On Jan 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Steve Adeff wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 16:35, Kevin Kuphal wrote: >> Adam Propeck wrote: >>> Here is some more detail. ( Xrog.conf and some hdparm info) I'm >>> wondering if livetv isn't playing well because of the specific >>> firewire port/driver? I'm using the single port that comes with the >>> audigy 2 PCI card I'm using. Also, I guess I was wondering if I need >>> to do anything specific with the fact that I'm using an Nforce 3 >>> motherboard. Any tweaks that are recommended? Thanks, -Adam >> >> I think the problem is that fundamentally, the ATI driver does not >> provide hardware accelerated MPEG-2 playback and your Sempron cannot >> handle the software decoding without choking. If you had an >> Nvidia card >> that supported XvMC you could enable that which would activate the >> hardware decoding and probably give you the performance you expect. >> >> Kevin > > I'm going to have to agree, unless someone else is running a > Sempron 3100 and > able to do live HDTV I'm going to have to think this is the case. I > know my > Athlon64 3200+ has no room to spare playing live HD, I can easily > imagine a > Sempron of lower clock speed having more trouble. > LiveTV requires a bit more resources from mythbackend and > mythfrontend from > what I've noticed. > > -- > Steve
That seems like a lot of power! I'm decoding HD (live and recorded) on an old 2.4G Pentium4. Using the nvidia driver without XVMC I'm seeing about 50% CPU usage. An Athlon64 3200+ should kick my butt. Or is it an ATI problem?? Curtis _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
