On 22/01/06, Dan Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > This is my first post to the list after getting my system up and > running. I have a Mythtv setup which I'm really pleased with it's 95% > perfect! However - that remaining 5% is always worth persuing so... I'm > using XvMC which means my Athlon XP 1600 trundles away at 15% usage > whilst playing DVB-T (standard definition PAL) video. This has 3 issues > which reading through the list have been mentioned on and off - but I > haven't found all the answers. > > First off - the menus become monochrome, which isn't a biggy and worth > putting up with for the performance gain (but it would be nice to know > if this is preventable). > > Secondly the menus cause the video to jump when they appear, which can > be very distracting - this has been mentioned a lot on the list from > what I can see. Hopefully I have something useful to add here.... I have > Quadro FX500 card (don't ask why I'm sticking such an expensive card in > a PVR box) and I found enabling overlays ( |Option "Overlay" "true") > |gets rid of this problem - this is listed as a quadro only option and > I'd be interested to know if anyone has success with this option using a > non-quadro card, as I could then sell it as I've been intending to do..... > > Lastly the problem which I count as my final 5% - I have an issue with > some programs where the video stutters (the video may stutter in time > too, but it's hard to tell when your ears are hurting). It's been a > complete bafflement to me as it happens on only some programs (not > channels) and non of the configurations I've tried get rid of it (other > than diabling XvMC) - playing the same .nuvs with mplayer reveals that > the only unique characteristic of these recording seems to be that the > audio is at 256 kbits, whereas most of the other recording I have are at > 192... I haven't been very scientific in checking it - but it seems to > be consistant, having checked a few recordings. It happens to about 1 in > 5 recordings, or maybe less, at the moments - but is fustrating as I > have to go in to my options and reconfigure everytime I want to watch > such a recording. I've only seen this issue posted once by a guy who > said he was using the via equivalent of XvMC (I haven't found his post > again - as it was a while ago) - which might be important as is implies > it isn't a driver problem (I get the same issue when running the > frontend on my laptop with a completely different sound card and older > Quadro card). Is anyone else familier with this problem? I'm in the UK - > where we don't have HDTV yet, so I can't be that my systems overwhelmed > by what I'm throwing at it? > > Any help/interest would be appreciated. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > I used to have problems playing back some DVB-T recordings, notably from shows which had 2 audio tracks (one blank, presumably 'audio description' and the normal stereo audio track).
I managed to fix it by changing the capture card settings (advanced option in mythtv-setup in the capture card page) to only use TS recording. This is now the default behavour in SVN and can't be changed from mythtv-setup. The result is - no more recordings with dodgy audio. Regards, Justin _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
