Michael Carter wrote: > Hi, > I've recently installed a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB (the newer 90002 > model with the Conexant chipset) card into my machine, successfully > loaded the driver module and tuned in to a channel through the normal > scan/tzap method. > > However, when I play the stream in Xine or MPlayer the picture is > extremely jerky and choppy, as is the audio stream. > > MPlayer outputs a 'Your system is too SLOW to play this' message, but > I would have thought it was more than capable of playing this (AMD > Sempron 2300, 512Mb RAM, Abit VA-20 Socket A VIA KM400A chipset). > Neither CPU or RAM utilisation during streaming go above 25%! Have you tried giving the " -framedrop" option to mplayer? you may also want to try " -cache 8192" ... or maybe make it larger than 8192 ... Sometimes I use a buffer of size 65536 on really slow machines. -framedrop should help. ...I hope this does. :-) -- Michael Krufky
