<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Marc MERLIN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc_mtv@merlins.org">marc_mtv@merlins.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:06:40PM -0600, Goluboff wrote:<br>
> > I can't quite figure that out. I have mythtv 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8.<br>
> ><br>
> > I've had it working for a long time. HD shows like Heroes and 10 other kinds<br>
> > record and play fine (recorded through HD Homerun).<br>
> > Lost used to be fine, but this season, playback has been bad: the picture<br>
> > slows down and then catches up from time to time while the sound gets out of<br>
> > sync on my main frontend.<br>
> > I checked that my CPU usage is only 30% (dual core duo 3GHz), and I'm<br>
> > playing with xv.<br>
> ><br>
> > I've tried playing the same show on my laptop and the picture still slows<br>
> > down and speeds up a bit, but the sound doesn't seem to get out of sync<br>
> > there.<br>
> ><br>
> > Any clue what might be going on?<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> Are you running mythcommflag during the recording? I used to have the<br>
> same problem you had, and then went to setup and set it to run<br>
> mythcommflag after the recording, and that's been fixed now.<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure why, it might be an issue of not being able to write to<br>
> disk fast enough (to both the recording and the seektable), but maybe<br>
> you should try it out. The downside is you won't have commercial<br>
> detection until after the recording is done.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks for the tip, it might indeed be just that.<br>
<br>
It took me a while to find the setting, which for some reason is hidden in<br>
mythtv-setup, but I'll see if it works better for next week.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Thanks,<br>
Marc<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>The exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. I simply turned on extra audio buffering in the frontend setup and that fixed it.<br><br><br>