On December 16, 2004 06:58 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > S�ren Pingel Dalsgaard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found an old Medion MD5044 tv-tuner card which I popped into my > > mythtv as the only tuner card. I used xawtv to find the "frequencies" > > and configured mythtv accordingly. Watching tv with mythtv works (as > > it "it shows the right picture") but it stall all the time and get > > further and further behind. > > > > My system is an (old) AMD Athlon 1.1GHz machine with 1MB memory and a > > brand new (fast?) 250Gb harddisk. > > > > I've ordered my pvr 350 but would like to get a feeling of whether I > > should ditch my old tuner card or leave it in. > > > > Needless to say, it works just perfect with xawtv which doesn't write > > everything to disk first. > > The default recording resolutions and bitrates for MythTV are a bit > high. Try lowering the resolution to something like 352x480 and record > using MPEG-4 at a bitrate of 2200 (1 GB / hr). You should find that it > works much better and then tweak the LiveTV bitrates/quality options up > from there if it works. You will also find that if you don't watch > something while recording you can use higher bitrates for recorded shows > using maybe the High Quality profile since the system will not be > playing back at the same time. > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
You may also try using the rtjpeg codec. It seems to work fairly well on medium-slow systems. It uses extra disk space, but for livetv that doesn't matter so much. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
