Hmm, something is wrong with your setup. I am getting similar numbers on my P3 677Mhz mythtv server. Do you have xv enabled?
On Thursday 24 March 2005 06:28, Jeff_Logica wrote: > I have been following the forum for some time, and have been very > interested in peoples cpu loads. I have searched the forum and triedgetting > everything listed with no luck. I have a combined Frontend/Backend system. > I was able to watch Picture in Picture with some chop back in Myth 0.15, > but it has got progressivly worse with each upgrade. I believe, based on > other peoples results, that I have messed a setting up, but for the life of > me can not find which one(s). I have not yet attempted to try watching HD > TV, this is all based on SD Digital (Australia). I am really interested in > getting this sorted,as I'm hoping to build an XBox Frontend over the next > few weeks, but obviously don't want it to suffer the same problems. I have > tried the different DeInterlace, etc settings to no avail. > > The CPU Load, as shown by kcpuload is > When idle 0% > Recording 1 Card 2-3% > Recording 2 Card 4-6% > Watching Live/Record TV 86-90% > Watching Live TV + PIP 93-96% (Very stuttery) > Watching Live TV + Recording 90-96% > Watching Video (Mostly DivX 5) (MythVideo calling MPlayer) 10-19% > > This is a standard (Pentium Pro) compile of myth and associated bits, based > on the comments in the myth documentation (Installing and using MythTV, > section 5.1) I have not compiled optimised for the Athlon XP, since the > documentation seems to indicate that it doesn't optimize correctly. > > I am just using the default Myth settings for the recording, which I think > is RTJpeg and MP3. > > Box Specs: > Myth 0.17 > Mandrake 10.1 - Kernel 2.6.3-19mdk, Kde 3.2 > 2 VisionPlus VisionDTV DVB Cards (Bt878) > 3 IDE HDD > - hda - Seagate 80GB - OS + MythMusic - Primary Master > - hdb - Seagate 200GB - MythVideo - Primary Slave > - hdc - Western Digital 200GB - MythTV - Ring Buffer and Recorded TV - > Secondary Master > Graphics - GeForce FX 5200 > Memory - 756MB > CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1600+ > Motherboard - Asus A7N266 VM > Sound - On Board > > Any help in getting the CPU load down so I can atleast wacth PIP would be > very much appreciated. I am, based on others mileage, assuming that this > is possible. > > Thanks, (Sorry for the long post) > Jeff. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
