On Monday 23 January 2006 10:39, Orlando Andico wrote: > I find this hard to believe. MEncoder can encode to MPEG-4 (Xvid) in > faster-than-real-time on a PIII-700.
Well, yes I understand what you mean. However, in my experience, MythTV is a resource hog. MPEG-4 encoding on MythTV on my box (Athlon XP 2600+) (at 720x480, 2200kbps, high quality encoding not enabled) will incur around 50%-70% CPU utilization. Watching TV in real time CPU utilization will get it up to 100%. If I enable any of the 2 of the following encoding flags such as high quality, 4mv encoding, interlaced DCT encoding, interlaced motion estimation, it gets even worse. Video from live TV stutters. On the other hand, mencoder, like you said, will do just fine even at 720x480, 2200 kbps, and with all those video encoding options enabled. Don't ask me why MythTV is slow. I tried compiling it with "optimized compiler flags" but it did very little improvement. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop viruses, trojan horses, and spyware. Stop using Internet Explorer! http://www.alternativebrowseralliance.com/browsers.html _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
