[mythtv] Front ends for other machines

[mark at zzo.com]

I take that back I've got 128MB RAM & a 1.4 athlon (non-XP).
I throttle down mpeg4 to 1000 kbps & it's better but still not
really watchable.  RTjepg at 100 is slightly better but not much.
I just made a slight change in volumecontrol.cpp
but yah just about all of the other changes are in libmythtv...
    M

Joseph A. Caputo(jcaputo1 at comcast.net)@2003.03.27 15:22:21 +0000:
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> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of mark at zzo.com
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:25 PM
> > To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> > Subject: [mythtv] Front ends for other machines
> >
> >
> > So I'd just like to watch pre-recorded shows (LiveTV would be
> > nice too of course) on my FreeBSD box.
> > After blowing NuppelVideoRecorder & RTjpeg out of the build
> > & making some other changes I was actually able to get the myth
> > frontend up & connecting to my myth backend box.
> > It can play recorded shows - & pretty much do everything except
> > watch LiveTV.
> > The only hitch is that it's slow - the video & audio hiccup about
> > every 3-5 secodns for a second or so.
> > It's a 1.6Ghz Athlon (not XP) - & the CPU runs at about 80% & it's
> > got MMX support, Xv, and shared memory support.
> > I just tried Thor's 'skip' patch but that didn't help.  It's a 100Mbps
> > switched ethernet connection so I don't think that's it.
> > The files are mpeg4 encoded at 480x480 at 4400 target bitrate.
> > Too much maybe for my CPU?  64MB RAM.
> > Any thoughts?
> >     M
> 
> Sounds like you need more RAM... 64MB is pretty skimpy these days.  I hope
> you just forgot to type the '0' on the end of that...
> 
> >
> > PS I think there needs to be a MUCH cleaner separation between the
> > frontend & backends - maybe like 2 totally separte packages with a
> > 'common' package.  When just trying to make a front end there's way
> > too many dependencies on stuff just for backends...
> >
> 
> I agree... it would be great if you could build just a frontend for a system
> that didn't have V4L, like BSD, Cygwin or Darwin... ha! a Myth frontend
> running native (via Cygwin) on a Wintel box... or a Mac running OSX...  now
> that's cool.
> 
> I would think it would just be a matter of splitting libmythtv.
> 
> -Joe C.
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