[Hampshire] Re: DVB playback *too* smooth

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Author: John Hunt
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To: HantsLUG
Subject: [Hampshire] Re: DVB playback *too* smooth
I guess a better way of describing the prob would be to say the sound
is about .2 seconds behind the picture.

On 11/22/06, John Hunt <johnrhunt@???> wrote:
> I've just got my DVB-T card working on my new media centre. Playing
> back recorded stuff is strange.
>
> The audio sync is fine, there's no jumpiness etc. Motion seems a bit
> sluggish, almost too smooth it looks like. I was wondering if I need
> to de-interlace on playback, or change my method of recording. I don't
> really know a lot about this kind of thing.
>
> dvbstream -f 578000 600 601 -o >bbc1.mpeg
>
> I'm still at the testing stage, so I've used that to grab a bit of BBC1.
>
> Here's some handy details:
> CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 14f1:0187, board: Conexant DVB-T reference
> design [card=19,autodetected]
> cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.5 loaded
> cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based dvb card
> DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0]).
> DVB: registering frontend 0 (Conexant CX22702 DVB-T)...
>
> And I have a nice shiny fast amd64 3700+ 512mb ram etc, so it's
> probably not my system. Having said that, I don't think the card has
> any onboard mpeg2 decoding. Could just be a crappy card?
>
> 4259 root      15   0  3584  524  364 S  1.0  0.1   0:06.44 dvbstream etc.. :p

>
> Cheers,
> John.
>