The fact that the PVR output as a framebuffer is slow is reasonably well known. The only reason the mpeg2 pipes to the PVR350 work so well is they are piped at a small bitrate to a decoder which then expands the mpeg2 streams.
Having said that, for some reason I get very good performance playback wise, from the latest xine. It can play dvds directly or rips, and the video and audio are near perfect, despite the fact that it's not playing the mpeg2 video through the pvr's decoder. There is some very slight tearing visible as the screen is refreshed, but it is well within my acceptable limits. Nothing like trying to play mythtv's player through the framebuffer without the decoder, which is beyond unacceptable. Frankly, I don't know why xine looks so good. I'm not using xv or anything (even using 0.2.0rcj). Maybe xine has some internal PVR drivers that it uses or something? Also, I'm using a P4 2.4GHz, so maybe that helps. I'm going to try some mpeg4 playback soon and see how that works. Maybe then it won't look good anymore. :D Anyway, FYI. --- Duncan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey > > Just got my first myth box up and running. All good > apart from one thing.. > > When watching my movie collection (xvid, divx's > etc), the sound is > totally out of sync, by a good couple of seconds. > > I'm using the TV output of a PVR 350, which i guess > is where the problem > lies. Watching live and recorded TV is fine though. > > Can anyone suggest anything? > > thanks > > Dunc > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
