[mythtv] slow motion playback on seperate frontend machine

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Feb 18 09:19:31 EST 2003

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:24 am, Larry Matter wrote:
> I got the remoted frontend/backend playback thing working about a month
> ago quite nicely and haven't really touched it.  Tonight I upgraded to the
> latest CVS, and got everything built like before.  On the backend machine
> playback/livetv works great.  But when I playback on the remoted frontend
> machine it is good for about 1 second, then it goes into s l o w motion
> (and then no sound).  Playing a recording is good for about 4 seconds then
> same thing.
> I thought maybe it was new the VBI stuff, but that is set to none (in
> setup).
> When it is playing slow, top shows the cpu is hardly being used, whereas
> before when it was working the CPU was used 60-70%
> Any ideas on where else to look?

Could you try reverting the patch from here: 

and see if that is the cause?


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