On 7/13/05, Matteo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > This is the first time for me in this list. > I just set up my first myth box and almost everything works fine. > My system is composed of a VIA EPIA ML8000 PVR-250 > 512 Mb DDR 200 GB hdd maxtor. > Tv recordings are perfect and playbacks too. > I use via unichrome driver for hw accellerated mpg2 playback and cpu > utilization is around 20 %. > The only problem I noticed regards Live Tv: for 20 30 seconds the output > is perfect, audio and video are perfectly syncronized, then for 1-2 > seconds Myth drops frames and audio becomes choppy to become perfect > again for other 20-30 seconds and this strange beheaviour repeats for as > long as I watch Live TV CPU utilization is around 30 40 % (res 720x 576). > My hdd settings are : > > > /dev/hdc: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 3 (32-bit w/sync) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 24792/255/63, sectors = 398297088, start = 0 > > I added this line to /etc/sysctl.conf > vm/min_free_kbytes=131072 > > to always leave some memory free. > > > I don't know what to anymore. > > Big big thanks to anyone answering. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
I've noticed the same sort of thing after I change channels in LiveTV mode. I've found that it will ususally go away if I pause LiveTV for a second (or two) to let the buffer fill. Matt. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
