I've got a Pundit (not Pundit-R) with a P4 3.06 with HyperThreading and 512MB of RAM. I'm trying to use the built-in SIS video to connect to my analog tv via S-Video. Buying a new TV is financially out of the question for now. I've got a PVR-350 and a pcHDTV HD-3000 in the two PCI slots.
The PVR-350 works great, but I'm using it as a 250 because I am not using its video-out. I'v got the HDTV working via the DVB drivers, but veiwing any channel uses 100% of the processor (at least 45% is being used by X) so I'm getting dropped frames. After many trials, different kernels, different drivers, different settings, and upgrading my CPU from a 2.4 to the 3.06 w/HT, ATSC is still not "watchable". I'm not even running any deinterlacing filters, which make the interlaced programes even more "un-watchable". My best guess now is that the SIS driver is having to scale everything to NTSC resolution and that scaling is what's got X's cpu usage so high. So, would I be better off using a nVidia video card/driver in my situation? If so, I'd have to pull the PVR-350 (and I was looking forward to having 2 tuners). If not, I guess I'll just leave the pcHDTV idle until I can buy a digital TV (at least a year off). Or does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
