[mythtv-users] PVR-350 on slow or old machines
Torsten Schenkel
torsten.schenkel at web.de
Wed Nov 5 13:19:23 EST 2003
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 18:28, brutt+news at bloomington.in.us wrote:
> Does anyone have a PVR-350 running well at 720x480 (NTSC) resolution
> on an old/slow machine? I'm figure with the hardware encoding and
> decoding, it might do OK on my Celeron 433 (256 MB of RAM, Geforce2
> video card that supports XVideo extension) machine. But the specs on
> the PVR-350 from
Windows specs on the package 400MHz of that are for the OS :-)
> So, let's hear from some PVR-350 users. Is anyone using it on an
> older machine?
Not older, but not that much faster: ME6000 Via Eden 600MHz VLP
Cpu load while encoding and decoding 720x576 (even more than NTSC here
in PAL-land) 6% encoding and 6% decoding.
What's slowing the machine down are sql queries. I decreased the
nicelevel for mythfrontend and -backend so the video stream gets full
priority. No problem.
Torsten
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Config files for pvr350 tv-out and framebuffer:
http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
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