In <20060127162707.E796712F349@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harald Milz wrote: > Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I had a similar problem with MPlayer (except the periods of jerking) > > until someone told me to try -ao oss because it's buggy with alsa. Is > > softdevice's audio code based on MPlayer's, perhaps? > > My softdevice VDR runs very stably (Asus A7V8X, Athlon XP-M 2400+, SUSE > Linux 9.3, Matrox G550 DVI out (!), 1280x720 resolution). Maybe your > CPU is too slow or the machine starts swapping. You don't say anything > about your installation so I can only speculate. Me at your place I'd > join the softdevice mailing list. I've got a Celeron 1.2GHz (P3 class) on an i815 (IIRC) chipset [1] and it only has to cope with up to 720x576 ( :-( ). It should be enough. Last time I checked CPU load was about 60% while softdevice was running. It's only got 256MB RAM, but I've been keeping an eye on memory usage, and it hasn't been swapping lately. When I did run out of RAM in the past, the symptoms were much more obvious in MPlayer. I think the sound card is more likely to make a difference. I'm going to try to get a Santa Cruz from eBay (none all week, then 2 or 3 end at once). Are you receiving HDTV, or just outputting PAL to a big monitor? How does your set-up deal with interlacing? [1] BTW, even my current ?5 sound card is an improvement on the onboard sound, which is too quiet! -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
