[mythtv-users] MythTV performance optimisation - live TV watching?
Kevin Kuphal
kevin.kuphal at myrealbox.com
Thu Feb 5 16:10:42 EST 2004
I'd disagree.
I have a bt878 card that choked on a 1ghz PIII at the default 480x480 rate
for live TV. I can do 640x480 MPEG4 at 2200 for recording but I have to
back down to resolutions like 320x240 for LiveTV due to the combination of
encoding/decoding
It would be nice if there was something in mythtvsetup that understood this
and configured appropriate resolutions for default/liveTV/high quality based
on your card instead of setting them all the same which really probably
isn't how they operate.
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Paul Koster
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:26 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV performance optimisation -
> live TV watching?
>
>
> > > My capture settings? I am not sure - probably the default
> ones. How
> > > do I find out?
>
> I wonder what kind of capture card is used here?
>
> > Go to Settings -> TV Settings -> Recording profiles in your
> frontend.
> >
> > If you're using the default settings, that's your problem. A 1GHz
> > processor isn't powerful enough to do Live TV at the
> default settings.
>
> Not totally sure what the default settings are but in my
> memory something about 480x480 at 4000 Mbps. A 1 GHz
> processor should do that with ease (in combination with the
> correct video card). I use a 400 at 450 MHz Celeron 576x576 at
> 4000 Mpbs at approx 90% cpu load using a GF4MX400.
>
> > Try reducing the frame size to something like 352x480, and
> play with
> > the bitrate slider until you get smooth playback. You'll lose some
> > quality, but that's the only way you'll get that machine to do Live
> > TV.
>
> I guess his problem is with the video card he is using. Check
> the mythfrontend output / log to see if anything is mentioned
> about xv overlay being unsupported with as result that things
> like scaling are done in software. Before the GF4MX400 I used
> a Riva128 4MB based card which could not even show 2000 mpbs
> streams because it missed the xv overlay features.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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