Re: Jittery MythTV

2005-09-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:14:06PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: If I understand you correctly, you have a backend box and a frontend box. What's your network connection between the two boxes? Remember, video requires a lot of bandwidth. If you lower your recording quality or your

Re: Jittery MythTV

2005-09-08 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:39:02AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:14:06PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: If I understand you correctly, you have a backend box and a frontend box. What's your network connection between the two boxes? Remember, video requires a lot

Re: Jittery MythTV

2005-09-07 Thread Hans Fugal
For the jitteriness, my guess would be that the proper kernel tuning would take care of it. 2.4 is currently the recommended kernel for good latency, with the following patches: - preempt - lowlatency - givecap 2.6 vanilla (with the proper preempt configuration options, etc.) is much

Re: Jittery MythTV

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:56:30PM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: 1) Watching live TV is jittery. Every second the image pauses for a second before continuing. I had MythTV running on the same machine several months ago and it worked fine, so I don't think it's slowness. If I understand you