Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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 listed in the extensions (the extensions come fairly near the top of a *lot* of info). -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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 settings are you using with Xine? Full-rate Greedy2Frame (which I'd recommend) will probably cause a load of 50% to 100% on that CPU, depending on how good your graphics card drivers are. -- Niko ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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? This is the lspci output for the graphics card: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 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 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 underclocked by such a huge factor. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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 underclocked by such a huge factor. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
Re: [vdr] speeding up vdr+xine on an old Pentium4
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? Xorg settings? vdr > settings? xv or opengl? Try to verify if colour conversion is actually done by the hardware graphics card (through Xv), and not in software. Running on a 533MHz processor could be stretching things though, especially for a P4. -- -Tor ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
