Just made a quick update to the Configuring Your MCE IR Remote post. I have added in Audio Delay + and - to the mplayer lirc config. This allows you to control the audio / video sync with the Blue and Yellow buttons on your MCE remote. I had quite a few films that have the audio out of sync so this can now be sorted without reaching for the keyboard 
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Update to Configuring Your MCE IR Remote
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Normalise Movie Volume
Friday, March 27th, 2009I know DTS is all the rage at the moment but some DTS soundtracks have VERY LOUD LOUD BITS and very quiet quiet bits. This is great for the cinema or those people lucky enough to live in a detached house, but for my 2 bed flat it’s a bit over the top. To level things out mplayer can normalise your movie’s volume in realtime so that explosions are at the same volume as conversations. To enable normalisation add the following switch to the launch command for mplayer:
-af volnormSo for example on your frontend navigate to “Utilities / Setup” -> “Setup” -> “Media Settings” -> “Video Settings” -> “Player Settings” and set the “Default Video Player” to:
mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -subfont-text-scale 3 -af volnorm -cache 8912 -cache-min 4 -lavdopts threads=2:fast:skiploopfilter=all -sws 0 %s
You may find it easier to connect to the mythconverg database and set the VideoDefaultPlayer to the value above for the host machine.
Play 720p HD Content Over Wireless & Make The Subtitle Size Sensible
Monday, February 9th, 2009This one drove me nuts for a while, watching 720p content over 54Mbit/s wi-fi should work fine but with the “out of the box” settings HD moves were stuttering terribly for me.
As an additional niggle, embedded subtitles were appearing but they were enormous.
By default MythTV uses mplayer for mkv, avi and mpeg files. To resolve the stutter and subtitle issue open the MythTV frontend and go to “Utilities / Setup” -> “Setup” -> “Media Settings” -> “Video Settings” -> “Player Settings” and set the “Default Video Player” to:
mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv -subfont-text-scale 3 -cache 8912 -cache-min 4 -lavdopts threads=2:fast:skiploopfilter=all -sws 0 %s
You may find it easier to connect to the mythconverg database and set the VideoDefaultPlayer to the value above for the host machine on wireless.