Hi all,
It's not that bad on my G3 iBook 900Mhz, not running a recent CVS (about Nov when it all started working I think), but MPEG4 live TV is watchable. Watched the tennis for a couple of minutes on Wednesday. Recordings weren't watchable last time I tried, but they're RTJPEG and its 802.11b networking* so I'm not worried about that yet.
Don't drop the G3 yet :)
Joshua King
* It's actually a 22mbps D-Link bridge to D-Link router with the iBook on ethernet right now.
Jeremiah Morris wrote:
On 27 Jan 2005, at 4:11 PM, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
I thought as much, but how about MPEG-4 decoding? Isn't that less CPU-intensive? Has anyone tested performance for non-MPEG2 mythfrontend playback?
I did some very limited testing, and got a modest speed gain -- noticeable but not spectacular. IIRC that path was using Altivec routines for heavy lifting as well. So I wouldn't hold my breath, though I'd love to hear a G3 success story.
Well, I finally got everything built & running, and the results are not
promising. I made a mirror of my recording storage directory on my
iBook so I could eliminate any network bandwidth issues right off the
bat (my backend is 802.11b). Playing back MPEG-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
pretty much unwatchable -- my CPU was pegged. Of course, this is a 700MHz G3 iBook.
The other interesting data point was that mythfrontend sucked up 75% of my CPU just sitting idle at the main menu, and the UI was *very* sluggish, about as responsive as running mythfrontend to a remote X display over a slow connection.
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