[mythtv] Hardware configuration

Henk Poley mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Wed Jan 8 08:40:51 EST 2003


> Van: Johann Klemmack <klemmack@earthlink.net>
> 
> Heh - weird.  I have an Athlon 1700+ and I can NOT get jitter-free mpeg4
> at 640x480.  I have a GeForce4 MX420 card, 512 RAM, off a VIA chipset
> with an ATA100 harddrive, and WinTV.  Everything is running off of Redhat
> 8.0 (b/c I'm a slacker).  I have DMA enabled for the harddrive access,
> but trying to run mpeg4 at all pretty much peaks out my processor. 

Try upgrading your kernel, the newest one has fixed some excessive CPU
usage when using IDE drives. Please report of it fixed it (!)

	Henk Poley <><



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