[mythtv-users] DVD stutters inside MythTV but not, outside. Need help.

[allene222]

Allen Edwards wrote:
> Thanks for the reply I tried 8 DVDs and 2 played inside MythTV without 
> stuttering. The other 6 had this bad sound and jerky picture. One had 
> a menu problem where I could see the menu but not start the disk. That 
> is probably disk specific and I can report that but I think my main 
> problem is not disk specific except perhaps that it is worse on disks 
> with dolby sound or something like that. All played in gxine outside 
> mythtv ok. I tried to use gxine as the DVD player in Myth but it gave 
> errors about not finding some mupx or something. I cannot use 
> Mythbuntu 8.04 because the driver modules for my USB DTV module seems 
> unsupported in that they will not install. Allen 
> ================================================================= 
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:02:48 +0100 From: John Veness 
> <John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DVD 
> stutters inside MythTV but not outside. Need help. To: Discussion 
> about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> Message-ID: 
> <48144F48.8060300 at pelago.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed allene222 wrote:
>> > I get terrible stuttering and tons of "WriteAudio: buffer underflow" 
>> > messages when playing a DVD inside of Mythbuntu 7.10.  When I leave 
>> > Myth, I can play the DVD with mplayer or Graffitti and everything is 
>> > perfect.  I tried setting mplayer as the player in myth setup and the 
>> > stuttering went away but the picture turned into a bunch of random 
>> > pixels.  The DVD played and sounded fine without stuttering, but is 
>> > unwatchable.  The CPU usage is low.
>> > 
>> > Allen
>>   
>
> MythTV's internal player isn't perfect for DVDs. Assuming you're still 
> on MythTV 0.20.2, you might want to try again with 0.21, although that 
> still has some bugs for me. Once you're on the latest stable release you 
> can try reporting bugs with specific DVDs on trac. If you're saying that 
> you have this problem with *every* DVD then post here, as you probably 
> have a problem with your system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
> -- John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
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