[TriLUG] MPEG Video Playback (was TV Tuner Card suggestion [may be OT])

[Joseph Tate]

For all of you using HD capture cards, what do you use for playback.
I keep thinking that my system will be fast enough to playback 1080i
video, but even when I have a file size small enough to fit into RAM,
I get video/audio sync issues, frame loss, and jitter.  Here are some
sample files: if you don't have any:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR#Samples

My setup:
CPU: Quad-Core 2.40Ghz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE] (rev a1)
GPU Driver Version: 177.82

I am also having issues with GeForce 7200 on an Athlon 3000+ with
512MB RAM with OTA.

mplayer -vo xvmc errors out on my system, so I think I either have one
of the Nvidia unsupported cards, or a misconfigured xorg.conf.

Please also provide "extra settings" that you pass to mplayer/myth to
get good playback.

Joseph

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently kicked TWC to the curb and couldn't be happier. All my TV
> comes in OTA in beautiful 8VSB format thanks to a mega-huge UHF antenna
> in my attic. Also, my cable modem service has been Earthlink for years.
>
> Show 'em what you think about their price hikes!
>
> (Now if I could only get hardware for my Myth server that can keep up
> with my AverMedia A180 8VSB/QAM card.)
>
> --
> Mark Turner
> www.markturner.net
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>> Dude! I so owe you a cold one. I have been looking for this link as long
>> as I can remember ...hah.
>>
>> I'm in the process of kicking my TW DVR to the curb. At 7.95, I didn't
>> complain. Now that it's gone up past 10.00, I'm going to either DiY, or
>> get one of those barebones units and add in the other parts that I
>> want/need.
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