Things to try: No-delay video on Hauppauge PVR150

v4l2-ctl -v width=720,height=480
v4lctl setinput "Composite 1"
ivtv-tune -c1
aplay -q --buffer-time=100 -f dat /dev/video24 &
mplayer -rawvideo format=hm12:h=480:w=720:fps=29.97 \
-nocache -demuxer 26 /dev/video32 -framedrop -vo xv -monitoraspect 16:10 -aspect 4:3
killall aplay

Installing Ubuntu in VirtualBox

These steps are for OSX Leopard as a host, Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) netinstall.

* Don't use the default network adapter. Use the Intel one instead.
* I set the partition manually to just have one big partition, ext2. No swap partition was set up because a) I have enough memory allocated, b) I can always set up a swapfile, c) having a swap partition increases the disk image file size,
* gksu, make, and linux-headers-generic are required to install guest additions.
* The video driver was giving me problems. Installing the guest additions with xserver-xorg-video-vesa alone did not work for me. I've narrowed it down to either xserver-xorg-video-vmware, xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, linux-headers-virtual, or a combination thereof. Afterwards I've removed all but xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and things are still working.
* localepurge and debfoster are your friends when minimizing the disk image size.

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