[mythtvnz] Updated packages available

[Paul Kendall]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 19:41:18 Andrew Richards wrote:
> Study not going so well so I got a test install up again. Strangely,
> despite working before, TV3 is now not perfectly smooth. It is almost
> there just glitching occasionally. 
I think this could be because before you had AC3 sound and now you have AAC!
Try switching the audio stream to AC3 for TV3 and see how it goes.

I believe that AC3 is a bit CPU intensive as well.
Hmmm, perhaps we could send the AC3 data to a separate thread for decoding. I 
know theres a thread to send the data to the audio card, but if we could do 
the decoding there too it might just be enough.

> Changes:
>
> - enabled Paul's repo
> - updated
> - added turned LNA on for Nova T 500
>
> Interestingly I didn't change the any of the playback options previously
> and it worked (although I may have missed the subtle freezing, don't
> think so though). So thin time I tried the standard options first, then
> went through and tried the various default configs (CPU+, CPU++ etc),
> and tried with 1 or 2 CPU's, and with or without the skip filter. Got
> the same, or worse, results every time. It can almost making, but there
> is a slight skip every 5-10 seconds. Definitely enough to put anyone off
> using it.
>
> So I guess the current code requires the next step up (2.8GHz AMD) to
> run smoothly although I possibly did something wrong. When I next try
> again I will try with adding mythtv-fixes to see if that makes a
> difference, although I assume Paul's updates are built on the latest fixes?
>
> Will be interested to hear how others get on.
>
> Andrew

Paul