On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:31:40AM +0400, Nauman, Andrey (DB) wrote:
> The problem is that I have very heavy load of my CPU when I watch sat tv
> (Skystar2, not fully featured card).
> 
> And my computer is pretty modern - Athlon XP @2400+
> 
>  
> 
> My experiments with different movie playing and video out technologies show
> that not MPEG decoding but rather video output itself gets most CPU power.
> 
>  
> 
> The following is some MPlayer benchmarks. I played rather static MPEG2 -
> recorded by vdr 'TV test table'. So the best load was ~50%.

Hmm. My Duron 1300 decodes DivX videos with ~10% CPU usage (using dfbmga). 
MPEG1 videos don't take even that much CPU (I don't have any MPEG2 
videos). 50% feels like a very high number for such a CPU.

The only thing comes to mind right now is write-combining. Make sure you 
have it enabled for your framebuffer (cat /proc/mtrr).

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