[mythtv] Advise visualization

Chris Palmer mythtv at zencow.com
Sat Apr 12 12:16:16 EDT 2003


Joseph A. Caputo wrote
> I'm also interested to see what kind of CPU usage you get when you're watching 
> a currently-being-recorded program within the visualization AND playing back 
> an mp3/ogg stream.

I thought I'd jump in here and make a guess that the mp3 stream 
is negligible to CPU usage, unless there is re-encoding necessary.
(Is there?)

I've been running an icecast server (mp3 streamer) for a couple
years now, on my old Celeron 333Mhz box, and it is barely measurable, 
since it's just doing file i/o and sending data at 128kbps (disk and 
network thruput is about 100-1000 times that).  :)
 
-Chris


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