[mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance

[and]

I haven't fully installed mythtv 0.11 yet (using atrms from berlin and 
I can't get the lirc to install/compile), but tried it out with mplayer 
and there was absolutely smooth video.

I also originally tried on debian with the regular cvs xfree86-4.3 
drivers and had to settle for the via (with lots of mpeg and other 
undeclared and other errors) and had to settle for lower rez and 
birate, but even then I had bad sound unless I timeshifted the content 
a little...The xfree drivers are still a little buggy acording to vias 
opensource reprasentative and only provides 2d accl with out the mpeg 
stuff.

Too bad  the binary drivers are not available for debian. I'm having a 
hard time adjusting to redhat world... ;-)

rgds
anedrs

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 02:34 AM, Tako Schotanus wrote:

>
> You got 16m/8m at 720x480 running with Myth Live TV?
> That would be seriously cool because I'm currently using something like
> 5m/4m at 460x576 to get stutter free video.
>
> But I'm not using those binary drivers you mention but the drivers that
> came with the CVS version of XFree86 some months ago.
>
> Did you have to do anything special to get those drivers to work?
> (Recompile X like I had to do for example) The reason I ask is that
> previous binary drivers I had encountered all seemed to use
> functionality/API from X that was not included in the standard RedHat 9
> version.
>
> Cheers,
>  -Tako
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of and
>> Sent: vrijdag 29 augustus 2003 9:12
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nehemiah Performance
>>
>>
>> Are you using redhat 9?
>> If you are, there are binary video and accl mpeg drivers available at
>> viaarena.com that really helps. I've been playing around with
>> it today
>> and even with the 16m/8m stream at 720x480 from my pvr250 I
>> didn't see
>> any problems.
>> I used to be running debian where there are no binary drivers
>> avaliable
>> for the cle266 and could therefore not take advantage of the hardware
>> accl....at least that is what I think is making the big difference on
>> my m10k.
>>
>> anders
>>
>> On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:21 PM, rwk at americom.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just to see if I could tell the difference, I set my record
>> resolution
>>> from 480x480 to 720x480.  However, when I started watching I was
>>> surprised to find that my 1Gh Nehemiah EPIA processor
>> couldn't handle
>>> it.  It sputtered every few seconds.
>>>
>>> I ran a top from another machine and indeed observed that
>> mythfrontend
>>> was using 99% of the cpu.
>>>
>>> My EPIA machine is connected to a TV through the onboard
>> S-Video out.
>>>
>>> As a comparison I tried the same thing on my Athlon 2200+
>> running a ATI
>>> Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY video card.  I was again
>> surprised to see
>>> that mythfrontend was using less than 0.1% of the CPU and X
>> was using
>>> about 10%.  Needless to say it plays without missing a beat.
>>>
>>> What is it about the EPIA (hardware or drivers) which makes it soooo
>>> much slower than the Athlon system?  The difference is CPU
>> power is not
>>> enough to explain it.  Is it the video drivers?
>>>
>>> And why is all the processing in mythfrontend on the EPIA
>> box, and in X
>>> on the Athlon?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any and all opinions!
>>>
>>> Dick
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