[mythtv-users] Jerky playback

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 07:02 am, Clyde Stubbs wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:55:02AM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
>
> > If you want smooth video, use the nvidia driver and turn on the
> > experimental 
> 
> Unfortunately the nvidia driver is unusable, since it doesn't
> support interlaced modes, and my TV will not display progressive
> modes (which require a minimum 31kHz horizontal scan rate).
> 
> While I take your point about the driver, the fact is that mplayer
> and xine can display non-jerky video, either from file or from
> an mpeg2 stream out of dvbstream. Therefore the video driver is
> not an absolute impediment to achieving this result.

You're just getting lucky when using those.  Neither mplayer nor xine attempt 
to sync to the refresh in any way when using Xv for output.

You always have the source, if you wish to try and fix your problems.

Isaac