[mythtv-users] Live TV Playback is too slow - mythtv-0.21-211

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/28/2009 12:20 PM, Jan Andrejkovic wrote:
>
> I installed mythtv-0.21 from atrpms on Fedora 11 and I have DVB-T card 
> WinTV Nova-T USB2
>

I'm assuming you're capturing standard-definition (720x576) MPEG-2.  
Otherwise...

> and motherboard Jetway J7F2WE2G (CPU is VIA C7 2Ghz).
>

that CPU is probably not going to work.

> I try to run both backend and front end on the same box.
>
> My problem is when I try to watch live tv, the picture is not smooth, 
> it is looks like slow motion. However when I tried to watch it in 
> Kaffeine it was OK. Also when watchiing Mythtv, CPU is loaded at about 
> 50% so I believe it has some spare power. I tried to renice frontend 
> and backend but I did not get any improvement.
>

In Utilities/Setup|Setup|TV Settings|Playback on the 3rd screen, change 
your Playback Profile group from CPU+ to (the default configuration of) 
Slim.

Mike