I am currently trying to setup an old laptop as a frontend only box for my MythTV system (details below). Everything is installed and running ok, except that I get pre-buffering pauses when I try to playback any of my recordings. Looking at 'top' it appears that the cpu is being pegged at 100% during video playback (65% mythfrontend, 35% X). This laptop _should_ be fast enough to playback the videos as I can play them back on another frontend with a slower processor. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to where to look to improve performance for this machine?
 
Toshiba Sattelite 4300 Pro, P3-600, 192MB RAM, S3 Savage/IX
 
Fedora 3 and Mythtv 0.17 installed using Jarod's most excellent guide.
 
Using internal LCD panel @ 1024x768 as display (Laptop has TV-Out but I won't be using it)
 
xvinfo tells me that XV is running for the Savage/IX video
 
Video clips being played are [EMAIL PROTECTED] mpg2 captured with a PVR250. Video clips are ok as I can play them with my celeron 533/ATi Rage frontend machine without pauses.
 
Any suggestions for troubleshooting this?
 
Thanks in advance,
Shawn Flynn
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