent<br>
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