[mythtv-users] SUCCESS...sorta

[Nathan Goff]

After several weeks and two different machines I am now able to watch live 
tv and see the picture and hear sound out of my speakers!  This is very 
cool!  A key to all of the newbies out there....follow Jarod's guide line 
for line.  I skipped over some stuff in a hurry to get the thing working 
and that just caused many more problems.

Still a few problems though....While watching or recording about 3 minutes 
into it the video/sound begin to race, almost like they are being fast 
forwarded.  So the video starts to get jerky and the sound crackles and 
gets bad.  I did notice that I was getting some "prebuffering pause" 
messages on the console as well.  My machine isn't really quick, but I 
figure if it can do live tv fine for a couple minutes I don't understand 
why it would suddenly begin to decompose.  Does anybody know why this would 
happen?  I have fiddled around with the various recording settings, but 
they don't appear to have any affect on this FF affect.

My system:

AMD 1.3Ghz Duron
500+ MB Ram
FIC AN11 MB
Onboard via82xx sound card
WinTV PCI
20 GB Western Digital HD(this will be supplemented soon with a 160GB drive 
for recording storage)
RH 9.0
ATrpms install of MythTV .12, bttv .9, current alsa driver/utils
Have used both 400x400 and 480x480 recording

Thanks for the help!

Nathan Goff