Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-22 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:51:23 +0200 wrote: > You are absolutely right, the P4 has indeed 2.4GHz (and 512MB of RAM) > Which makes it the more surprising that on SD channels I am getting cpu > utilization in the region of 80% to 95% > It should be a lot less? Run xdpyinfo and make sure XVideo is li

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-22 Thread Niko Mikkilä
Sun, 2010-08-22 at 11:51 +0200, marti...@embl.de wrote: > You are absolutely right, the P4 has indeed 2.4GHz (and 512MB of RAM) > Which makes it the more surprising that on SD channels I am getting cpu > utilization in the region of 80% to 95% > It should be a lot less? What kind of deinterlacing

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-22 Thread martinez
Audio Controller (rev 01) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:34:15 +0100 From: Tony Houghton Subject: Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4 To: vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: <20100821233415.5c6c5...@realh.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:41:32 +0200 w

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-21 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:41:32 +0200 wrote: > I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, p...@553mhz, 512Megs of > RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically. Do you mean P3 or have you mistyped the clock speed? The slowest P4 was about 1400MHz, I thought. Surely one wouldn't be under

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-21 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, Some intel cards supports afaik xvmc as well. Check if this is available for your card and use it. That way some parts of the mpeg stuff will be decoded by the gpu. If this isn't available for your card, use xv. HTH. halim ___ vdr mailing list vdr@l

Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 21 August 2010 22:41, wrote: > I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, p...@553mhz, 512Megs of > RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically. > > Everthing works fine but I see cpu utilization in the region of 90% [..] > Any tips on how I could speed things up? Xine settings? Xo

[vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4

2010-08-21 Thread martinez
Hi, I´ve taken an old PC (Intel graphics card on board, p...@553mhz, 512Megs of RAM) and installed mms, vdr and lirc basically. Everthing works fine but I see cpu utilization in the region of 90% (this is with SD, I have no delusions about HD channels on this hardware) At the moment it is connect