[mythtvnz] Zotac ion settings and issues

[Barry Clearwater]

I'm having the two instances of Mythfrontend on another diskless setup
booting from usb  stick. I put it down to something I havnt yet sorted in
xfce4 desktop. 2G ram and JYA also.  It may be to do with saving the setup
as xfce closes?

Barry

2009/8/21 Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com>

> Has anyone got a Zotac up and running and doing everything they want?
>
> I have a single core board with a Mythbuntu 9.04 install
> 2gigs of RAM
> JYA repository for Myth
> Nvidia 185.18.31
> A Philips media centre remote receiver (and a Logitech remote)
>
> After a few weeks of tinkering (a little bit each day) I am about 80% happy
> with the way it works.
>
> Issues I have are:
>
> Sometimes on boot up it seems to start 2 instances of Mythfrontend - not
> absolutely sure that this is what is happening as I haven't sshed in to
> check what processes are running, but when it happens nothing plays well and
> when I use escape to exit I end up exiting Mythfrontend and find a second
> version sitting behind, which I then have to exit before I can restart
> Mythfrontend and watch stuff.
>
> Sometimes on boot networking does not start, I have to exit mythfrontend
> (which hasn't started properly - I get the can't find uPNP server error) and
> run /etc/init.d/networking restart to get networking going.
>
> Audio seems to be out of sync on most recordings, by up to 50ms. It's not
> out of sync on my other frontend so it must be a playback issue. Sometimes
> when I adjust the audio sync audio stops altogether.
>
> When I use timestretch say to 1.2x the video speeds up fine but the audio
> breaks up badly. "top" shows no real increase in CPU use going from 1x to
> 1.2x but it acts like the processor can't keep up with the required stretch.
> I've tried all the options for deinterlacer in case it was somehow related
> to the NVIDIA driver.
>
> Just wondering if anyone is seeing the same issues or if anyone has a
> better performing system, I'd love to know your settings.
>
>
>
>
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