I actually posted something about this to the mythtv-users mailing list and got some help regarding the issue, but I am now at a standstill.

Machine: P4 2.8Ghz
PVR: two PCR-350 cards
KnoppMyth: A16

When I play a DVD and use xine it is choppy. But if I use mplayer it works fine. It was suggested that I upgrade the ivtvdev_drv.o to 0.10.6 amd to use -V xv on the xind command line.

This would force xine to use the Xv driver, but when I do that I get the message:

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init class succeeded
video_out_xv: Xv extension is present but I couldn't find a usable yuv12 port.
Looks like your graphics hardware driver doesn't support Xv?!
main: video driver <xv> failed
======================

I would prefer to use xine as it would allow me to use the sound out on the PVR-350 card.

Thanks

-Bennett

Have you tried the ivtv mailing list?

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That is an excellent idea.

-Bennett

I was just about to post about having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution for it?

No I haven't. I will post to the ivtv development list probably tonight after work. If I do get a solution I will post it here though.

Still no response from the list as of yet.

just a quick question. are you runing mplayer through the mythtv interface or are you quiting mythtv and then running mplayer? i was wondering this becasue i have a m1000 (1.3ghz) with a pvr350 and 512mb ram and when i try to watch a dvd on my tv i get BAD frame loss, (i guess outputting through the pvr350 card causes this) i didnt know if it was because my pc was to slow or some configuration. that could be changed.

That is exactly what I am seeing as well. I am using a P4 2.8ghz. I have mplayer setup to play via the frontend. Just changed the xine command line to a mplayer one. The drawback is I need to take the sound of my soundcard into another channel on the receiver, but this is just workaround until I get xine working.

Still no response from the ivtv users list.

I upgraded to R5A26 and now xine is no longer choppy. This comes with ivtv 0.4.0.

So that seems like it is the solution. Use the 0.4.0 ivtv driver.