I had a very similar system that worked "reasonably" well. You absolutely cannot use the machine for anything else. I killed all non-essential programs/daemons. Try re-niceing X and the frontend process to -19. Also, try a lower bitrate. Mine was around 2200 for the video I think.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:54:08 -0500, John Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is so close to working perfectly that it's already really cool. I > just have a couple of little things to clear up. > I am experiencing tearing frames and / or stuttering video in > recordings from my PVR-250. > My Default profile is: > 480x480 > Video: > Codec: MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder > Stream Stype: MPEG-2 PS > Aspect Ratio: 4:3 > Bit Rate: 3000 > Max. Bit Rate: 4500 > Audio: > Code: MPEG-2 Hardware Encoder > Sampling Rate: 32000 > Layer II > Bitrate: 384Kbps > Volume: 90% > > I've grokked the archives, but most of what I've found is "Mine doesn't > work." and the reply being "Mine works fine." > Do you think increasing the Bit Rates for the video would help? > (Something I saw in the archive). Would changing the resolution to > 720x480 help? (Being closer to "native" resolution) > > I've attempted to recompile everything (Qt, LAME, MythTV, etc.) using > -march=i686 to get a little more > performance, but haven't been successful, as I get caught up in the > ELLL (Endless Linux Library Loop). > > Any advice is greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > JJ > > KnoppMyth R4V5 > > Hardware: > PVR-250, with latest remote. > HP Pavilion 6730 > Celeron (Coppermine) 500MHz > 256MB RAM > eVGA.com e-GeFORCE MX 4000 > /dev/hda: > Maxtor 6Y060L0 > 60GB > DMA on > 32bit on > /dev/hda1 / ext3 > /dev/hda2 > /dev/hda3 /cache ext2 > /dev/hda4 /myth ext3 > (more detail below) > > /dev/hdd: > WDC WD1600JB-00GVA0 > 160GB > DMA on > 32bit on > /dev/hdd1 /myth/tv reiserfs > /dev/hdd2 /var reiserfs > /dev/hdd3 /myth/backup reiserfs > (more detail below) > > Maxtor: > /proc/ide/hda/settings > name value min max > mode > ---- ----- --- --- > ---- > acoustic 200 0 254 > rw > address 0 0 2 > rw > bios_cyl 7476 0 65535 > rw > bios_head 255 0 255 > rw > bios_sect 63 0 63 > rw > breada_readahead 8 0 255 > rw > bswap 0 0 1 > r > current_speed 0 0 70 > rw > failures 0 0 65535 > rw > file_readahead 124 0 16384 > rw > init_speed 0 0 70 > rw > io_32bit 1 0 3 > rw > keepsettings 0 0 1 > rw > lun 0 0 7 > rw > max_failures 1 0 65535 > rw > max_kb_per_request 128 1 255 > rw > multcount 16 0 16 > rw > nice1 1 0 1 > rw > nowerr 0 0 1 > rw > number 0 0 3 > rw > pio_mode write-only 0 255 > w > slow 0 0 1 > rw > unmaskirq 0 0 1 > rw > using_dma 1 0 1 > rw > wcache 0 0 1 > rw > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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