[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1356: DTVRecorder::FindKeyframes in 0.19 causes video gltiches in firewire recordings

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/4/06, Jim Westfall <jwestfall at surrealistic.net> wrote:
> Been bugging the firewire driver folks with a patch that cuts cpu usage in
> half.  I have been running it for a few days and it fixes glitches and
> pre-buffer pauses I was seeing on livetv.
>
> You can try it if you want, it should apply to any recent 2.6 kernel.
>
> jim

hrm, little apprehensive on having to build a kernel for this, I think
I'll wait for it to get included in the normal kernels.

What's the difference between the old method in mythtv and the new one
that causes the new method to use more cpu?

--
Steve