Can those of you complaining about stuttering playback say what resolution
videos you are playing back (PAL or NTSC).

Thanks

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graeme Wilford
> Sent: 06 September 2005 16:56
> To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] problems with xv output on pvr 350
> 
> 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.
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