Linux Placeshifter, HDPVR, occasional Playback studder

[Norm258]

I'm running Linux Placeshifter on the same machine that I"m running the server with an HDPVR.

Everything works great - most of the time. Occasionally my system begins to studder and skip frames out of the blue. From what I can see, mplayer suddenly goes from 70% cpu to 100% cpu in the middle of playback. If I pause, wait a few seconds, it clears up.

I'm not sure why mplayer does this - will work great for several programs, then it does this.

I have already added the following in my .mplayer/config file.
monitoraspect="16:9" #Use for a widescreen laptop so keeps 4:3 content from stretching
framedrop="1" # For slow machines
nocorrect-pts="1"
lavdopts=lowres=2:threads=8:fast=1:skiploopfilter="all"

Anyone have any suggestions that might help with this?

Thanks
Norm

[jayarmstrong]

sounds like a codec issue ... hit some linux forums or maybe try fluendo's codecs if you're using others, or vice versa.