On 06/09/05, Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Martin wrote: > > >For the past few months I've been trying to play DVDs and XVids > >through the pvr 350's tv out. Thanks to all the great work that's > >been on the driver, thinks have improved dramatically to the point > >that I've got something that's about 90% ok. Unfortunately I've still > >got a few problems and since others to this list apear to have > >reported success I thought I'd share them in order to see if there is > >any solution. If not then I'm more than happy to wait for the driver > >to improve. > > > >For reference I'm using a asus pundit-r with a 2.4 Celeron running > >FC3. I've used almost every single version of ivtv from 0.3.6.x to > >0.3.7k (current). My current X driver is 0.10.6 CPU load when playing > >both XVids and DVDs is around 50%. Both DVDs and XVids play perfectly > >through my onboard video. > > > >I have two main problems: > > > >1. The video is not smooth. Whenever I first play the video it > >stutters greatly, although this settles down after a while (maybe 10 > >seconds). After this the video is pretty watchable although it does > >not look completely smooth. Fast forwarding and rewinding brings > >about another 10 seconds of heavy stuttering. > > > > > > I'll second this. The CPU usage is down, but the stutter keeps me using > my hardware DVD player.
I have a 2.53Ghz Celeron in a Shuttle running FC3 (stock uptodate kernel) and see similar behaviour. The image motion is not always smooth and a few % of frames are skipped/dropped by xine or aren't synced properly in the X/ivtv driver. It's most noticable on a smooth panning shot. I thought it was due to cpufreq so I switched that off with no improvement. I don't have any av sync issues. I agree, it's 90% ok, maybe even 95% but I've never really achieved 100% even though my CPU is only ~40-50% busy. Are you recording off the PVR350 at the same time that you're watching Xv? I did wander if it was a memory bandwidth issue as I know that Shuttles have relatively poor memory throughput but I can't really believe that a recent P4 mobo with DDR400 RAM is unable to software decode a DVD in realtime... Latest ivtv and X driver. If you've managed to get 100% smooth Xv playback, please can you list your hardware and distro/kernel version? If I know that it's possible to get 100% smooth divx/xvid/mp4/DVD playback, I'll keep trying other things... Cheers, Wilf. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
