[mythtv-users] Trouble with HD Playback

[Phil Bridges]

On 10/8/07, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem I'm having is that the video playback seems to "freeze"
> every 5 seconds or so while the audio keeps going without a problem.
> It is only for what seems to be a millisecond or some very short
> amount of time.
>
> My HD capable frontend has only been running for a little over 1.5
> months and it at one point worked without a problem.
>
> It's a Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, Nvidia 6200TC 256MB. It's driving
> at 720p via a DVI to HDMI cable.  I do have 'Option "UseEvents"
> "True"' in my xorg.config. I have also turned on Sync to VBlank in
> addition to checking the option in the frontend for opengl Vsync.
>
> CPU usage is pretty low, as in under 30% on my frontend.
>
> There are no problems with SD content, only my HD. I'm not using XvMC
> as it seems not a processor limitation as it is something else. I'm
> using Ubuntu Feisty if that matters to anyone.
>
> Any ideas what I can do to fix this? It's really odd that it worked
> fine for awhile then stopped, most likely after a reboot or something,
> but I think I have all the preferred setting so I'm at a loss.

It may help to post your frontend logs.