[mythtv] some stats from my celeron 1.7Ghz and a question

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 06:51 pm, Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> I was running mythtv today at 480x480...video capture quality of about 230
> and a mp3 quality of 4 w/ my celeron 1.7 Ghz. The system was running fine
> at about 72% CPU load for about 40 minutes before I started getting the
> message on the console:
>
> "audio running behind..."
> "no more audio buffers :-("
>
> (I got a lot more of the above)

Know which one showed up first?  And, maybe have the actual error messages?
The 'audio behind' message should have a couple of numbers after it, and the 
first few times that shows up would be interesting to see..  

> eventually the picture locked.....I am assuming this is just because the
> CPU was too high and the audio encoding lagged behind enough to lock the
> picture. Am I correct? I didn't have time to reduce the system
> load/resolution and try again. Anyone else have this happen?

I've not had happen, but I don't think it was due to load..  The lock up 
probably happened because the audio and video were so far out of sync that 
the player didn't know what to do to get them back in sync.  Not sure why the 
audio recording started lagging, though..

> Isaac: What resolution are you running your mythtv? Any problems at higher
> resolutions?

480x480 at quality 170..  Not enough difference on my tv + viewing distance to 
be worth the extra space for higher res/higher quality, though that may 
change soonish..  I've not noticed any problems with higher resolutions, 
though.

> Some more stats on my machine in case you're interested:
>
>
> @ 640x480....system CPU runs at 95-97%
> @ 480x480....system CPU runs at 70-73%
> @ 352x240....system CPU runs at 8-10%

The numbers for my athlon 1800+ are much lower, like half those -- are you 
running a debug build, or is the celery really that much slower?

Isaac