Myth should be set to use mplayer by default. The frontend basically spawns off an mplayer process. It doesnt make sense that mplayer performs decently, but the myth frontend doesnt. Check your video player settings in myth. dan --- Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards! <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Mark Kempster <<a href="mailto:mark@kempster.org">mark@kempster.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">And of course, now that I go mess about with a video card, I discover that mplayer (without the new video card) seems to do things just fine with no pausing, etc. but myth's frontend doesn't do so well. I was hoping to avoid getting too far down in the bowels of myth... has anybody else experienced something similar? Thanks Mark <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Daniel Caleb<<a href="mailto:techknow@internalkernel.com">techknow@internalkernel.com</a>> wrote: > On Saturday 08 August 2009 18:29:39 Mark Kempster wrote: >> Can anybody recommend an inexpensive (< $60 or so) video card that's >> supported on ubuntu? Any brands / models to stay away from? >> >> Thanks for any pointers. >> Mark > > Well, this is an age old conversation... IMHO - if it says ATI, run like hell. > But, that's me... I'm sure someone else will say the opposite. I've had really > good luck with Nvidia cards lately, although I can't say what an inexpensive > one would be - I'm really only familiar with the laptop versions... All I know > is that I have been trying to get a Radeon X600 going on my laptop for about > two weeks... it has been horribly annoying. I also was thinking about using it > for either LinuxMCE or a MythTV backend behind a plasma or LCD. > > LinuxMCE flat out says they don't support ATI, only Nvidia... that's gotta mean > something. > > Daniel > > -- > ubuntu-us-nc mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nc" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nc</a> > -- ubuntu-us-nc mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nc" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nc</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>