--- Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running a PVR-350 on a 733mhz P3 with a > 133mhz FSB, 512M of PC133 RAM and a heavily > modified KnoppMyth R5A16. The TV record and > TV playback capabilities are awsome! I really can't > tell the difference between my TV recordings and > the raw S-Vid output on my satellite receiver. The > quality is really top notch! > > However, if I want to play a DVD on the same > system I start running into problems. Initially, I > didn't even have XV support. Then I upgraded > to ivtv 0.3.7b, and XV started working. Since, > I've upgraded to ivtv 0.3.7d. The video frame > quality is very good, but I'm still having playback > problems. > > I've tried mplayer, xine, ogle, vlc, and I've > quadrupal > checked my DVD drive's settings (DMA, etc...). > Basically, even though I'm using XV, all of these > players + XFree86 chew up between 88% - 95% > of my CPU consistently (according to `top`), and > the DVD playback is usually jumpy, depending on > how detailed the video is at any given time. > > I need to solve this problem, but I'm not 100% > convinced that a faster CPU would completely > solve the problem as this is still technically a > beta quality driver. > > For those of you with a PVR 350 and faster > P3 CPUs, what is really the minimum CPU > requirement for DVD playback? And is the > playback still jumpy? > > Thanks! > > -- > Jesse Guardiani > Programmer/Sys Admin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the split in cpu usage between mplayer and X? Is this PAL or NTSC?
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