[mythtv-users] Working hard on black screens

[Craig Longman]

Jesse Arnett wrote:

>On Friday 30 May 2003 07:36 pm, Jeff C wrote:
>  
>
>>I also noticed that the system has a hard time with the mostly black screen
>>at the opening credits of Curb Your Enthusiasm.  Is anyone else
>>experiencing this?  I am encoding with a PVR 250 ona Duron 1Ghz machine
>>with 384MB of RAM.
>>    
>>
>I am.  I had posted earlier about issues that I was having with choppy audio.  
>After some further review it appears that i'm experiencing the same thing you 
>are.  I only get choppy audio/video on dark scenes.  Basically, the more 
>black in the video the worse things get.  
>
>I also use a PVR 250, but i am using a p4 2.4GHz with 512MB of RAM.  The 
>system does not appear busy when this happens, but maybe i'm just not looking 
>in the right places.
>
have you also changed your bitrate/bitrate_peak in the ivtv driver?

cheers,

    CraigL->Thx();