[mythtv-users] so close

[Ray Olszewski]

At 01:35 AM 4/14/2003 -0500, Wally Wallace wrote:
>Well I finally got myth almost working. I can watch tv and record on my
>backend at 640x480 no problem. My backend is an athlon 2100+
>
>I can watch tv on the frontend, but X uses 50% cpu, and changing
>resolutions doesn't help! So basically tv is unwatchable as the audio
>drops every frame. It would work if X would behave.
>My video is onboard sis630 video on a pcchips m758lmr with a celeron
>1.2.
>I know this should work.
>glxgears gives me about 800fps so that is working.
>Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm a bit hazy on the sis630 X server, but ... does it support xVideo (xv)? 
When playback uses a lot of CPU (50% on a Cel 1.2 GHz would be about right 
for this), it *can* mean that X is using xShm (X Shared memory) to handle 
video, which is a lot more CPU intensive.