I can now render HD without using XvMC, with about 5-10% idle. This has (so far) been more stable.
Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. Only minor open questions remain...
I still don't know what you should put on the "./configure" line to compile optimally for athlon-xp. The manual is ambiguous/out-of-date.
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote:
MythTV is often compiled with no support for MMX or anything more than pentium pro optimization. If you didn't enable processor specific optimization and mmx, and opengl when doing a ./configure then this could have the bad effect. I haven't noticed much if any CPU change between .17 and .18 (Granted I run out of CVS) so I'd check that first.
--Brandon
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:58:31PM -0400, David Wood wrote:Does anyone find it strange to not have enough horsepower to render HDTV in 0.18 on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB of RAM? (Caveat: this is rendering to 800x600 24-bit S-Video on an fx5200.) XV and OpenGL work, renderaccel is true, AGP functional, and by the way, xine can play HDTV with Xv no problem.
I'm using libmpeg2 and suid/realtime, and the system can just _barely_ handle it without deinterlacing. It's pegged at 95% CPU, and still drops occasional frames. If I turn on deinterlacing, then it's real bad, dropping frames every few seconds.
As before, toggling libmpeg, realtime, and opengl appear to have zero effect on performance, despite log output from the frontend suggesting they're working.
I keep finding references to people who are doing HDTV with 2100's and 2400's and so forth. I wonder what the difference is - rendering to a different screen resolution or color depth perhaps?
Saving grace is that in 0.18 XvMC finally works, almost. I still get ugly flicker and stutter from the OSD, and so far am averaging about 1 hard-lock (reboot required) per day... A major improvement.
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