[mythtv-users] More HD problems

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 02:55:22 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 04/07/2008 08:31 PM, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > OK. So I reinstalled my whole system under AMD 64 linux. Still having
> > unreasonable problems playing HD.
> >
> > For those who missed my last email - system stats are plenty good enough
> > for HD. Athlon 64 X2 6400 CPU, 2 GB RAM.
> >
> > When I play HD content, I get one of two things. I either get
> > "prebuffering pause" over and over again, with the video jerking each
> > time, or I get "not enough time forr prebuffering pause", in which case
> > the pictture is constantly laggy.
> >
> > In either of these situations, my CPU is well below 20% in usage. I
> > don't have a network setup - the box reading is the same one playing, so
> > I don't know why it is haing a laggy time playing the video. My sources
> > are two DVB-S cards.
>
> Either a) broken audio configuration or b) broken playback profile group
> configuration.
>
> Mike
>
> _______________________________________________
>

My first guess was a video card driver issue.  Assuming Nvidia card, do you
have the drivers install and working?  What is your xorg.conf look like?

Mitchell
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