On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think you should figure out whether your myth is using the pvr-350 to
> help decode video, and find out what video card you have and look at the
> playback settings in myth to see if it's using Xv or what. Then we can
> make an educated guess about what is going on and whether you need more
> cpu to play streaming video.
>
> You might try downloading a streaming video file as others discussed and
> playing it both with mplayer or vlc, and with myth. Mplayer will let you
> play around with Xv etc., though I'm not sure about the pvr-350 decoding
> support.
I found some time last night to dig around a little bit. (My
roommates were watching the Office elsewhere, so I didn't have to
skivvel for the television. That helped.)
I found that downloading the flash file and playing it in VLC removed
the problems with stuttering video. I had to download a different
flash plugin, but I can't remember the name of it. Perhaps Firefox
has a problem displaying the videos because it has an inadequate flash
plugin? I'll have to look and see what it is that I use. I tried to
play the flash using MythBrowser, but it asked me if I wanted to
download a plugin so that it would work and then, after telling it
yes, never did.
Inside of MythFrontend I have these settings for video:
Default Video Player: mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
I think I will try experimenting with using vlc instead of mplayer
internally, because mplayer is playing DVDs without any sound. Not
that that will really affect the flash playing through FireFox.
I'm not sure about the video card, on account of I don't know much. I
think this is it, but I included the complete output for lshw as well.
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8
Thanks for the suggestions and helps.
Joshua
lshw:
frankenstein
description: Mini Tower Computer
product: OptiPlex GX240
vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
serial: CGGQM11
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.4 smp
configuration: administrator_password=enabled boot=normal
chassis=mini-tower cpus=1 power-on_password=enabled
uuid=44454C4C-4700-1047-8051-C3C04F4D3131
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description: Motherboard
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vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
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version: A05 (07/19/2002)
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bootselect edd int13floppytoshiba int5printscreen int9keyboard
int14serial int17printer acpi usb agp ls120boot biosbootspecification
netboot
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version: 15.1.2
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physical id: 1
slot: DIMM_B
width: 64 bits
clock: 133MHz (7.5ns)
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vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel module=intel_agp
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
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vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:01.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
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*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: 82801 PCI Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1e.0
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 9
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02:09.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 03
serial: 00:18:e7:0c:a1:a3
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes
driver=ndiswrapper+mrv8335
driverversion=1.52+TRENDnet,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3 ip=192.168.2.4
latency=64 link=yes module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE
802.11g
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia video controller
product: iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder
vendor: Internext Compression Inc
physical id: a
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02:0a.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ivtv latency=64 maxlatency=8
mingnt=128 module=ivtv
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
vendor: 3Com Corporation
physical id: c
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:06:5b:c1:f7:35
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width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
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module=3c59x multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
*-isa
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vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.0
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-ide
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product: 82801BA IDE U100 Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.1
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST340016A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.75
serial: 3HS69033
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=bc57bc57
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logical name: /
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size: 35GiB
capacity: 35GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled
extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2
initialized
configuration: created=2008-08-02 23:26:42
filesystem=ext3 modified=2008-09-20 09:39:35 mount.fstype=ext3
mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
mounted=2008-09-20 09:39:35 state=mounted
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bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
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description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
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logical name: /dev/sda5
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*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: CDRW/DVD SM-308B
vendor: SAMSUNG
physical id: 1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
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configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
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description: USB Controller
product: 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.2
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
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configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-serial UNCLAIMED
description: SMBus
product: 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.3
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: latency=0
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.4
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.4
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: uhci bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd
*-multimedia
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product: 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.5
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:1f.5
version: 12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 module=snd_intel8x0
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