[mythtv-users] Choppy playback on black screens

Buchanan, Paul Paul.Buchanan at thomson.com
Tue Feb 24 13:19:52 EST 2004


On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:40 PM, mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
wrote: 
> I'm having choppy playback whenever my myth box tries to display a
> solid color across most of the screen, it mostly happens when the
> screen fades 
> to black.  I've found a couple of references to people having this
> problem 
> in the archives, but I haven't been able to find a solution.  Anyone
> have 
> any experience with this problem?  Here's a quick rundown on what I'm
> working with:
> 
> Intel 2.0 Celeron
> 256 megs of ram
> pvr250
> Redhat 9.0
> mythtv 0.14
> 
> -Ben Newman
> 
> "It's amazing how much mature wisdom resembles being too tired."
>                                               --Robert Heinlein

Try turning on "Extra Audio Buffering" in your recording settings.  I had
the same problem and this fixed it for me.  There should be a thread
discussing this in the archives.

Paul


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