I am not a MythTV user, I have chosen a long time ago to use a windows solution for my TV recording. However...
I have written several plaintive queries about pixilation when watching recordings or live baseball games. This expresses itself as a squared off smear of block colors on rapid lateral panning or movement.
Been there Done that!
So now I have to FF through baseball commercials ... BUT, the pixilation is gone.
gotcha.
My newb guess is that my CPU lacks the horse power to do both commflagg and playback. For the curious:
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ cpu MHz : 1666.517 cache size : 256 KB
So I would love remarks back on the possible validity of my guess, and maybe hints on what I did to the comm flagging so I can turn it off and on on purpose.
I dont recall anything else about your system, though I think I recall seeing posts about it. does your capture card do hardware MPEG or something else, how about your video card, does it support mpeg in hardware? how about drives ? small and fast or large and slow? and system memory?
FWIW up until recently I used a processor that was nearly identical, and record from upto 6 (3 pci single tunner, 3 USB external tunners) devices at a time, I always have the comercial search turned on, and from "live tv" mode have no issues with video quality. Aside from the stupid user mistakes (one time i plugged the VCR out back into the splitter on the cable-in what a bad day)
After tweaking windows (u have to do a lot of tweaking on linux to do this too ....) I got my best upgrades from adding memory and hard drives. something that worked well for me, and might work even better for linux is I moved my pagefile (swap file) onto a compact flash card attached to P-ATA with an adapter. I did that sometime between adding capture devices.
not sure what that means, but its all FYI anyway. Richard Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
