Ignacio Quezada wrote:
> Duncan Webb escribió:
>> Ignacio Quezada wrote:
>> | Hi ! I have a serious problem ! hehe.
>> | Ok, I'm using Freevo in my HTPC. Gentoo minimal setup. And the problem
>> | is that the CPU is an AMD 2000+ @ 1666MHZ, maybe so big for DVD or so
>> | little for HDTV.
>> | So, I'm trying to play HDTV content, x264, 720p. I open X ( startx ),
>> | and then i type ( nice -+15 mplayer $video -fs ). And work fine. It is
>> | strange, (-+15) yes, if I put a number below -1, the image moves slow,
>> | because X need some CPU too (it has nice -1). Anyway, now it works. but
>> | when I open Freevo, python consumes with no use around 12%, it is bad
>> | because before I get that AMD2000+ I was using an AMD1700+ and it
>> | didin't play smoothly those HDTV videos. I can't let python use that
>> | 12%. Then I open freevo -fs with nice -+19 and change mplayer niceness
>> | to 0, but still have problems. Any idea? like a subcommand that make a
>> | CTRL + Z to "freevo" to stop working while playing video?
>> |
>> | mplayer nice = 0
>> | freevo/python = 19
>> | X = -1
>> |
>> |
>> | WARF!! Maybe an AMD2500+ BARTON could be the best option but I don't
>> | want to buy a new CPU and I think that i won't find that in shops now.
>>
>> It make some sense that HDTV consumes more CPU that DVD, but 720p is
>> pretty normal, 720x576 progressive is just like TV but twice as fast,
>> isn't it?
>>
>> 12% CPU for Python is wholly ridiculous it should be between 0.7 and
>> 1.7% when freevo is idle, about 12% when one of Adam's python
>> screen-savers runs and 2-3% when mplayer runs. (The mplayer handler has
>> a lot of output to cope with). Even on a P3 (733MHz) freevo uses 3% when
>> idle and I have to many plug-ins installed on the test machine.
>>
>> What CFLAGS have you set? Gentoo do have some good wiki pages, there is
>> one about hardware detection that is rather good, tells you how you can
>> determine the CFLAGS from the hardware. "gentoo hardware detection" I'm
>> feeling lucky should get you there.
>>
>> Duncan
> 
> I've been using Safe CFLAGS with -0s and -2s, athlon-xp. No experimental
> flags. I'm using that box mounted on a root NFS system, hddless.
> 
> I 've get new video streams, now I'm able to play 720p streams with..
> "-vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts fast:skiploopfilter=all" but 1080p .. as before,
> I can play it smoothly but only if I open mplayer inside X without
> Freevo, with "-vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all"..
> uhm.. I can't get it working if Freevo has around 2-3 % of CPU while
> mplayer runs, it is not enough to play smoothly the video. I need that
> 3% :S. Any idea?
> 
> Maybe you are thinking, it's insane to play a 1080p video with those
> filters, but even that is better than a DVD with pp/hqdn3d/...

What does cat /proc/cpuinfo say?

You have optimized for size rather than speed but this won't make much 
difference. You can try adding -O3 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow to the 
CFLAGS, I'm really no export on the possible CFLAGS that you can set for 
gcc.

You can remove all the plug-ins that you are not using, the more 
plug-ins the more Freevo must do.

In any case, I've never seen 12% for freevo when it is idling. I wonder 
if there is some problem with the network that Freevo is waiting on.

Duncan

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